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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1897
Page
8
Notices list church programs with times for sermons Sunday school Endeavor prayer meetings and midweek services including Sabbath 11:00 a m and 9:45 a m Sabbath school plus weekly practice and a monthly teachers meeting details are given for Farenps Cauren and related gatherings.
Scattered Indiana items report robberies near Hagerstown, a theater opening in Terre Haute, fires along the Evansville to Vincennes road, a Shelbyville man jailed for check fraud, and various local notices. Other notes include fines for jury bribery, a Baptist minister’s death in Muncie, a lost baby shawl, a county fair, and weather linked incidents.
A scattered Terre Haute page notes Dock Jones of Grant in Vigo County treated for catfish fin poison after a foot injury. It lists sales and events including a track bicycle race ban, a mastodon fossil find near Waterloo, saloon licenses in Brownsburg, a Warren fair balloon mishap, a Studebaker reunion, and local politics, education, and commerce items.
A gas well explosion at the College Corner Gas Company site near a farm derrick caused multiple injuries and fatalities. Survivors include Daniel Meredith and Charles Lewis with severe burns, William Mundell fatally burned, and Jackson Bushong injured but not seriously. The derrick and surrounding area suffered extensive fire, with property losses around $400. Local action followed as injured were moved to Mechanicsburg and homes for recovery. The cause remains uncertain but a forge spark near drilling equipment is suspected.
Simon Martin of Richmond spent last week here. Will Dishman has fever. Miss Mary Glidden has been ill for ten days. R. M. Russell and wife are in Kansas with relatives. Frank Huston helps in revival at New Lisbon. Indiana State fair will draw a large crowd here. Mrs Albert Johnson visited Carthage parents over Sunday. Frank Jones moved to northern state. Rev. Stevenson and wife from College Corner Ohio spent Sunday here. Mr and Mrs A R McKvaine's baby been ill several days.
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