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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1897
Page
4
The ad for Columbus tailor Lienberger emphasizes tailored clothing and a superb selection of Spring woolens. It invites customers to have their wardrobes created from suitings that suit their appearance, underscoring custom tailoring and quality fabrics.
The item notes Die Msch dying of lagripe and July 3 celebrations in McKinneys Grove north of Lovkta. It mentions Dr. Ralphy and Jolly Jerry Cook returning from Salt Creek with fishing tackle, Willard Fulks tending a garden, Ben Clark's residence being painted, Rev. Frank Martin’s address for Pioneer's Fourth, and various local residents traveling or changing trades.
Catawba phosphate is among new beverages at Stahlhuths Fountain. Mrs Laura A de Garmo promotes a patent female pill claiming safety for 10 000 women. An upcoming Cincinnati excursion on May 16 offers a one dollar round trip from Columbus Indiana to Cincinnati with baseball and zoo attractions.
A vivid pomorama on kidney dangers is shown in Noblitt's store window drawing attention. At Stahlhuths fountain other plates are made palatable to all tastes while City Steam Laundry offers shirt waists that look new.
Gordon Davis and wife arrived from Louisville for a visit. Silverman's offers special low prices on millinery and summer dress goods while Silverman's bargain store markets silk mitts corsets and 10 and 5 cent items. The Fashion Restaurant serves meals all day. Buck Robinson traveled to Madison yesterday. A business man went fishing after a late prayer meeting at Tabernacle led by Bro Sweeney. Little Ralph McLeod, injured by a feed cutter, was treated by Dr. McLeod. Ed Hammond of 1110 North Segamorest damaged his left hand loading logs at the Handle Factory, removing him from work temporarily.
Joe Graham and family attended a Saturday night commencement with about five hundred attendees. T. F. McCabe traveled to Indianapolis on business. J. J. Jones has a new road wagon. Children’s day events are planned at the Christian and M. E. churches for June. Decoration day services set for 2 PM at the M. E. church. The Columbus Democrat backs Percifield for Congress, praising silver advocacy and contrasting him with bankers. Nazareth reference and local notices conclude the report.
Prices for grains and forage list Wheat at 4e per bushel Corn 22c per bushel Oats 20e per bushel Timothy hay baled 9.50 per ton loose 9.00 Clover baled 8.00 loose 7.50 English clover seed 3.25 per bushel red clover seed 3.25 per bushel Cattle 2.50 to 4 per hundred Hogs 3.50 to 3.10 per hundred Horses 5 to 100 per head Chickens 12c per lb hens 5c per lb leghorns 2c per lb Ducks 5e7 per lb Turkeys 5c per lb Eggs 60 per dozen Lard 5c per lb Flour 2.60 per 100 lb Brand 65c per 100 lb.
A group of prominent farmers in Versailles Kentucky inaugurates a mammoth farmers trust to regulate winter wheat prices across Kentucky Tennessee Indiana and other states A convention in Louisville is set for July 1 to form the organization Farmers promise to starve out buyers until living prices are secured as 1846 crop exhausted.
In Chattanooga on May 25 the body of George W. Steele was stolen from a cemetery near Bridgeport Alabama. Medical students are suspected. Steele stood seven feet six inches tall and was described as a physiological wonder. He arrived from Canada last week and died after a drunken spree.
Two young women appeared at the Wichita Kansas courthouse offering free shines with every purchase, drawing many men with romance in mind. County officials watched as they polished magistrates and clerks, drawing laughs and curious glances from onlookers.
In Marshfield Wisconsin Harsufield boys found a coffee pot in a stump containing a 1850 Upper Bank of Canada copper coin a dated 181% Spanish coin a dubious Georgia claim for nine pounds Sterling from 1786 and a claim against Georgia for £25 plus counterfeit plate sheets. Also described is a seven pound 18 inch long church key from London’s Temple church tied to medieval origins.
A wealthy but unlearned man ingratiates himself with literary guests and hopes for fine arts status after hosting a party. A guest praises a poet’s epigram at dessert revealing the man’s lack of real literary talent. He ends up humiliated when his own attempts fall short.
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