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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1896
Page
8
Corrected to June 7 1896 the timetable lists northbound and southbound passenger trains with numbers 104 1083 and 105 and shows 6 16 p m northbound and 2 40 p m southbound and designates J E Campbell as agent for information in Ithage Indiana
Society directory notices list Cartuace Lange No 255 I O F meeting at Odd Fellows Hall Tuesdays at 7 30 pm. Friends Church offers Sabbath services 11 am with midweek Thursday meetings 10 am prayer 7 30 pm, Sabbath School 9 45 am, Christian Endeavor 6 pm, Junior Endeavor 3 pm, Friday singing practice 7 30 pm, teachers meeting Wednesday 7 pm, monthly meeting first Thursday after the first Saturday 10 am.
News items from Fortville to Martinsville cover tax and wage notes, deaths, sales offerings, and local incidents. Notable items include a 92 year old death in Richmond Sunday, a Tipton gas well event, a Marion County bridge of crowds, a church dedication, and several sheriffs and educators moving positions. Multiple small ads for groceries, dry goods, and farms accompany broader civic notes.
Walter Bragg and family of Greenfield visited N D Coffin on Sunday. Frank Binford and family visited B D Binford near Greenfield. Luther Benson lectured at Dye's Lake on temperance. Miss Lottie Holding stayed with Rev T J Holding. William New's family picnicked at H L Strickland's grove. about thirty five attended. Blue River Democrats named delegates for state, congressional, senate, and house races. Township schools ended with ten graduates. Myrtle Binford won first with Shackles and Ruby Gray second with De votion to Duty.
A creature with a cat head and front feet but a rabbit body and tail sits as a family curiosity with Mr Scott. It pounces on any disturbance, watching a mouse hole for hours and acting with rabbit leaping, yet remains innocent and harmless as a beloved household pet.
F Parmerton reports Mrs Lan Hayes' father gravely ill. Isaac Murphy buried Monday. Wheat slows as wet weather hampers ripening. James Hackleman remains ill after winter grip illness. Mrs Frankie Folsom left Saturday for Indianapolis to visit friends before returning to Lincoln Nebraska with her sister Miss Lulu Dillman.
The Walnut Ridge W C T A schedules a Children’s Day program at the church on Sunday June 14 beginning at 2 30 p m A varied program of songs recitations and other child performances has been prepared Prof J Edwin Jay of Carthage will attend and take part and will preach a temperance sermon at the morning service Everyone is invited.
The Rush county Prohibitionists met in convention at Rushville and nominated a ticket headed by Representative Wellett L. Hall of Center and includes Clerk William M. Alexander of Rushville Auditor William A. Smith of Anderson Sheriff John Woods of Posey Surveyor Oscar L. Carr of Orange Coroner Daniel Hill of Ripley Commissioner Northern District I N Fletcher of Center Commissioner Middle District David E. Barnard of Posey County Assessor John Gordon of Union.
The undersigned have opened a Wheat and Flour Exchange at Farmer's Station and are prepared to handle all your wheat, corn and other grain, for which the highest market price will be paid. Flour, feed and corn will be sold at the lowest possible prices. A fair share of your patronage solicited. Price Earnest, Farmer's Station.
A fragmented ad style piece notes a horse named Dobbin weary of a tight rein and seeks freedom its old owner urged restraint and social chat then shifts to a medical line promoting DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve claiming to cure eczema and piles with Coffin & Co as the seller.
Washington Letter notes Congress quickly overrode Mr Cleve land's veto of the River and Harbor bill making it law. It discusses Speaker Reed's power, Nicaragua Canal bills, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's Cuba plans, Cleveland's Cuba policy, possible third-term tactics, and a Georgia silver issue tied to Hoke Smith. The Butler Bill on bonds passes Senate 32 to 25 with party splits.
Cambridge City Trotting Park Association plans bicycle races during the race meet starting June 30 for five days. On July 4 at 10 a.m. the amateur wheel race offers four classes with prizes including gold watches wheels and rings for amateurs within 100 miles or specified counties. Class A and C offer high value prizes. Class B and D cover regional amateurs and ladies.
The June issue outlines illustrated guidance across Elementary and Pen and Pencil Drawing, newspaper reproduction work, sketching hints, book illustration, flower painting, figure painting, pastel, china painting, wood carving, pyrography, needlework, embroidery, and interior decoration. It includes an address by Miss Helen Montfort, a series of brief biographies of American china painters, plus studies of American Beauty Roses by Paul de Longpre and a Dutch blue and white scene by C Volkmar. Montague Marks advertises subscriptions at 23 Union Square New York for 35 cents single issue or 4.00 per year.
From July 23 to August 1 To Eechiateen Park announces tickets on sale at the Carthage office for travel to all points east west north and south.
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