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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1893
Page
8
Report from a rural area details social visits, illnesses, and everyday happenings. Mentions Rev Payne at U P S C E, Walter Reed and Alf Abbott buying watches at the World’s Fair, graveside work in Murray, Octavia and others visiting, trips to Chicago, and various new purchases and family events.
The notice reports the illness of William H. Day attends college nearby and expresses hope for a speedy recovery. It mentions the Indiana State Christian conference set for the 22nd in Marion and visits by Silas Thrailkill Sr. and wife, and Miss Lillie Murphy from Oklahoma. Mrs Ambro Day testified in the Sparks will contest case in Bluffton after 12 years.
A crowd of about thirty boarded the excursion train led by Ben Ashbaucher of Bluffton for Chicago last Monday morning. Typhoid fever shows no new cases and existing patients recover. Various local religious services were held Sunday evening. A.W. Garrett attended a will case in Bluffton. A theft at the World’s Fair left O. D. Garrett’s granary short of about forty bushels. An auction of blooded stock and a Morgan & Hamiltonian stallion are announced for Liberty Center area on October 24, 1893 with music and food on site. DeWitt’s pills and Witol Hazel Salve advertised locally.
From Kingsland the Chicago and Erie will sell ten day limit tickets to Chicago and return for 4.75 on Oct 14 17 21 24 and 28. Clover Leaf route offers reduced one way and round trip fares with long return limits to the Pacific Coast and California via St Louis. Free reclining chairs and vestibuled sleepers are promised. Manhattan Day at the Great Fair is highlighted for Ohio Indiana and Illinois travelers. Call nearest agent for details.
A column argues temper and irritability stem from physical ills such as dyspepsia rheumatism and liver troubles. It promotes Hood s Sarsaparilla as a cure to remove the cause and calm domestic quarrels. The item also notes British gold coins contain one twelfth alloy and mentions Warner s Heart Corrector with a brief aside on alcohol content in ports and sherries.
Rev J S Coulton of Circleville Kansas testifies the White Wine of Tar Syrup is a speedy cure for throat and lung diseases. Product sold by J E Sturgis. A note adds Great Britain has eleven universities with 344 professors and 13 400 students.
Otterville resident Mrs N J Collins says after fifteen years of dyspepsia relief came with Simmons Liver Regulator. She endorses it as the best medicine and notes it is sold in powder form by local druggists for dry use or as tea.
A mid nineteenth century testimonial asserts DeWitt’s Little Early Risers provide a specific for sick headache biliousness and constipation and credits C. C. Deam for the claim.
An old advertisement extols De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve as the best salve money can buy. It also touts De Witt’s Little Early Risers for headaches and constipation and mentions pineapple leaf fabric potential. The note signs as C.C. Deam.
Notice in Harrison township Indiana states engineer W A Kunkel and county commissioners will conduct a final inspection and settle contractor Studabaker’s balance on October 19 1893. Kreps appointed administratrix of George W Kreps estate. Wells Circuit Court clerk A Oppenheim notes solvent estate with attorney John A Anderson.
Rosa Monaghan et al. The Wells Circuit Court orders a private sale by the commissioner at Mock & Simmons law office Bluffton Indiana Wells County on and after a date to be announced. The notice outlines the sale under court authority.
October ends with special reduced rates and train service from Clover Leaf route. Three daily trains from Indiana, two from Illinois and Ohio stations, with special coaches on application. Genl Pass Agent C C Jenkins urges call to nearest agent for harvest excursion October 10 offering one fare to western points via St Louis.
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