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Newspaper
Attica Ledger Press
Location
Attica, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1913
Page
6
The Benton Review notes May may stay comparatively dry and links dry planting seasons to big crops and high prices. It compares Benton county to neighbors, saying they fare better in bad years due to drier conditions and soils, while others had excessive rain last year.
Dean Stanley argues that individuals must improve their circles to spread wide good. He urges that each household can radiate influence beyond its bounds, lifting the community and civilized world through personal example.
The Royal Neighbors of Fountain County plan a county convention at Rob Roy on Thursday June 5. The Rob Roy lodge prepares to entertain visiting neighbors in royal style as one of the strongest camps in the county.
The Railway Steel Spring company filed for a receiver and the Chicago and Eastern Illinois rail line was placed in receivership in Chicago. William J. Jackson and Edwin W. Walters were named receivers as the Frisco system faces financial strain from floods two years earlier and rising costs. Frisco may separate the C. & E. I. into an independent line. directors meet June 4 to shape the process. The C. & E. I. spans 1,266 miles within Illinois and Indiana and was a key asset, with stock and certificates tied to Frisco.
I J Dunkin takes over Union Chapel Sunday School in Shawnee township starting April 1 and reports noticeable growth with top attendance of 125, 75 on a rainy Sunday. Classes are active with rotating duties and a Children’s Day program planned next week. Following Sunday married men will lead the song service to attract attendees.
Transfers of real estate in Fountain county show multiple lot and acreage transactions reported by O S Douglass. Names include Velma Stakely Rebecca Town Cora Powers Mamie Sheridan Lenna Thompson Wm Cronk John Stucker Van Buren township Wm Gaskill and W P Carmichael with prices ranging 1 to 2500 dollars. Transactions cover Attica Kingman and Yeddo areas and parcels from 10 to 80 acres with varying consideration.
Dan V. Smith visited town Tuesday to have a needle fragment removed from his foot. He stepped on the needle at home and it broke into three pieces with the largest driven through the shoe and into the flesh.
Purdue expert J. C. Beavers urges Indiana farmers to expand soy bean acreage. He notes its nitrogen fixing bacteria improves soil organic matter, yields over $40 per acre, and can be planted by June 15 with 30 to 36 inch rows. He cites inoculated seed and similar care to corn.
Frank R. Washburn, formerly of this city, and Miss Allie Black daughter of Mrs. Sarah Black of Kingman, surprised friends by marrying Wednesday in Logansport. They traveled from Kingman to Attica, then to Logansport on separate trains and wed at four o clock. They plan to live in Toledo. Washburn, known in this city for railway work, had a prior marriage to Mattie Burnwood who died about a year ago.
A. P. Green sealed the largest deal of his career by exchanging 3600 acres in Arkansas owned by William Hunter of Warren county for a Chicago south side apartment building. The transaction, valued at 130000 on each side, will yield Green a handsome commission and solid revenue.
Indiana fire marshal W E Longley reports on the third week of May, noting lightning caused 16 fires and arson accounted for five. Total fires reached 73 with about 94700 dollars in losses. week one and two showed higher totals. No definitive origin for 17 fires. assistants now required to report promptly under a new law.
Aaron N. Walton died Friday morning about 9 30 at his home in Stone Glass after two years with locomotor ataxia and a paralytic stroke. He was 66 and survived by his wife five daughters and one son with funeral rites led by Rev. Tuggle at Centennial church near Yeddo.
John Calicott a resident of Lafayette described as a colored prophet entertained the Elka visitor Tuesday afternoon at the courthouse eastern steps with his original interpretation of Revelations He predicted the world’s end on Memorial Day Mr and Mrs L E French and daughter Clara visited Lafayette Friday
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