Local notes and social items from Knightstown week
The Knightstown column lists community happenings and brief notices: band concert announced for Saturday evening August 17. residents ill or visiting, including Mrs. Jos. Kinder and Hattie Hendricks. residents traveling to Chicago, Marion, Logansport, Irvington, and Indianapolis. farm and harvest updates. local businesses promoting goods such as cold boiled ham, cream sodas, and Kennedy’s shop. Beck’s Art Studio relocation and photo gallery moves. milk wagon schedule. a nitroglycerin wagon accident with no explosions. marriages and social visits. and recurring ads for local services and products.
Local notices and ads from Knightstown Sun and allies
A mix of local commerce and public notices promoting Stanley's meats and W H Sharer supplies, a Big excursion to Louisville on Aug 18 from Carthage, water tanking by Enos Coffin, and staff changes at Spiceland Academy. Reports on fertilizer sales, licenses, travel, and community events including a July to August schedule, with social notes from guests in town and a move of a local art gallery.
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Big
Louisville
Carthage
August Band Concert and Local News Highlights
A village column notes a pleasant wait for a band concert on August 17. Reports on illnesses and deaths include Miss Ethel Harris's typhoid fever and Isaiah Fricker’s infant’s death from cholera Infantum with burial at Dooridge Chapel Wayne County. Wedding at New Castle between Miss Louise Wilson and Mr Oriel J Binford. Local notices cover plow ads, county institute program August 19 to 23 with Miss Jessie Newsin as reading instructor, and several locals visiting Elwood Terre Haute and Chicago. A rumor on bubonic plague from Dr Harty mentions San Francisco and New York. Social events include grave recitations for O S Henley on Aug 15, and a farewell picnic for Mrs Helen Hayes and son Walter with a humorous fishing tale, plus a mite box event of the Friends church and a stock sale by G D Krieger Aug 20.
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Gary
County Institute
Jessie Newsin
Band Concert Date Rescheduled One Week Forward
The board of directors announces a new concert date due to unforeseen causes. The event now takes place on August 17, changing from the original schedule.
Sabbath School Association Reorganized in Rush County
An executive committee meeting of the Rush county S. B. Association at Rushville completed the organization and announced changes. Clark son H. Parker was elected president with J. B. Stech as secretary and treasurer to assist. The semi annual convention will be held at Manilla on October 12.
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Rush County
S. 8. Association
Rushville
Clarkson H. Parker
Parker
S. 8
J. B. Stech
Treas
Manilla
Wanted Good first class carpenters to go to work
TWEE Y BROS issues an immediate call for skilled carpenters. The firm seeks experienced tradesmen for immediate employment and assigns work at once, signaling a steady local demand for carpentry services.
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Y Bros
Rush County Housewife Preference for Ladies Delight Flour
In Rush county households the saying that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach guides choice of flour. Ladies Delight flour is popular among housewives.
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Rush County
C. G. Clare
Local Social Notes From Earlham Area Visits
Raymond Holding heads first class blacksmithing and horseshoeing at Earlham spends vacation with his parents. Ruth Binford of Western Grove visits Margaret Butler and family. Elma Binford returns from Biblical school at Earlham. Will Circhoff and family visit D. H. Gates and wife near Gem. Mrs. Rainard Kelsey leaves for Newberg Oregon. William Bundy and wife of Carthage visit their daughter Mrs. W. P. Binford.
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Raymond Holding
Earlham
Ruth Binford
Western Grove
Margaret Butler
Elma Binford
Will Circhoff
Gem
D. H. Gates
Rainard Kelsey
B. H. Binford
Newberg
Oregon
William Bundy
Carthage
W. P. Binford
Bids Sought for Siler Ditch Excavation and Refilling
Ripley township trustee invites sealed bids by 2 p m on Saturday August 24 1901 at his Carthage Indiana office for excavating and refilling the township allotment on the John Siler ditch. Specifications available. Right to reject any or all bids reserved. Signed Jesse Henley Township Trustee.
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Ripley Township
Carthage Ind
John Siler
Jesse Henley
Indiana Weather Bulletin Dismal Crop Prospects Across State
Indianapolis August 14 The Indiana weather bureau reports a discouraging crop week with dry conditions and little rainfall. Late crops deteriorated though northern districts show some corn strength. Potatoes tomatoes beets look promising. tobacco suffers from drought. apples fair. pastures dry and plowing hard.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Weather Bureau
Lake Creo
Mysterious Crime in Vincennes Ends in Double Death
The bodies of James Sanderson and his wife Eunice were found at their home near Vincennes in a suspected murder suicide scenario. Sanderson, a rough lumberman, had warned of an enemy who would kill him, while Eunice remained a refined, private spouse. The case hints at hidden motives and a secluded life.
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Vincennes
Ind
James Sanderson
Sanderson
Eunice
Cases Against Ex-Commissioners Transferred for September Trial
Cases against William Amos and former Shelby County commissioner Adam Girton, stemming from the George W. Ray prosecution, have been moved to this venue and will be tried in September.
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William Amos
Adam Girton
Shelby County
George W. Ray
Steel Strike War Escalates Across Mills and Nation
Pittsburg Aug 15 The steel strike shows mixed victories as the National Tube plant at McKeesport shuts for good while non union crews restart at the Crescent plant in Cleveland. With 65 000 idle and 20 000 responding to the final order, President Shaffer calls for continued fight as Wheeling sees labor demonstrations and Amalgamated leaders warn lodges against aid.
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Pittsburg
National Tube
McKeesport
United States Steel Corporation
Steel Corporation
Cresecent
American Tinplate Company
Cleveland
The
Wellsville
Hyde Park
Clark's Mill
Linsay & McCutcheon
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Shafter
M. F. Tighe
Amalgamated Association
McKeeésport
Newcastle
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Chicago
Bay View
Youngstown
Columbus
Kiskiminetas Valley
Tin Plant
Monessen
Carnegie Group
Painter’s Mill
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