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Newspaper
Albion New Era
Location
Albion, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1908
Page
5
Local notices advertise Becks wallpaper Stones sales Lozier wagons and plows along with farm tools fencing and harness items. Listings mention insurance repairs newspapers and sales pitches for medicines and household goods from M C Beck and Baughman Albion with community updates on residents and events.
Old Settlers Day in Noble County featured a pioneer only sports program, a horse shoe contest, muzzle loading rifle shooting, and a turkey prize. Rev O W Bowen spoke, O L Ballou gave an address, and officers were elected as bands provided music. A museum idea and relics display drew community interest.
Multiple conveyances list John Mitchell and others selling parcels to Flint Walling Mfg Co and others, including lots in Kendallville and Ligonier. A Rural Georgia reader reports Bucklen's Arnica Salve healed a longstanding sore but with two cent price, plus agricultural drills on sale at Baughman's Albion.
Noble County Indiana auditor John W. Earle presents a county financial ledger for August 10, 1908. It lists salaries, office expenses, jail costs, poor farm, commissioners, health, coroner, bridges, and various county duties with totals of 60,537 dollars.
Trustee Martin C. Beck advertises at his store the 1909 expenditures and levies for Albion Township Noble. Items listed include township expenditures 115 dollars and a 5 cent tax rate per hundred, special school tax 200 dollars and 6 cents, road tax 200 dollars and 15 cents, additional road tax 120 dollars and 10 cents, poor fund 200 dollars with total expenditures 835 dollars and total tax 38 cents per hundred.
Notice to creditors of Ivin J Waltman of Kendallville Noble County Indiana. Adjudicated bankrupt August 5 1908. First meeting of creditors August 22 1908 at 10 am at the Referee office Fort Wayne Allen County Indiana to prove claims appoint a trustee and examine the bankrupt. SOL A WOOD Referee in Bankruptcy. Fort Wayne Ind August 5 1908.
An advertisement promotes Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills as fast relief for headaches. It cites Mrs Louise Lewellyn of Powell South Dakota sharing its benefits and notes a 25 dose package for 25 cents. The Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana authorizes a return of the first package price if the product fails to help.
Sealed bids for heating systems at the Noble County Asylum and Jail are due by 2 p.m. on Tuesday September 8 1908. Bids must specify per job amounts with bonds and affidavits per law. The Board may reject all bids and will award to the lowest responsible bidder per plans on file in the Auditor’s office.
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