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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1925
Page
2
No. 255 C. O. F. meets weekly at 7:30 PM in upstairs room over White and Son's Hardware on Main Street. Visiting members are always welcome.
All trains carry mail and express cargo with daily operation except Sundays, ensuring weekday mail service across routes.
Miner Justin reports May 9 findings show east central counties kept more of their wheats crop via other plantings. Statewide only 14 percent of last fall sown area abandoned with 96 000 acres more for harvest than last year s 1 845 000. Livestock losses light and farm labor at 90 percent normal. Local notes include Everett Kyser Greenfield and Bayard Baker Pendleton teaching next year, plus community sales and shop ads from Carthage and Milroy businesses.
The Womans Literary Circle gathered Monday afternoon with Mrs O C McCarty presiding and twenty two members attending. Elizabeth J Hill gave a magazine review while Mrs H H Foust presented a paper on Marvels of Modern Surgery. Gassell Bell of Connersville and Russell Looney near Mauzy were arrested Tuesday night after Bell attempted to rob the Rushville traction station safe. Marion T Finney, night agent, reported the confrontation. Bell fired a gun and fled, later found at Looney's home with the other suspect.
Fletcher M E reports sermons at 10 30 and 7 30 with Sunday School at 9 30 and Epworth League at 6 p m The Foreign Missionary Society meets midweek and a Thursday prayer meeting with choir practice is listed East St Christian notes Bible School at 9 30 with superintendent Robert Hudson and a 15 emergency charity vote Observed Mothers Day with a short program and services at 10 30 and 7 30 led by pastors A A Coil and Charles S Dudley respectively.
Local notices report ongoing wall paper sales at John Nardloh's business in Knightstown with bargains noted. Several residents visit relatives in Noblesville and Covington, Ky. Rushville holds a board meeting June 1 on assessments, and Tarviaizing work starts on Milroy Main Street.
A Rural New Yorker writer notes a favorable 1924 season for small fruits, especially strawberries. A backyard bed planted in 1921 with Latham and Cuthbert canes yielded 70 quarts after careful mulching, staking, and pruning amid a damaging storm. irrigation helped secure a final heavy crop.
Orchard pruning removes diseased parts and crooked limbs. James G. Moore of the Wisconsin College of Agriculture says to coat cuts with asphaltum paint to prevent insects and diseases from entering, though the paint does not heal the wound. A smooth hard surface helps protection for a better crop next spring.
The first grape spray for black rot should occur when the second or third leaf appears, well before shoots reach 8 to 10 inches. This early treatment is viewed as crucial for infection control, while lime and sulphur should not be applied after green parts appear due to severe burning.
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