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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1897
Page
3
Voters submit total ballots to date as contestants list includes Beryl May J H Kais E L Williams Emma Ping Ollie Smith Susie Wil Walter Waltman and others. The notice notes participants from George Schooler Ed Everroad Lloyd Smith Mollie Blessing Nellie Long and more amid a local sale of Kindling Wood and Coal by J A George.
A nostalgic advertisement touts Cascarets Candy as a gentle refreshing health aid. It claims cleansing the entire system improves kidneys liver and bowels and relieves headaches fever constipation and biliousness. Boxes priced 10 25 and 50 cents are sold and guaranteed to cure by druggists.
The Sentinel pledges abundant coverage of McKinley’s cabinet and administration, state capitol news, and Republican state government. It touts vast circulation and thorough service with dispatches from around the world, urging readers to subscribe and remit payments.
John W Morgan and Miss Marie Woody are reported sick. L T Brewer of Walesboro visits the city. A household help is wanted for live-in work. Tl G Quick the grain merchant goes on crutches after a severe leg sore. Bible study planned at the M E church Tuesday and Thursday at 2 30 PM. Commissioners spent time settling claims and postponed county attorney appointment to morning. Uncle Levi Holland returns from Hope and recalls a Moravian church supper. Knotty Fawcett and Andy Brazell face intoxication charges. Fawcett jailed, Brazell fined but stayed.
County commissioners interviewed candidates for appointments and noted connections with friends during a busy session. The interviews highlighted local ties and potential conflicts of interest as officials weighed each applicant.
Geo Wilcox and Samuel Simpson were tried before Mayor Beck for throwing a brick through a window at the house occupied by John Bell. Wilcox was acquitted and Simpson was fined three dollars plus costs.
Revival services at the M. E. church grow each evening with a large chamber filled for tonight's sermon on Pauls Last Words.
Saturday afternoon Ethel Pruitt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas Pruitt, with friends, started a small fire in a playhouse using a metal stove. Ethel picked up a hot lid and burned the inside of her right hand, causing painful injury and temporary disability of the hand.
Two boatmen on the Susquehanna pulled a large bass tangled on a live telephone wire after discovering it clinging to the river bottom. A Civil War account recalls a diver on the Ironclad Ironsides at Morris Island narrowly avoiding disaster as the hull swung toward a shoal, nearly crushing him and injuring his arm.
Mrs. Joseph Falck, a German resident near Sas Atageles, California, cuts fingers and nails her feet in a quest for divinity. She has walked 26 miles to church after injuring her foot, demands no medical aid, and treats the wounds as signs of divine favor. She possesses a personal chapel with images and claims no healing power, pursuing full salvation.
The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung argues the current Cuba crisis is untenable. A continued war would ruin both sides and drag Spaniards, insurgents, civilians, military, and neutral-nation residents and investors into devastation.
A humorous scene depicts a sewing machine agent touting the device as the ultimate time saver and saver of soap while a dog menaces, a housekeeper protests, and a buyer agrees to purchase. The agent claims the machine is worth a million to a family but offers it for five dollars, and the sale is completed amid banter and weather cues.
Bartholomew Circuit Court September Term 1897 notices Andrew J. Alexander as administrator of Francis M. Galbraith deceased has filed final account and vouchers. The examination and action will occur December 13 1897 in Columbus Indiana. Heirs creditors and legatees must appear and show cause if any why the account should not be approved. Witness GEO Werner Clerk. W W Lambert Attorney.
Excursion tickets to Florida and Southern resorts are on sale via the Southern Railway in connection with the Queen and Crescent Route. Best routes and schedules available. For details contact Jan 198 Wa. H. Taylor, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt. Southern Railroad, Louisville, Ky.
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