Local notables and visitors listed in THE News notes
Dan Giles renews his THE News subscription and pays for Ross Charley of Oaktown visits. Several residents travel to Oaktown for baseball and band events. Miss Maggie Phillipps and Mrs Amelia Carrico visit relatives. A sale notice appears for T. W. Purcell near Carlisle. Community members renew subscriptions and men relocate to new jobs in Evansville and Anderson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Giles
Ross
Charley
Oaktown
Dan
Indiana county fair promises grand carnival and exposition
The notice proclaims the finest Indiana fair with ten thousand dollars in prizes across departments including farmers cattlemen embroidery needlework art and culinary. It touts electric lightstands, free shows, reduced rail fares half price admission and urges patrons to attend, claiming it will be the leading event until 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
AL Thas
SRS Pes Om
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Walter F Wood Planned to Locate Here for Law Practice
Walter F Wood and his Jefferson township parents near Pleasantville expect to locate in the area within a week or two. He will open a law office and run a real estate loan and abstract business. Wood has read law in C D Hunts Sullivan office and may be appointed deputy prosecuting attorney for the township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter F. Wood
Jefferson Township
Pleasantville
Wood
C. D. Hunt
Sullivan
Pleasant Day at Hoke Family Home
Mr and Mrs John Hoke entertained relatives and friends at their country home thirty three miles south of Carlisle. Guests included J F Hoke and wife Geo Hoke and wife near Morris Chapel Geo Kimberlain near Oaktown Wm Whipps and wife Wm F Hoke wife and daughter Lillie and R A Hoke. The day was pleasant and all hope to meet again at the old home place where the Hoke boys were.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hoke
Carlisle
J. F. Hoke
Sullivan
Geo. Hoke
Morris Chapel
Geo. Kimberlain
Oaktown
Wm. Whipps
Wm.f. Hoke
Lillie
R. A. Hoke
Hoke
Next land boom profits teased in signed circular
Fragmentary text hints at a promotional circular promising money from a forthcoming land boom. Mentions a general passenger agent and locations such as Dubuque Iowa, with unclear names and dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque, Towa
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