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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1907
Page
8
Notice to builders under Ordinance No 36 issued by Clinton Common Council. Sec 4 requires a permit from the Board of Public Improvement before erecting or creating within city limits. Conviction penalties include fines up to five dollars per day and other listed penalties.
Fragmented lines reference a West area and a potential bidder or group named SATTIN BAL ORATG. Many words are garbled with no clear actions or outcomes. Further context needed to define a coherent report.
Brandenburg and family of Burnett visited Ralph Campbell last Thursday and Friday. Miss Millie Garner of Logan visited Cora Ford from Friday until Monday. Born to Alva Gosnell and wife a son last week. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hunter of West Terre Haute visited relatives Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Hunter will stay with her mother Mrs. Henry Smith this week. Misses Wellman and Nibby closed a term of school at Frog College and returned to Champaign Illinois and New Goshen Indiana. James Shewy and family of Clinton spent Sunday with his mother Belle Starkey. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Ford and Sam Johnson and wife of Shidley Indiana visited Sunday. Ora Stokesberry wife and daughter Alice of Libertyville spent Sunday with R. R. Stokesberry. Belle Shaffer has been doing enumeration for two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Anson Miller of Clinton visited his parents Sylvester Miller and wife Wednesday last week. Donnie Crane works for Greer Wilkison Lumber Co. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hunter of Clinton called in this vicinity Sunday. Eunice Church of Newport spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives here. Mrs. Mary C. Temple of New Castle Indiana visiting relatives in this vicinity.
Prince Leopold a brown four year old jack with notable breeding will stand this season at G R Hopkins farm near Clinton. Sired by Spanish Jack Missouri Pride, dam Windsa, dam of Fire Fly, winner of the St Louis Sweepstakes. Limited service to select mares. mares should book early to assure a place. Shown as a valued and prudent stud offering with care noted.
Andrew Bufffo announces a request to sell at retail intoxicating liquors at a ground floor room in a two story brick building on Main Street Clinton Vermillion county Indiana for a one year term. The applicant is a male resident over 21 with over one year of continuous residence in Clinton township and will appear at the June term of the Vermillion county board of commissioners.
Modesto Stefant, an amateur resident of Vermillion County Indiana, applies to the Vermillion County Board of Commissioners at the June 1907 term for a one year license to sell in retail spirituous vinous malt and other intoxicating liquors in less than a quart with on premises drinking, at the west room of a two story brick building on Main Street Clinton. The room measures 22 by 49 feet and fronts Main Street with a glass front.
A Vermillion county township man over twenty one applies to the county board of commissioners at the June term for a one year retail liquor license. The plan is to operate a single ground floor room in a two story brick building on Main Street, Clinton, with a full glass front facing the street.
The notice to Clinton Vermilion county citizens announces a sale of intoxicating liquor for on premises consumption at a two story brick building on Main Street Clinton. It specifies a November hearing before the board of commissioners and details property bounds and exposure to view from Main Street.
The city council held a special meeting on Monday night and re elected the existing water works board members D. McBeth J. W. Robb and William M. Hamilton. No other business was conducted.
A colorful jumble of whimsy and anecdotes recounts opinions on aging, marriage, music, and a boastful obituary denial. It includes a boastful claim about Thomas Jefferson Meek denying a St. Louis death rumor, a wedding ring push, and humorous vignettes about larks, clothes, and a river bank prophecy.
A fragment suggests a critique of strictly informal gatherings in work attire. It hints at time being used or interpreted differently in such settings without providing concrete dates places or people.
In a humorous exchange characters discuss the dissolution of a women’s society in New York. They mention a proposed heart badge symbol and the joke that there was nothing to pin the badge to, explaining why the group failed as a social joke.
In Hardeman Texas a Free Press reader reports using a rum quinine hair restorer as a beverage. At dinner the cook lit half a bottle on plum pudding and guests finished with wrinkled faces, as if swallowing a bitter pill of adversity.
A brief note from Grindstone Bee in South Dakota states a subscription has begun to buy a new pair of green pants for the band. It mentions someone has been plowing in the present path.
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