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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1897
Page
8
Time table for the Big Four line shows going north service with listed departure times. Entries include 11:26 a m and 7:06 p m in the afternoon, and 7:06 a m and 2:50 p m in the day schedule. The notice notes the correction date June 7 1896.
Notices for eight dollars yearly list weekly and monthly church activities. Preaching every Sabbath at 11:00 a.m. Mid week Thursday meetings at 10:00 a.m. Prayer Thursday evening at 7:30. Sabbath school at 9:45 a.m. Christian Endeavor at 6:00 p.m. Junior Endeavor at 3:00 p.m. Singing practice Friday at 7:30. Teachers' meeting Wednesday at 7:00. Monthly meeting first Thursday after the first Saturday each month at 10:00 a.m.
Camphor Icene and stock remedies advertised at Coffin's drug store while Newsom's offers 5 percent cash discounts. Plainfield plans a April horse show. Weingart's Meat Market buys cash for eggs and butter. Tate & Co. in Anderson placed in receivership. Sassafras tea touted as new drink. various local notices of births, deaths, thefts, and legal issues populate a broad roundup of Indiana local life.
An editorial criticizes free trade since 1885, arguing it caused surging appropriations, economic panics, higher bank and business failures, wage cuts, and mounting deficits. It links the 1890s tariff acts to unemployment and reduced revenues, calling the era a ruinous burden that will end soon.
Miss Nellie Casey visits Rushville and G N Logan moves to Mrs A W Tribbys farm. Arlington dogs are being killed for the season. Miss Pearl McDaniel returns from Indianapolis for the summer. Lee Hendrix buys and manages a Rushville restaurant. North of the railroad high water prompts a tile ditch project. Rushville Co op Telephone poles laid toward Rushville. line soon to be completed. W C Runyen of Glenwood visits to relieve Agen Riege as he travels to Xenia Ohio for an uncle’s funeral. Mrs Samantha Dameron dies at home. funeral at M E church with Rev Wilbur Smith officiating. She is buried in Arlington cemetery. Mrs Dameron, known as Ann Mat, was a kind Christianwoman active in church and Sunday school. She leaves two sons Will and Fred plus many relatives and friends mourning her loss.
Robert Fitzsimmons defeats James Corbett in the fourteenth round at Carson City Nevada on Wednesday. Great reduction in all Rubber Goods at Newsom's. call and get 18.
Obie J Coffin attended the Lackey horse sale at Cambridge City last Friday. Earl Binford a Greenfield high student visited home folks Sunday. Ada Carson spends this week with Mr and Mrs Bailey Buinford near Ingalls. Ebea Binford returned from a week with friends near Lewisville. John Moore Morristown gas mains superintendent was in the village Thursday. Harvey Catt and family of near Carthage visited M A Catt and family Saturday. The Women’s Foreign Mission Society meets at Mrs S O Macy’s next Saturday. Noble Crider and E D Newby attended the S S O Band concert at Greenfield Christian church last Friday. Rev L A Wells of Greenfield purchased forty acres off Wilson Run for $40 an acre. The W C T U will hold memorial service for Mrs Mary Brooks and Mrs Adah Jessup at Western Grove church next Sunday afternoon. Ola Cameron Knightstown elocutionist closed the Bluever Township lecture course last Saturday. Kyser Brothers and B C White provided music. Township teachers and trustees are commended for securing the season lecture course.
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