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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1917
Page
5
A wholesome American town tale about Prudence, daughter of a minister, who raises her four sisters after their mother’s death. The six women share warm, loyal lives, with a charming Prince Charming adding a light romance to the cheerful story.
A Boone county church plans to spend forty five dollars this year in the local paper to publicize its Sunday offerings and church good works. The piece notes the church will advertise the good things it does for the other fellow and contrasts this with what some town businessmen spent last year.
Sample copies of the Hustler are being mailed this week inviting recipients to subscribe. The paper offers a one year rate of $1 while other papers have raised prices. Suggest gifting the weekly issue to friends or relatives to grow the subscriber list.
Edna D. is delivered today to Mr. Sherman an eastern Pennsylvania millionaire for 800 by Mike Rairdon of Indianapolis. Edna D. posted 2 18 at Lebanon track this year with a brisk wind. Davis has sold two racers in three years with total sales over 1000.
Frank W Rose of Ladoga dies after long illness. four children, three living. widow Sarah Tine Graves survives. Funeral held at home. Rev S G Smith officiating. Frank Butler undergoes urgent appendectomy at Witham Hospital after sudden illness. Butler improving post operation. Other local health updates and community notes included from Advance and surrounding towns.
The third bi monthly exam was held Thursday and Friday. Eugene Yager has been absent this week due to an injured knee from basketball practice. Several A H S students plan to attend the tournament Friday and Saturday. Juniors praise Solid Geometry for high and low grades and time to read magazines. Basil Debard learns to be an electrician and jokes about shocks from a dollar motor. The Juniors are very boyish this week with absent girls.
Miss Nan Wilson left this morning to be away Sunday for her sister Mary's wedding, a Danville teacher, to Frank Crawford a banker from the Hawaiian Islands. The couple plan to depart for their island home after the ceremony.
Advance Hardware Co. mentions fence stretchers. The D C Club met with Aliss Thelma Weldon on Saturday. Mrs. Alice Todd and Mrs. Dollie Leap Dull of Rochester visit with Ora McDaniel and family. Mrs. Lula Mullendore and daughter Katherine visit with relatives this week.
The M E church holds Sunday services with a morning sermon on the 23d Psalm and an evening talk titled The Bonds of Freedom versus the Bonds of Slavery. Social notes mention Mr and Mrs Geo Broshar dining with Mr and Mrs Chas Sparks and compliments on the dinner. Will Woods will plow corn for Edgar Peterson this summer while Edgar fishes in the gravel pit.
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