Citizen offers year subscription for $1.50 nationwide
The Citizen reports a surge in new subscribers and renewals. It announces a one year subscription for $1.50 to any point in the United States.
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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1925
Page
2
The Citizen reports a surge in new subscribers and renewals. It announces a one year subscription for $1.50 to any point in the United States.
Carthage aims to prove it can host a large crowd with proper hospitality and service. Officials say ample interest could attract many other events, underscoring the town’s readiness to accommodate sizable gatherings.
W A Carson named new postmaster at Glenwood. Mrs Oren Souder sends the Citizen to Mrs George Fancher and others near Arlington. Mr and Mrs Henry Sims and Elmer visit Al McDaniel family. A house on the Charles Niles farm near Knights town burned. W L Sweets family escaped. Knightstown dentist E W Wagoner offers painless extractions and crowns.
W. W. Shay, swine expert, reports nine mixed hogs weighing 245 pounds in February followed a four period feeding trial with tankage red dog and corn meal. By July 1 they sold for 18 cents a pound, weighing 1 881 pounds and bringing $238.03 after feed costs. Profit from the corn fed at 75 cents per bushel totaled $122.29.
Do not waste surplus feeds and avoid feeding corn alone to any stock. Keep breeding animals in good flesh without being too fat. Manage pastures carefully and use a balanced ration of corn, oilmeal, and alfalfa hay for steers. Maintain hogs with minerals for thrift and use alfalfa hay to aid sow milk production.
Mrs Herman Stevens and her sister spent last weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs FE R. Conner at Lewisville. Mrs Claud Chanler and Mrs L W Green of Dunreith visited Mrs Ola Stevens last Thursday.
Local social notes recount the upcoming Ripley Country Club gathering to be held Thursday with Mrs Walter Rhodes. The column also lists visits and family gatherings across Knightstown, Indianapolis, Arlington, Gwynneville, and Mars, noting birthdays and community events among residents and their relatives.
Robbers entered the Mays post office at Frank McBride’s grocery in a smash front window and ransacked for blank money orders and stamps. They took rubber and cancelling stamps and cigars. In Falmouth, E. H. Hackleman’s post office also had a pried front window and stamps and change stolen along with a flashlight and cigarettes. A Chevrolet touring car believed stolen in Indianapolis was found 23 miles northeast of Raleigh.
Mrs Jessie Miller and others from Indianapolis spent Tuesday with the Dunns. Knightstown guests were Mr and Mrs Elias Reddick. The Jesse Henley Sunday School class will hold a social at Mrs W O Moore’s home Tuesday at 730 PM. Mrs J A Lineback visited her mother and sister in Indianapolis while her brother Thomas Hendricks worked there this week.
A Pathfinder Magazine piece explains glass manufacture as a global journey from West Virginia sand to cobalt from Canada and fluor spar from Kentucky. It describes the tank furnace processes, temperatures around 2600 degrees, and the shift from hand blowing to machine production in glass plants.
The history notes grasshopper outbreaks in New England from 1743 to 1756 and Vermont in 1797–1798. A migratory Rocky Mountain locust devastated plains crops during 1870–1880, nearly causing famine, but breeding grounds receded as settlement progressed and no major outbreaks have followed since 1880.
Apes and chimpanzees are raised at a Pasteur Institute farm in French Guinea for measles typhus and yellow fever studies that cannot be done on rabbits or guinea pigs. The chimpanzees are deemed highly suitable relatives for human studies and for psychology experiments. A director oversees the laboratory and dedicated facilities care for inoculations and treatments.
Capt. John Worth, master of the Carolyn Frances, first visited Bethel and Kuskokwim districts in 1904 in search of furs, gold and ivory. A return last year shows natives embracing reindeer herding fur farming and gold mining, adopting white man ways and living in modern houses despite isolation.
The note advises spreading newspapers on entry floors for footwear to keep rugs clean. Family members remove wet rubbers on the paper. once dry, each owner can reclaim their footwear. The papers may be burned, ensuring no soiled rug or floor remains to clean.
Miss Ruth Hill of Indianapolis spent Sunday with her parents Mr and Mrs R C Hill. Bert Parish and Nolan Parish and family visited relatives in Greenfield and Indianapolis. Mr and Mrs Joe Hedges and Mr and Mrs John Carson of Indianapolis and Mr and Mrs Elbert Benson of Morristown called on Mr and Mrs Charles Beason. A J Carr returned from an eastern business trip. J Harvey Snider of Fountain Town, owner of the Columbia hotel at Greenfield, bought an interest in Milroy’s canning factory. A bridge party hosted by Miss Sylvia Power at Milroy featured Miss Power announcing her engagement to Arthur Long of Lima Ohio.
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