Covington Republican (Newspaper) - July 4, 1919, Covington, Indiana 20 to the Interests of Fountain County and NO. 31. FRIDAY JULY 4, 1919. Couple of This Married Over Three Score MANY W. Evans Comes From Ohio Many Years C. who recently returned from overseas service taking a much needed rest at of his mother and children at Doctor took bronchial pneumonia on at New and liis condition has required that he take special rest for a time before resuming his since William W. Evans and Nancy celebrated their sixty-third having been married in Tippecanoe February 7, 1856, and it is believed they can readily claim the distinction of being the longest married of any couple now living in this or adjoining if not in the their marriage in 1856, near West their lives have been spent together in the 3 counties of Vermillion and there were born to them ten six of them growing to some having grandchildren at this Evans was bom at Ft. in Dark Oct. 18, 1832, and is therefore nearly 87 years Mrs. Evans was bom iti Henry Dec. 15, 1837, and soon be 82 years are in fair but of feel the infirmities of their Their ancestors came original ly from relatives now ing scattered over both Ohio and 1866 Mr. and Mrs. Evans moved from Tippecanoe county to where he in farming and In 1867 pr 68 the family moved to they have since the year 1863, Mr. Evans enlisted in the ilth Indiana Cavalry from Tippecanoe for three years and was mustered out at the close of the having served with the year 1872 Mr. Evans united with the Methodist church in this city and has been a class leader for 25 a record of which any one may well be aged couple's host of friends congratulate them upon long and happy married life together and trust that the brittle hread of life may still be lengthened out to them for several more years of HONOR OF Misses Vera Lowe and sister entertained in honor of Miss Pauline Mitchell at the Lowe home on Third street Wednesday large crowd of young people were the home was beautifully who is soon to be united in marriage to Horace received many beautiful presents Light refreshments were fine time was enjoyed by In of the location of the north and south of I as the trail is to be the new state the Attica of the roads which we the that is of this great and which is most south from the Corn at Goodland to Attica connecting with the Dixie thus making a to from closed last Judge j t to of the Benton circuit to the capital West from having been on the bench a couple of Veedersburg the Dixie highway days trying some cases in which courses through Covington to Term Cases Disposed of. Next Term in DIVORCE of Review Closes Marriage Licenses are April temi of Ratcliff was Orville Manlove entertained the members of her Thimble club at her home north of town Sunday with a fine country girls enjoyed a delightful social time and of course did ample tice to the feast prepared by the a direct highway to being the cases of Charles Crowley new improvement will mean A. V. Simmerman vs. City across the Wabash in a suit to collect this place and the levy being Judge Berry the high water the in favor of the city in all which will be prorated as in of building the proposed these cases attorney John county being assessed fought them through the cent and Warren county saved the City of was granted in book form to more to nothing is the result our ball boys made Sunday afternoon they played Dana on their own has lost but one game this one tomorrow at fair grounds to be one of interest as both the teams have some from her Roy by Not so. It The same plea being granted about by the persistent and one million Eyes Boyer against work of a. few the | the now comes in visual divorce eases are stiJl citizens of Fountain all its will be held again in venture and scenic great asset to our com- fied by the Board of Review has about nearly a Here is the Among well remembered its work and a short one: pig whose audiences OF JULY Watts of in Covington He is to entertain a large crowd Portland Arch on the An- orchestra from Paxton will furnish the and other Watts has prepared to serve his excellent chicken dinners to a great number of adjourn this BIRTHDAY WITH home of MrT and Mrs. Perley T. Stuart of scene of a birthday dinner 20, in honor of Stuart's by his sixers and their who in with baskets iaden with ail of good things to Those his Milton of Mr. and Mrs. Roy daughter Ruth and sons Kenneth of Mr. and Boord ant daughters Pauline and of Stone Mr. and and daughter of 111.; Mr. Guy Lucas and of Newcastle Mr. and Mrs. Sam son Vernon and and of and a cousin Mrs. Anna of In the evening Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Lease ard family of Stone Bluff were in to extend congratulations and best clerk has the county Was that at a meeting mountain Mrs. the marriage at Veedersburg last March by Mr. O. Cooper and county tax payers wealthy the associations in joint the bull-necked art Siegmund and Iva presided over by Clinton Flora J. Wisenberger and Mary ag this meeting and plans MRS. MARTHA W. Shafer the roads our FIELD IS Kinged resolution was passed Malony Mory Council and County and Ada G. Merrill of young men from whose names we could not leam went through the fence and down over the grade at the east turn and of the hog when they were trying out the a Ford at the fair ground race tracks The Ford was pretty badly but the boys were only OF ithe undersigned hereby our appreciation and obligations for the kindness and sympathy extended to us by our neighbors and friends in the and death of Mrs. B. ERNEST TO THE BERRY ON THE Dr. J. R. Burlington has returned Judge Burton B. Berry of from overseas service and will re was holding for Judge sume the of medicine in Ratcliff a part of last week as the the Farmers State Judge was attorney for Bank building in July 5. HAVING at the program for the shows at the Lyric for coming week ant you will not want to miss one of If you have not been going join the crowd and get in on the draw which will take place on evening of each week at 8:45 between the first and second These wi continue for an indefinite Five dollars will be g ven away eac Thursday evening as First second third The shows are the house is and the prizes are worth so go each evening save your the more tickets you have the better chance you nave of being one of the lucky Don't fail to be on hand at 8:4 o'clock each Thursday The prize may be To the north we HUTSON TO DAVIESS lost a citizen family the of the week the Rev. Thadius S. Hutson left Daviess to future came here 19 has built new and proved old has preached gospel throughout these years been a splendid always found upon the and of every question and the town can ill afford to loose such a ' as he and his good j of a wife and one many friends here 3nly the best wishes for them in their Working Over-time to Care for Wheat and IS Winter Wheat Crop in History Spring Wheat a that this plum has fallen co-operation of America's most famous and widely read Harold JBell with W. H. associate producer of and maker of and the expenditure of labor at unlimited give credence to the claim that and to the curing The farmers are now working day and night to put the big rye and hay crop where it can he The size of the the of labor and the that all came makes the work doubly week has seen all the wheat and rye in the hay in and the crops are in the finest as the weather has been especially favorable tp of the which comes spring wheat a our the question arises did it do great film ventures of the Lyric in this I acreage of which was sown this day 11, is one of of the first moves made to in a spell lahd this road for Attica and the forest Martha widow of the Commissioners to act in conjunction late Horace the National and State Com- er of Fountain passed E missions in building the We Monday afternoon at six ' reliably that the county at the home of her and L. Pugh Ld Iva A. Step- time shaped their course to that of She was in officials have complied with the re- Thomas in Shawnee and have in every way since She had been ill for not proven good for some on and the yield promises to ba and slow of oats are developing rapidly a much better being in prospect than a couple of weeks the recent having done them much It is that the insect hurt both the spring wheat and bumper com crop is the corn in a fine state of cultivation and Sowers and Ruth delaying a great deal of road year and is survived by one improvement until certain of which Mrs. and three routes the State Commission would And now that it is known Funeral services were held on which roads have been selected by Wednesday at the Purdue the government and State the 15 year old son of residing on north street was badly scalded at the canning factory last Thursday and is to be still suffering greatly from his wAs operating the cooker canning peas one of the stoppers out of can throwing the contents into his face on his and chest scalding him his still under the care of a and is doing as wall as could be at 2:00 o'clock and at the Catherine Dice had the tune to fall from her bicycle a few days ago and sprain her ankle which is giving her some trouble as it RINN LIGHTENING ion church at 2:30. Burial was the thunder shower building of roads under the proposed at Union came up last Thursday unit which has been received a shock held up to await action on the part might have proven Mrs. of the State Rinn was at the time with It is but proper and just to the lightening tion in this connection that several ed to come in on the electric wire Attica citizens have acted ran off the iron her ent parts 4n bringing about the arm and giving her a very cess in securing these highways for improve very severe Medical was called Fountain county and among Catherine's friends hope to see t cr and she is nicely although them Mayor who I her heart and nerves are very much the citizens of our city in but H is thought that she Charles Jacobson of will be alright in a few the city and J. Wesley The latter gentleman was especially interested in the matter spent a great deal of time on the He made no less than a dozen trips in the last six months Crown Terre Haute and BODy COR- ' Endeavor society of Chapel will render a patriotic program at the church on July 9. . . is cordially to put Attica the upon the same Williamsport Pioneer by the unfairness to PICNIC two hundred members of and Warren county of the the Illinois and Indiana Shrine club tentative lay-out of the new Portland arch way for the state under the new road day evening of week the first about fifty business and annual outing of the Members men gathered at the present from court house in this city Hoopeston and 111., to discuss the feasibility of the plan and from that has been It was not a Cayuga and Ind. difficult matter to discern that the A chicken followed by a proposed route was not at all and program factory to Warren county and evenings to Schoenbeck orchestra of Discussions pro con were furnished the musical great were Forest Livengood of as of this r serve Watren county a LaFayette died suddenly in a saloon at The sheriff and coroner of Vermillion 111., are of the opinion that he died from organic heart the police of Westville seem to think it was a case of foul Cross and Leo McGreevy of who with Spaulding at the time of his were held at Westville as xamination of the body by the coroner no marks of. violence and the body was sent to the family at LaFayette A Mayer received a fine pony from his brother of Tuesday by animal is a light weighs about 400 pounds and is as gentle aa a children are now having a fine FOREST KICKED BY the fifteen year old sofi of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Forest of Hillsboro was painfully injured Saturday j when he was kicked in the face by a Forest trying to separate a of calves when one kicked him with both one foot stricking just below the eye and the other directly in the Four upper teeth were knocked out | nd several ofthe ones loosened and both lipa were badly cut races in Covington the 4th. on Page 8) IN THE DARK constructive from New have commenced construction of a brick stack at the power It is being built of tile brick keystone and is to be completed in thirty When completed it will be 102 feet in height and five feet in diameter at the Until it is finished Covington will ba street GUILTY 111., June 27.George alias John alias and Tony Westville men fried on the charge of murder before Judge Walter were found guilty of manslaughter by the its verdict yesterday afternoon at 3:16 fhe William on May 11-"when an they were driving struck The car belonged to A. M. of and been stolen by from not spend the Fourth in
