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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1904
Page
2
An old man travels with fish to provide nourishment and strength to the sick and weak. Scott's Emulsion cod liver oil is promoted as a natural food for children and the elderly, available at Bownte Chemists, Pearl Street New York, 50c, 1.00.
The article explains a 1899 Act allowing township library tax votes at town elections. Petition by fifty voters triggers a ballot question: For a township library tax Yes or No. If approved, a tax of one fifth of a mill is levied to fund libraries, with proceeds tied to property value and collected like other taxes.
One way colonist tickets will be sold from St Louis Thebes Cairo and Memphis to Texas points at special round trip homeseekers rates. Tickets on Sept 27 and Oct 18 at $15. regular round trip homeseekers tickets on sale 1st and 3rd Tuesdays each month at one fare plus $2. Applies to Dallas Fort Worth Waco Abilene Houston Galveston Corpus Christi and interstate points with 21 day stayover. Details maps timetables and alterations available from I G Schahfer T P A Cotton Belt Cincinnati Ohio.
Elm Pole purchase underway at the hub factory in Bluffton's western Clover Leaf rail area. Second growth timber is being sourced for ongoing utility pole needs.
Shocking deaths from broken trolley wires fill observers with terror as interurban workers on a Friday afternoon repair a wire with hammers and climb atop a car. Spectators note wires are safe when intact, but deadly when broken, explaining the danger of grounding a live line.
Mrs. Rachael Grove Hendricks born January 21 1825 in Licking County Ohio united with the Disciples near Fairfield in 1861 married John Hayward in 1847. widowed 1856. She married Rev Frederick Hendricks in June 1865 and supported him in ministry. She moved to Indiana in 1862. Funeral held October 28 at Liberty Center Baptist church with interment near Poneto.
Special low excursion rates offered via Clover Leaf Route for trips to the St. Louis World's Fair from April 50 to November 30, 1904. Season tickets allow return until December 15 at one and one third fare with fifteen day tickets and coach excursion sales daily except Fridays and Saturdays. Homeseekers trips on the first and third Tuesdays of each month with ten day stopovers on through tickets at St. Louis. Pullman sleeping cars and cafe cars available. For rates contact local agents or W L Ross Toledo or M A Chambers Frankfort Indiana.
The Banner receives frequent notices to change paper delivery addresses. The notice should include both the old and new addresses and indicate whether it is daily or weekly. Changes will be promptly processed upon receipt of complete details.
Special Homeseekers Excursions to Northern Michigan via Clover Leaf Route advertised with dates Oct 18 Nov 1 15 29 1804 and contact agents Clover Leaf Route M A Chambers T P A Frankfort Ind or W L Ross G P A Toledo Ohio for full information.
Ad promotes coach tickets on the Nickel Plate Road with a stop-over in Chicago. Tickets available daily except Friday and Saturday with longer limits at low rates. Contact number provided for inquiries.
Petition filed with Wells County auditor seeks a ditch with reviewers having filed their report. A hearing before the Wells County Board of Commissioners is set for Wednesday November 9 1904. Ditch starts 80 rods east and 20 feet north of the SE quarter of section 13 township 28 north range 12 east and runs south 1538 feet to Hight Mile ditch. Affects lands of G W Tudor Margaret Tudor S E B Niblick Henry Doehrman John D Tudor Charles Stoppenhagen and Edward T Broaders.
A public sheriff sale in Wells County Indiana on November 19 1904 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the court house door bids to cover a decree of 618 dollars 21 cents plus interest and costs. The sale includes the oil and gas lease on the Francis Y Fisher farm described lands and equipment such as off well pumping outfit and related appurtenances. If rents and profits do not satisfy the decree another sale will cover the fee simple of the chattel rent to discharge the decree interest and costs. Sheriff J R Fosston authorized by Taher Clapp Dailey Simmons Dailey attorneys for plaintiffs.
Train fare promotions and travel passes across the United States include Spring and Thanksgiving specials. Listings cover period passes to St Louis Exposition. ten day and fifteen day tickets. one fare plus small surcharges. various regional routes to Maine Michigan Canada Wisconsin Missouri Arkansas Indian Territory and the southwest. Also notes on Pullman services and two contact agents in Toledo and Frankfort for ticket sales.
Two notices filed in Wells Circuit Court Case Nos 8195 and 8194 warn nonresidents Mary Keller Benjamin Jones and Samuel E Wood Frank Walters W M Frich and W E Gray to answer or demur by December 1904. The first seeks to quiet title to real estate. the second to foreclose a mechanic s lien. Mariners Bluffton Indiana.
Non resident defendant S Lewis Ashton is named in a foreclosure and notes suit filed by Eichhorn Matlack. The notice requires appearance or demurral by December 15, 1904, at Bluffton court, with Wells Circuit Court seal dated October 26 1904. Mrg Porter of Delphos Ohio appears as visiting Mrs Wedding ton in a nearby city.
Schedule note for Curtis Si with unspecified timing. No location or event details provided.
In parties of three or more on one ticket via the Nickel Plate road to McComb and Payne Ohio and points between also to South Whitley and Willville Indiana and points between Tickets Nov 9 to Nov 30 inclusive good returning Dec 8 1904 See locals or address A Apt erlin T P A Bert Wayne Ind Mia D T Smith quite sick at her home with a severe attack of the grip
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