Western Grove cash finder reward and local notes
A compendium of notes from Carthage and nearby: finder rewards for Western Grove accounts, advertisements for Try Stanley's corn beef, health and illness updates, a Chicago trip by Dr. Gear, a fish kill in Blue River, building updates on Ed J. Dunn brick block, band concert on Aug. 10, and community notices about marriages, visits, travel plans, and local business moves. Also reports on fertilizer agents, rail traffic impact, and a fire loss of the Valaho island residence near San Francisco.
Great Masonic Conclave Set for Louisville August 23
The local page notes the grand Masonic conclave to be held in Louisville Kentucky on August 23. Also mentions printing engraving and embossing services with price quotes and samples. The Carthage Printery run by Walter and Chas Newlin reports Walter and his mare Fountaine racing at Grand Rains earning second money in 2 13. Professor J Edwin Jay of Wichita Kansas and wife visit Carthage. he formerly ran the local school and The Record, now at Friends University. Guy Porter racks up balloon ascent and parachute leap with a successful second attempt near Hinchman block, soaring toward the northwest and over the fair ground.
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Walter
Chas. D. Newlin
Fountaine
J. Edwin Jay
Wichita
Kan
Carthage
Jay
Carthage Schools
Recor
The
Friends College
Miss Weybright
Dayton O
Chicago
Jays
Ohio
Guy Porter
Fair Ground
Hancock Democrat
Heat's toll and drought threaten crops across the country
The piece notes extreme heat and high temperatures causing prostrations and deaths, with farmers fearing ruin as grass browns and corn curls. It counters doom with hope stating that a single soaking rain can revive grass, revive corn, and restore the harvest, sometimes producing a full crop after losses.
Lawn Festival at Meingarts Lawn by Epworth League
Epworth League hosts a tin ice cream and cake festival on Meingarts lawn Saturday August 3. Everyone is invited to attend the event and enjoy treats.
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Epworth League
Meingarts Lawn
Isuze Mussleman Fined for Drunkenness and Assault
Mussleman faced multiple penalties in local court. He paid 3.50 for drunkenness, then 35 dollars fine and 13.60 in costs for an assault and battery, with the fines stayed upon giving security. The town magistrate Benjamin administered the sentences.
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Isuze Mussleman
Yonday
Squire Benjamin
Mussleman
Retail Sale Ad For Fabrics And Garments
A historic ad lists discounted textiles and apparel including Dimities and Lawns 20c 18c and 15c, White Caps priced 15 to 25c, Ladies Petticoats at 98c, Straw Mattings 12 34c yd, Children's Sun Hats 19c to 75c, Cottonade Pants 50c, Scriven's Elastic Seam Carvers at 59c two pairs, Granite Carpet 19c yd, Linen Coats and Vests at 98c, and Blue Serge Cats 5 price. The shop promotes special savings and a share in a $200 distribution.
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Scriven
Pulpit Returns and Bonny Blue Junior League Picnic
Tae addressed verse themes from John Chapter 14 and lectured to a grateful audience at the church while vesper services on the lawn draw steady crowds through August. The Junior Leaguers held a Bonny Blue riverbank picnic with 38 attendees, enjoying swing games, lunch, and a well behaved day with no incidents.
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Tae
John
Jay
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C. W. Williams
Knightstown
Indiana
Henry
Hanauity
GEO. W. Williams CO
West Mill St
Jesse Galloway
Sherwin-Williams
U. S. Marsh & GO. Druagists
H. Hill & CO
Western Grove
Frank W. Pusey
Stanley
Pearl Bishop
Anna Kennedy
H. M. Gear
Blue River
Ed J. Dunn
P. H. Chadwick
Pleasant Lake
Miss Pearl Randall
C. L- Séinger’s
Ruby Gray
Danville
E. T. Coffin
Carthage Drug Co
Johnson Block
James E. Watson
Henry Co
New Castle
Anice Phelps
Hazel Coffin
Winona Park
Winifred Schooley
Dublin
Adelade Mbilipa
Laport
Rowland H. Hill
Merle Colim
Lorena Thorbburg
Chicago University
Rice Hill
Mary Haywood
P. J. Sattler
Quinnipine
Rush County
W. P. Binford
Miss Rosenburg
West Washington Street
Furniture House
Indianapolis
J. D. Dennis
Charles J
Winona Newsom
Assembly
Will Hinshaw
Denver
West
Ards
Daisy Sutton
J. F. Jenson
Altica
Ind
Ladies Delight
Dr. G. Chack
Myrtle Bundy
Luddington
Mich
Bundy
Howard Henley
Carthrege
R. E. Henley
Levi Scntt
Valaho
No. 2
San Francisco
Scott
Jean Do So
G. Clark
C. V. Stephens
Pp. S
Louisville
Lawn Festival
Sam L. Newsom
Cash Store
Methodist
Vee
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