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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1919
Page
7
Glove use rose in status among women in the fourteenth century with elaborate stitching and perfumes. An accompanying advertisement touts Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy praised by hotelier F H Dear of Dupuyer Montana after favorable four year experience. An unrelated note mentions Indian gasoline at Warricks garage.
A brief note recommends a tumbler of as hot as possible milk to revive fatigue. The suggestion frames hot milk as a restorative beverage aiding recovery from tiredness. The idea reflects simple folk remedies highlighting warmth and nourishment.
Rev McIntire, a former Lincoln Chautauqua worker now touring locally, leads meetings in Wilson Richardson’s grove near the schoolhouse with a basket supper planned Sunday August 17. The item notes funeral attendance, travels, visits, and a birth with a fatal twin, plus threshing activities and a new motorhead system in use.
Mrs. L. D. Devens a 52 year old Attica chiropractor was found dead Friday evening by a patient. She had recently assisted at funeral arrangements for J. J. Little and lived alone after four years in Attica from Brook Indiana. She had heart illness and once fainted on a street. She was a member of the Rebekah and Royal Neighbor lodges. Also noted are military returns Charles Roberts a former Messner theatre musician from France and Lieut Ollie Leath to be discharged and to visit his mother Mrs. Johanna Leath in Attica.
Kingman area report shows Mr. McCormick severely injured and unconscious after a motorcycle accident on Saturday morning as the group tried to avoid chickens while traveling through Sullivan county toward relatives. Mrs. McCormick and their five year old son suffered minor injuries. all were moved to Union hospital in Terre Haute for care.
Twenty girls and women are urged to apply at once to join the new Over el fretory project. Leave applications at W. R. Massey’s office to be among the starters, as advertised by A. Winer & Co.
Miss Margaret Bebee ten year old daughter of Rev and Mrs Charles Bebee sustained a fractured right arm and bruises after falling from a foot wall into Burnetts creek at the Battle Ground camp meeting near Lafayette She was treated at Home hospital Lafayette by Dr F M Biddle.
The trustee Walter Greemi of Van Buren Township Fountain County announces 1920 estimates for expenditures and levies. Town expenditures 2.2 percent and township tax 8 cents per hundred. Local Tuition 5748.03 and township tax 20 cents. Special School 5622.05 and township tax 30 cents. Road 3348.82 and township tax 12 cents. Poor 1149.00 and township tax 4 cents. Total expenditures 21167.71 and total tax 74 cents per hundred. net taxable property 2874015. Signed August 4 1919.
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