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Newspaper
Connersville Curier
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1900
Page
3
The note asserts that Krausses Liquid Extract of Smoke preserves meat as effectively as the hazardous traditional smoking method, implying a safer alternative with comparable preservation results. The claim contrasts modern product use with old smoking practices, suggesting similar flavor and longevity without explicit testing details.
James Rodman suffered a broken arm after falling from a load of wood last week. Mrs. J. Dimmitt hosted a large gathering with guests including Marshall Blacklege, J. P. Thrasher, Ed Noble, and Roy Wikoff. Albert Wikoff visits relatives. Anna Kindle returns from Chicago. Edith Stea and Agnes Stevens dined with Edna Caldwell. Miss Sweetman from Chicago visits Mrs. Roga and Mrs. Kindle. Josie Fry returns from Rushville. M. E. church meeting continues. Sam Kea arrives from Rushville to install a telephone at the Post Office. Cary Jackson’s return boosts business. Roy Alzeno seen Monday evening. Teachers visit Greeneburg schools. Mrs. Sam Kirk improving. See Wrightia ill with la grippe. Russell and Nevina Barker recovered fully from a brief illness.
Bentonville reports visitors and visits from Fairview Greensbury Indianapolis and Cambridge City. A ten year old boy Charley Sloniker dies of heart trouble and is buried in Bentonville cemetery. Local gatherings feature Miss Lena Mgelean New Castle and a party at Rose Rusk’s west of town. News notes mention horsemen at Indianapolis sales and Emory Manlove butchering last week.
Local notices report Miss Collie Lewis returning from Indianap olis after a pleasant visit. Mack Saxon is convalescing. Dave Jeffries suffers typhoid fever with Dr Rea of Falmouth attending. Charlie Robinson begins work with a Connersville railroad. Rhiny Higley and Bony Baker depart for Jonesboro on business. Other local notes include Fairview teachers visiting Richmond and efforts to establish a K P Lodge at Falmouth.
Henry Truster and family visited his father Milton Truster of East Connersville last Monday. Mrs Clyde Campbell visits Egypt Hill, while Mrs Riley Grist has improved and returned home last Sunday. Charley Scheisz and sister hosted a select dance last Saturday night for many friends. Connersville Courier solicitor Geo Walker visited farmers last Friday. Elisha Myer hustles straw before plowing for corn. Clem Grist and wife visited their daughter Mrs Walter Fields on Ely's Creek. Abram Wagoner shows health improvement. Dr Linegar of Fairfield handles a case. Clem Grist and family visited, Miss Lena Hose from near Liberty stayed with her parents. Aunt Eliza Hughes, northeast of here, is in poor health. Lena Rose and Alpha Griet visited Miss Dina Wilson near Blooming Grove. Clem Grist slaughtered porkers last Monday. Mrs Samuel Goble visited her daughter Mrs Carl Grist. Charley McWhorter and wife plan to move to a new home in the near future in Hibben Trusler's former house. Sol Hoagland and wife plan to spend weeks with her parents Louis Schelaz and wife and may relocate to Connersville soon. Mrs Ed Abernathy, ill with multiple ailments, is said to be somewhat better. Misses Jesse and Tina Campbell near Liberty visited their parents Theo Campbell and wife last weekend.
Fayette Circuit Court commissioner announces private sale of real estate in Fayette County Indiana the southeast quarter of Section 3 Township 13 Range 13 East on January 31 1900 from 10 am to 4 pm at McKee Little Frosts law office Connersville with one third cash and balance in two equal notes secured by mortgage 6 percent interest and option to pay more than one third early Other text references standard books sale by B Young surplus stock and unrelated items appear in the fragment.
A vivid brisk Agate-style column notes residents visiting and illness. Ada Brumfiel in Union County, Ida Eskew in East Connersville, Frank and Mrs Stafford of Alpine. Ben Brumfiel’s coat of paint, Jane Logan’s funeral at Alpine. Philippine letters from Oran Perkins’s sons, spring talk and community deaths.
Mrs Jane Logan died January 18 of liver trouble at her son's home east of Alpine. Funeral January 21 at Alpine church led by Rev Wines of Glenwood, burial in Webb Cemetery. Aunt Jane leaves many warm friends and relatives. Also notes small local items and a rent notice for four acres with a five room house near Garrison.
Mrs Jane Logan aged about 77 a Fayette County pioneer died at her home in Jackson To Friday after a liver trouble. Funeral held at Alpine Christian Church Sunday at ten. Rev Wines of Glenwood preached a fine sermon. Burial in Webb cemetery. Attending were Miss Josephine Handly from Indianapolis and many local relatives. Separate notice reports the death of Mrs McMunn formerly Anna Kershner of Columbia Township. She died in Chicago Jan 6 after liver trouble. Funeral was in Hartaville Ind Jan 8. she leaves husband and infant son, mother and sister. Gillett Gordon of this city is a cousin.
Bunkerhail E E Paria starts eleven chicken yards on his poultry farm. Miss May Michener visited grandmother Mrs Eliza Michener. Rev J M Wines delivered a Sunday sermon driving from Alpine to the appointment. George Brown is indisposed. Esie Williams has been sick but is improving. Milt Larimore visited Sunday School and walked home. Wheeler Davis and family shared bread with Billy Banker. Ed Michener bought a new feed grinder to crush calf feed for visitors. A local young man has business at Glenwood on Sunday evenings.
Anna Chilcoat born 1809 in Lantington County Pennsylvania married Richard Baker. She lived in Indianapolis and Connersville in business and church service before illness led to retirement. Died December 18 in Indianapolis aged ninety years, nine months, and sixteen days. Buried December 19 with two daughters six grandchildren and two great grandchildren surviving.
Geo Walker, on the Connersville Courier staff, will conduct an evening bookkeeping school in the city this winter. With over ten years of teaching and practice experience, he will provide strong testimonials. Address Geo Walker Connersville Courier City.
Mary A Williams sells at public auction on her farm 34 miles southeast of Glenwood Ind on Tugspay January 30 1900. Items include farm wagon break wagon open buggy two horse cultivators bar plow sulky plow and many other farm tools. Sale starts at 1 o clock P M. General clearance.
An advertisement lists multiple farm parcels for sale including 80 acres for 800 dollars and 170 acres for 2000 dollars. It also notes several improved tracts ranging from 29 to 185 acres with prices up to 4500 dollars and mentions sellers W. E. Deniltree and Louis A. Quenzer of Falmouth.
The notice lists daily trains and schedules for the C. H. & D. Railway with eastbound and through connections. It names specific trains, vestibule and accommodation services, and times between Chicago Cincinnati St Louis and other connections. Officials Waldo Edwards and traffic associates offer ticketing and rate information from Indianapolis Indiana.
A 1900 era editorial urges readers to study the Cincinnati Enquirer for facts about trusts and government. It argues party lines blur, warns of powerful trusts spending millions to mislead, and predicts McKinley era policies will affect the nation. The piece frames the press as essential to discerning truth and safeguarding the republic.
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