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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1897
Page
8
Notices advertise church activities and schedules with times for preaching Sabbath services mid week prayer meetings Sabbath school Christian Endeavor Junior Endeavor singing practice teachers meetings and monthly gatherings.
Perry county owes 94000 dollars. Millinery discounts at Mattie Bentley’s. Crawfordsville coffin factory shuts indefinitely. Newsom’s promotes shoes and hats. Mooresville schools pick Alaska Eaton as superintendent. Pulaski county plans infirmary contract at 14000 dollars. Terre Haute normal commencement runs June 18 to 25. Martinsville to get a 30000 dollar pressed brick plant by Indianapolis capitalists. Several Connersville men fined 25 dollars for selling. Hobart welcomes Rev A A Robertson. DeWitt Banes dies of heart disease. Falls cemetery sexton John Snyder resigns. Spiceland Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias decorate graves. Richmond boy 10 loses head after attempting ride on freight train. glanders affecting horses in Muncie. state vet after them. Daleville iron and stove foundry attracted by free fuel and building. DePauw faculty rumored to resign. Bassett possibly to stay. Derrick rope breaks. farmer Rube Clark killed near Evansville. Abe Galley and William Fisher shoot William by squirrel mishap. Bedford area boy Kem dies of lockjaw from rake injury. Shelbyville Bryan club grows as new officers elected. Anderson Women’s Training and Industrial School hosts charity picnic.
Eleven prisoners escaped from Logansport jail while others report on a patchwork jail, Greencastle pioneer Col James Fish dead at ninety, Mrs Nora Grimes of Anderson took morphine amid separation, and Nahsville links. Potatoes face hard-shelled bug, gas fever grows in Washington with new companies, Hagerstown farmer Moses R Green shot by a hunter mistaken for a squirrel. IU class of 72 to meet June 14 in Bloomington. 23 members in 15 states, no deaths yet. Grain men in Rushville discuss wheat testing laws and seek AG opinion. Delilah Robertson dies in Homer from cancer and grief. Major H P Shaffer dies in Muncie, Civil War veteran and G A R member. Wabash trustees plan pencil sterilizers and fountains for schools, preferring local suppliers. DeSoto oil boom explodes as Delaware land leases linger for gas rights.
A Greek rice dessert is described as creamy rice boiled in milk, cooled and served with cinnamon, and a spring soup recipe blends bouillon with lemon juice and beaten eggs just before serving. The notes accompany a Demorest’s magazine excerpt on Housekeeping under the Parthenon.
Uncle John Gilson remains about the same. Hunters are plenty in this neighborhood. J. H. Siler and Jesse Reddick were at Knightstown Monday. John Leisure purchased several hundred bushels of corn from Mr Buscher. Frank Reddick and family, burned out, moved into Ollie Siler's house. The saw mill is doing a rushing business. W. W. Peters returned from Switzerland county where his mother is ill. she is convalescing.
Westland hosts visits from Carmel Greenfield and Pendleton residents with Sunday gatherings and a county C E convention at Warrington. Westland Blue River township schools hold commencement with diplomas by County Superintendent Jackson. class members include Marticia White and Bertha Binford, with Mack Crider and others delivering essays and music by Prof Mack's orchestra.
Rushville and Gwynneville notices report Rev. O F Lydy attending a ministerial institute in Manice. The Gwynneville cornet band schedules a lawn festival for Saturday June 19. Community news notes visitors from Shelbyville and Carthage. A missions program at the Christian church drew a full house and raised over 13 dollars, mostly by juniors. If gas flow proves good, other parties plan wells, with local citizens urged to support the venture.
The annual excursion to Niagara Falls will occur July 8th with Indianapolis trips at 7.00 dollars five day tickets and routes via Toledo and Michigan Central. Decatur 3.00 and Peoria 8.00. Trains leave Indianapolis at 10:00 a.m. First class accommodations include day coaches Pullman and Wagner cars. D. G. Edwards, Passenger Traffic Manager, Cincinnati Ohio.
Rural New Yorker notes alfalfa grows best with oats sown together, recommends sowing late May and warns weeds can drain moisture if no companion crop is grown. It suggests varieties may yield with weed control and cites broader wool-shearing by machines expanding globally, including Australasia and northwestern states.
A Kansas breeder, L. L. Roby, fed 12 steers from Kansas City stockyards with a mixture of crushed corn and linseed meal. Over 75 days they gained 4,610 pounds total, averaging 885 pounds per head. The steers ate mostly grain, with little hay, and stability was aided by a lightweight shed and open troughs.
The text discusses selecting domestic animals by mental traits for meat milk wool and labor noting dogs horses and pigs show varying mental attributes. It offers lice remedies for spring and extols crossing fine trotting breeds with roadster families like Morgan for superior carriage horses, ending with a folk assertion of fact.
A reader asks for a working horse diet using oats corn hay and bran. The answer says hay can be ideal if not dusty, oats are the best base grain, and 4 quarts of oats morning and night with 3 quarts on idle days fits 1100 lb horses under moderate farm or road work. Grinding, feeding wet or dry, and individual digestion vary. mix of grains not universally superior. horses digest oats better for nerves and muscle. caution on corn fattening but weaker for muscle.
An article extols grass as a natural remedy for many horse ailments. It notes that horses kept in cities, on roads, or on tracks gain greatly from a liberal supply of graze in the early hours.
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