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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1925
Page
4
Classifieds include for sale items such as dry circle wood cucumber pickling and a player piano, rental offers for a garage, and requests for a farm hand and a barn. The issue also notes wedding announcements, a marriage license, a wrestling match announcement, motor vehicle incidents, local reunions, and travel to Miami with real estate ties.
Four farm boys Hermon Alford Archie Robinson Rupert Johnson and Archie Fitzgerald started with gifts in 1922 and built a pig raising network on 81 local farms. They sold breeding stock across eight parishes and one adjoining state, repaying personal notes with help from fathers and local business backers. The group, advised by an agricultural extension agent, improved pig care and management, winning state open-class honors and earning a net profit of 1018 dollars, with two members funding college through the club.
Indianapolis visitors Mrs Iona M Lindsay and Mrs Ruth Darrow with Virginia spend a week with Mr and Mrs H H Foust. Foust visits brother Fred in Indianapolis Methodist Hospital. Various local families host relatives and friends from New Castle Greensburg Noblesville Indianapolis Milroy Rushville and Chicago including exchanges of dinners and Sunday visits.
The article discusses the shift to grading poultry and eggs, noting premiums for heavier meated fowls and the influence of cooperative marketing and agricultural regulations. It cites the U S Bureau of Markets efforts to standardize grades and urges support for grading to ensure quality products and fair market competition.
When alfalfa is seeded in August it should be done without a nurse crop. Sufficient soil moisture aids rapid germination and weed interference is reduced. The seed bed must be very compact, with thorough subsoil preparation and a final harrow to create a fine surface.
Sweet clover makes a good hog pasture. Every thistle cut this year saves next year. Feed what eggs are made of. A ration like a chain is as strong as its weakest link. A legume boosts following crops and provides own feed. In a dry season shallow cultivation saves soil moisture and may save corn. A brush and kerosene can loosen dirt and rust for bearing adjustments and tightening bolts.
Mr and Mrs Henry B Henley of Terre Haute order the Citi zen sent to their new address at 207 S 24th street. A N Casey broke three ribs after a fall from a tree while picking apples at Moscow. Leo Porter of Knightstown carpenters at St Peters burg Fla. Ralph Johnson of Milroy now works for the Big Four railroad at Milford. Mrs Charles Kinder with her mother Mrs Nancy Duncan from California to New Castle. Dr and Mrs H M Gear of Mérion in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Mr Gear visits Johns Hopkins clinic for exam. Mrs Emma Willcutt of Sid ney Ohio was at a hhautauqua tent blown down by a cyclone but escaped injury.
One person was killed and several injured as rescue work continued after a storm. Trees in the city were uprooted and local officials noted ongoing recovery. Local residents including Earl and Verne Plummer and other area families were mentioned in connected notices and social events.
The undersigned Howard E. Henley is appointed by the Rush County Circuit Court as Administrator of the estate of Stephen Finney, deceased. The estate is believed solvent. Attested by Clerk Leonard M. Barlow. date July 21, 1925. attorney Wm. J. Henley.
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