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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1903
Page
7
Local store announces August sale items including lace curtains at 33 off, curtains poles at 10c now 6c, lace, ginghams, prints in black red and pink, summer corsets, maslin fabrics, ladies vests waists wrappers and gloves, men's shirts hats overalls and laundry soap deals, plus candy and fancy lamps highlighted for shoppers.
Interurban graders near the brick yard will descend Johnson street while Pete Griffin opens a shooting gallery in the old Painter room until rented. Measles strike Ben Liest's family near Poneto. Kalamazoo reports a record celery crop. Hoosier Construction to lay macadam but gear delays. Earl Thurston wed Fay Deckhart. W J Wasson starts an overall factory. Bluffton workers shift to shirt material as finishing machines wait on full orders.
Wells county trustees in Liberty Union Nottingham Jefferson Jackson Chester Rockcreek Harrison Lancaster and others announce annual meeting details at schoolhouses. Estimates show township and road expenditures, local tuition costs, special school taxes, and total tax rates for 1904 with signed notices dated 1903.
Reports from Linn Grove include visits by Harry Graham and family in Berne and E. H. Huffman in Bluffton. Oats crop outlook remains poor. Miss Katie Liechty visited Decatur. J H Baumgartner plans a Duroc Jersey hog sale on the thirteenth. Baptisms near the Domestia river bridge. Opliger block stone masons began work. Peter Huffman and son Sterling had a runaway in Berne, horse frightened by steam, escaped to the brick street, fell twice, then calmed and returned home.
The Liberty Township Sunday School Association will convene at 2 p.m. in Poneto Indiana at the Baptist church. Rev. G W Carns leads devotional services and Rev J L BarcClay speaks on My Own Dear Bible. Rev Bierne discusses How to Study the Bible and How to Use the Bible in preparing the Sunday School Lesson for August 16. Election of Officers and dismissal follow, with an evening session at 8 p.m. Union services led by the Poneto M E church pastor A T Merriman.
The Federation of Clubs arranges an afternoon reception for Miss Styer at the Presbyterian church this Friday from 2 30 to 5 o clock. The invitation extends to all city residents and mentions Miss Alice Brown of ere Ma as a participant or organizer.
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