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Newspaper
Connersville Times
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1906
Page
7
Public notice from Connersville Indiana involving Dr R F Elliott and Fleet National Bank Building. Details are unclear but reference to a banking building and contact lines appear.
Reports say Brownsville telephone exchange will be moved to Liberty and united with Liberty exchange under operator W H Hawkins. Other items note frequent moves, farm rentals, sales near Hagerstown, a death from Brights disease, and a Salvation Army march through town with music.
Mrs Dell Swift and children returned to Indianapolis last Monday. Many locals visited Brookville relatives last weekend and through the week including the Hayes and Snider families. Recital attendance by Anna Lopez at Bentley and visits among Swift, Jarrell, Ferris, Moore, and Harrell families marked a busy period in Blooming Grove.
Mrs Mary Funk and daughter Ines returned to Dublin after visiting Mrs Dr Mitchell. Miss Anna Loper led a church entertainment at Iveland church. W R Lake entertained the Reverend Hatiner at Bear Creek. Dukate family plans a move to Rocky Ford Colorado in October. Many locals visited relatives and attended church events while institutes and teaches gathered this week.
Locust Grove notes a cooler spell, visits among Berkhiser Pott Funk and Hamilton families, and Sunday services at Robinson Chapel. Local families gathering for meals, visits, and weekend activities plus a brief sick list and many friendly calls.
Mr and Mrs Frank Moore traveled to Cincinnati last Friday for an excursion taking in surrounding sites and returning the same day.
NULLTOWN NEWS reports visits and travel among Connersville residents including El Geer as guest of the Edwards, carload shipments to Cincinnati, and multiple from Ander son Brookview Fordham and others visiting relatives and friends in the area.
Mamie Keller visits home folks with Martha Thomas and hubs Thomas and Lillian Tingley visiting John Ludlow near Longwood. Several families, including Hackleman Irvin and Brumfel, are mentioned attending church, visiting Columbia and Connersville, with others traveling to Loveland Ohio and Chicago.
A local Alpine column lists residents attending the Brumfiel sale, births, and family movements. Names include Akersons, Stevens, Ochiltree, Whonae, Everette, Peterson, Reibolde, Lella Thomas, Gray, Chance, and Horton with relatives visiting from Cincinnati, Connersville, Linnet, and Gray Robinson.
John Brumfiel's sale attracted attention. Miss Lillian Tumlin, daughter of the South Land, visits her uncle Ernest Roberts and family. Lon Brumfiel and daughter Maude joined Mia for a Harrisburg trip. Mrs. Emily Sims visited, attended a Bentley recital, and church services before returning to Connerville.
Charles Stam dug a well for himself last week. Mrs. Minnie Thomas returns to Indianapolis after visiting her son Herbert Thames. A relative named William is mentioned by Thomas’s granddaughter in Harrisburg.
Mars and Herold Truster, Milton Brumfiel and Tom Gray attended a recital by Miss Anna Lopez at Bentley. Families visited Mt Zion and Marion Grubb's home. Ben Brumfiel joins a teachers institute this week. Mission Circle meeting at Mrs Mary A Cocke s home was well attended. Several visitors named. Dan Brumstel and wife with Mary Trusler and Harold Trusler dined with Fred Trusler after services at Bentley church. Free Fair preparations urged. Miss Marys Trusler visited Conn ersville before joining her grandmother Mrs Hester Roberts in Indianapolis. Emily Sims chaperones Bentley youths to Inter-State Universalist Assembly in IsLand Park Aug 31 Sept 7, returning for Free Fair. Mail carrier Ed Nave overturned near Null town bridge. caution urged not to tamper with Uncle Sam. end remarks quote civic slogans.
Columbia notes report the sale of Mr. McElphresh drawing a large attendance. Local residents Leola Thomas and family members, Lew Selby and wife, Charley Myers and wife, Clen and Cliff Selby, and others were mentioned visiting relatives or fishing. Mr. McElphresh's family plans to move to Kentucky next week.
Mrs Calvin Stevens visited relatives in Jay county last week. Miss Flora Johnson visits sister Mrs Everett Stevens northwest of Rushville. Families of C W Beaver Hez May and Everett Stevens spent Sunday with F M Johnson. Lyman Barnard and wife visited the Johnsons' parents in Franklin county. Folks are hooting, hunting truck and stuff to pile up for the Big Free Fair drawing neighbors' attention.
The evidence against Frank Rob bing charged with stealing a hand satchel from Mrs Emma McKaon s buggy Saturday was strong and Juanus Cates bound him over to court in the year 8800. No defense evidence was offered.
A Democratic state central committee meeting at the Grand hotel in Indianapolis aims to resolve the Third Indiana district split that has produced dual candidacies for Cox and Zenor. The dispute, rooted in a bitter factional feud since the district convention, could alter campaign dynamics and even affect Republican prospects.
In Tennyson Indiana on August 28 Mrs Nancy Brown aged sixty was struck and killed by an electric bolt while standing under a tree in her yard as a storm broke.
Havana reports government forces struck a telling blow against Guzman’s insurgents near Cienfuegos. Seventeen rebels killed, one gover nment casualty. Despite amnesty offers, Guerra’s 2000 stronghold in Pinar del Rio remains defiant with support from liberal factions and rugged terrain.
Two men found dead in a wagon with four mules near Kenna have been identified as Victor and Thomas Simpson brothers from farms near Lida. They were killed by lightning while driving from Roswell to their farm.
On a crowded street in Butte Montana August 28 Eli Sutherland a bartender shot and killed May Jackson an actress then killed himself in a quarrel filled scene. Sutherlands condition is critical. A crowd witnessed the shooting.
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