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Newspaper
Connersville Curier
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1900
Page
4
Connersville Indiana weekly Courier notes January 11 1900 items include residents on sick lists visits to Liberty Indianapolis and Dayton engagements and weddings at Grand Avenue M E Church and Maplewood local business ads for sewing machines breehing machines and groceries plus notices of baptisms births and a theatre promotion Finnigan's 400 touring Andre's Theatre and Shoup family updates with recent bereavements and illnesses.
The bereaved express heartfelt thanks to friends and neighbors for kindly assisting during their bereavement. Rupert Franklin and Faniy. Subscribe for The Courier.
Henry Jermain visited the capital on business. Rev Hedges leads a revival with Edwards presiding elder. Old Mr Hayes of Duck Creek buried. funeral at Blooming Grove with Brookville interment. Stella Wyman to Tiberty then Arlington. Mrs Seeley shopping in Connersville. Miss Rowe hosts a taffy pull for Epworth League.
Earnest Miss Leota Watt and Miss Stella Watt Of Wayne County spend Wednesday with Mattie Frant. Fred Hurst returns to Purdue University after a week with his parents. Mrs Rollins and daughter host seven ladies for dinner. Jas Hamilton and family visit John Jobe's household. Mrs Mattie Fiant and Grace Christman visit Grace's sister Mrs Robert Henry. Sylvia Fiant visits Lyons Station relatives. Green Brothers buy one thousand bushels of corn from Horace Hurst this week. Abe Troxel and wife host a large crowd for a turkey dinner. Mrs Court Troxel and her son were sick last week. Items are as scarce as hens teeth in this neighborhood.
A collected ad lists 80 to 2214 acres of farms for sale including 80 acres well improved at 800, 176 acres with two houses and two barns at 2100, 183 acres improved at 84500, 100 acres at 1600, and additional parcels from 10 to 176 acres with prices ranging from 600 to 14000, plus a location note near First Stateway north of Turkenkopf Cigar Store.
An ad urges replacing quinine with a mild stomach and bowel medicine to cleanse the system and hasten a cold’s departure. It promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin in 10c, 50c, and $1 sizes sold by Ward Jemison.
Mrs. Robert Howe of Cottage Grove formerly College Corner died Tuesday after brain fever. Mrs. E. C. Wright is feeble with faint recovery hopes. College Corner ladies held a grand ball to honor local young men. Eight year old Chas Bates Jr. died of diphtheria. Mrs. A. D. Hawley, 75, died last week and was laid to rest in Oxford with Rev. J. C. Warnock presiding. community mourns her loss.
Miss Ella Heizer returned to the city last Monday after visiting her parents. Bro Richardson preached to a large crowd last Sunday. Miss Jennie Perkins visiting school in Connersville spent Sunday with her parents near Nalltown. Allie Larimore and Doll Seals of Alpine attended church here Sunday. Mrs Charles Thomas spent Saturday with Mrs Jane Logan on East Side. Mrs Wing Bunzencahl, long ill, died at her home south of Alpine Sunday evening. Funeral at the house Wednesday morning. Chas Sutton and wife visited their parents nearby Sunday. Mrs Allen remains very ill at home. David Updike moved his family from Nulltown to Windfall’s place. Mrs Haynes and Mrs Marsh Hughes had a buggy wreck returning from Mr Horton’s last Thursday evening. Mrs Jare Martin shopped in Connersville Saturday. John Wines was in Shelbyville last Monday and Tuesday.
Meta Chance is out of school due to sickness. High school boys enjoyed football last week on excellent field. Harvey Beeson from Indianapolis visited his parents at Christmas. Mrs James Hunt and Misa Lianie Knapp visited in New Lisbon over the weekend.
Mrs. James Steele returns from Maplewood after a week with her parents. Dan McCann, a typhoid fever patient, has been deemed out of danger. Miss Cecile Steele attends Edith Dane’s Maplewood party. Friends surprise Mrs. W. T. McFerrin with a dinner and weigh-ins show average 136 pounds. Isaac Jobe family visits Randolph County relatives. Dell Vincent of Hamilton visits Aunt Rachel McKee.
Local Bentonville notes sickness and school absence. Sermons in Milton praise the Ten Virgins theme. Kate Cook hosts a party for Pearl Morris from Indianapolis. Saw mill activity boosts Bentonville business. Murray and Mack vaudeville act arrives at Andre Theatre with a 30 member company delivering comedy and specialties.
Joe Ainsley moves to LYE Street and promises one of the finest stocks of spring suitings in the city. Buyers are urged to view the collection before ordering for the season.
James Ochiltree and Chae Davis traded horses Friday and a neighbor can expect help from James any time. PF Bilby’s new barn nears completion in the old fashioned mortised style with redwood shingles. Mike Hylands contemplates moving to Cincinnati. J T Worsham visited his sister in law Mrs M Worsham Sunday. Charley Fleming enjoys lively times with local folks. Representing thirty six insurance companies Charley Weed is present in the area. Emmett Frees of Muncie visits his sisters Mrs John Burris and Mrs Chas Holland. Rev Richardson preached to a small Sunday congregation. Jas Ochiltree Sr attended OU PA Church at Glenwood. Harvey Painter visits relatives this week. Jesse Clawson and family visit John Burris family. Lena Burris visits Lizzie Waters. Cuas Holland and Edwin Michener hauled several loads of frozen waters from Williams Creek last week.
The advertisement notes Math bread by C We Wieberberg at 6th St and Central Ave as the city’s sole agent. He also offers oysters and other styles. Winter clothing can be taken to the Dye Works at 1616 Central Ave Frazee, phone 18 low.
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