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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1897
Page
3
The page lists names such as Beryl May T Hy Kaiser Emma Ping Ollie Smith Susie Wilson Ed Jones Walter Waltman and others in a voter tally. It also includes small ads for printing services from Kinney & Turpin and subscription offers for the Weekly Star Courier Journal and Meyer & Jegenbaum’s dress goods sale.
The Jeffersonville district Epworth League schedules its district meeting in Columbus on November 6. Meyer & Fiegenbaum announce a silk sale and cloak opening this week. J. C. M. Kellar & Co. expects to finish the Edinburg light plant by November 1 and then engage in wiring stores and residences for three to four weeks.
John Simmons sued John Talkington with judgment entered for the plaintiff. Noah Wilson challenged H Langden and Co before a jury, which after argument retired and returned a verdict for the defendant.
C M Kellar and Co secure a large contract at the Mooney tannery to install 12 water closets 24 wash stands and 24 urinals in the main buildings. The upgrade aims to make the tannery the most complete of its kind. George Oberlander resigns from Kitzingers due to failing health after years as bartender. Two Saint Bernard dogs named Corbett and Fitzsimmons sighted in the city belong to Frank Killispie of Middletown Ohio. A local shoe firm rebuttal accuses competitors of false statements while J A Newton’s 321 One Price Cash Shoe Store remains active. Kinney Kinney Insurance reports growth and a broad company lineup.
Elwood’s Catholic community will begin construction of a new cathedral next summer with a project cost of about $50,000. The parish already reports $10,000 in the building fund.
Bartholomew Circuit Court notices Regina Keller versus James Keller No 3547. defendant nonresident. Plaintiff’s complaint asks for divorce and child custody. appearance required the second Monday of December 1897 at Columbus Court House. Clerk George Werner seals the notice. attorney John W Morgan.
Eager readers get a scrambled roll call of names including Mrs. Fred Ulrich Mrs. Tom Hull Mrs. Chas Jones and Mrs. Mode Smith among others. E. A. Williams of near Hope visits his daughter Mrs John Pherigo in this city.
Mrs. Mike Lewis, ill for some time, is much improved and up part of the day. Mrs. Joe Daniels, previously quite sick, was better yesterday. Beecher Flora's daughter, with typhoid fever, not as well yesterday. Mrs. Dickey of Tenth and Union Street remains quite sick with typhoid. A child of Mr and Mrs Mitchell is quite sick.
Notices indicate future candidate announcements will be published in the paper until after the convention for two dollars daily or weekly.
Schluer and Foulkes, in Terre Haute Indiana, assigned after securing chattel mortgages totaling nine thousand dollars. The loans were shared by Schluer’s father and Foulkes’s brother. Also report from Alicemon t Indiana of William Gray farm hand suicide by hanging with a log chain near Dover.
The administrator of Willard Michell's estate announces a private sale at the east door of the Bartholomew County courthouse in Columbus Indiana. Sale between 9 am and 4 pm on October 30 1897 covers forty feet by fifty feet of land on the north side of George W Cooper's addition to the city to satisfy debts including a mortgage to The Citizens Building and Loan Association and taxes. Terms: one third cash one third in six months and one third in twelve months with a note and approved surety. ACQUILLA MITCHELL Adm W W LAMBERT Att'y.
Advertisement promotes Cascarets candy cathartic as a remedy for constipation and offers a refund if it fails to cure, with quantities 100 or 256 and a two cent price mention.
The Twice-a-Week Corner Journal and the Courier Journal and Weekly Star join in a one year club at 1.25. Renewing subscribers who pay in advance or new subscribers who prepay receive the combined paper offer. Sample copies sent free on application. Mail to Columbus Morning Star Columbus Ind. Kingy and Turpin.
An accident and sickness benefit advertised by Kinney and Kinney offers small premiums payable monthly.
Excursion tickets to Florida and other Southern resorts are now on sale via the Southern Railway from Louisville and Cincinnati in connection with the Queen and Crescent Route. Best routes and schedules available from the Asst. Gen'l Pass Agt, Southern Railroad Co, Louisville, Ky.
Sashville Tenn Ma Islatro reports widespread interest in the Great Southern Exposition. Applications pour in to reach the event by the best routes. Era Four offers through trains from New York Boston Buffalo Cleveland Columbus to Cincinnati and from Detroit Toledo Sandusky toward Cincinnati. Direct connections extend to Louisville with the pe and COR.
The Sentinel, Indiana’s largest circulation, promises extensive coverage of McKinley’s administration, state government under Republicans, and foreign news. Readers are urged to subscribe for daily, weekly, and Sunday editions with dispatches from across the state and foreign countries.
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