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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1894
Page
8
A storm sweeps through Jackson township while winter settles in. Sowing oats and ditching fill the week as Mrs Myer’s family mourns. a wedding at Curryville. church construction begins. tramps increase. eggs sell briskly and Silvia Jackson recovers from throat illness.
Health is good in this vicinity. Miss Gertie Christ visited Bluffton. The cold wave is thought to have killed all the fruit. Kibler and Jack fished last Saturday without a catch. Three or four new houses may be built in Craigville this summer. Sunday School organized at Oakland with officers. Orlan Craner and wife visited John Miller’s family near Genev. Wa Robenold to begin two new dwellings near Preble Adams county this week. Writer wrestles with the grip. items scarce this week.
Pleadings and judgments across the circuit docket include cases with dismissals, costs paid, and judgments by agreement or default. Notable entries: McFadden vs Western Union. Rhody vs Brody. Caston vs Mosby. Noyes vs Black. Richey vs Shady. Boltin ex rel Boltin vs Morgan. Shively vs Hamon Allen. Lounsbury vs Ohio Oil Co. Abshire vs Lyons. Root & Co. vs Sixbey. Bursley et al. vs Sixbey.
Judgment by default for 9107.44 awarded in the case of Buckeye Supply Co against E M McElhany. Costs paid and cause dismissed.
Jacob Sauer reports arrival at Ontario Cay with good weather and prospects. He notes hundreds left Los Angeles to join Coxey's army for Washington, and compares climate favorably with Indiana. Wheat and oranges are in good condition, with oranges shipped east by carload. Sauer has a job picking oranges and works in a packing house. He asks for the BANNER and urges Foxey and Snakeye to relay neighborhood news.
Domestic report notes oats nearly all sowed and Mrs. Michael Gottschalk slowly improving. Teachers, visits, and professional calls include Thomas E. Williams teaching at Domestic this spring and Dr. L. J. Wilson south of Pennville. Oil wells new south and west of the area.
The piece centers on a weary elderly man begging at a rum seller’s door for shelter and a single drink, recalling a lost family and life of wealth and home now vanished. He shivers in the cold, fears the pavement, and dies on the street, while a passerby offers no aid. It ends with an advertisement for a cough remedy.
J W Marsh offers for sale at his residence four miles southeast of Pone on the Air Line pike, Thursday April 5, including two brood mares, two cows, five hogs, wagons and harness, nine acres of wheat, brick, saw mill equipment, lath and lumber, a Deering binder half interest, wind pump, hay, and more. Also includes a general news excerpt on crime and engraving traditions and a hotel waiter joke.
Advertisement notes a range from 65 to 7 cents, three sizes offered, prices from 1 to 5 dollars, and a full line of Boys Shoes available.
A sequence of property transactions lists numerous transfers in Bluffton Liberty Township and surrounding areas. Buyers include Annie Balding Spenser & Hogan Co Mary L Doltin J Ferguson and many others with various lots and fractional interests in Rockcreek Townleys South Bluffton and nearby parcels. Rights include one sixth or one third interests and multiple lot deeds across Liberty Center Rockcreek and Bluffton regions.
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