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Newspaper
Attica Ledger Press
Location
Attica, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1912
Page
2
A verse praising the home life and the wife child and home as the best. It extols every man's wife baking bread preserves and housekeeping as superior from coast to coast. The speaker suggests harmony will return when each man values his own home and family.
Electric motors enable extensive home chores powered by mild noise free energy. From cleaning and polishing to washing drying chilling and sewing many tasks become easier with concealed wiring and simple operation.
Indiana corn growers hold their annual meeting at Purdue University in Lafayette on January 15. The association has over 1 400 members statewide and anticipates a large, enthusiastic gathering. Topics focus on improving rural life through soil science and school and home betterment with lectures by Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins and Prof. O J Kern of Illinois.
Grover Robinson, chosen as Santa Claus, caught fire when his costume ignited from a candle during the Fountain church Christmas exercises. Prompt assistance by nearby men beat out the flames, leaving him badly burned but not permanently injured, with no panic among the crowd.
The Indiana Association may alter its constitution at a meeting in Indianapolis with January 1 1918 as the start date. If upheld Purdue and Indiana universities would be barred from hosting or participating in certain state meets. A second proposal would bar Greek letter society members from high school athletics.
The Irish potato price drops as it crowds down costs to help living expenses. Potatoes sell for about 35 cents a bushel and onions go for 25 to 30 cents. Eggs fall in price as cold storage men unload supplies. O. A. Martin visited Danville on Friday for business.
A corn variety discovered at an Illinois agricultural station is described as cone shaped with grains growing on stems like a grape bunch and without a cob. The hollow ear can be fed whole to stock, including the fiber stems, and may prove valuable for ensilage and feeding efficiency.
James Bryce, resigning ambassador from Britain to the United States, argues in Philadelphia that great cities corrupt civilization and that legislation should favor many small cities of up to a hundred thousand. He urges rural residents to boost and invest locally to make their home communities the best places to live.
President Taft's post presidency schedule includes a Georgia stay through spring, a Beverly area summer home, a southern California visit, and a September return to Yale as a law lecturer. He then intends a year abroad to lecture on international peace across Europe, with a world tour in the final six months.
The State Board of Accounts shows $287 416.84 recovered from Jan 1 1910 to Sept 30 1912 while examination costs totaled $442 428.16. Pending adjustments total $1 179 118.48 with an estimated recovery of $624 206.41. The report defends inspectors and notes honesty in officials. Covington's new grade school building is enclosed with plastering underway. Occupancy is expected in February and heating installed by then for three months of classes.
The Newtown high school production of Mr. Bob on December 19 drew door receipts near 35 dollars. The show featured three glee club choruses and a reception at superintendent J. C. Bide's home afterward. Teachers and participants enjoyed a festive close to the evening as many locals returned home for Christmas.
The C. E. society will present Not a Man in the House and several short plays next Saturday night. George Hickman and family host holiday visitors. Dan Warwick and family from Champaign Illinois visit. Miss Alice Jenkins travels to Crawfordsville for Christmas with her parents. Walter Sanders from Winthrop came on business. L D Reed and wife spent Saturday in Danville. Miss Vera Lank visited relatives in Oxford Monday.
The piece reflects on mail order purchases and the mismatch between posters and real goods. It likens a circus animal to catalog imagery and warns buyers to inspect quality and fit before buying, noting neighbors may improve the town by scrutinizing purchases.
Dr. J. H. Morehouse chief surgeon of the Wabash Railway hospital service died December 20 at his Danville Illinois residence. He was a known figure along the Wabash and rode as a passenger on the West Lebanon wreck last March where he and a woman passenger were trapped in a Pullman sleeper for five hours before being found unharmed.
Advertisement notes a fine slightly used piano for sale in Attica with easy terms offered by Benjamin Temple of Music in Danville Illinois. The piece also mentions Misa Crystal Ronner, daughter of Mort Runner of Oxford, visiting Rockford college for holidays with her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Wilson, and reports a postponed Christmas due to Mrs. Susan Bean’s illness.
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