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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1894
Page
7
Keystone caller Abram Showalter and J. H W. Ormsby visit Bluffton while Deam's drug store promotes paints and oils. Local readers are reminded to renew Farming Home subscriptions, hear the class sermon by Rev. Hawk, and learn about horse care and safe mail practices as city council addresses electric plant repairs and fire station planning.
The chief of fire department J. B. Plessinger was instructed to purchase four lanterns for hose company No. 2. Council adjourned to meet Wednesday evening May 23, 1894. Papers will warn readers that no one may be unwittingly exposed to it.
Bluffton mobilizes against small pox rumors after Montpelier reports. City council enforces strict quarantines stopping rail and road traffic from Montpelier and Chicago. Guards placed on Montpelier pike Camden road and Liberty Center pike to intercept entrants and prevent tramps from entering Bluffton.
Blizzard Gill reports fine weather while Frank Ulmer suffers lung fever and Dr. Wick visited friends. Walter Shire returns home sick from Montpelier. Three neighborhood runaways occur and little Bessie Ashbaugher dies after a wagon accident. Sabbath School at Prairie well attended.
SHOEMAKER Bros offer rejected handles suitable for hog racks wood racks stock mangers ladder rounds and yard fences. Factory at crossing Muncie Clover Leaf railroads Bluffton Ind. tr.
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