Anniversary Feast Honors Aunt Rehoseah Jaques
A large gathering celebrated Aunt Rehoseah Jaques’s eighty first birthday on Moonday at her homestead. Family and friends from Georgetown and neighboring towns attended with baskets of food and goodwill, as the Smith school children presented gifts.
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Rebecoeah Jaques
Lue Senoul
Smith School
Jaques
James Thompson
Ethel Clark
Vivian
Wm. Airhart
Baron
Georgetown
Lil
Stamps Split by Office Name on New Postage System
Under new rules each presidential office may have its own stamp with the office name engraved. Indianapolis will feature twenty six stamps and a commission will decide if the contract goes to the Bank Vote Company. An American Book Note Company handles engraving for the bureau this year. A barber in a neighboring city humorously markets printer services for quirky soup toners patterns.
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Indianapolis ix
Bevrias
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
American Book Note Company
Bank Vote Company
Seed Corn Gospel Train Demonstrates Seed Improvement
The second annual seed corn gospel train will run November 13 to 17, 1906 over the Lake Erie & Western Railroad free to the state. Purdue University Experiment Station shows the state’s corn stands under 75 percent and will present demonstrations to improve seed and stands. G I Christie of Purdue leads, with 30 minute stops for questions aboard heated coaches for farmers to attend.
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Lake Erie & Western Railroad
Courtessy
Purdue University Experiment Station
G.I. Christie
Purdue Experiment Station
Git Yo Gun Huntin Song by Byron Williams
A dialect段ictive poem describes Johnny Byron Williams urging friend to grab his gun and head into the woods. The speaker portrays anticipation of hunting for game such as coon, pheasant, quail, and squirrels while noting winter and summer hunting times and the pleasure of the hunt.
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Byron
Williams
Summah
Arfi
Young Couple Injured When Horse Fails in Danville
Morning incident near the Christian Church in Danville involves Hery Polbemus and Leota Cox riding in a buggy owned by Hansell Butler. A frightened horse overturned the rig. Lora McClaine stopped the animal. No serious injuries reported to the couple. buggy damaged and harness stripped.
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Lash Gonday
Hery Polbemus
Leota Cox
Bua Canada’s
Danville
Christian Church
Lora McClaine
Mount Kicked by a Horse in Face During Evening Feeding
Wm. Mount, employed by John Welden, was kicked in the face while leading a horse to water last Saturday. A strap broke free, the horse struck him with a shoe to the forehead and left cheek, knocking him unconscious for minutes. Neighbors and a doctor assisted. wounds not dangerous, but near-miss severity noted. He was in town Monday. The report also mentions railroad mileage line plans and the Indiana Columbus and Eastern as a holding company in Ohio, with lines from Richmond to Columbus.
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Mount
Mount Worke
John Welden
Mileage books sold for 1000 miles on merger lines
Announcement by the traction syndicate with Hugh McGowan in Indiana and W. Kelsey Shoefield will shortly place on sale a new 1000 mile mileage book. It will be valid for the better and any number of travelers on all merger lines of Indiana and Ohio for 15 dollars. It is the first straight mileage book issued by an electric line.
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Indiana Union Traction
Indianapolis& Northwestern
Indianapolis Coal Traction
Indianapolis & Martinville
Indianapolis & Eastern
Richmond Street
Urban
Ft. Wayne & Wabash Valley
Indiana
Columbus & Eastern
Lima
Toledo
Cincinnati
Indiana, Columbus & Eastern
Ohio
Richmond
Ind
Columbus
Traction Syndicate
Hugh McGowan
W.kelsey Shoeph
Card of thanks custom loses its purpose says editor
The editor urges readers to stop publishing cards of thanks after sickness or death. He notes neighbors help in silence and warns that public notices of thanks weary readers. A look or word should convey gratitude without printing in the paper.
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Messenger of Death
Arrest of James Jordon in Indianapolis After Photo Incident
James Jordon, a well dressed Pittsboro man, was arrested in Indianapolis Saturday by Detective DeRossette as he tried to board an interurban car on Virginia Avenue and Delaware Street. Police were alerted after a photographer failed to photograph him and he fled the group. He is held pending investigation on suspicions of warrants in Pittsboro.
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James Jordon
Pitteboro
Indianapolis
Gordon
PeRousette
Virginia Avege
Delaware Street
Indianapana
DeRossette
Pittsboro
Gorgon
Pitsboro
Lebanon
Township trustee to pay damages for livestock killed by dogs
Grant county enforces a new state law holding township trustees liable for losses from stray dogs. A Marion resident received $4 for chickens killed by a neighbor’s dogs, sourced from the dog tax fund. No prior local cases reported in the county.
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Grant County
Marion
Falls From Coal Load Cause Injury to John Troutman
Falls from a coal wagon near New Ross last Wednesday left John Troutman with badly mashed toes after he attempted a ride down a slope. The incident occurred as the team trotted while he tried to jump aboard and his foot slipped under the wheel. The weather being cool contributed to the accident and the injuries will likely heal over several weeks.
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New Ross
John Froutman
Troutman
Tron
Township Trustee Public Meeting Notice
Trustee announces weekly office hours in Jamestown each Friday and Tuesday at Bank of Advance for township business. Public access to services and inquiries at the Jamestown office and Bank of Advance location.
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Otice
Jamestown
Bank of Advance
Devol
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Aunt Rehoseah Jaques
Seed Corn Gospel Train
Ruan
Johnnie
Johnny
Inaway
Mileage Books
Pistograph
NEW Law
John Troutman
W.l. Hunt
Guneral
Advange, Indiana
J. R. Sullivan
Prop
Salx
Sterling
S. W. Ailes
Mark Wall
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