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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1897
Page
4
Owens and Williams Real Estate advertises affordable home ownership with building loan options and prompt service. They promote weekly excursions to offer properties and urge interested buyers to contact for direct or loan terms.
A dense newspaper ad lists No 63 to 84 properties for sale or trade including six and four room houses, cottages, a sawmill, barns, land tracts ranging from 4 to 140 acres, and locations around Columbus Iowa county Brown County and Waynansville. Prices span 400 to 7000 with bargain cash options and trade offers.
Descriptions of rental houses including 1531 Washington street for 3.00, No 13 bakery and rooms with four living rooms near Reeves factory, No 14 four room cottage, No 31 seven rooms with summer kitchen on tenth street, No 34 four room cottage at First and Franklin, plus Maple Grove properties, sale price 1200, and money to loan offers. Our office can show other desirable real estate for sale trade or rent.
A social gathering at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Robertson in Orinoco hosted many local friends prior to their departure for Terre Haute. The evening included games, music, and taffy pulling with attendees listing a dozen or more local residents and neighbors. The notice also mentions an upcoming Percy Kendall illustrated lecture at the high school and a separate birthday gathering for Mrs. Chas. Sprague in Maple Grove.
The American Telephone and Telegraph Co has begun construction of a city line after securing a franchise to place poles and string wire. An office will open here and direct communication with the world will soon be possible. The city required unskilled labor be hired locally, creating many jobs.
A notice seeks a horse to keep through winter with good feed and care. It states the applicant will take splendid care of the animal and invites inquiries at the stated office.
Andy Becht and Henry Heckman located their firearms in the river following a near drowning incident on Wednesday. The Columbus STAR questions its own prominence as the city’s leading paper.
Louis Lehman, E F D Forest, Walter Pancake, Charles Maley and others were in the city yesterday. Dr Will McLeod and Dr Z T Hauser were northbound. Sheriff Cox heads south to prison. J A Newton and other locals traveled to Indianapolis. Maley sawmill paused for logs but ships lumber to London, Glasgow and eastern U S cities.
The Morning Star outlines a plan to recruit labor and donations to fund a factory drive in Columbus. It calls for 400–500 residents to donate a week’s work to secure $6000–$8000 in cash and attract manufacturers, stressing loyal civic effort to revive prosperity and stabilize rents and property values.
Columbus celebrates a new factory, the Western D Handle Co, at the Starch Works site on California Street and Cambridge tracks. The plant starts with about twenty workers and eight hundred cords of D handle timber, producing rough handles to be shipped to Muncie for finishing. A second local plant, Columbus Handle & Tool Co, employs nearly 100 workers, and both facilities will expand if demand grows.
Twenty four guests at a Misses Donner thimble party on Eighth and Chestnut streets helped mend stockings with holes about the size of a quarter. Miss May Stamp of Cassopolis and Miss Cooper won prizes as the evening's featured participants.
The Big Four Route offers the best facilities from Chicago, St. Louis, Peoria, Indianapolis, Terre Haute, LaFayette, Benton Harbor, Detroit, Toledo, Sandusky, Springfield, Dayton and intermediate points via Cincinnati. Palace Sleeping Cars from St. Louis and Indianapolis. The route is described as the most beautiful and interesting with Wagner Sleeping Cars, Buffet Parlor Cars, and Dining Cars. Tickets available via Big Four and C&O routes.
Merchandise ad touts bargains on Adies and Misses low shoes 66c, new goods bought this week not used, with items like child’s straight goat spring heel sold cheap. Store named J. At Newton 313 Washington St promotes one price cash shoe sales.
A Columbus boy named Joe Whitten received a letter from a New York firm claiming he is among the best auctioneers in the country and offering $300 per month to work for them. The writer vouches for Joe's selling ability.
J S Crump, a public spirited citizen, closed a contract with Ft Wayne Electric Corporation of Ft Wayne Indiana for a 1000 light dynamo through their agent H D Haring of Cincinnati Ohio. Crump chose the best machine on quality, not price, to equip his central electric light plant behind the Belvedere hotel for the latest lighting.
The Woman's Musical Club presented an entertaining program last night under the direction of Mrs. Gertrude Kerr Mrs. Levi Hege Miss Sallie Stansifer and Miss Belle Sargent. Each number was excellently rendered and a fair audience of music lovers attended.
A missing hermit mine prospector Ralph Cross is found dead under clay near Kilborne. his widow allegedly ran off with his fortune. A separate tale recounts Frank Everroad planning a pig tail lunch with helpers, later discovering the pig in stove pipe as a prank. Percy Kendall appears at a high school event Saturday night.
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