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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1904
Page
2
The 288th session will enact a pay rise for rural carriers. Fourth Assistant Postmaster J Bristow arranged a schedule based on route lengths. Carriers with twenty miles or more receive 720 dollars annually, with decreasing scales for shorter routes down to eight miles.
A Roches Indiana druggist reports selling fifty boxes on a local recommendation. A year ago one customer bought a box and has since praised the tablets to neighbors. Davenport and Ehle sell the product, described as providing a pleasant purgative effect.
Samuel Duffy and Miss Laverne Myers were married at the Methodist parsonage by Rev. L Beeks. The couple left for Lake Erie then Huntington, to spend a few days with Duffy’s mother. Duffy, a popular interurban line conductor, and Myers, sister of Mrs. George Harnish, have long resided in Bluffton.
A Burling ton Iowa locomotive fireman C W Bellamy wrote of a near fatal decline from weakness and loss of appetite. After taking Electric Bitters he recovered fully and felt stronger than ever. The ad promises renewed life and vigor for weak sickly people with a 50 cent price and guarantee by Chas C Deam Grugeist.
The June period produced only twenty one marriage licenses issued by Clerk Studabaker, far fewer than other months this year and than June a year ago. The county’s sentiment toward June weddings appears sentimental, but activity favors other months now.
Summer is near and this remedy is urged for homes to treat cholera and diarrhoea. It claims reliability in severe cases and especially useful for children. Sold by Davenport and Ehle with assurance of prompt relief and potential life saving value.
Official figures show twelve bug species inflict about 365 million dollars of damage annually, roughly a million dollars daily. The list is led by the Wichita bug at around 100 million, followed by grasshoppers, Hessian fly, cotton boll weevil, and other pests.
The city council appointed D. O. North as city engineer to oversee inspection and cost assessment of Walnut Street and Kemp & Sons paved alleys. The council favors accepting the pavement as is and plans to obtain statements from property owners before final acceptance. A Friday meeting with the council and engineer outlined future street plans.
Learn telegraphy to secure good positions. Free catalogue offered by Sharp's School in Huntington Indiana available until August. Assistant instructors promise job prospects upon completion.
Wells county auditors will hear on July 14 1904 the viewers report on a proposed Shadle Free Gravel Road extending 15500 feet from the southeast corner of section 9 to section 7 in township 25 north range 11 east. The special session is called for the purpose of hearing that report.
On June 21, 1904 viewers in Wells County Indiana reported plans to build the Nutter Free Gravel Road. The route runs from the Reiffsburg and Camden Gravel Road line west then several back and forth segments totaling 19 300 feet to the southwest corner of section 6. The county auditor requested a hearing by the commissioners to review the report.
Board of commissioners of Wells County Indiana reports to the auditor on a proposed gravel or macadamized road. It starts at the northeast corner of section 6 in township 25 north range 12 east and runs south along section lines between sections 5 and 6 7 and 8 17 and 18 to the southeast corner of section 18, in the township, where it ends.
The commissioners court met on Thursday the 14th in a special session to hear the report on the gravel project. Brineman notes the date and the purpose of the meeting.
A county auditor report outlines the Ho ward Terhune Free Gravel Road plan starting at the southwest corner of section 6 in township 11 east and linking sections 5 to 9 across a main line of 15 476 feet and a branch from section 9 to section 21 with a 21 239 feet run. The total road length is 36 715 feet, and the notice references the commissioners court and Brineman.
Notice to Ward No 3 Bluffton and Harrison township Wells county Indiana that Lemuel Stout will apply at the August term 1904 of the Wells county board of commissioners for a one year license to sell barter and give away intoxicating liquors in a room on in lot 86 Bluffton on Johnson street described as a 20 by 70 foot ground floor room in a one story frame building with a double door and two windows facing the street and no partition or other business connected.
World’s Fair visitors can take an inexpensive round trip to Southeast Missouri Arkansas Louisiana and Texas with one fare plus 2 dollars. Stopovers and liberal return limits apply. Trains run daily to the southwest from Cotton Belt, with monthly departures on the third Tuesday. For schedules maps and literature contact E W LaBeaume G P and T A Cotton Belt Route St Louis Mo.
Wells Circuit Court schedules final settlement examination for the estate of John G Gorrell deceased. Administrator W H Rupright will present account and vouchers on the Sunday of September 1904. heirs, creditors, and legatees must appear to show cause why the account should not be approved. Clerk’s seal at Bluffton, Indiana dated June 24, 1904.
A notice to the auditor requests a report on a gravel road project starting at the southeast corner of section 17, running north along the section line to the NE corner of section 17, then east to intersect the Relffsburg and Camden Free Gravel Road and terminate. The road measures 14 182 feet. Brineman acting.
Description of a five thousand four hundred foot Carnes Free Gravel Road running from the five mile marker in township twenty five north range eleven east to the Chester and Liberty township line. Board of commissioners to hear objections on Thursday July 14 1904. C. S. Brineman.
The Wells County Indiana board of commissioners reported to the auditor on a proposed gravel or macadam road starting at the northwest corner of section 5 township 25N range 11E and extending south along the section line to section 8. The road measures 10787 feet and is named the Albert Terhune Free Travel Road. The hearing occurred July 14, 1964, during a special session.
Local timetable shows passenger and freight routes with multiple stops including Bluffton Reiffsburg Petroleum Nottingham Flats Balbees Pennville Corkwell and Portland. The company reserves the right to change this schedule at any time without notice. John C Curtis Superintendent.
Public sale to satisfy a decree of $479.89 plus interest and costs in Wells County Indiana. On Saturday July 16 1904 at 10 am to 4 pm at the courthouse door Bluffton the rents and profits of a 1 acre parcel in section 33 township 27 north range 12 east will be offered first. if needed the fee simple of the property will be exposed.
A jumbled sequence of times and symbols appears to be a fragmented time notation. The readable fragments suggest stamps of hours and minutes with odd characters interspersed, leaving readers unsure of intended scheduling or record meaning.
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