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Newspaper
Carlisle News
Location
Carlisle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1913
Page
2
Public notice from Carlisle Indiana dated June 20 1913 printed in the local post office media. The fragment lists postal service details and a subscription price of one dollar per year in advance under telephone contact 45.
Washington officials announce C O D parcels handling rules effective July 1. Charges apply on single parcels up to 100 dollars with a ten cent collection fee in parcel post stamps. Sender records value up to 50 dollars and recipient signs for delivery. Rural carriers will accept C O D parcels but not to the Philippines or Canal Zone.
Final arrangements completed for the Merom Bluff chautauqua session beginning August 21 and running ten days. Dr. M. H. Lichliter of Baltimore returns as platform manager. Grace Lamkin oversees the children's department. The lineup features Ethiopian Singers, Neapolitan Ladies Orchestra, Hussars, Apollo Concert Company, College Ladies, and lectures by Gov. Vardaman, A. E. Wiggins, Herbert L. Willets, Bob Seeds, Lincoln Wirt, Bishop Bell, Gabriel McGuire, Vice President Marshall, Gov. Hadley, Thomas Brooks Fletcher, Gov. J. Frank Hanly, and Capt. Richmond P. Hobson. Cartha Woodland Players present two Shakespeare plays outdoors.
Elliot Roberts returns from Philadelphia to spend summer at home while Sullivan County moves to secure a county agent under the new vocational education law. Trustees and officials report promising canvass results for a $500 guarantee fund, with $1,500 to be appropriated by the county council once the fund is raised. Purdue University’s Christie has been approached, and state aid could add $1,000 for the first year.
Eighteenth birthday celebrated last Sunday with many friends invited. Rose Chapel plans church services Sunday June 22 and a children's program Sunday night June 20. Local wheat fields suffer from dry weather. Charley Clarkson Smith and Robert Clarkson attended the ball game Sunday. Miss Alta Brown returns home from Carlisle work at Rishex’s.
Merom June 17 A movement seeks to place Prof John L Pleasant on the Union Christian College faculty and head of the high school department He is a Merom native with long teaching service including Graysville principal Palestine superintendent and former head of local schools
Carlisle Lodge No 3 and Sullivan Lodge No 263 of Masons will travel to Vincennes next Tuesday night to confer the third degree. Vincennes Lodge No 1, famed for hospitality, is also involved to join the event with the Carlisle contingent likely returning by midnight.
Lyle and Good drive the pony and hie in a local story about Lon Wilson. The piece highlights vehicle, rider and community action around a regional event.
Sealed proposals will be received until 10 30 A M Saturday July 12 1918 by J Frank Sproatt Trustee of Haddon Township Sullivan County Indiana for erection and completion of a new addition to the Paxton School Building Plans by Padgett Dickinson architects Terre Haute Ind on file in Carlisle and at the architects offices Separate proposals for heating ventilating and plumbing Bids must include a 500 certified check per bid to be payable to J Frank Sproatt Trustee Proposals addressed to the Trustee and filed in Carlisle Indiana Opening will occur at 10 00 A M July 12 1918 Right to reject any and all bids emphasized.
Misses Tressie and Ruby Willis daughters of John W Willis are at work this week taking a census of all voters in Haddon Township. Indiana law requires township trustees to perform this census every six years. A new law adds a supplementary census of veterans from the Mexican Civil and Spanish wars and all who have enlisted in the regular army.
Al Shipman of Bright Light fame pleaded guilty in Crawford county circuit court to maintaining a nuisance after jail time for illegal liquor selling. He received thirty days in jail and a $50 fine.
C E Davidson transacted business in Sullivan Monday. Mr and Mrs C A Burroughs of Oaktown visited relatives west of town. Mrs C D Nalley left for Waukegan Illinois to join her husband on the Waukegan Gazette. Alonzo Colton made a business trip to Sullivan yesterday. Prof LeRoy Close went to Bloomington to attend Indiana University for six weeks. Mae Shaver attended her nephew Claude Pifer wedding to Bess Parrish in Paris Illinois with Mrs Hester Pifer also attending and later traveling to Detroit Michigan to visit her daughter.
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