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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1897
Page
3
Owens and Williams advertise Central No. 188 Citizens No. 187 as a building and loan offering low monthly payments to own a home. The message promotes steady payments, reliable investment, and mentions insurance and savings plans amid a folksy sales tone, urging readers to act now.
Numerous properties listed with prices and terms across multiple locations. Six to eight room cottages, farms, a saw mill, and a large house with cellars cisterns and outbuildings are offered, with trades for city property and installment plans. Entries note addresses in Columbus Purcell's addition and Harrison township, with prices from 700 to 2400 and up.
Classified notices advertise rental of cottages with wells cisterns and outbuildings on Burneville Pike Franklin Street and Sixth Street with monthly asks from 3 to 8 plus terms. includes a large 146 acre Jackson Township tract with a seven room house river and well and fruit trees offered at 2250 after 3000 asking price. mentions mortgage loans and other properties for sale or rent with office contact.
Harry Coryea son of Panhandle Station agent at Hege is appointed deputy sheriff of Jennings County. He is well known in this city with many friends who will be glad to learn of his appointment. The young man is of excellent character and is expected to serve the county with honor.
Harry Piel of this city will leave in late March for Chicago to join Ringling Bros Circus. It marks his fourth season with the show which opens soon after. Piel handles downtown ticket sales and has been very successful as the Raging show becomes the largest on the road, eclipsing Barnum in size with a sixty four car circus train. Gas ton of this city also traveled several seasons with the show.
Lee Rosenbush and his wife Dr. Hudson travel to Cincinnati for medical evaluation for stomach trouble. Mr Stern accompanies them, with Mrs Rosenbush remaining at home. Mrs Stern acts as housekeeper. Morris Rosenbush oversees the clothing store in their absence.
Miss Clara Adams daughter of Cal Adams eloped with George Mitchell of Indiana after opposition from her parents. They boarded trains to Indianapolis and wed at a city minister's home with Mitchell meeting her there. Both hail from respectable families.
In a yesterday interview Mr Crump reported progress on the light project. Some lights remain to reach six hundred pledged by Crump as subscribers. Businessmen and others are joining, and the allotted number should fill in a few days. Once full, Crump will seek sixty to ninety days from insurers to add the other generator, then with consent start the electric line. Citizens are urged to preserve the line for future enterprise. The Star promises updates.
Cols residents Harry Kocher Philip Spaugh and Frank Pfeifer were in town on Sunday Monday and Tuesday. Trappers report good catches of mink raccoon and muskrat. Michael Unger a Columbus monument dealer called Friday. H R Kendal of Columbus visited Tuesday for Prudential Life. Bartholomew county youths seek farm work in Illinois. George Sanders of Wisconsin and Leopold Schaefer of Columbus visited south of town to discuss the late John G Schaefer estate. J W Fulwider plans to move back to his Hartsville-area farm in spring.
A citizen laments rising poetry interest in Columbus high schoolstudents. He predicts a 1897 peak of poetry prominence and jokes about new newspapers and local culture. He mocks opponents and urges active support amid playful satirical lines.
The fire bell and register at the fire house were malfunctioning. Lineman Wells adjusted the apparatus and the bell now rings correctly and the register works, but the system remains prone to frequent breakdowns and may fail again at any time.
Ben Solinger plans to move his stock on Monday and may leave Tuesday for Jeffersonville to join his father in a new business venture. He has few years in the area and many friends, who wish him success as they open a clothing factory in partnership with his father.
The Senior Class with Prof. Carnagey will depart on the 8 50 train to Indianapolis this morning. They will visit the Legislature and spend the day studying its sessions. A round trip fare of 1.65 is offered with a three day ticket. Many students will stay through Sunday. Cuffs and links offered at discount by Blue Front.
The weekly test alarm was sent yesterday at 9 AM from box 46 at the corner of Eighth and Union. Fire crews did not respond due to slippery street conditions.
Mr Lucas of Indianapolis spoke at the Petersville M E church on Wednesday night presenting his lecture "Smiles and Tears." The audience filled the house and responded with hearty applause after the humorous and thoughtful talk.
Readers can obtain both newspapers for one year at the price of five dollars. The offer appears in a short notice and references two publications, the Daily Star and the Indianapolis Weekly Journy, inviting subscriptions.
Chas W Steinbarger and Cora W Sanders have been licensed to marry.
The report covers the Pennsylvania railroad annual meeting date in Philadelphia, leadership changes at the joint traffic association, and salaries paid by the Indianapolis Union railway and Belt road. It notes engine No. 10 breakdown near Memphis delaying trains, coal movement figures, and earnings comparisons for the Chicago, Milwaukee a St. Paul line, plus a rapid 37 minute Camden to Washington run by Royal Blue engine 1313.
Dr Kent returns to Chicago last evening. Hays Hollowell will spend Sunday at Brownstown. Joe Whitten went to Jonesville yesterday morning. Mr and Mrs Chas Kimsey visiting Newbern. Marshal Hacker was an Indianapolis passenger yesterday morning. Mrs John Dupree and her little son guest in the city. Mrs Calvin of Edinburg in the city yesterday. Wells Essex of Kokomo passed through the city yesterday. Miss Franke Spurgeon returned home at Waynesville yesterday morning. Miss Cynthia Smith of Hartford City visits H M Campbell family. Mrs Lydia Armstrong of Edinburg spends yesterday with the Dodge family. Dan Stout and wife of Edinburg in the city. Mr Stout formerly lived nearby. Joseph Waffords from Ohio visits sister Mrs Darling of Orinoco. Mrs Frank Hogue returns from Terre Haute visit. Wm Knight, Frank Sater, Wm Shatto to be tried for disturbing the peace this afternoon. Rackett at Smoky Row Barracks last Tuesday night. Mr Wafford arrives to visit Rev D O Darling. Southbound train due 4:20 p m arrives with hot box. Journals removed, new ones placed, boxing cooled in minutes. Train delayed about ten minutes.
Our Mr. Turpin will oversee the carrier boys routes and collect on Saturday and Mondays. Route No. one led by Ed Hosea and Route No. 3 led by Ralph May will be collected on Monday. Route No. 2, by Edgar Abbott, and Route No. 4, by Chas. Foster, will be collected on Saturday. Please have your dime ready when Mr. Turpin calls.
The sick Mrs T G Quick is confined to bed two weeks in this city with grippe symptoms.
Public notice invites readers to obtain both the Indianapolis Weekly Journal and the Weekly Star for a combined one year subscription price of 1.50. The deal is presented as a single bundled offer with no further terms shown.
The Big Four Route via Chesapeake and Ohio Railway offers premier access to Washington for McKinley’s inauguration. From Chicago to Cincinnati and intermediate points, through palace sleeping cars from St. Louis and Indianapolis, with Wagner sleeping buffet parlor cars and dining cars.
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