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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1903
Page
5
Parson Hicks offers a long March forecast with storm periods from the 2nd to the 7th and 13th to 20th. He predicts warmer spells, then cold snaps and possible snow northward, with notable electrical phenomena around the 9th and 10th and a late month warm trend.
Readable text notes graduation readiness and regular cement exercises with references to county locations outside the city and named institutions. The fragment mentions Osstun and Keystone Muesray in a vague context.
Ella Kennight remains ill at aunt Lizzie Johnson’s home as friends travel in and out. Charles Turner visits from Antwerp, Ohio, staying with Jerry and Mrs. Clark. George Motz plans farm move east of Tocsin. Jacob Clark relocates with wife nearby. Bluffton guests of J. W. Clark and family. Mary Johnson of Finley visits grandmother. George Singlar to build a spring barn. Nora Millington visits Lizzie Johnson. W. B. Johnson returns from Decatur where he works in a harness shop. Edgar Sage relocates from Kansas City to Tocsin. O. P. Hall trades town property with John Brown for a farm, closing soon. Tocsin lacks a newspaper but has dependable news carriers. John Angle to move to a farm southeast of Tocsin. C. C. Hans to move southwest of Bluffton. Rev. D. W. Abbott substitutes for Rev. J. W. Borkert at Craigville’s protracted meeting. Sabbath school attendance reaches seventy six. collection amounts to $1.06. Mr. and Mrs. Will Kleinknight and Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Wasson visit D. C. Carricks.
The undersigned invites bids at a residence three and a half miles east of Keystone for a public sale on Thursday March 12 1908. Items include seven horses of various ages, one registered mare in foal, cow herd with calves, a Durham bull, two-year-old steers, stock hogs, 500 bushels of corn, hay oats and poultry, farming tools, and miscellaneous items. Auctioneers are LL C Ausure and Jere.
A county office pleads with township presidents to submit annual Sunday school reports before March 20. The request lists details to provide including school name, denomination, opening tour, months open, pastor and superintendent names with addresses, secretary, officer and teacher counts, scholar totals, home department and cradle enrollment, overall enrollment, average attendance, new members, and whether decision and rally days were observed.
Reports from Wells county Indiana indicate multiple new wells completed with outputs from 20 to 30 barrels in the first day. Liberty township J K Davis farm No 1 30 barrels, William Mat tuck farm No L 10 barrels, L Huffman farm No 23 20 barrels, Levi Huffman farm No 19 20 barrels.
In Rockford Bluffton residents visit kin and report on health and travel. Mrs E A Redding cared for her son Frank who had the grip and the school closed recently with many patrons present. The Rockford school house caught fire but was saved. residents urge plans for a graded school building and patrons to apply.
Mrs. Sarah Kleinknight is on the Bick list. Daisy Lash is able to be around again. Mrs. John Lea sits at the bedside of her mother Mrs. Reed west of Ossian. Revival services are ongoing at Lancaster Chapel. John Sowards plans to sell his farm to Jeff Prough soon. Emma Garton is home after visiting Bluffton. Mr. and Mrs. Reed have a baby boy a few weeks old.
The FIAT community hosts a protracted meeting that began Sunday with Rev. Dennis from Slaggerstown and Lev Carter and his wife from Pennville. Gertrude Watt recovers after two weeks of eye trouble. Arnold Wilson and wife return to Union City Pa after wintering with Mrs. Martha Cash. Mahion Hurst shows improvement. Dr Caylor of Pennville attends. Appendicitis reported as cause for Camerson Watt and Clyde Rowland's Marion trip. Mrs Outcalt of Dundee has been...
Ready to begin drilling as Mrs. Elliott and Verna Manor shop in Bluffton. Mrs. Joe Cory is very sick. Attendance at protracted meeting is excellent. Jess Romans hauls rock from Montpelier for his new house. Jobo Watt cuts timber for a barn for Levi Sullivan. Will Campbell installs scales for Elwood Wolf.
Auctioneers Anrnian and Harry Glass and Harry Bunn offer personal property including four horses a dozen cattle breeding ewes lambs Shoats hens farm gear and a variety of other items. Sale begins at 10:00 a.m. Everything sold as is with no stated guarantees.
The town notes a protracted meeting closing with praise for Rev. Barker. Warren Clousher set a town grain buying record, and funds were organized to pay farmers for corn. Town visitors include Mr. Carroll reporting wheat conditions, and Henry Wiseman buys a new thrasher and engine. Depo work and tile production progress noted.
Richey plans relocation with his family to New Orleans. Mrs. Winner Beech, west of Bluffton, died Monday evening and will be buried Wednesday at Bluffton with funeral at the house. Frank Spade and family to move near Vera Cruz. Ord Pierce went to Frankfort to work for the Clover Leaf. he has influence with road officials and may secure a good post. Craigville aims to rival Bluffton. A fight occurred in A. 3 Abbott's store last evening, leaving Abbott away from work. clerks and others were present. A small party gathered at Frank Spade's last night. details unknown.
The note speaks of a harsh winter on the farm with plentiful corn in Wells county. Mrs. Campbell near the city is ill. Thomas Collins moved from Bulingham farm to a large three mile east of Newville. Two families left, reducing Prairie S attendance, but a strong community remains. Isaac Sawyer reportedly will not.
A cousin of Mrs. Lew Stayer visits for a few days while Jack Fetters buys eighty rods of new wire fence to shape this spring. Last Saturday a smoke plume rose from the Sawyer greenhouse marking the first such sight of the year and signaling plant time approaching.
Market notes from Hulton dated March 4 1903 list prices for wheat corn oats rye clover timothy and mixed hay with butter lard and bacon values. Notable entries include butter at 18 shillings per pound and bacon around 10 to 12 pounds per hundredweight with various forage and grain prices across categories.
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