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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1903
Page
5
In Georgia a jailer leaves his eighteen year old daughter in charge as a prisoner safety mob gathers outside. Susie Leadbetter confronts danger, protects the prisoner Roger De Ford, and helps him escape. Years later the couple faces social scorn but remains united after the war.
Old Pollock the sexton of St. James church, childless and dutiful, overhears a late night plan for a clandestine wedding. He watches a supposed rector and a girl led toward an altar, then acts to stop the scheme, revealing a ruse and saving the girl from ruin.
Paul Rikard learns his supposed aunt plans to keep him single for her use but discovers Claudia Chace is the real heir’s ally. The two reveal the setup in a dim library as the aunt and Claudia share a final ruse to unite them. The plan ends with a twist and a family bond.
A plain man narrates a tale of love lost to Maynard Read who deceived Jessie Lewis. A hired detective exposes Read by staging thefts including stolen bonds worth eighty thousand dollars, and Jessie forgives the narrator for his mistaken suspicions, restoring their engagement.
Bluffton American Mechanics re turned from the state council at Munice with about half the official positions. W. A. McFarren elected state council lor, Josiah Feeser as inside protector and state organizer, G. D. Shigley chair of grievances, and John Robbins, Peter Falk and John Baker named on the law committee. Next annual council set for Bluffton in August. Various local notices follow the officer report including visits, family activities, and a Sunday School picnic with 31 children present.
Farmers finished harvesting and neighbors report health fair. Robert Joury plans to raise a new barn. Salem will hold preaching next Sunday evening. Local visits include John Speheger Ruben Miller and women Dollie Gottschalk Dora Grandlinard at Ruth Sunday. Noah Beeler family guests of L P Walser. Rebeccca Lindsey with Mrs Orvil Fisher Keystone Sunday. Notting ham’s John Iffer family visiting Bossert. Allen Speheger with Will Hall. G W Watson and Illa Walser Sunday School classes joined dinner at L P Walser’s. more than thirty five youths attended and enjoyed a grand time.
A public sale will be held at the seller's residence one quarter mile south of Rockcreek Center Huntingon county on Thursday August 20. Items include six head of horses five head of cattle sixty three head of hogs farm implements and furniture a Garr Scott threshing outfit with 16 horse engine separator feeder weigher and wind stacker corn in the field and hay in the mow Usual terms of nine months on amounts over 95. E Davis 10t2w2
William A. McCullick sues Elnora McCullick in Wells County Indiana for divorce. The complaint filed September term 1918 notes nonresidency and names Mock & Sons as attorneys. Defendant must appear by September 28 1903 or the case will proceed in her absence.
The applicant, a male resident of Harrison township Wells county Indiana over 21, seeks a Wells county board license at the September term 1903 to sell and allow consumption of spirituous liquors on premises at Lot 84 Bluffton. The front ground floor room of a two story frame building on Mall street is described and measures 17 by 46 feet with no partitions and a locked access plan.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society at Liberty Center Methodist Church plans a Friday August 7 1903 meeting. The program includes devotional exercises, officer reports, talks on The Debt we owe the Heathen and Our Missionary Work In China, a select reading, a recital The Missionary Bridge, and remarks by Rev J L Barclay and Mrs J L Barclay.
A large family gathering took place at the home of Robert Carnes near Mt Ion on Sunday with 130 attendees. Next year the reunion will be hosted by Thomas Carnes. The event honored James Reynolds and the Reynolds family of Chi a.
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