Williamsport Review Republican (Newspaper) - March 20, 1919, Williamsport, Indiana - i ' - 1. MASCH 20, 1919, 22 Earl A 25, 199. Lines of Were On Their Store in West Last your letter of Jan. 20 also one from Ella of Feb. 4, so am writing you both this I have written you three times since 3'irge Ringel held their annual I came to four weeks morning at 2:20. Probably received some of them by opening of fanning last week at their store in And as usual had a fine exhibit of all kinds of farm made by the implement companies from all over the dne of the leading exhibits a line of implements made by the Implement Co. in charge of A. E. of and Will of this Their line consisted of nearly all kinds of farm implements and were of the latest patterns and up-to-the-minute They had on corn mowing threshing making a good show of their Other leading firms with exhibits consisted of the John Deere Plow line of plows and the Oliver Chilled Flow Works line of the American Seeding Machine line of the Mfg. line of a iine of Hayes corn Stover feed the American seeding the Casady gang manure spreaders of several a large exhibit of younger brother speaks and a j Gienn and Inez children of niece to here chronicle the facts Charles Best and whom ' that a century and two score years | had been his daily companion for when the echoes of the revolutions then lately prevalent on He is also survived by his Dr. James As I told you in one of my previous letters we are on the peace conference job that most of the company but I am still on the mechanic's end of so while the cars are in good condition we have quite a little time of our own while the other boys are Our work comes in but we get busy and get it then we can do as we Yesterday we worked all day and today only about an So after we got our little job done morning another mechanic and went through a French aeroplane engine the whole from the raw material to the finished In the room where the engines are tested you can't hear yourself think They had ten running this morning and I couldn't hardly hear for an hour after I came but it's worth We make use of all our spare in looking for we are only 15 minutes from the heart of the city on the or we can go down the cars the French drive when they report down town for steel hay grain there are so places to see you every thing made don't which to take in the implement lines were ar crowds were not quite so larce nor the sales quite as heavy as on former owing on the weather and war prices on ihe taking all in the opening was a ind reflects great credit i but I have taken in what say I is the best such as Napoleon's the famous war which it took over four years to were dying and President of Anson Best was doubling the size of of and the of the free and the home | Charles Valentine of the there came out of the j and his Mary village of County Elizabeth Jennie of of Ulster in North i He is survived by many a Scottish-Irish lad and James j and nephews of his family McAdam and Deborah Best by i and several score of devoted cousins then man and The shots fired i of other branches of the same families at Lexington had their echoes in the j scattered over the central and and floated over the 1 He did his duty as a He had lakes of this home of the unyielding j the confidence of the public unconquered protestant who ted him to the offices of come the opportunity to embrace what Township and County new country on the other side and his service in each the world offered for free fice was faithful and He and religious The sailing and the hardships of the trail across the finally brought them to their habitation in the valley of the Muskingum in the Buckeye State when it was yet a minor in swadling Amid these primitive more than a century came to life from these Scottish-Irish emigrants Valentine Best and it appears that after coming to the new world they thought the event should be celebrated in some fitting which they did by adding the final to the name of General Clark and his buckskin army had blazed the Trail across the Blue as the highway to the great and boundless and had converted the and Bloody into the infant Blue Grass there came from the Old Dominion an Mears by They grew and prospered there in the time when Henry Clay was most noted and wanted to be From this family came William who later came north to where he met and wedded Sarah of Irish and to them ninety-five years a The family as was the fashion in those formative and a while in the Blue River country in Rush south of and later entered government and made a home in Medina Warren near Pond Grove and the Cranberry which they at one time owned and sold its Into this neighborhood canie Recent Rains Over Twenty Feet Above Water the Judge Hands Down Decision Knocking Out Trade Between Judy and the peace conference i tine Best McAdams and and wedded ' ' the daughter Evaline late in imperial palac of Loui 15th and 16th, the last kings of the hearse which they carried Napoleon's to the firm oi Ringel in pre- the gold carriage of Louis 14th chance to the farmers which it took eight horses to of Warren county to see the and so many other things I of the last uncompromising republican in and until in his old age he took a leading part in directing political affairs in his He was not He did not seek a Those who delat with him usually had the liberal end of the He always had plenty and lived in and died with an unblemished His life and fortune were and like the famous old shay they ceased at the same was a member of the Masonic Fraternity for many and his brethren of Attica administered the last rites of the Order at his father and mother died almost hall a century They were victims of the privations and hardships of the early Hoosier and went to their reward early in as we look at things He was the sole inheritor of the characteristics we expect to find where there is so much Irish All the love of kindliness and good desire to aid and help possessed by the entire family seemed to be wrapped up in The people around Independence can recall these elements in his The time was when the writer could name those whom he has helped over the rough places in but time has now blotted out the names which they will He was a boy to the and refused to grow even though the inexorable demands of nature counted time against his ever genial disposition to carry Although his silken white locks had told us these many years that his allotted time was running he heeded it When the father went he left a family of small child unprovided for and as the son he became the head of the No one who has not experienced this awful catastrophe heavy rains over began last Friday and continued until the fore part of this has sent the Wabash river on a The river rose rapidly until the fore part of the when on Tuesday it had reached about 25 feet above low water On last Monday night it began running over the levee at the west end of the wagon bridge at Attica and had forced a few families to move from the low lands in Attica and Monday forenoon the traction line between Lafayette and the Home was under water and cars were stopped for a few days on that had reached a high stage at Delphi and other points east on causing much damage to The New York Central tracks at Delphi were under water and that line was practically put out oi business for a day or At this point the panorama presented by the expanse of water was not unlike that of the great flood of 1913, but there no danger of a repetition of that Feature of the Princess has decided to make Wednesday of each week in compliance with the wishes of a large of his By the word we mean a play that is above the ordinary program picture and which cost Mr. Odle a great deal In order to of implements to write of but by side and to give the farmers still have hundreds of other things chance to see the good points of just as interesting to see So as I have to stay in France 1 make ot and draw their own conclusion as to the There openings are a great you don't need to have many aid to the farmer friends of this live hardware company and one which is highly appreciated by as Burr's and later known as Dick's At their home dwelt the Nelson whose descendants are now numerous and honored citizens of the and Jonothan who later was the proprietor of the mill bearing his nanie and located further down the same stream and whose name willing to stav right for family are well remembered by yet There was also We also have either movies or some kind of entertainment at the right here in camp about every and lots of good boxing town every Tonight there is a show given by the of the 33rd of near 1 Double Accident Harvey son of James a severe accident last Friday morning that will keep him from work for some The young man has been employed at the Ringel store in West Lebanon and last Thursday while assisting at their spring he attempted to throw off a belt ing a gasoline engine with some machinery the machines were in In attempting to to leave Tomorrow night I am going to a Masonic meeting down as I want to 3 nore to Karl before wiil hoping mother's rheumatism is over by now and you are all 0. 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Truck Co. 311, Train 403, so that he was not only to Clicky Dist. of F. after his own to be so he had the misfortune of having with and to administer w 1 iU U public Early in life ins nand caught between the belt married Sarah the bursting the flesh i Clarence Siddens Heard From across the thumb and the back of j received a card Sunday from his right Mr. Stephens had j who injured member bandaged occupation on country when there was no public arrangements for their care as Thank fortune he bridged the gap for When we were hungry he fed or the when we were naked he clothed or provided the when we were able to toil and he furnished the The The Doctor known to the community as he took to his reared and educated He saw to it that the rest of us had an and none of us have ever made him ashamed of the care he and the help he and our those of us who lived have tried in the later years to repay by kindness and the many devotions bestowed in the earlier and I am sure that many happy and pleasant hours are registered to our credit with him over family history here set down can be repeated millions of times in almost like terms by the great people of this and it is the underlying cause why we are in this He interested in and the The English speaking race was We spring from and belong to that The United Kingdom is the mother of that From the union of the Scottish-Irish lass and laddie who came over in the far distant and early days has sprung a progeny numbered by the red blooded American citizens of the middle thank goodness they have gone Alexander to help the mother I know Mr. concerning whom time has blotted out the amid early hampered by the unsubdued obstacles of mother and when the state was only and the county only sixteen years was born in 1843 liam Spencer oldest child of Valentine Best McAdams and Evaline Mears and of him we have come to youth was the usual lot of the early A continuous battle with nature a log cabin for a homespun for his the trundle bed for his wolf howls and rattle snake rings for his musical corn sauer kraut and wild meat for his 1 and occasional Indians for his He did his part as a day for on the I Schooling was not i and in later years he educated whom everyone of middle age about Independence for his sterling and christian He settled down to a the bandage saturated with we to hear from The i until he took his IS ne 23, 1919 Friend Friday morning as the young man was sweeping the gathered the dust up in a dust 23, 1919 years and left him and threw the dust m the Friend am now in young all of he In doing so the turpentine on the in the land the Huns bandage caught fire and burned the living near hand so baoly the skin nearly | j having a good time ' and at whose home he spent lad suffered verv i u Lula wife scenery Ijohn of along the I and Charles Best forgot you hoping to ' who lives at the adjoining where he spent many of with you all some I declining He is survived fell off. much from the burns and will be | unable to work for some time to | Dr. Stephenson was called and dressed the has the sympathy of a host friends in was proud of the fact that Captain Frank Best McAdams is with the Medical at that Lieutenant Frederick Charles Knight of the sails over bleeding France and Belgium to do his duty to the English whose army he and that his Paul William with the Devil Dog Marines now keeps the watch on the and that a near dozen of the red blooded loyal members of the family from the great prairie state have also all to help keep tight the tie that binds the English speaking people together throughout the and upon which it must in the future is unusual for a brother to write the after but my excuse is that I thought I knew it better than be necessary for him to advance admission prices on that varying from 11-22 to 25-35, according to cost of Announcement of forthcoming plays will be announced each week through this for these ads and then By Train Last Thursday morning George who lives near had a close call from death at He in a Klondyke buggy and started for In crossing the Big Four tracks his horse was struck by a train and instantly Mr. Mossbarger was thrown from the buggy alongside a side His nose was badly cut and he received many bruises on the He was rendered He was taken on a train to a hospital in Danville and late reports say he is recovering and Mrs. Guy of came Saturday and spent Sunday in this city with five Belle Brown It has been with of Robert of not with that I record In Paul William | 0 y another page in this issue will of occupation in be found a page add boosting our The first law suit resulting from i churches which is being paid for by | of the Wabash plug tlie business men of our This I Attica on the the train For Keep Garden Seed c Q r 93 I Instructions been received ' Hon. Will R. our by stating that has sent us some garden of the was fiM last j men and we desire All those who wish a week in the superior court at our readers to look over this page Ktr by Walter of this i and see the different lines ' uniforms Much con- can have one by calling Mathis was a brakeman on ed. train and had one rib tron loose 1 and was injured He asks for a judgment of through his C. V. are representative cern over this matter has been men and men who are pressed by soldiers over the boost every thing that is good try who will be pleased to leam for the they need not return their and Mrs. Emerson Davis Saturday from their wedding trip to Kansas THE BOSS UHE OP CHATTER 'BOUT BIZNESS 'K T' DO 0ST WE K BV THE OONT ME biO 3f\NS THE decision rendering sales or trades when made under certain conditions void was handed by Judge O. B. of the Fountain circuit Friday and be read with The case that of Harrison of against E. Rex of it is traded a Hudson automobile to Mr. Davis for an Oakland car and two notes in the sum of At the trial Mr. Davis contended that Judy guaranteed the Hudson car for a period of thirty but Mr. Judy testified that he only guaranteed tha car to be in No. 1" condition at the time the trade was made and contended that it was so. The evidence showed that the car was not as represented and that it not run at all before the expiration of thirty In it went bad the day following the Davis tried to effect a compromise and offered Judy to trade was and then the suit was started in the circuit Ratcliff held that under the evidence the minds of the parties did not meet and therefore no trade had been This raises a very interesting point in and under this of the one who sells or trades an article to who has not the opportunity to know just what he is must not make representations to the purchaser which in any manner or must not statements which will reasonably admit of a The trade must be made in such manner that both parties fully understand it or will not be held to amount to a through his 0. S. of brought action in replevin against Mr. who gave bond for the return of the property in case the decision against but contended that he had sold the two notes the same evening the trade However the holder of the notes signed the bond to produce the notes in and under the decision of the Davis gets all his property back with damages for its J. E. Rodenbeck appeared as counsel for Mr. Novel Game of of last week occurred a game of billiards in Charles Farmer's billard hall that was out of the ordinary run of E. F. of this city and Joseph of near started to play billiards at 12:45 p. m. and played continuously until 10:50 p. m. with the exception of thirty minutes for Wednesday of last was the birthdays of both they being born on Sept. 17, 1858, and are 61 They used this plan to celebrate their Ahead inarch 3.0| forget to turn ahead one hour March 30, as that is the date the becomes Director General Hines has instructed all railroads to turn their one ahead at 2 o'clock a. m. March 30. This order is effective until 2 a. m. on the last Sunday in So if you do not turn your clock ahead one hour on the 30th of this month you will miss your train if you are traveling any effort is being made to reorganize the West Lebanon Why not reorganize one here for the coming It will not be long until the citizens will want band concerts Pence Dramatic Co. played the at the Red Men's hail in Pine Village iast
