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Newspaper
Connersville Times
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1908
Page
5
The report records a mix of light social calls and travel between Metamora, Alpine, and nearby towns. Mercury registers zero, winter chill persists, and residents like Walter Neff and Sarah Iscumfiel suffer illness amid cold.
The column records illnesses and social visits across Falmouth and nearby areas. Notable items include John M. Harlan selling three White Rock cockerels, Mrs. Jane VanBuskirk hosting gatherings, and multiple family and school activities. Also mentions weather, a sick carrier on route seven, and various visits to relatives in Dublin and Connersville.
A local resident from the county announces plans to enter the poultry industry, signaling a shift to agricultural entrepreneurship and potential job creation in the area.
Sixteen passengers traveled from here to Connersville on Saturday. Several residents hosted relatives from Connersville including Will King and wife Agnes Perkins Lizzie Murray and others. Visits featured Dan King Charlie Jackson and Sherman Reed with varied returns and upcoming shipments of baled straw to Brookville.
A narrator suggests a persistent, radical wrongness still present, noting difficulty in locating the trouble or prescribing an effective remedy for it. The reflection centers on a vague social or moral malaise attributed to a figure labeled COUNTRY JAKE.
In Locust Grove the funeral of David S. Funk drew a large crowd last Friday. Various local residents and families, including the Lamberts, Funk family members, Emert and wife, and Dickson with James Hamilton's household, attended. Carl Jobe hosted, and Jobe sold a span of mules to J. E. Caldwell last week. Belle Layson is reported ill.
Grant Heck and wife visited Cambridge City. Freeman’s butchered the last of the season. Allen Chance missed school due to illness. Several families and pupils are mentioned with absences, visits, and social events amid a late blizzard and local church and lodge activities.
Mrs. Chas. Moffett spent Tuesday with Mrs. Willison Alexander Jr. Mrs. Ola Davis was in town. Miss Celia Rents spent last Friday afternoon with Mrs. Alice Worshat. Robert Cheneworth visited Sunday. Willams and Dam M Bumdscottt went to Indianapolis with three car loads of hops. Mrs. Kane Sparts and Miss Norzela Fibiott spent Monday afternoon with Mrs. Reader Wind Kissie. Frank Roots visiting from Montana. Mrs. Maude Williams spent Friday and Saturday with their mother.
Winter arrives with cold snaps as Mt. Zion plans next Sunday preaching by Ground Plog. Illness sweeps Tilton Callahan and family with pneumonia. About sixteen candidates for election will be deft at the touts. Six weeks likely for the shadowed return if seen. Last weekend marked the coldest days of the winter.
Edward Grimme starts a new telephone line at No 4 am 576 while Green Bros sell goods. Arthur Moffatt hauled wood last week for winter and Mrs W Hie Chenoweth suffers from grippe. February forecasts spark talk of a lucky candidate and winter fears. Elmer Bingi of White Water Chapel visits the area as cold weather looms.
Meeting at UB church did not begin as planned and likely will be held next Monday night. Ross Hgwalee recovering from powder explosion injury while hunting. Miss Ion Stevens of Rush counts visiting brother Claton Savers. Jose Garner traveled Alpine to Laure last Saturday. Mrs Nathan thing visited Mrs Nettie Stowell Tuesday. Googe W Leonard and wife from Orange visited sister Mrs W T Meek. Rev A J Brook's son suffers with illness. Little daughter of Mrs Anna Henn seriously ill. Helen Meek indisposed recently.
Everton residents Clare Gate and Maude Gate of Connerville visited their parents in Everton from Friday to Sunday. One frost nipped the flowers in town during the trip.
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