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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1903
Page
7
Charles Delacour has received samples of carpets and upholstery for the forthcoming opera house. Royal Wilton Velvet will cover aisle carpets and chairs will be upholstered in dark plush. Despite possible delays in interior wall decorations, opening night proceeds with a performance secured regardless.
Jere Shire received a morning letter from his son Frank who is in the Philippines in good health and enjoying soldiering. Frank recalls passing a homeward bound steamer in the bay where Charles Tribolet and Ed Beers were aboard, though unaware of their presence at the time. He has two years left in his enlistment before he can come home.
John W. Terrell advertises a public sale of all farm articles south of Petroleum to be held on the twenty fourth of the month. Auctioneers will be Jim and Jere. Terrell plans to move his family to town as soon as a house can be rented due to unpleasant surroundings.
Ben Ashbaucher plans county wide photographs of country schools for the Wells county school exhibit at the St Louis exposition. About eight or ten best schools will be photographed and arranged for strong display. Seahold's big hack will stand at the courthouse corner Thursday at 4 30. The Rock Creek township wedding of Attorney Rank Gordon will be held in a body. Bring white gloves for dress parade. Gum boots barred. Transportation Committee members listed.
A list dated November 9, 1903 from Bluffton shows letters for Bushnell William Gising Lily Hall Frank J Irms Anna Marshino T H Plumer Charles Pratt E W Reizie LW Shatter John Smith Mrs Dare Woodward Bob Wisner Birt A A L Sharp Postmaster.
Miss Grace Stillman of St. Louis Michigan is selected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of S. L. Leonard. Mrs Isaac Sawyer living southwest of town is seriously ill with a complication of diseases.
The Pence and Sturgeon pike a mile long was finished through a single donation plan. Five hundred forty one road loads were hauled by named contributors led by George Pence and Reason Chalfant with labor from Ab Chalfant Jet Potter and others. W M Fluss served as district supervisor.
A fellow townsman suggests the K of P lodge offer a prize of 25 to 30 dollars for the best sketch or preliminary drawing of a suitable building for their ground. Ferguson, a 25 year member, urges outlining the use of the building before competition and notes his own 70 by 70 foot sketch proposals.
Notice is given of a public sale at the seller's residence two miles north and one and a half miles east of Blutftum on Tuesday, November ith, 103. Items include a Durham cow, yearling steer, four sheep, Superior grain drill, fanning mill, surrey, grindstone, leather fly nets, grain cradle, book case with writing desk, sausage stuffer, twenty gallon iron kettle, corn in shock, work bench, office table, Wilson stove, about 150 hens, one horse cultivator, pin barrow, dinner well, and other articles. sale starts at ten o'clock. Parties: Joan W Sweeney, I. N. Burkhead, Fred Reppert.
Mr and Mrs Arnold arrive Tuesday to settle in Bluffs ton with Mrs Arnold living in her East Market Street home. Arnold survived a serious accident after his team ran away with broken ribs.
A Bluffton Commercial Club meeting discussed J A Grove's rotary engine proposal and a push for capital to advance it. A committee of Cuno Kibele and GC C Sixbey will review the machine's practicality and report back. An additional ladder proposition by Mr Pinter was not decided due to late business.
Friday evening Mrs John Weaver celebrated at her home about three and a half miles west of the city with forty guests. The party featured gifts of wrist bags purses and leather goods from Stouts Drug Store.
Cassius M. Wright from the Washington Census department stays at the Bliss hotel to prepare a comprehensive report on real estate valuation, personal property, indebtedness, bonds, and taxation for the city and county. He expects about a month of data gathering and requests local assistance. A separate item notes Walter Clark’s arrest for alleged horse stealing connected to a Marion case and his detention in the county jail after returning with a livery owner.
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