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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1900
Page
4
Arthur Rank moves to Ladoga to clerk in a drugstore. A parade of visitors includes Joe Green and Rush county kin, and numerous local families visiting or moving. A Typhoid death is noted for Geo Randall’s household, with futures plans to move and farm changes in the community.
Willie Hurt shows a new buggy at Potts School House while May and Myrtle Mount and Ona Maham visit North Salem and attend a Lebanon band concert. Other items note visits, a Ward basket meeting, and repairs to Pleasant View church beginning September 24.
Local notices include obituary of church events and entertainments. Dr Boyer will lecture at the hotel on September 20 offering cures for various ailments, with referrals to local figures. Miss Toadie Hurt to perform September 22 at Shilo Christian church to benefit the Ladies Aid Society. Band concert promises renewed energy and a townwide celebration tomorrow.
Corn cutting in order and gravel hauling fill the week as neighbors report daily tasks. Joe Lucas builds a new kitchen while J T Burris constructs wire fence. Bax Reed plans a Virginia visit with his wife among friends. Vint Riner and family attend a Ward basket meeting and call it a success. Uilla McKinsey returns home after a two week stay with Newt Meeks. James Burris and family of Lebanon visit Chas Lockhart. Dave Reed hauls logs to enlarge his barn on the north farm. Vint Riner and Marion Craver buy a fine road horse at a sale near Shannon dale last week.
Editors offer one dollar first prize and six months subscription for the heaviest and second heaviest ears of corn exhibited at the office. Entries open to regular readers and new subscribers. Contest closes November 3 with weighing by selected parties.
A. J. Adams left Monday night for Kentucky to visit relatives. Pete Starwall plans to build a new house. A new preacher named Mr Goodwin is expected soon. Sam Adkins trapped a thief who broke into his store. a trial last Monday resulted in a three year penitentiary sentence for the man, who directed Adkins to where the goods were hidden.
Long Branch residents report Mr Richardson and son working for Anna Starwall last week. E Vanarsdall finished at Union Monday. John Beaver went fox hunting one night. Ollie Richardson worked at the tile mill Saturday. Mrs Vanarsdall attended lodge Wednesday night. John Forbes attended the funeral Friday. Miss Vanarsdall visited Miss Starwall one night. Arty Joseph hauled gravel. Ernest and Dovie Smith attended the picnic Saturday. Vanarsdalls and Forbes attended Sunday school. Arty Joseph, Ollie Richardson, Mertie Richardson, May and Charlie Forbes, Dovie and Ernest Smith attended the Ward picnic Sunday.
Aly Harris is the proud father of a boy. Grandma Graves is improving in health this writing. There will be cheap rates on the big four next week due to the State fair. John Barch is visiting in Corydon.
James Peterson was sick the first of the week. Fred Jessee, operator on the Big 4 at Pekin, IN, visits here. The New Ross band followed by Republicans went to the fair bed. Walter Bratton is telegraphing at Danville Hill. James Weaver visiting relatives near Bedford. Edynlon of Ladoga was here Sunday. Thomas Brown accepts Nevada job as section foreman at 72 dollars a month.
At press time the church bell is being installed while a freight engine derailment leads to replacement. Robbins livery deal fails as his partner backs out. Montana men offer about 50 western horses for sale to local buyers.
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