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Newspaper
Connersville Times
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1902
Page
6
Notice reminds that all correspondence must reach the office by Monday evening to ensure publication. The item sets a single deadline for submission to appear in the newspaper.
Local notices report residents visiting friends in Alpine and Waterloo. References include Illnesses, school plans, a move to Franklin county, voting loyalties, farming plans, and weather. Names include John Mutney Fred Bunzen dahl Elizabeth Perkins Oren Perkins Obas Neva Turner and John Dougherty among others.
Riverside district reports two more weeks of school and upcoming trips. Claude Trusler and wife and Carl Elliott plan to attend Danville school while Maude Brumtiel and Nellie Grabb visit Harrisburg for closing exercises. Carl ElliottRecent school closure included a big dinner with Milton Trusler visiting Bentley area. Uriah Smallwood has been ill for a week and Maude Trusler remains weak after typhoid. William Hall of Everton visited, and Andrew Patterson of Fiverton rode with Richard Rowe. Reverend Hedges and Enos attended Mt. Yoon for Sunday service amid cold. Orternlo Moth and wife left for Everton with parents Oran Perking.
An ad from Connersville markets new line clothing at cut rates with young men’s suits advertised. It claims prices well below regular stores and promotes Cheviot fabrics and similar materials as high value options.
A living ghost is reported near the T. J. Custer farm as a committee of young men investigates claims of eerie screeches and a neglected cemetery on the property. An investigation is planned to uncover details of the haunting.
The Fairview township announces school closures this Friday as teachers and students prepare for final exams. Names of graduates and staff, including Misa Daisy Saxon and Ernest Jeffery, are noted amid plans for graduation and future studies at Marion Normal and Marsham College.
Various brief items report sales by residents G B Carr and Dan Lewin to local buyers, phone service updates in Indiana Mutual, social visits by Fairview Luxury and the Singing Club, home moves including Crouch family to Benson Station, Brook Legg and wife becoming Cambridge City residents, and town events such as revival services at Alquina led by Bro Martin.
Eight pupils completed eighth year graduation exams with tough questions in history and arithmetic. Ten students took geography along with a portion of the high school exam. Mr. Chance moved his store across from the post flies and plans to expand stock with farming implements. W D Chance visited Connersville on Monday to sit on the jury. Mrs Chas Ferguson visited the intermediate rooms Thursday afternoon. The village faced a hobos outbreak Friday morning with five calling on townhousewives and taking booty. Horsemen attended a Cambridge City horse sale last week.
The fragment mentions maple molasses tastings at S. H. Helen and hints at social entertaining guidance. It also reports a Connersville man, Widdows, 44, involved in a riding accident with a horse, describing injuries and consequences in a garbled OCR passage.
Alpine residents note visits from Charlie Limpus of Connerville and others, Miss Forts from near Columbia, Rev Shrontz from Fayetteville preached, families attended church and social baskets filled school term closed by O R Perin with a surprise and talk. Mr and Mrs John Lewis and John Hiers family guests.
The writer affidavits that the capon from the May RK Poultry Plant surpasses other fowls in taste and texture. The white meat is tender and can be carved easily, with dark meat rivaling young pork. The bird’s quality justifies a higher price, and sale details note availability at TR Nave's grocery. Evangelist G W Shane schedules temperance talks at multiple Fayette county sites in late March and April.
Fragmented notes describe Londoner lineage and registry details, referencing Volumn X41 and various names, sires, and prices. The text mentions FIRS PAM and Sunline DUNt, with references to breeding and sale events at locations like Mitwood and Pataeagey Way.
Description notes Londoner will stand at Isaac Ammer mants Livery Stable Liberty Union County Indiana during April May June and July and the balance of the sexsmen at Mirplewood Steek Farm where many of his colts can be seen.
A heavy windstorm hit Rushville on Saturday midnight damaging the postoffice roof and forcing debris to Alger & Grays roller mill engine shed. George F L Moore's greenhouse lost glass panes and boiler houses reported damage with trees and fences down. Damages estimated around 500 dollars. FOWL reports say roofs were stripped and signs of storm activity, though no thunder was recorded.
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