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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1912
Page
4
Community residents report visits and illness across nearby towns. Elmer and Ralph Smith are stricken with typhoid fever while Charley Sparkes has fencing by The Advance Hardware Co. Families attend church, funerals, and reunions in New Ross, Lebanon, Ward, and Ol Whiteley areas.
Ashford Washington two brothers Oscar and Burr Heyburn plan to enter State University next fall. They will fund their education by selling bear cubs they have raised over five years near their ranch a mile from Mount Rainier forest reserve. Bears multiply rapidly and threaten nearby farms and ranches. The brothers built a trap baited with fresh salmon to capture cubs.
Traps behind the Heyburn barn captured 30 to 40 cubs each summer for years. Bears were sold to city park commissioners, resorts, circuses, and as pets, fetching 30 to 40 dollars per pair. Cubs were kept in a double‑wire fenced pen and fed alfalfa and ash.
A collection of aphorisms from various authors and eras. The sayings urge learning music, civility with morality, virtuous living, parental instruction, friendship, truth, conscience, and duty, with references to Emerson Ouida Shakespeare Isocrates Butler and others.
Mrs Susie Ferguson is on the sick list. Born to Emmit Bowman and wife Saturday a fine boy. Gladys Bowman stayed with Otto Threlkeld and wife last week. Clarence Pipes and wife Emery Proffit and family of New Ross took dinner with Bill Walker and family. Mrs Dean Bowman of Lebanon spent Sunday night with Frank Bowman and family. Those who spent Sunday with Jan Meadows and family were Elisha Uiggs and family, Mrs Mariam Wright and Richard Emmett and family of Lebanon. Jess Joseph, wife and son, Deward from near Thorntown spent Sunday afternoon with Robtn Ferguson and wife.
Arthur Steward attacked Gail McCormack with a shovel while McCormack worked at the Lewis building Wednesday afternoon. The men were separated before serious injury. Steward cited an old grudge tied to his recent arrest as the motive.
Lebanon residents R13. J.C Reese visit Kentucky relatives. George Brindle lost a horse last week. Clarence Smiley, George Brindle return from Missouri visit. Harry Reese and wife with Otto Patterson near Lebanon. Mrs Chas Thompson Pauline and Mrs John White cotfon visit Lish Reesa. Warren Dillian and wife attend Mrs Natt Wills funeral near Lebanon. Orville Pratt family and Obb Pratt family Sunday. Mrs John Kernodle daughter visited her mother in Kokomo last week.
Editor reports on conversations with merchants in a dozen towns who complain their customers increasingly neglect debts. They note more lax payments even from those with cash on deposit and predict laws to enforce cash basis payment. Charles Whiteley and Lena Threlkeld visited near Bainbridge over the weekend.
San Francisco society girl Jennie A. Crocker unveils deluxe reforms for her Hillsborough kennels housing over sixty blue blood dogs. Each dog will be brushed, nails manicured, teeth cleaned twice daily, and fed a prescribed solid and liquid menu devised by a veterinarian to ensure peak health.
A reflective column questions sour grapes and pride in heritage. It urges using tact and flattery, notes beauty’s surface, and asks readers to consider if wealth is better spent on self improvement and enjoyment for future generations.
A jumble of misquoted aphorisms and scattered lines reflecting on work, manners, and fate. The piece drifts through ideas of aging, gender roles, and social critique with unclear connections and fragmented phrasing.
The farmers of the ring met Tuesday night and settled up. Any of them will have plenty of pennies for a while.
Otis Coons went to Indianapolis Tuesday evening. Ray Whiteley has moved to the Bowen farm northeast of town.
Fragmented text hints at household tips and neighborly annoyances. Mentions keeping children occupied, avoiding ants in the pantry, early morning lawn mowing protests, and a puzzling line about a hiding place in a bureau drawer.
A sharp social satire quips about flatterers and the idle rich. Anxious to mock performative sympathy, it jokes on public figures and a pastor's blunder at a prayer meeting, misplacing a hymn tune with a famous song.
The county bridge near the paper mill canal locks at West Carrollton, valued at 600 dollars, is lost or stolen. Four years ago a contractor temporarily removed it for canal locks, and a recent search yielded no bolt or trace of the structure.
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