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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1911
Page
5
Local notes detail visits and travels among Covington residents including Miss Hazel Harden in Veedersburg and Mrs. George Lape. George Clem returns from Dakota, John Peck on sick list, and relatives from Danville attend funerals. Lard rendering prices, barbershop facade, and Merriman's meat market sales are noted amid community chatter.
Mrs D T Hedges has kidney trouble while Edna Ruschke visits Irene Richeson in Lafayette. Campers at Shades return after a ten day outing. Francis Smith and wife attend Encampment in Lafayette via West Lebanon. Funeral attendance for Mrs Fay Furling with several locals present. Local markets advertise lard at 12 cents per pound. Various residents visit funerals, trips to Atlantic City and Bishop North Dakota noted. Two Indianapolis visitors and a crutch using Mrs Boyd observed. A broken down engine hampers a scenic route run. Veterans Hermon and brother visit, recounting Civil War service. Political figure P M Buchanan visits with Blythe on motorcycle, Mathias Stevenson’s eye health discussed with Republi can support noted.
The annual report for the Covington Building and Loan Association ending July 1 1911 shows key figures: mortgage loans 2 138 489 43 and total assets 22 511 07 with undivided profits and a near twelve percent earnings dividend this year after nine percent last year. Secretary Alvah DeHaven notes the association remains prosperous and loan funds are available for home buyers and builders. Noah Teegarden of Veedersburg visited Wednesday morning.
Lesly Schnel holds the lucky number that drew the Gordon Ust bicycle. Glen Tinsley from Hillsboro spent Tuesday evening in Covington. Miss Gladys McCord visited Miss Ethel Von Berg and returned to Danville. Ed Bonebrake handled county auditor duties in Auditor Gray's absence, keeping affairs straight. Read the leader’s anniversary sale ad for prices.
The township trustees met Wednesday morning and fixed the countywide school opening for Monday September 14. Commissioner James Copland struggled with his duties during the term due to a well defined asthma condition. George F Hobart and W R Wann of Silver Island were in Covington Tuesday for business and to tend to local interests.
A 19th century advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, claiming it cures constitutional disease by acting through the blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer $100 for any case it fails to cure and urge sending for testimonials. Sold by druggists at 75 cents.
Mrs M Sanders visits Aunt Susan Davidson this week. Ray Simmons and Elva Lewis wed at the M E parsonage Tuesday. Postmaster Boyd attended the Encampment at Lafayette Monday. Rutte Simpson and Earl Scherer of Veedersburg made their usual trip Tuesday evening. Mrs Arthur Miller and son Wayne of Ft Wayne visiting for a couple weeks. J Loeb confined at home with stomach trouble. Band boys left Monday for the K P Encampment to furnish music. Death property repair begun after purchase by Mr Death and J W Price. Mayer family visited Evansville. Charles came home with him. Speed ordinance enforcement noted as effective, with some speeders remaining. Merchants urged to advertise prices to draw shoppers to Covington. Mrs Wm Silsland’s Sunday school class to hold an ice cream social on the Bilsland lawn this evening. all invited.
Thad Meeker of Shawnee Site near Rob Roy was taken ill and his sons took him to Hunter Springs for treatment. George Sargent of Attica suffered a paralysis at noon Monday and is in critical condition as doctors report blood vessels in his head ruptured. Covington played Newtown yesterday and the home team appears to be losing badly. Ex-teacher Fine E Drake of Fulton township attended institute this week. Erastus G. Stull, 23, of Perrysville and Mary H. Fiar, 31, of Wolf Creek, were licensed to marry Thursday morning. Lew Alten, keeper of Clerk’s office records, works amid Major Sanders’ absence. Mrs Lillian B. Lewis of north Vermillion county died near Gessie last week. funeral Thursday. She was 37 and died of general nervous exhaustion.
Mrs Hannah Murphy Taylor aged about 73 died at her home in Kent township on Monday. Funeral services conducted by Dr Fox were held Wednesday at 2 p m with burial at Gophy Hill cemetery scheduled. Obituary next week.
Roy E. Newman 21 of Kingman and Miss Ural Sim mons 19 of Cates were married in the Clerk’s office by Rev. Dougherty at 11 am Thursday. Friends extend congratulations to the couple.
Local brief notes O D Redden unveils a new advertisement in this issue. The notice highlights the campaign addition and invites readers to view the feature within the publication. No further details provided in the readable text.
A slapstick vignette shows a rotund man on a cross street clashing with a bicycle rider, the man’s anger eased by a donated dollar to fix the wheel. Then a Glasgow warehouse manager McClusky is cheered by coworkers with a purse of sovereigns after announcing leaving, but he decides to stay amid their pity.
A NY regiment officer wanders Texas gloomily and contemplates Broadway distance as El Paso editor questions mobilization. The lieutenant says the aim is to force Mexico to take back Tejas, per Success Magazine.
In a Chicago Record Herald clipping a girl named Elsie reports her mother is glad she may attend parties at a neighbor’s house. The mother praises the hospitality and jokes that Elsie is so careful she will not bring anything harmful or rich enough to hurt her.
Uncle Joe Cannon denounces a clause of the reciprocity bill saying its spirit is as small as a man who wants a half price ticket for a moving picture show with one eye. Grandma warns of party timing as a child quips about punctuality among their circle.
The Philadelphia Bulletin quips that a couple’s banter about marriage vows turns on constitutional law. The humor centers on a husband claiming his word as law and the wife countering that the law was unconstitutional.
A boarder complains the meat is overdone while the waitress counters that it is the same meat as yesterday and is in fact done over. The exchange reflects a light culinary quip from the Catholic Standard and Times.
A fragment from a satirical piece presents a prisoner at the bar asking the jury if escaping with a large swag would have led him to hire a “fifteen dollar lawyer” to defend him. The quip satirizes legal defiance and self defense rhetoric with colonial tone.
Fragmentary OCR notes recount a cam paign quip about making the sun stand still and a challenge to make Willie Jones perform the feat. It references Harper's Bazaar and Detroit Free Press remarks about ancestry and aging, with stray exclamations and a noisy, clipped tone.
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