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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1897
Page
3
A jumble of names and ads appears with prize watch talk and notices. The Star promotes printing services by Kinney and Turpin. Various ads offer cheap dress goods at Meyer and Tiegenbaum. Letters praise Peruna remedies with testimonials from Mr Blanchard and others to encourage readers to request free almanacs.
Noblitt's announces closing out wallpaper items while Minnie Piercefield visits in Seymour. Great Cloak opens Monday at Meyer and Fiegenbaum's. The Courier Journal and Weekly Star clubbing deal offers one year for $1.25 with prepaid renewals. Excursion tickets to Florida via Southern Railway offered.
A community event showcases numerous local residents as participants in a kitchen range competition. Names listed include Mrs. Fred Ulrich and Mrs. Tom Hull among many others, with voter turnout noted and a lively, social atmosphere reported.
The Indianapolis Daily and Weekly Sentinel advertises broad coverage of McKinley era politics state government Republican control and foreign news with extensive dispatches. Subscriptions offered: Daily Weekly and Sunday editions with one year at six dollars, weekly one year at six dollars, Sunday at two dollars. based in Indianapolis Indiana.
The notice notes interest in the great southern exposition and outlines train routes to reach the city. It mentions the Bre Four line with through service from New York, Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Toledo, Sandusky, Chicago to Cincinnati, and connections with Q and C Route and L N Ry. Information is available upon request.
Bartholomew Circuit Court December Term 1897 docket No 3547 on Regina Keller versus James Keller asks non resident James Keller to appear. If he fails first day of next term December 13 1897 at Columbus Court House the complaint will be heard in his absence. Clerk George Werner. Attorney John W Morgan.
Jacob Chambers declares as a candidate for sheriff of Bartholomew County subject to the Republican nominating convention. He plans to publish candidate announcements in the paper at a rate of two dollars daily or weekly until after the convention.
The administrator of the Willard Mitchell estate will, by order of the Bartholomew County Circuit Court, sell 40 feet by parallel lines of the north side of lot 5 in George W. Cooper’s addition to Columbus at the east door of the courthouse between 9 am and 4 pm on October 30, 1897. Proceeds cover decedent debts and mortgage. terms: one third cash, six months, and twelve months with a note secured by approved surety. ACQUILLA MITCHELL, Adm’r. W. W. Lambert, Att’y.
A stiff frost greeted Saturday morning, a welcome relief for hay fever sufferers while the cold likely dampened outdoor plans and heated discussions about the seasonal shift.
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