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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1897
Page
8
Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis Railway Big Four route timetable for this place corrected to June 7, 185. Going north lists No 199 Passenger and No 101 Passenger with times 12:6 a.m. and 7:06 p.m. respectively.
Society directory notices announce weekly religious services at the church including preaching every Sabbath at 11:00 am, mid week meeting Thursday 10:00 am, prayer Thursday 7:30 pm, Sabbath school at 9:45 am, Christian Endeavor 6:00 pm, Junior Endeavor 3:00 pm, singing practice Friday 7:30 pm, teachers meeting Wednesday 7:00 pm and monthly meeting the first Thursday after the first Saturday at 10:00 am.
Local brief items report AWL Wool Pants at Hin Gear, dry stove wood at Weingart, and Hill Gear Cheviot Pants. A child drowns after falling into an open cistern in Spencer. The Cloverdale bank to close April 1. McBeth glass factory strike end. burglar robs Panhandle ticket office in Elwood during crowd. Several deaths and resignations noted. investments, sales, and local business mentions throughout.
The delegation was led by T. O. Conant of Portland Oregon the new president of the Machinery Association with John P. Staff secretary and treasurer. The American Business College of Omaha Nebraska promises free tuition for practical home business education and urges readers to act.
A horticultural meeting will be held at Newsom's Hall on Saturday February 27 1897 starting at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Mr W Steere will read on Transplanting and Pruning Trees and Miss Emma Clark on The Cultivation and Value of Flowers. J T Newby and others will answer questions as part of a series promoting horticulture. All interested are invited.
The American Business College in Omaha Nebraska offers a free mail course in bookkeeping and modern business methods. The program includes forty lessons and will be organized soon with full particulars available upon application.
State Department sources in Europe indicate a huge rise in American apple sales. Consul general Frank Mason notes six million double centners imported into Germany last year, promising a lasting market if shippers follow precautions.
Walnut Ridge attendance at the Ridge meeting and nearby visits include Ham Strickland and wife at a field. Frank Carson rents the Martin Pearson farm near Charlottesville and plans moving by March 1. Mrs Sarah E Holesclaw of Spiceland visits sister Amiel Coffin. Dr C K Bruner from Greenfield attends Dennis lecture at the high school. Blue River Township Teachers Institute and D W Dennis lecture at the high school. Junior C EF graduation at Western Grove church. Lee McGee plans moving Elwood Jessup into the house once occupied by Wm Beeson two miles south. Walnut Ridge revival ends with Rev Price continuing meetings at Walnut Ridge. Olive White resigns from Vardy’s Fork school for ill health. a new teacher will be secured. Jane Ellsbury dies of pneumonia aged 79. funeral at Greenfield Christian church, interment Park Cemetery.
A New York Bun column prints a dialect piece recounting a lazy enslaved narrator and a possum seen up a tree as a coon dog bays. The narrator recalls preparations and family talk about roast meat with vivid but nongraphic frontier humor and moralizing jab.
At Sixth Avenue and Fourteenth Street a stalled horse pulled by a bulky wagon blocked traffic. A calm, well-dressed gentleman lifted the animal’s foot, bent it back, and urged it forward, after which the horse complied and moved on down the street.
The St. Louis Republic recounts a Savannah man J. W. Atkinson describing two deadly devices bought in Paris. A venomous rattlesnake fang housed with wax matches and a hidden needle gun capable of silent, lethal injections with rapid, brutal effects.
A hunter in La Salle County Illinois spots a black snake chasing a fox squirrel high among branches. The constrictor moves with extreme speed, and a nearby shooter fires a load of shot, killing the snake, a moderately sized specimen.
A compact historical note on salt as a supreme luxury in central Africa and its social currency. It cites Mungo Park on salt cravings from vegetable diets and reflects on literary anecdotes about Longfellow and Norman's Woe, then states a distance from Venice to Washington of 9 835 miles.
Julius Sorenson, a Grand Harbor Northern Pacific express agent, embezzled 600 dollars and fled through blizzards and wolf packs. He crossed to Fort Totten and New Rockford, survived by clinging to a hut and plank, then rode to Spiritwood and St. Paul before heading to Chicago, with authorities closing in and money recovered.
A fragmentary exchange shows John Butts proposing to leave one tenth to his youngest son del Butts and the remaining tenths to his eldest son Royal Chesterfield Chauncey de Feyster Butts. A family lawyer comments on fairness while London Tite ita is noted.
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