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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1897
Page
3
Total votes received up to this date appear amid a jumble of names and ad text. The fragment lists voters such as J H Atiser E J Williams Emma Ping Olive Smith Sue Wilson Ed Jones and others alongside business card and retailer promotions for printing services and clothing sales.
Excursion tickets to Florida and other Southern resorts are on sale via Southern Railway from Toursville to Cincinnati in connection with the Queen & Crescent Route. Southern Railroad Co advertises best routes and schedules. Prices and goods offered have merit. substitutes are uncertain. Get what you ask for and take nothing else.
A lively program tagged An Avalanche of Fun features Delmore and Wilson and a cast including Al Westén Wm Ahearn John Waller Abe Levi John Stevens H F Weeks Harry Graham Alice Hanson Sadies Miner Ellie Countis May Countis Lena Waller Annie Patrick May Le Grand with seats on sale at Otto's starting Thursday evening.
A list of participants and names appears for a local event titled Good Natured Competition. The document mentions Mrs Fred Ulrich along with several other women including Mrs Fred Kollemeyer Mrs Tom Hull Mrs Chas Jones Mrs Lee Loy Albert Owens Tandy Tooley Oliver Ong and others, indicating a community gathering or fair with multiple attendees and organizers. References to various individuals, possible scores or notes and a mix of partial phrases suggest a social or club notice listing participants and contributors for the event.
See New York styles in Cloaks Monday next at Meyer Fiegenbaums. 351s1 Mrs. Sam Jackson has gone to Columbus for a visit. Frenklin Star Mrs. Doc Clark near Columbus visited friends here last Saturday. The Flatrock Canning Company shut down for the season with known production totals and shipments. Insurance agents Deforres and Penfield met Kinney Kinney in the city. Special clubbing offer for Twice-a-week Courier Journal and the Weekly Stark with Columbus Morning Star subscriptions.
Frank Gilbert contractor is excavating and building a cement walk on the west side of Mechanic street between Third and Fourth as part of a local business brief.
The notice urges immediate paving along the east side of the railroad square to complete Mechanic street walks. It argues the railroad company should not be exempt from duty, and requests council action at the next meeting to lay cement and treat all taxpayers equally. It also advertises Accipent and Sick Benefit insurance through Kinney and Kinney.
Announced in the M. H. C. Society gathering Miss Grace Price received warm wishes and several presents at her birthday celebration. Hosts served refreshments late, and friends departed hoping she would enjoy many happy returns.
The administrator of Willard Mitchell deceased announces a private sale at the east courthouse door in Columbus Bartholomew County Indiana between 9 am and 4 pm on October 30 1897. The property is 40 feet by parallel lines on the north side of lot 5 in George W Cooper's addition and will satisfy the decedent debt 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 the buyer providing a note and approved surety. ACQUILLA MrreneniL Adm W W Lampert Att.
Vincent Thompson announces candidacy for City Marshals office subject to Republican primary. James Burk enters race for county clerk under GOP nominating convention. Jacob Chambers declares sheriff bid in Bartholomew County, pending Republican convention. Advertisements for future candidate notices run daily or weekly at $2.
The Sentinel touts its wide circulation and comprehensive coverage of national and Indiana state news under McKinley administration. It urges readers to subscribe to the Daily and Weekly editions and mentions ample foreign updates and state government under the Republican party.
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