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Newspaper
Attica Ledger Press
Location
Attica, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1914
Page
6
Miss Julia Ritchey leaves Bloomington due to bad water and plans a summer stay at Winona after quitting university studies there.
The Progressive movement in Indiana has gained traction as newspapers statewide publicly align with the party. More than 60 papers actively support Progressive principles, while others broadly back the industrial and economic program without party ties.
A call to Marshal Beamer and Night Officer Hope led them to the Wabash River bridge on a Saturday evening. They found the Bloomer Girls baseball team from Williamsport swimming in pajamas, not costumes, and left them undisturbed after a discreet check.
The Oxford Gazette notes Babcock of Goodland critiqued John P. Carr's spelling idiosyncrasies and jokes Attica Ledger would shock him. It hints that such criticism wouldn’t make them progressive.
The article extols sunlight as an effective and inexpensive disinfectant. It argues barns and animal shelters should maximize sun exposure with southern-facing windows and appropriate curtains to control heat, noting sunlight reliably kills most disease germs.
Will T Green and his son from Chicago stayed with Mr and Mrs Will Manchester this week. Green, raised in Attica, recalls his youth spent in the old ravine now a famed Hoosier park. He works for Chicago Board of Trade but fond memories linger.
Miss Ruby Moore of Williamsport daughter of Bud Moore now with Hast St. Louis Bridge Works and Adolph Wickstrow of Hoopeston Ill were married Saturday at the bride’s aunt Mrs Hunter’s home in Williamsport. The couple will reside in Paxton Ill where the groom works in a leading dry goods store.
Dr John B Archer a noted Indiana political figure and former assistant state veterinarian died in Washington on June 11 after an operation for acute indigestion. He chaired the second district for the state democratic committee and lived in Spencer Indiana. He recently visited his brother in this city and had boyhood friends here.
A new time-card went into effect on the C. and E. I. railroad on Monday affecting train No. 9. The southbound service now leaves Chicago at 10:57 am and reaches Attica at 3:25 pm. Final destination times: Pine Village 2:57 pm Winthrop 3:18 pm Rob Roy 3:34 pm Aylsworth 3:39 pm Stone Bluff 3:44 pm Veedersburg 3:54 pm. No reason given for the change.
Relatives pursue appointment of a guardian for Hollis Florey in the circuit court. They allege she is not competent to manage the property she will inherit from the estate of her mother, Mrs Sarah Florey, who died June 10. Hollis resided with her mother at the home place two miles west of Newtown.
In Lagro Ed Gumert's paper notes the Dora ladies aid gathered at the Minnick farm west of town on Tuesday. They carded sixty cord of wood in about two hours, enjoyed a fine picnic dinner, and spent the afternoon socially.
Summer tourist excursion tickets go on sale daily from June 1 to September 30 to New York City Boston Montreal Washington and other eastern points. For details inquire or write G. C. Knickerbocker Danville or H. W. Heasman Attica Ind. Sept. 30.
Transactions in Fountain County real estate since our last report list filings prepared for The Ledger Press by Douglass and Nelson abstractors. Transfers include Purviance to Hudler for Elmdale lots 91-92 at 200 dollars and multiple deeds such as Ferguson to Hose for Attica, Callahan to Callahan on Wabash township, McCord to Tibbets in Attica, Coffing to Cline in Troy, and Green to Black in Newtown with prices ranging from 40 to 1100 dollars.
Mr. and Mrs. John Jolieff and their son and his family from Catlin were guests over Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Othro Hartman and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Walters.
A sequence shows a trip leaving Attica, arriving Covington, then departing Covington and arriving Attica with forenoon timing extending into Covington until forenoon. The readable items suggest a looping or shuttle run between the two cities.
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