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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1896
Page
8
Corrected timetable shows going north and south schedules for 102 and 104 passenger cars with note references. For further information contact J E Campbell agent Carthage Indiana at 7 06 a m and 2 50 p m.
Notices under this heading list Carthage Loper No. 255 I O F meeting Tuesdays at 7 30 pm and cordial invitation to visiting members. FRIENDS CHURCH schedule includes preaching Sundays at 11 am, mid week Thursday 10 am prayer meeting, Sabbath school at 9 45 am, Christian Endeavor at 6 pm, Junior Endeavor 3 pm, singing practice Friday 7 30 pm, Sabbath school teachers meeting Wednesday 7 pm, and monthly meeting first Thursday after first Saturday each month at 10 am.
Fine Stationery and stock remedies sold at Coffin's drug store. Allen county to issue 500000 dollars in 4 percent bonds for a new courthouse. Mrs Catherine Metcalf and Rev John Heavenridge prominent local deaths. Diphtheria epidemic in Frankton causes three deaths and school closures. Hill and Gear's markets advertise Christmas goods and fur items. Local press notes include Greenburg license fees and business closings.
A farm home two miles south of Kokomo burned on Monday causing $1,500 in losses with $800 insured through Farmers Mutual of Kokomo. The report also notes local insurance activity and various regional notices including business reorganizations and local incidents.
All those indebted to the will please call and settle at once, as his time in is limited. W. W. Wane. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Bank of Carthage will be held at their Banking House, in Carthage, between the rs of 1 and 3 o'clock P. M., on Tuesday, the 12th day of January, 1897, for the purpose of electing five directors for said, to serve the ensuing year. J. Newlin, Cashier, Carthage, Ind., Dec. 8, 1896.
Carthage Lodge No 255 I O F holds election Tuesday evening December 29 1896 at I O O F Hall for three trustees for the ensuing year Albert Earnest and O E Hitt named in notice Sec.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Access Public Library will be held in Library room on January 4th, 1897 at 7 o'clock p m. W P Hescey, Luzena Thornburg, Secretary. 2w
Indianapolis attorney John T. Dye, general counsel for the Big Four, brokered an agreement with Rush County officials on a tax settlement for penalties and interest on uncollected taxes voted for railroad aid. The pact sets January 1, 1897 as the deadline for payment, with conditions including prompt levy, proper notices, and no abatements for fines unpaid by that date. Dye then returned to the afternoon train.
Indiana Supreme Court decision favors railroads over towns, ruling no incorporated city may compel railroad firms to install gates or station flagmen at street crossings. Judge Monks differentiates power to regulate speed inside city limits from mandating gates and watchmen on private property. The Crown Point case centered on an ordinance demanding gates and flagmen for P C C and L A R Co crossings. He notes sections may allow non onerous controls to prevent obstructions but not funding or erecting gates or watchmen.
Adjourment notes for the hol ys. M A Catt visited Knightstown last Saturday. A son was born to George McCorkhill last Sunday morning. Frank Edwards moved to work in a blacksmith shop. Wm Brooks returned from Greenup Illinois. Thomas Binford and wife from Greenfield visited Nathan Newby family. Dr W B Cox of Charlottesville named physician for Blue River township poor. Friends monthly meeting at Westland church next Saturday at 10 am. Rev Lindley Wells to lead revival at Western Grove starting next Sunday. Dr and Mrs O B Coffin Carthage and Walter and family Greenfield visited N D Coffin. Nathan D Coffin of Blue River Anelle ill at home near Sasol hack. Dr Oliver S Coffin Alexandria and W P Marsh Winfield and Mrs Walter Lase near bedside of N D Coffin who is seriously ill.
William Sutherlin, now jailed in Knox Starke county for the murder of Ed Fetters, once a Warsaw resident deemed a dangerous outlaw, is tied to a roadhouse killing ten years ago. A newly dug grave, a skinned mule, and a buried man with a shot face were found along a highway, with schoolchildren reporting bloodied cap and blood on Sutherlin’s hands and clothing.
The article touts Grosz Democrats weekly issue as a cheap home and family paper with eight pages per Tuesday and Friday, sixteen pages weekly, delivering news three days earlier than rival weekly papers. It targets merchants and busy readers seeking prompt, selected reading matter.
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