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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1902
Page
1
News notelets recount visits and business in Danville and surrounding towns with remarks on weather, sales, and social events. Leary mentions Levi Lever Attica and J W Craig Richland visiting. Loebs Stores feature lace curtains and Sweet Orr overalls. Dennis seeds and Dochterman's meats promoted. mayoral and Republican events cited. multiple residents travel to Indianapolis Pana and Oklahoma.
Mrs Maud Simms visits from Moberly Missouri and is described as a daughter of William Cox and a former Covington resident.
Local shop offers a selection of coffees canned goods sugar rice and tobacco products. Store branding includes Lay ton and B Island with price emphasis and neighborhood convenience.
Covington faces a bold electric railway project through Troy Township and the county. Officials promise rapid progress with a small subsidy, predicting a population and tax base boom, job growth, and broader trade once the line opens. Local leaders urge unanimous support to fund bridges, power plant, and car barns.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. church will meet in the church parlors at 2 p.m. Thursday May 1. All are invited to attend.
If you want the highest price for your wool, take it to M Herzog. He made Covington the best market in Indiana.
An aged Coal Creek resident Eugene Norville died at his home Saturday evening. Funeral services were held Monday. Obituary will appear later.
Night watcher Sam Simmerman nabbed a young man named Obne Carroll of Logansport after he followed the suspect from a train to the Rinn residence alley in Carroll. Carroll claimed innocence, said he was thirsty, and was held for developments as investigators probe possible prior burglaries and motives.
Deputy Prosecutor C M McCabe and Court Reporter L D Patton visited Wallace on Tuesday and Wednesday to round up George Pearson amid strong evidence he operated an unlicensed pool hall and sold beer and whisky under the guise of soft drinks. McCabe aims to expose the scheme and push for Pearson's conviction.
The opening game of the season will be at the city ball park on Sunday. Danville brings its best team to test the Leaders and show them the way. Merryman and Harmony will be battery. First pitch scheduled for 3 o clock.
Attica Ledger recalls a bunco scheme where two strangers posed as Cincinnati implement dealers and staged a hold up using a tin cash box. A Tangier man and a local marksman were duped, cashing an $800 loss after a staged card game and a false gold brick ruse.
In the case Palin et al vs Robt Voliva Guardian the habeas corpus sought possession of the ward. The Supreme Court affirmed the lower court to sustain Voliva’s premises. J B Martin served as the city’s attorney in the proceedings.
Dan Waymire shares a cut slab from a hickory log on Peter Sibrell’s Independence area farm, cut about thirty years ago. The log is fully petrified with clear ax marks and grain where it split, the bark remains visible. The piece measures about eighteen by twelve inches and weighs around fifty pounds.
A small blaze was discovered at 2 30 PM Monday at the residence of Samuel H Ward six miles northeast of town. The rear porch caught fire and burned through its lining but was quickly extinguished by Jerry Hill before the wind carried it further. The Ward family was away.
Tax assessors urge residents to prepare lists of taxable property before arrival. Citizens are reminded to have funds ready to pay dog tax when assessed.
Mrs Earnest Poindexter daughter of Julian Martin of this city died at her home in Glenwood Virginia after telegram summoned Julian to her side. Remains were brought here Tuesday afternoon and funeral services led by Rev Fowler at the Presbyterian church with interment in Prescott Grove cemetery under the Order of Eastern Star. She was well known in Covington where her girlhood home was. A longer notice will follow next week.
Community shoppers explore J P Price’s Notion store offering diverse goods from home essentials to curiosities. The new shop emphasizes variety and value as customers browse aisles and compare prices.
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