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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1897
Page
2
Fragmentary clipping from Columbus Evening Star mentions E H Kinney and St A Turpin as proprietors. Details unclear but indicates a local newspaper team or management note connected to the Columbus publication.
Mrs Charles Butler and her daughter of Scipio visit the city. Mr and Mrs John Henry return from Shelbyville. Miss Mollie Ennis and Zoe Krue of Madison head to Nashville for a lengthy visit. Purdue students and others pass through Columbus for holidays. Several towns report arrivals and departures including Edinburg Indianapolis Franklin Bloomington and Seymour. Two obituaries note Minnie Steward and infant Wetzel with funeral details.
The Mizpah Council Royal Arcanum No 475 elected officers including Regent John L Bonban Vice Regent W B Treadway Orator Wm Smith Jr Collector Jno W Morgan and Treasurer John Mahony. Also noted were illness reports on Miss Josephine Kinney and other brief items from Mechanic Street and Columbus.
James S. Ward and J. C. Barton dale escorted flee from Otterbein with Bert Gant who is wanted for forgery. Gant passed two $20 notes forging his employer S W Baker with one cashed by J C Bartondale and another by John Welsch. Gant admitted guilt and paid Bartondale $2. His home lies near Sardinia in Decatur county.
The Southern Indiana railroad orders include three passenger coaches, three combination mail baggage and express cars, twenty five box cars, fifty coal cars, three standard cabooses, and 150 flat cars. Flat box and coal cars are 60 000 pounds capacity and equipped with Westinghouse air brakes Hein automatic couplers wooden trussed brake beams channel iron spring planks and diamond frame trucks.
A reception hosted by Mrs. Irene Roland at Eighth and Chestnut honored son Elmer Roland of Greensburg. Marriages include William Percifield and Jennie Smallwood at Elder Tritt’s home. Charles Sharp and Jessie Cole wed at the bride’s home. Edward Chambers and Carrie Hayworth wed at the bride’s Taylorsville home.
Churches arrange a Friday night Christmas program for about 150 children across Baptist Methodist Christian and Presbyterian congregations. The event features readings recitations dialogues solos choruses a Santa Claus visit two or more Christmas trees with gifts and cantatas with drills songs and talks. All Sunday school children admitted free. program begins at 7 30 PM.
Fragmentary OCR indicates a court action concerning the will of Frank Gary with a hearing or filing set for January 18, 1806. The text implies an inheritance or estate dispute proceeding in a historical context.
A vivid description proclaims IN EVERY BRAND stock as a carnival of marvels with limitless choices in neck wear and colored shirts. The assortment is praised for brilliance and inviting appeal, highlighting the store's strong point in men's frontings and overall brand variety.
The column reports community updates including Minnie Elkins visiting her mother, Mobleya ill, Miss Jennie Baker's health, C E Spiver revival at Browning school house, Bert Hassiman visiting from Medora, Otis Stephens return from Illinois, Rev J W Freeland holding revival at Grandview, a wagon accident injuring John Grubb, land trades between Cal Carmichael and Lon Mebley, and the Beck's Grove quarterly conference at Mt Nebo chapel with Rev Hobson presiding and preaching to large audiences.
Fragmentary notes mention a musical program to appear in Friday papers and a Christmas morning service at 10 50. The text hints at advertising claims about substitutes and merit, urging readers to get what they want and nothing else.
The article notes that over 60 percent of wood can be converted into liquids and solids including pyrolygneous acid and charcoal. A cord of wood yields about 2650 pounds of acid and 700 pounds of charcoal, with the acid producing crude wood alcohol, acetate of lime, and tar. Wood alcohol serves as a grain alcohol substitute for manufacturing and solvents, predominantly used in shellac varnish and cellulose processes, with three fifths of world production in the United States.
Raffle and holiday promotions at Lienberger's and Pfeifer Bros with Turkey 1 raffle available every night all week. Accident and Sick Benefit Insurance dues payable monthly and detailing Kinney and Kinney as the contact for coverage and claims.
An advertisement for a mind reader and spiritual medium offers business readings and future forecasts from 1425 Chestnut Street. It promotes selling tickets for readings from Indianapolis to desired points and provides telephone contact No 85 through J.S. Smit, agent.
Notice to heirs and creditors that Charles S. Reed as administrator filed final settlement for the estate of Nathan Reed deceased. The court will review the account on January 10, 1848, and all heirs and creditors must appear to show cause if the account should not be approved.
The excerpt debates pre tobacco habits of inhaling smoke from burned herbs for medicine. It argues there is little authority that pipes resembling modern ones were used, cites coltsfoot remedies via a finnell or tannell pipe, and notes early references to tobacco pipes as a newer invention in Gerard Sylvester and Notes and Queries.
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