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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1911
Page
8
A farmer writes that mail order houses capture $1000 monthly from the country, arguing home merchants fail to advertise prices and must publish information in local papers. He says readers want price and quality details, and merchants should use home papers to communicate value to customers. He concludes buyers care about product quality and price, not shop color or stock size.
The Trustee of Troy Township Fountain County Indiana proposes for the next year’s expenditures and tax levies by the Advisory Board at its annual meeting to be held at the Trustee’s office.
On September 5 1911 at 9 am estimates and amounts for the paid year include Township Expenditures 1813.23 with 16 cents tax per hundred dollars Local Tuition Expenditures 2493.69 with 22 cents tax Local Special School Expenditures 1818.23 with 16 cents tax Road Expenditures 2837.50 with 25 cents tax Additional Road Expenditures 908.61 with 3 cents tax Poor Expenditures 289.14 with tax per hundred dollars. Total expenditures 9955.41 and total tax levy 87 cents per hundred. Township grand total 1 135 740. polls 145. Charles A Brown trustee Covington Ind August 2 1911.
The City School Board reorganized at a general meeting Tuesday morning. H. C. Yount was elected President, M. Mayer became Secretary succeeding Dr. A. B. Carter, and Challen Spinning was chosen Treasurer. Mayor McGeorge and Frank Foust families are vacationing at Portland Arch.
First Presbyterian Church announces the concluding discourse in the History of the Presbyterian Church series to be given at the morning worship hour. The evening service moves to the Methodist church with Rev Mater preaching. Bible School at 10. Morning worship at 11. C E Society 6 30. Evening worship 7 30. Mid week service Thursday 7 30. Choir rehearsal Saturday 7 00. A light local rain Saturday.
The Trustee of Van Buren Township Fountain County proposes yearly expenditures and tax levies for 1912 at the Trustee's Veedersberg office on September 5 1911 at 9 30 A M. Items include Township expenditures 2970 tax 24 cents per hundred Local Tuition expenditures 3123 tax 25 cents Special School Tax expenditures 409 tax 45 cents Road tax expenditures 3010 tax 3 cents Additional Road Tax expenditures 1203 tax 10 cents Library expenditures 129 tax 1 cent Poor expenditures 601 tax 5 cents Total expenditures 17092 total tax 140 cents per hundred. Taxables total 1 239 265 including land improvements 742 160 personal property 210 395 railroads etc 286 710 net taxabl e property 1 203 400 polls 260. Signed Guy Haas Trustee. Dated August 2 1911.
In Harper’s Weekly the tale explains how ropemaking shifted from handcraft to machinery. John Good designed equipment to produce a single continuous rope long enough to repair the Atlantic cable break, enabling telegraphic link between old world and new.
The article explains the female ichneumon fly carries a slender triple filaments egg laying apparatus that forms a tiny flexible borer. It bores into wood to lay a single egg, the process taking hours.
A suitor seeks the consent of Mrs Desmond to wed her daughter and provide a home. He falters but she embraces him, expressing joy and approval for a model man to be a father to her child.
A class exercise had the teacher present the aphorism A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse. Students tried paraphrase lines and one entry read 4 spasmodic movement of the optics is as adequate as a slight in clination of the cranium to a horse void of its visionary capacities.
Sealed bids are used in auctions for property in Japan. The auctioneer announces items for sale invites bids. Participants submit written bids on slips of paper, which are placed in a box. After bidding ends the box is opened and the highest bid wins the property.
The host quotes a guest who discovers a stamped claim on a sword that it was made in 1899. The guest asks about the father’s war service, and the judge reveals the father was not a soldier but a traveling salesman for a regalia house.
Mrs John Bilsland and her daughter Miss Lota hosted Friday afternoon games with anagrams and light refreshments. The merry go round entertained children Saturday night, collecting extra nickels before leaving.
Farm five miles from Winamac, Pulaski County seat, with 278 acres of 178 acres black land and rest pasture. Located eighty miles southeast of Chicago on the Pennsylvania Railroad in Ripley. Two milk trains daily to Chicago and a Winnamac creamery. Contact M A Dilts Winnamac Ind.
Trustee Baggoner of Richland Township Fountain County Indiana invites advisory board members to meeting at the trustee’s office Mellott on September 5 1911 at 9 a.m. to approve expenditures totaling 23345.00 with taxes per hundred dollars ranging from 8 to 59 cents plus poll tax 109 cents and road work allocations. Taxables total 1953 370.00 with 329 polls.
The Bend Church outlines a schedule with Epworth League at 63 pm, union service at 7 30 pm featuring Rev. Mater of the Baptist church, and the Fourth Quarterly Conference on Thursday evening August 10. Sunday School at 10 50 am, preaching at 2 30 pm by Rev. Leazenby who will administer the Lord's Supper. Frank K. Dougherty is the pastor.
Homer Sewell has been ill and confined to his residence several days this week with back head pain and considerable fever. Benjamin Helen and Marea Gardner of Charleston Li visit Grandma Gardner in this city arriving Tuesday morning.
Wellington Texas resident W R Patterson credits Dr King’s New Discovery with saving his life after a severe cough and lung trouble reduced him to 100 pounds. He recalls family losses to consumption and praises the remedy as fastest and safest for coughs colds and lung ailments. Trial bottle free and guaranteed by druggists.
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