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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1893
Page
4
The Wells county Democratic committee calls a December 30, 1893 engine house Bluffton meeting to fix primary election time and handle business. Senators and prosecutors will speak including J H C Smith and J A Hindman with others.
The Democratic state central committee orders mass district conventions on December 10 at 1 p m to elect delegates to district conventions January 8, 1894. Eleventh district representation fixes one delegate per vote or fraction over 100 for Governor Claude Matthews in 1892 with counts for Adams, Blackford, Grant, Huntington, Miami, Wabash, Wells. Jerome Herff, District Committeeman.
Reynolds of Harrison township is urged to run for Wells County Commissioner in the second district. A respected farmer and business executor with ties to Wells County Canning Co. and local industries is presented as a fit and trusted community leader.
Sickness lingers in Poneto as Uncle Jimmie England remains grave. The dredge works nightly under electric lights. a union Christmas tree is planned at United Brethren church on December 25. News covers oil prospects, skating on Doster ponds, a marriage of Belle Barrington, a fatal scalding of Eugene Perry’s son, a new derrick, and local education institutes.
Hicks predicts a cold start to January with clearing days followed by a warmer spell and clear storm movements by the 4th. The 5th to 7th bring rain snow and blizzards with intense cold into the 10th and 11th. A swing to growing storm conditions returns by the 14th and continues via the 18th.
Tocsin reports no serious sickness and notes six accessions to the church after a protracted meeting closed last Thursday. Local visits include Calvin Kunkel, Elihu Johnson, and Peter Bender. Dispatches mention hunting, hog slaughter, seed company calls, and upcoming Emmaus Christmas events. Various social updates reflect illnesses, horse loss, accidents, and neighborly acts.
Ossian reports on the drama Among the Breakers and local activities. Rev Craven resumes duties after a recovery. Bluffton businessman Lou Justus promotes insurance. Deputy Batson surveys a ditch project and stakes up for the primary. Mrs Livengood visits from Payne CO, husband returns. Saloon repairs spark optimism for a reopening. Fred Worley expands the lunch room into groceries. Jefferson township teachers hold a four monthly institute with fifteen present. Mrs Swaim visits relatives from Bluffton. Roe and Hatfield stay home with lagrippe. Grand jury calls prompt warning to lawbreakers. Mrs Henry Powell dies in Allen county near Zanesville. survived by husband and son. Tom Tis.
J P Dunn reports state public libraries totaling substantial collections with Indianapolis leading at about 120 000 volumes and Notre Dame 40 200. Other prominent deposits include Fort Wayne 14 243 Bloomington 16 684 and Terre Haute 23 200.
The Blaine era notes a busy week with Noah Kreps head sawyer at the local saw mill and a lively poultry trade. Abe Sheheger entertained guests while Mr Mertz instructs a Christmas program. Weddings, illnesses, religious meetings, and visits fill the week in Desalle and nearby areas.
Winter arrival worsens road conditions while church groups announce protracted meetings at Oakland and Paulding County venues. Craigville school held examinations last Saturday and Oakland Sunday school plans a Christmas entertainment. Rev. D W Abbott conducts the meeting in Paulding county.
In Omaha at the First Methodist church a Dec Sth lecture by Bishop Newman marked a notable Methodist event. Nebraska’s first class of trained nurses graduated from the Methodist Episcopal Hospital, nine young women including Miss Mattie Louis receiving diplomas as fully competent nurses.
The town reports many with bad colds and typhoid fever at Mt Zion. Mrs. Sarah Hubbard dies at 77. funeral in U B church and burial at her former home cemetery. Oil activity expands with stakes, wells, and timber on Williamson and Neff farms. W Huffman leases to Standard Co for four wells in a year. Alfred Beard and family await hypothermia recovery in Warren. Miss Jennie Perry improves from rheumatism as oilmen press leases. CrocketT
The note sheet highlights local happenings in Honduras Hootings including rain restoration, Christmas planning at Zion Church and Deihl schoolhouse, and literary events at Hower school. It mentions injuries from a hunting accident, a finger severed while cutting fodder, and various residents facing financial strain.
A brief notice asserts no time passes between taking One Minute Cough Cure and relief. It urges people to take the remedy, quoting C. C. Deam in support.
A harsh critique targets a Western Kansas advertisement by a self described all round newspaper man claiming wide talents from poetry to umpiring to preaching. The piece asks society to blush if such a man is unemployed and capable of doing everything for a modest salary.
A collection of aphoristic lines on temperance wealth virtue and religion. Observations note drunkards ordinary men enduring drought droughts success paths misused labor and honesty versus comfort citing a man who hoards tobacco and a farmer blaming weather and government for a idle machine left outdoors.
The piece describes 13 inch naval guns firing half ton projectiles at 2100 feet per second, with 40 foot powder tins and over six ton gun housings. It notes a 13 inch gun battery planned for Indiana Oregon and Massachusetts, and praises U S naval factory capabilities to build and equip ships.
The article notes high value life policies on European rulers and their families. It cites the late prince consort insured near five million dollars now held by Victoria, and Princess Beatrice among beneficiaries. Emperor Frederick of Germany carried about four million, once seen as low risk until a cancer diagnosis. Danish Swedish Saxony Württemberg Italian royals and Spain's regent also feature large life policies for their children.
A young woman leaped from a bridge over the Seine as a train carrying Hussian visitors crossed the river near Versailles. She shouted French and Russian slogans and died. Her body was found wearing garments made from French and Russian flags.
A Birmingham company now manufactures wholesale gold crowns for hundreds of African petty kings. The crowns are adorned with crimson velvet and topaz, garnet and other showy stones.
The excerpt lists diverse notes including elm leaf counts, ape weights, alpine glaciers, trichina concentrations, cloud formation, a stove cement recipe, classification of clouds, air brakes on railways, brick durability, and tar-saturated bricks for waterproof workshop floors.
The text catalogs medical advances and institutions from 1822 to 1860 including Cuorer s Dislocations and Fractures, Calmeil on insanity with paralysis, Bellevue Hospital founding, Faraday's inductive electricity, chloroform discovery, British Medical Association formation, electricity in medicine, Richard Bright's kidney disease studies, restraint abolition at Lincoln asylum, medical jurisprudence of insanity, lunacy act, vaccination acts, Liston s surgery texts, Brompton hospital, Winslow s journal, first orthopedic and homeopathic hospitals, and incurable disease hospital in London.
A collection of varied snippets covers topics from fashion and photography to insurance, industry, and ancient London. Notable points mention silver hat pins, the term milliner from Milan, a 1851 photography term, St. Paul’s site history, and curious notes on pearl shapes and soap from cotton-seed oil.
Election to be held at Mt Zion Lodge No 684 I O O F hall in Mt Zion Wells county Indiana on December 50 1893 at 7 pm to elect three trustees for one year terms Edward Terhune 5112 secretary.
Large Indiana farm with 110 acres on gravel road two miles north of Bluffton offering two barns extensive outbuildings a wind pump and mostly cultivated land. Sold on easy terms with $1500 down and balance over up to ten years with prepayment privilege. Mock and Simmons Bluffton and Holstein Barrett Indianapolis.
A 30 day sale offers 15 percent off cash sales of pianos organs and sewing machines. Alternatively 10 percent off with payments split as one half cash one fourth in six months and one fourth in a year. Offer ends January 11 1894. W I Fitch 503 Bluffton Ind Aluminum heating note.
A dated note prescribes curing 500 pounds of meat with 12 pounds salt 2 pounds sugar 1 pound pepper and 4 pounds saltpetre. It also advertises Deam's Drug Store as a source for pepper and saltpetre.
Mr James Kerns of West Lafay ette Indiana reports using Morris English Stable Liniment for sore shoulders and a severe flank gash on a horse healed in ten days. He calls it the finest remedy for flesh wounds. Sold by J E Sturgis. Also notes total animals inspected by the Bureau of Animal Industry in the year: 463 389 inspected and 611542 exported.
Dr Well offers a throat and lung remedy priced at 25 cents claimed to soothe inflamed membranes loosen phlegm stop coughing and aid sleep. Sold by J E Sturgis. The second item notes a 1914 scientific finding about overfishing seas around Britain and ongoing grave considerations.
Crouch and Travis report great success with Craft's Distemper and Cough Cure for distemper and coughs. They praise its quick, perfect results and recommend it to friends. Sold by J. E. Sturgis in LaFayette. 4914
A maid of honor to Queen Victoria receives 1500 dollars annually and thirteen weeks of attendance at court. She is depicted as a trusted figure within the royal circle, while an advertisement touts DeWitts Little Early Risers as a remedy for digestion and bowel issues by C. C. Deam.
An advertised horse tonic asserts it prevents disease and keeps horses in splendid condition and spirits. It claims to fatten and glossy coat and improve overall work readiness. Full packages priced at 25 cents and sold by J. E. Sturgis at 4914.
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