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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1903
Page
2
The Bluffton Banner announces subscription rates per year for advance payments and warns of arrearages. It notes second class mailing, address change requirements, and that the paper may be discontinued if not paid. The notice is dated Wednesday January 14, 1903.
The notice urges settlement of all subscription accounts by January eighteenth marking the year end for the Banner company. Delinquent accounts should be settled promptly. the Spanner costs one dollar annually if prepaid and one fifty if billed on arrears.
Speaker Marshall announced committees on Monday with iE B McDowell of the city named to four panels including printing and the joint committee on public buildings swamp lands and labor The labor panel addition bolsters the GOP heavy house influence Senator Will Wood proposed a reapportionment bill that would give Republicans 63 of 100 representatives and 36 of 50 senators Wells Adams and Blackford would form a Democratic district under the plan The house opened with a record 115000 bill for assembly expenses Democratic attempts to cut it failed The Tipton Tribune notes sixty bills were introduced on day one with none aimed at amending the dog law ex trustee Austin Pierson seeks back salary after turnover of his office
The oil market opened 1903 at 81.10 cents after a 1902 peak near 80 cents. Throughout 1903 prices rose from 81.10 to 1.10 dollars by December, with multiple fractional increases recorded from April to December. The year showed steady gains and several steps upward, ending with continuous upward movement.
Frank Studabaker sold 122 head of Hereford cattle at Hesher farm near the city on Saturday. Col Edmonson of Kansas City acted as cried and drew crowds with witty commentary. About 40 head remained unsold, to be returned to Van Buren for feeding. Conker, Frank’s prize bull, drew interest but fetched only 74 dollars, while Frank values him above 95,000 at home.
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin McCallister, fifteen days old, died after a brief illness caused by vascular congestion. The baby weighed about two pounds at one week old and was described as the smallest known in the area. The body was buried at Grove cemetery on Thursday.
John French traveled to Indianapolis on Monday afternoon and disclosed to friends his plan to join the regimental band there. A skilled musician, his rapid rising popularity was not yet known to his closest companions.
Frank L. Jones state superintendent of public instruction urges continuing the present teacher wage scale and proposes a high school inspector position at 1000 dollars yearly. He calls for state funds from liquor licenses to aid underfunded schools and transportation for rural students, and urges sanitation standards to curb unsanitary school houses.
A Sunday morning fire started when a match struck in the clothes room by Nellie Ormsby set ablaze apparel worth about 60 to 75 dollars. Buckets and more water checked the flames. little house damage. Insurance with Buckner agency. Family and visitors from Prospect and Reading involved. Ossian pastor Rev Combrink preached on The Race of Life to a large crowd.
A Bluffton resident with a generous income telephones a bakery for two loaves. After his wife leaves, he returns one loaf claiming it will spoil, hoping to fetch a fresh loaf later. The tale highlights extreme parsimony and ends with a plug for Deam’s egg food and poultry powder sold at Deam’s drug store.
Ossian residents call Sheriff Johnson to remove Samuel Smith from the jail due to dangerously low temperatures. The jail and sheriff’s quarters are freezing, risking illness or injury, and lawyers warn confinement could yield legal action if harm results.
A large Montpelier blaze destroyed second story spaces across from the post office including Horton news stand and National Supply Co store. Firemen faced extreme cold, water froze on contact, frostbite. Loss about three thousand dollars, insured. residents to recover stock losses. Mrs. Ed Costello left for Ossian with her children.
The Chase Construction Company will not finish its interurban contract and plans to abandon the job. If orders come, Mr. Leach may oversee enabling work from Muncie to the Montpelier sub power house, with Leach handling rail and overhead tasks and John Hays & Son the grade work. Moving ahead aims to run rails to Montpelier’s sub power house. poles and wiring progress toward the city and Montpelier, with cars expected by February first.
Reports claim a breach of promise case involving a farmer and a divorced woman, settled out of court for one hundred dollars after letters between former husband and new lover triggered negotiations. Grace Jacobs recovers from cataract surgery and faces a bright outlook.
The Maccabees lodge held an installation Friday night for elected officers led by Wilifred Markley as commander. Since October 16 the group added eighty three members and now stands around fifty one active members with plans for social activities as they expand.
The United Telephone company plans a spring rollout of a rural system to connect farms and households across the area enabling in home phones and better town and regional communication. A Farmers Telephone system already operates in Latrange Stuben and northern counties proving successful and a northern merchant notes daily market quotes via calls improving his business relations with farmers.
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