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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1911
Page
8
Local updates from Greencastle Indiana include illness and visits from Mrs Wm Sacra Mrs Orlena Wolf and others, Christmas dinners and gatherings, shopping trips and holiday events. Advertisements offer Perfection Flour 55cts per sack shoe repair, and financial terms for deposits. Several names and places appear including Pierce City Purdue Danville Indianapolis and Ackley with multiple residents mentioned.
The item notes Central Trust Co of Greencastle Indiana with capital stock and mentions J F Walton offering wall paper at festive prices. It covers a church supper, holiday trade reports, a broken ankle incident, band concert postponement due to a death, social visits, civil service exam participants, an oil painting gift, a public sale notice for harnesses January 6 1912, and auction details with Col Geo West as auctioneer.
The Calendar Club met Wednesday with about twenty members and two new joiners. Mrs. Geo Hughes was elected president as Mrs. Flora Bowen conducted the session. An all day New Year’s day gathering at the church invites families to bring baskets and crafts. The next meeting is the last Wednesday in January 1912.
Lon Coffman known locally as Jim Crow is identified as the man killed Wednesday morning seven miles east of Coatesville. Coffman formerly worked for Manuel Cassady near Greencastle and was well known in the area.
The YMCA team from Te Pauw University includes Lawrence Tucker Raymond Stone Lucian Tennant Cecil Appleman and Vern Stansell. Their first service was held Tuesday at the Methodist church with Wednesday at the Christian church and Thursday planned for the Baptist church. Attend to cheer the group.
The editor and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Lester Miller near Canaan church last Sunday and attended Sunday school. The community maintains church and school worship with about sixty in attendance. A protracted meeting is under way led by Rev. Stainbrook with an assisting pastor and a singing evangelist.
Tuesday evening Service of Christ at M E Church Star sell. Wednesday evening The College Man and His Religion at Christian Church Tennant. Thursday afternoon Youngsen's meeting Beta Delta Sigma Club Room Appleman. Thursday evening Union prayer meeting Baptist Church All. Friday evening Every day Christianity at Christian Church Stone. Saturday afternoon Young people's meeting Baptist Church. Sunday Preaching at M F Church.
Rain soaked roadbeds prompt notes on Indiana hauling limits. Laws specify vehicle weight caps by tire width: up to 2 500 pounds for tires three inches or less, 3 000 pounds for three to four inches, 3 500 pounds for four to five inches, and 3 800 pounds for five inches or more during thaw and wet weather.
In Corbridge a rich haul of Roman gold coins was found by Professor Haverfield and allies, a discovery tied to Ancient England’s population debates. The area, now a Tyne village with market gardens, remained prosperous after Rome’s departure and sent two members to Parliament in 1295. King John sought buried treasure there, though lacking Haverfield’s expertise to reclaim baggage loss referenced in the Wash-London Chronicle.
In Oldham Lancashire the wakes week shuts mills and sends cotton workers abroad. With a population of 260,090 many visit the seaside or continental destinations. Paris is a popular aim with seven thousand considered travel. Wake Saturday sees weddings, with fewer than 200 celebrations this year.
A picturesque area near Berlin called the Spreewald features many villages on tiny islands linked by bridges. Canals serve as main highways with postmen, police, tradesmen, and children traveling by boat, making it a land of boats and boatmen.
A new wireless telegraph station at Fez enhances Paris to Fez communication for French troops in Morocco. Messages travel from the Eiffel Tower in Paris to Oran and on to Fez, with Taourirt hosting another French station as an alternate Paris Fez link via submarine cable and overland telegraph.
An Irish climber James F.R.G. of Dublin and guide Joseph Armstrong of Lo! narrowly escaped death on the Wetterhorn ascent in Switzerland. A chamois caused a mishap by entangling its rope, dragging them toward a crevasse. The guide cut the rope and the pair steadied themselves in the snow to regain the path.
A league of fathers of families forms in Milan to combat hobble skirts and other female fashions under the cardinal archbishop. The group vows to prevent wives and daughters from following such styles, with a propagandist effort expected to spread across Italy.
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