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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1898
Page
3
Sugars offers laundry soaps two bars for five cents and features Ive's Family Fairbanks Gr Seal and Santa Claus brands. Toilet soaps are also advertised as very cheap.
Mary Cooper daughter of Mr and Mrs John Cooper is very low with diphtheria and little hope of recovery. The little son of Brakeman Martin meanwhile has shown improvement after diphtheria illness.
SEYMOUR Indiana December 31 David Haynes aged 26 was killed instantly while felling a maple east of Hayde. After he felled a maple the tree tipped, lodging in a nearby hickory and as he worked the heavier trunk split the hickory and a slab struck him under the chin crushing his head. The Frankfort Lottery is no more all shops closed yesterday to open no more owners say they have given up.
Lake Superior region shipped 12,500,000 gross tons of iron ore for the year, 2,070,000 tons more than 1895. Kentucky auditor moves to tax Southern Pacific Railroad’s $140,000,000 property, possibly collecting back five years. The article notes wage trends in New England mills amid holiday mood, while broader wage gains elsewhere are overlooked.
Notice in Bartholomew Circuit Court December Term 1897 that Charles S. Reed as administrator filed final account and vouchers for Nathan Reed deceased. The court will examine January 10, 1898, requiring heirs creditors or legatees to appear and show cause why the account should not be approved.
Grece Price returned from Richmond this morning. Miss Sarah Burt of Shelbyville visits Misses Lottie and Kate Buckland. Rev W W Smith of Greensburg Baptist church spent Friday with Rev Swift and family, returning home last evening. Mrs Lew Stine and father Jas Burns of Jeffersonville left for Chicago to visit Tom Burns and wife. Miss Richard Duncan and her children of Bluffton and Master Carl Nolting of Gas City, guests of Mr and Mrs Chas Boscher, returned home this morning.
The Baptist Sunday School meets at 9:30 a.m. with morning service at 10:45. Lord's Supper follows the sermon. An afternoon brigade at 2 p.m. and Y M C A youth activities at 6 p.m. Evening service features Crates Johnson and F. 4. Kenney with special music. Gospel services for men and boys at 3:30 p.m. In the 7:30 p.m. service speakers include Theodore Gatchel and Paul M. Spencer. F. G. Kenney and Crates Johnson and Geo. Whitewack and others from local colleges. Also noting the touring melodrama The Span of Life at Crump's Theatre next Friday with praise for Sutton Vane's stage craft.
An excerpt from Macmillan's Magazine discusses the origins of realism in fiction, arguing that modern methods in realism were not entirely novel. It credits Bacon and earlier writers with partial groundwork and notes that Balzac did not uniquely study life details, challenging claims of a single breakthrough.
General Hancock faced a vain western major who rode to headquarters seeking orders for battalion drill that afternoon. Hancock ordered the regiment to stay in camp and tidy quarters, then privately labeled the officer as smart but proud, a mighty nart man.
A tale from the New York Ledger warns that the hardest relief comes from those who fear asking. A generous man helps a sick beggar by riding him home on his horse, then the thief escapes, and the beggar urges silence to avoid harming honest beggars seeking aid.
In Bass Harbor Maine an old couple known for piety are buried side by side. Their tombs show etched crowns and a fully bloomed rose, a sight witnessed by many as proof of the couple’s devout lives. The Deer Isle Gazette notes the scene as well authenticated.
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