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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1909
Page
6
Local residents recount visits and gatherings with neighbors and relatives in Danville Portland and nearby areas. This week includes Miss Mabel Daultons visit with Mrs Edith Rhodes Mr and Mrs W E Jackson hosting and threshing helpers Mrs Clem Rogers cooking duties and several residents moving or hosting guests from Indianapolis New York and Fountain.
Rileysburg residents report visits and events including Addie Rambole's daughter, Jacob Cleo and family, and many neighbors in town. Local social rounds feature charivari for Cleve Hanna, threshing by Jacob Rouse, and various calls and visits around Covington Newport and Butternut camp meeting ended due to waning interest. Local produce like watermelons and musky melons ripen amid family illness and ailing Mr Rouze.
Mrs. Robert Butler and children head to Oklahoma for a few weeks with her son Ben Others visit relatives and attend fairs with residents of Ladoga Attica Covington and nearby towns enjoying social calls school returns and weekend gatherings across the area
James Fisher and wife and Mrs George Kespley were passengers to Danville Monday week. Mrs Kespley s daughter there is severely ill. Danville visitor W K McNeill in a natty suit. former Sheriff J S Stephens of Newport rusticating nearby. Mrs Ella Switzer and Nye and wife from Nebraska on vacation. E C Dye absent three days to attend funeral in southern Illinois and another for a wife s relative in Gessie. Miss Jessie Short of Newport honored by a party. Jacob Nimrick from Illinois town calls. The Danville Pastimes beat Perrysville Pirates 3 2 at Perrysville Park Sunday. August days, fish in the river, and a five gallon ice cream social in Morgan s hall.
Danville shoppers during the weekend. Mr and Mrs Ray Lincoln hosted the former's mother from Wingate. Obie and Mae Taner visited home folks Sunday. Kina Albert attends the Williamsport teacher's institute this week. Etta Howard of West Lebanon visited Mrs Park Lawson Sunday. Frank Miller of Homer spent Sunday with his parents Caleb and Mrs Miller.
Sunday School at 10 a.m. preaching 11 a.m. Epworth League 6:30 p.m. preaching 7:30 p.m. Prayer service Thursday 7:30 p.m. Annual Conference sessions at Crawfordsville September 8. Bend M E Church notices: Sunday School 10 a.m. Ladies Aid Society meets second Thursday. Frank K. Dougherty, Pastor.
An August narrative urges readers to use Dr Shoop's Restorative to lift nerves and restore ambition within 48 hours. It claims the tonic strengthens failing nerves from the inside out, with health returning and improved strength and drive as a result. Sold by all dealers.
Caleb Miller and David Wagner were Danville callers. Mon Web Tanner was in Covington on Monday. Ada Miller and Mattie Bonebrake of State Lane were guests of Caleb Miller on Wednesday. Maud Duncan and Alto Johnson were shopping in Danville on Wednesday. Mrs William Cole and her son Vernon and Miss Lucy Miller were mentioned in the Danville social column.
The First Church of Christ schedules Bible School at 9 30 a m on Sunday August 29 1999 with the morning sermon on The Woman of Canan led by Pastor D H Palmer 321 Fifth Street. No evening service planned. Regular preaching resumes the first Lord's Day in September. Foley's Kidney Remedy advertised by M C Van Dorn for kidney and urinary issues.
Richmond Indiana August 25 five bullets struck John D Lancaster a wealthy farmer and gardener as he returned to his gate from a night trip Witt Harris a neighboring farmer fifty six years old is jailed charged with shooting with intent to kill Lancaster recognized Harris by voice and survived gratefully doctors fear blood poisoning Harris recently married to Jane Kerlin seventy six.
In Goshen Indiana relatives and the Smith Clark company clash over the body of Charles Crary a famed checker player who died of sunstroke in Galveston Texas. C B Stiver produced a contract arranged years earlier by Crary’s attorney Lou W Vail for cremation and the body was attached on arrival.
South Bend Indiana hosts a homecoming event from October 3 to 9 aimed at drawing former residents of St. Joseph county and Indiana. Officials promise the largest celebration of its kind in the central west.
Danville Indiana August 25 John Calvin Pritchett aged fifty two committed suicide by drinking poison a note nearby said he could not get work and did not wish to live on charity of the people friend and neighbors reported he was unemployed and despondent weighing heavily on him
Charles Peacock, 32, of Indianapolis, despondent over fitness, shot himself in the brain near the right ear in the presence of his wife. He died almost instantly.
Curd Conrad and wife died Sunday near Big Springs five miles northeast of Zionsville Indiana when a buggy they rode in was struck by a southbound T H I E traction car.
Aug 25 Pekin Charles W. Fairbanks former vice president of the United States has arrived here en route on his world voyage. He is stopping briefly as part of his around the world journey.
Barnum quashed rumors of an agent’s death in Africa. In New York he reassured reporters, promising a cheerful return, noting friends’ sorrow would turn to joy when he returned alive. The showman kept a brisk, optimistic tone amid the melodrama.
A historical note on the kraken as a sea monster feared for tidal waves. Old writers describe its waterswallowing and belching, while Bishop Pontoppidan estimates its length near half a mile and a cathedral width body. Sailors mistook its body for islands, spawning mergings with maelstroms.
A brief history notes multiple inventors and key ideas. It credits Elias Howe as the inventor who secured patent priority over Walter Hunt in 1840s, while recognizing earlier efforts by Stose Henderson Greenough Heilmann Thimmonier and Ferrand. The piece frames the machine as a cumulative achievement.
Peasants of southern France originate the shoe toss at weddings with the bride guided to her new home and the groom halted outside. If no rejected suitor exists, the groom fires a wooden shoe at the departing bridegroom to cast away lingering ill will.
A playful exchange questions how much money remains if one person lends another money. The riddle suggests you would still have three dollars left since you cannot lend more than you possess. The dialogue teases the improbability of having that much to lend at once.
A light exchange from a Chicago News item shows Harold saying he would tell his future children how good he was as a kid when they misbehave. He emphasizes following his father’s example as head of the family.
A humorous exchange in the Boston Transcript features a couple debating a stark diet joke. The man suggests marriage to end the dieting test while the woman jokes she can endure the regimen indefinitely.
A fragmentary piece quotes a Philadelphia Ledger line about a girl and a boss in a playful wedding dress banter. The rough OCR yields garbled names and phrases reflecting informal speech and dialect.
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