16 Jul 1914
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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1914
Page
1
Danville reports show Miss Vangle McDaniel visiting amid a thriving Chautauqua. Social notes record engagements, moves to Ladoga, family health concerns, and a Kentucky convict captured after a Lebanon escape. Marriage licenses issued include Alvah Porter and Edith M Carter.
Clara O Seaman and others sue William Y Marshburn and others in a real estate petition. Ed T Conant and others sue Bert Parr and others. Change of venue requested from Boone County. Emory Sharp and others vs Silmon Hancock and others. To quiet title to real estate. Geo Gray sues Lulu Gray to cancel deed to real estate.
Vic Harlan a former Coatesville businessman visits family in Stilesville region while living in El Paso Texas for health reasons. He discusses border unrest, Villa’s advances and U S involvement as a potential path to peace noting El Paso’s climate and agriculture compare unfavorably to his home region.
In a column titled Speaking the Public Mind W H Gibbons urges owners to train drivers to handle heat prostration in horses. He notes drivers overworked by a boss may resist help and outlines first aid steps from removing harness to cooling with water and cold applications, plus consulting a veterinarian.
A Masonic grand lodge committee visiting Hendricks County toured five proposed sites for a dependent home. The candidates include locations at Clay ton Plainfield Hadley Brownsburg and Clermont with stipulations of at least 160 acres and railroad accessibility. The lodge has funded the project and Hendricks hopes to win the selection.
A lyrical exhortation to persevere in baseball, urging players to bat with focus, wait for good pitches, steal bases, and slide home as the score grows. It frames the game as a moral test and celebrates effort and resilience.
The letter from Haughville Editor Herald shares a breezy hillside visit near Riverside Park and notes prosperity after moving to Indianapolis. It mentions Lonnie finishing Manual High, winning a John Herron Art Institute scholarship, Clyde completing 8th grade, and impending renewal of The Heraxup subscription with a promised price.
A discussion of newspaper subscription laws notes subscribers bear responsibility for renewals and unpaid dues. It cites that failing to give notice of discontinuance can be treated as intent to renew, and moving without informing the publisher or returning papers uncalled for can imply fraud. Advance pay requires express notice to stop.
Last year Coatesville residents gave five to six dollars to the Indianapolis Summer Mission for Sick Children, aiding care and mother education. This year Sympathy Saturday falls on August 15 with contribution boxes in local stores to double the prior amount for the mission that helped over six thousand children and recorded only three deaths among two hundred sick babies.
James J. Randel of Greencastle William OC Ball of Terre Haute Geo RK Seidel of Richmond and G A H Shideler of Marion form the first board of trustees for the new state penal farm to be set up in Putnam County.
A war time memento envelope features Uncle Sam toppling a secessionist snake and the phrase That’s what’s the matter It is addressed to Norace Reason living in Mason City Ia A young sleepwalker in the south part of town wandered away in his sleep half a mile losing bed clothing before returning home The editor notes this is the worst insomnia case they have seen.
Since the last report the library loaned 1146 books. New acquisitions include A Hoosier Chronicle Nicholson Red Pepper Burns Richmond The Custom of the Country Whartman Virginia Glasgow What Happened to Mary Glenlock, Renick Blue Sonnets Ranch Party Jacobs Miss Billy Married Porter Four Gordons Brown Uncle Daid's Boys Brown Grandpa's Little Girls Curtis The Visioning Glaspell Miss Billy's Decision Porter The Story of Wait Still Baxter Wiggin Sunshine Jane Warner and Chambers Cyclopaedia English Literature 3 volumes.
The Carl Dent store, now under J G Beck, reports a large trade and a notable reform with Sunday closing. Beck retains Herbert Harlan, praised as a hustler who can wait on multiple customers at once.
A Coatesville reader complains about mail order shoes that failed to fit and that the local shop would have resolved. The letter argues home merchants are responsible and honor what they sell, unlike distant sellers, reflecting common dissatisfaction with mail order acquisitions.
The Methodist church hosted The Beautiful City cantata last Sunday evening replacing the children’s day exercises. Heat did not deter a full audience as the familiar tunes pleased attendees. Edna Nichols Edith Newman and Bernice Lydick read the dialogue parts while the infant class performance was praised as beautiful and perfect. The orchestra offered several pleasant selections and the cantata was described as among the prettiest ever given here.
The article notes farmers face confusion over rural credits while praising modern agriculture. It highlights advanced machinery, livestock, seed, transportation, education, and leadership. Prices for land and beef have risen. land values in Indiana doubled in a decade and farm product prices improved for producers.
The speaker argues improved agriculture requires more capital per acre, cites European farm investments of 50 to 200 dollars per acre, and urges a model rural credit system to provide long term, low interest loans with small semi annual payments for land purchase and improvement, linking agricultural education to credit access.
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