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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1910
Page
1
Boston defeats Cleveland 3 to 0 as Cicotte limits the hosts to two scattered hits. Speaker accounts for half of Cleveland’s safeties in a low scoring contest.
A lost silver bangle shaped like an artist palette with initials H. D. J. was found and should be returned to the HERALD office. An advertisement from E. B. Owen & Co promotes a mission library table and a second-hand base burner for sale. Helen Kelly of Greencastle visited Hertha Masten and attended a party hosted by Ira Johnson with several attendees.
The Mastens hold their annual reunion next Sunday at the usual south of Coatsville site. It will be an all day event, continuing a multiyear custom with a unusually large turnout expected from distant relatives.
A Western editor receives a note from a subscriber who says he no longer wants the paper. The editor responds that shorter would force a new press purchase, so the current length remains satisfactory for both.
Coroner G G Allred of Danville filed his verdict on the deaths of Ralph McNeil of Vincennes and an unidentified man found August 9 between the Big Four tracks seven miles west of Danville. The unidentified body was buried at the south cemetery. The verdict states both men apparently died from being struck by a train on the Big Four.
The Christian Churches of Hendricks county host a yearly fellowship and worship gathering on Saturday and Sunday, August 3 and 4 at Stilesville. Rev. James Small, famed evangelist, gives lectures on Love Laughter and Tears and Measur ing Jesus while Sunday evening topics include The World's Second Mile Men. All are invited.
A Browns bury Revord report describes local hugging socials started in Howard county. The first event netted 858 with old farmers from miles around active in the group. Rates vary by age and status with minors charged 15 to 50 cents and widows and old maids at lower or promotional prices.
Grant Scott his wife and Nelve and Miss Gladys after a week's visit at the old Scott home at Belle Union returned home last Saturday. Ed Jones and daughter started to bring them home but their auto skidded on the levee and went through a wire fence into a field. Jones and Mrs. Scott were pinioned but only bruised. the car was wrecked and hauled away. Scott and family then used a private conveyance.
The HERALD piano contest mobilizes dozens of workers and supporters across Hendricks and Putnam counties. Committees form, subscriptions rise, and communities rally to secure votes, aiming to win a free piano and boost local social life through churches and lodges.
Hertha Masten hosted a Sunday night slumber party with Helen Kelly Mary Tucker Mary Greenlee Lydia Elrod and others. Visitors from Champaign and Brockton Illinois spent Monday with W T Beck and family recalling a 40 year distance reunion. Marsh mellow roast accompanied the social event.
Tag Day is set for Saturday September 3 to benefit the Children’s Home of Indiana. The notice praises the home as a strong state institution offering a safe home life and well trained children for adoptive homes, urging broad support.
A series of meetings begins Monday evening September 12 at the Christian church. Evangelist Milo J Smith of Indianapolis and Minister Rev F B Davison will conduct sessions. Attendance is encouraged and the public is urged to bring others to the gatherings.
The HERALD notes the piano contest grows with weekly interest urging churches and lodges to send representatives to view the piano. The instrument promises lasting appeal with fine tone and finish suitable for any church or lodge setting.
Mr Isaac O Dell of Putnam is improving slowly after being kicked by a horse five weeks ago He was in a harvest field when his team entered a bee nest and began to run He managed to hold the horses but a kick broke his leg and he will need months of crutch use.
Baseball clash set for Friday afternoon September 2 featuring Coatesville Blaze and Clayton Reserves at South Side Park. Admission ten cents with ladies free. The write up promises a hot game reminiscent of Chicago play and urges local fans, especially players’ parents, to attend as the teams are eager and blood is in the eyes.
Farmers urged to attend a Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station train tour in Coatesville on Tuesday September 6 at 1 40 p m The program includes a 60 minute lecture on variety selection cultural methods fertilization disease treatment with detailed experiment results and demonstrations The railroad provides the train while Purdue supplies lectures demonstration materials and printed matter attendees are told there is nothing to sell and should not miss this farming educational event.
Beatrice Head, sixteen, despondent over her mother’s refusal to allow a romance and may die from laudanum. David Coursey digs up a Civil War era cache of $500 in gold and notes near Spa. A Jasper county woman is found dead by drowning in a water tank. A Shelbyville veteran’s apple tree blooms twice in one year. A Lake Erie & Western fireman near Wagoners is fatally injured by a freight car. Fossil find near New Balancebury reveals a moose or buffalo foot in blue limestone. A Columbus child is killed by an automobile while returning to a mother at the fair. McFerron reports a freak corn yield with six ears in one husk. A railroad conductor notes a sunflower growing in a tree thirty feet high. Brownie the New Orleans dog remains missing as owners search from New York. Hydrophobia signs appear in Sylvester Conrad, bitten by a dog in May, with recovery hoped. Misses Wier attend Indianapolis millinery opening. U need a paper take the Herald.
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