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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1911
Page
4
J Leed's Store announces a new fall and winter men’s suit collection featuring updated cuts and fabrics. The line targets stylish professional wear with affordable pricing and timely fashion updates for the season.
A Covington notice states the Family Theatre will not tolerate common or indecent jokes or acts. It emphasizes only refined, clean, competent performers will be featured to avoid deterring local audiences.
At Covington on August 30 delegates from Fountain county were urged to depart September 20 on the morning train for the Sovereign Grand Lodge meeting in Indianapolis. Newtown band will greet the delegation at Hillsboro and accompany them. Lodges to wear black caps bearing lodge name and number, each supplying 116 caps. The county banner award goes to the lodge with the highest parade attendance. Cnns A Brows D D G M Covington Ind J Loeb's Stores ad for pants finishes.
Covington public schools reopen Monday under favorable conditions with the new high school building modernized, plumbing and cement floors updated, and the eighth grade and high school housed there. Old high school remains the grade building for younger students. lists of books to follow on first day. officials urge cooperation and community support.
The Mississippi scheme as a famed early liquidity bubble unfolds with John Law as its promoter. From the regent’s backing in Paris to a vast monopoly spanning Africa to Asia, French investors rush funds until the bubble bursts and thousands become penniless. Law flees France, dies in Venice.
The article explains lobsters and crabs routinely chew food with their stomachs after biting with claws. It notes they lack teeth in their mouths and describe the digestive behavior as they seize one item and begin mastication before finishing with the stomachs.
The piece recounts Samuel Ward of New York asking a parish clergyman for the proper marriage fee. Ward's granddaughter quotes him: would a hundred dollars be enough. The reverend asked for guidance, and Ward replied he should not offer less than 500 dollars to the man who married him to such a wife.
A city Sunday school superintendent sought to improve summer meetings on a warm August Sunday by inviting pupil suggestions. A child proposed adding more sugar to the lemonade, illustrating youthful input on making gatherings more attractive.
A humorous cartoon caption depicts a bacteriologist interrupted by his wife asking about coal orders. The scientist ritually repeats counting germs in milk, growing frustrated as the count resets at 985 345 with each interruption. The joke plays on domestic life intersecting scientific work.
For sale the Arthur Miller residence on Third street. Mrs John Duncan Ephraham Martin and family of Newtown passed through Covington Tuesday evening in their auto on their way home from a visit with kinsfolk. C R Wilson and wife spent Sunday in Martinsville returning home Monday. Mrs Wilson had been visiting in Martin county two weeks. Jacob Shafer and wife of Williamsport were callers at our office Wednesday afternoon they were en route from Danville. The third game of the series Veedersburg vs Covington Sunday at 3 pm at the Fair grounds. Dr McKee came from Indianapolis Wednesday evening to visit the boys and reports his family well pleased with the city. Henry Flesher a resident of Steuben township in Warren county died aged 88 Monday morning. Funeral services held Wednesday with interment in West Lebanon cemetery.
The Matnee Music group seeks community support to pledge season tickets for a coming season. They promise a high quality lineup with three musical numbers including singers, a harpist and a lecturer. Tickets stay at 1.25 for adults and 7Sets for children under 14.
William Snoddy of Perrysville was transacting business in Covington Saturday.
By virtue of a certified copy of a judgment from Fountain County Circuit Court Indiana I am to collect 1134 13 dollars with interest and costs from defendants led by Che Rush Coal Company and William Gamble Jesse Gunkle and others Public sale to the highest bidder will be held at a stated location on a date to be announced in the notice
On Saturday September 23, at the Covington courthouse in Fountain County Indiana a sale of rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years of coal underlying the west half of the northwest quarter and related parcels is listed. The resale may include a railroad right of way, a land strip for a pipeline, and related parcels as described in Rush Coal Company condemnation records. If rents fail to satisfy the judgment, the fee simple of the land may be sold to discharge costs and interest without relief from valuation laws.
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