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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1925
Page
4
A long list of visits weddings and family gatherings across Indianapolis Mays Rushville Greenfield and surrounding areas. Notable mentions include Mildred Addison at a Rushville wedding Flora Pusey farewell party and multiple family dinners with the Henley Stoten and Jessup families.
News notes from Rushville and surrounding towns listing names in travel, marriages, illness, and social events. John Clark visits western coast. Frazee and Harrie Jones head to Miami. Thomas Henricks and Mary Grube wed in New Castle. Clyde Lewis family at Bloomington commencement. Rev. J Edgar Williams traveling to Kansas City and Whittier California. Jo Anne Harrold undergoes mastoid surgery and moves toward recovery. Miss Geneva Mangram earns top grades and plans Chicago kindergarten study. Hal Green hosts a pitch in supper for daughter and Hugh Jones in Rushville. Paul Norris guests from Carthage.
A local advertisement announces a special sale on large Hoosier Gray dish pans of finest quality at Danner's Variety Store in Knightstown this week. The notice highlights the discount price of 38 cents per pan.
A Pine tree in a clergyman's garden strangled an orange tree. The roots twisted the orange's roots and killed it. Earlier the pine's roots were cut away, reviving the orange briefly, but deeper root damage led to the orange tree's death.
The text explains that the skin has many tiny pits each with a small muscle. Cold or strong emotions cause these muscles to contract, changing the angle of the pits and making hair stand on end. Even without hair movement, the overall skin direction changes, giving a goosebump-like appearance.
Tokyo's top snake catcher Zen San states Japan consumes nearly 5,000,000 snakes annually with about 6,000 in Tokyo. Eighty percent are powdered for pills while twenty percent are eaten baked boiled or roasted. Prior to the earthquake a snake restaurant was proposed at Asakusa.
A brief note extols the value of a positive outlook as the key to satisfaction. It asserts that the perspective we choose shapes our experiences and outcomes.
A Duluth Herald note suggests some men excel in debate despite lacking other assets. The piece highlights the value of persuasive ability as a distinct talent.
The Egyptians designed and furnished homes with sociable, artistic living. They kept rooms open in warm weather and used charcoal furnaces in cold weather. High ceilings and large halls or courtyards created air spaces to dilute fumes and prevent poisoning.
The article lists several seal types used in fur trading. It names Australian seal, Baltic seal, Bedlamite seal, French seal, Hudson seal, northern seal, Roman seal, seatette, and French rabbit seal, noting varied improper or descriptive names for dyed or sheared rabbits, muskrat, nutria, and related furs.
The poultry department at Oregon Agricultural College has a claimed record egg believed to be the largest laid by a hen. It weighs 11 ounces and measures 8 by 11 inches in circumference with a length of 4 1/2 inches, about twice the size of an average hen egg.
David L. Beach of Athol New York found many sparrows seemingly lifeless on a ground near dawn. He retrieved them and one by one they revived, believed to have been stunned by an electrical storm overnight in nearby trees.
F. J. Kennedy and family visit Urbana in part of the week while Ben Bishop's family also hosts guests. Advertisements list porch furniture and cleaning services, wallpaper washing, and rug beating. Contact Winfield’s grocery for messages and Telephone No. 86 for flowers. Knightstown’s Sample Furniture Co promotes summer porch furniture.
The Indiana closed season on bass bluegill and other game fish ends. About twenty locals gathered at the Big Four reservoir near Greensburg to fish when lifting began Tuesday morning, but rain reduced the haul. Bass ten inches minimum. several under were released. John Julian ten. S L Newsom three. S O McCarty two. others including Dr George McNabb Geo Hinshaw Roll Risk H T Beher and John Hinshaw each took one. About one hundred people were present Tuesday morning.
The Indiana Board of Agriculture announces the 1925 premium list is prepared for mailing. Anyone wishing to exhibit should request it from Room 234 State House Indianapolis. Premiums total 130 291.34 with large shows for horses cattle swine sheep poultry and rabbits and plans for a grand fair September 7 8 9 10 and 11.
John Hale aged about 33 died Thursday morning at 9 40 at his home at South Walnut and Henley streets from tuberculosis. The widow and two children survive.
Miss Lillian E Henley spends Tuesday in Indianapolis. Luther Renegar Jasper Nigh and Walter Brooks travel to Miami Florida. H H Henley returns from Miami for a visit. Earl Herkless visits his mother at Knights Town. G W R Yost of El Paso Texas visits sister Hester Benjamin. L A Lockwood leaves for Chicago University for a course and Mrs Lockwood visits Laurel. Susie Bentley stays week with Frank Binford in Blue River township. Dr G B McNabb hosts Geo Burkle from Indianapolis. Mr and Mrs L C Black of Indianapolis and Hattie Lewis visit Siler home. Mr and Mrs John Dare and Alonzo Cline of Fairmount visit Virgil Tetrick family. W P Henley and family attend Earlham College commencement. John Johnson and Susie Bentley and Winona Newsom motor to Shelbyville and visit postmasters in surrounding towns. F A Guth Addie Rufe of Indianapolis and E C Andrews Elizabeth of Ault Colorado visit Thurman Addison family. latter returns Monday. Mrs Howard Henley and Mrs Robert Stanley invite to a shower for Miss Harriette Rawls next week. Carl Harvey transitions to cash and carry grocery starting June 27 after years in the trade.
Heavy rains visited this area the past week. Vera Miller was surprised by a birthday party hosted by her mother F Miller on Monday night. Wedding invitations printed at this office. Barbara Rebecca Marshall, daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Marshall, born June 8, granddaughter of Mr and Mrs Royal Lee. Eva McDaniel and daughter Mary of Henderson visited R C Hill family Sunday. Harriette Rawls to wed Paul Gordon on Thursday June 25 at 4 pm at Friends church. They will reside in Philadelphia at Parkway and 17th. Mr and Mrs D S Johnston of Indianapolis spending the summer with daughter and husband Mr and Mrs John Rohm. Indianapolis couple also visited by J G Johnston and D L Johnston and Beatrice.
Forty three Greenfield business firms including three banks will close on Wednesday afternoons for an indefinite period starting this week. Some stores not in the schedule will remain open. Doctors also close on Thursdays and holidays arise often, but proponents say Wednesday closings have worked in other towns with no harm to business or patrons.
Miss Eva Johnson guests with Mr and Mrs Albert Johnson in Spice land at week start. Mrs J D Calvert and two children of Selma Ohio visit her parents Mr and Mrs Jesse Henley. Mr and Mrs J F Kennedy and daughter visit relatives in Shelbyville Thursday and Friday. Mrs R H Hill and others travel to Indianapolis last Friday. Born to Bruce Jordan and wife a son Christopher Lee on June 11. Scott Bickner property moves by John Brooks near Milroy. National Association of Postmasters convention set for Cleveland last week in August. Jesse Kizer family to visit from Miami Florida this week. Vern Plummer and family of Rushville visit Hudsons. Florida trip delayed by Mrs Plummer injury. Call W O Moore for picture framing. Elizabeth Jordan stays two weeks with J M Stone family in Anderson.
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