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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1906
Page
5
Personal mentions include Fred Board returning to town and Fred Emerson Brooks praised as an entertainer. Local ads promote hats at half price and Layton & Bilsland groceries. Court term and real estate rentals noted, with town residents visiting, meetings, and scattered remarks from Wingate and nearby communities.
J W Wicker visited Attica Monday. O M Costing adds in this issue. Ch Riley and Brooks praised as a team. Presbyterian Ladies Aid meets with Mrs J W Graham February 2 at 2:30. Dr C H Wilson will preach at Presbyerian Church tonight. John Bilsland to hold public sale February 28 north of town. Farm loans offered by L P Little Covington. Mrs J L Allen and Mrs Grace Adkins visit Martinsville to see J L Allen Jr in hospital. Fred Emerson Brooks the poet humorist praised for his readings. George D Snoddy and wife from Coal Creek attended High School Lecture Course. S A Hendricks to hold a public sale February 20 with stock and farm implements. Dr W Cowan auctioneer. Mrs M Board improving at Deaconess Hospital Indianapolis. Chattel loans available from L R Little Covington. G A R annual supper February 10 at Mayer's Hall. Newtown Fair Association directors elected: Horace Gray, George Parnell, Lew Kerr, Gee Duncan, C C Pailin, B E Kent, Albert VanDer Volgen, Alex Bell, Frank Nave. Mel Saurday to elect officers and start the ball. Prof S A Gall returned from Kevansville. remains with engineering work on Southern Indiana Railroad. Mrs J B Price and granddaughter Ada Delight Sewell return from Otterbein winter visit. new girl at Howell Sewell home. Joseph Sewell of Oxfern buried recently. Mrs Price to stay at Otterbein briefly.
Nebeker R 8S announces a sale of a Kor Rock Cockerel priced at 1 and 2 dollars. The brief notice lists Nebeker as the seller and references yard prices.
Veedersburg beat Covington 15 to 1 in last Friday evening’s game at Veedersburg. The issue notes East End grocery reopening by Elmore and Cook. Meyer Seigel Co gave the third High School Lecture at Presbyterian Church with Mr Meyer on piano and Miss Reed the elocutionist. attendance was fair.
Prof. I. S. Brown of Chicago, Belloitte College graduate and Chicago University postgraduate, has been hired by the city school board to succeed Miss McComas in languages. He arrives today and will start Monday. He is unmarried.
Bad weather forced the Sunday School convention at Wabash Chapel to be rescheduled for Sunday February 4 at 1 30 PM The program includes songs congregational invocations welcome address responses several sermons on spiritual growth and teaching methods and miscellaneous business led by J D Bybee president and Lola Van Dorn secretary
Real estate transfers filed in Fountain County show several deeds. Transactions include Marshall P. Griffin and wife to C. M. McCabe with estate interest valued at 1000 dollars, and Rosetta Z. Wright to J. F. Cowgill for lot 5 in Fountain Ville. Details list multiple parcels, acreages, and prices including 40 acres Richland township, 60 acres Richland township, and 50 acres Mill Creek township among others with values ranging from 50 to 4000 dollars.
Simon H Fine and wife transfer 20 acres in Jackson township to Martin Wilkinson for 1200 dollars. Elwood Wilson and wife deed to Martin E K Suresby 5 acres in Logan township. Nellie L West sells interest in 80 acres in Cain township to O L Yount. Addie Rogers and husband convey lot 63 to Alta L Moore et al. Vances and Covington. Maniey H Jones and wife transfer 40 acres in Wabash township to Frank Marlatt for 1400 dollars.
Robert Tanner breaks local record by bath in Possum run as summer arrives. Smith Layton of Dresser called to Hoopeston III due to his daughter Mrs. Frank Fox illness. Mack Hughes buys Gray farm at Dresser, 45 acres at $62 per acre. James Williams buys Case farm at Dresser for $60 per acre. Presbyterian revival at Marshfield suspended for illness. revival continues at Dresser under Rev. G. W. Ogle. N Layton of Rose Hill, 81st birthday, traps mink for fun and exercise. G. W. Windsor resigns post office, moves to Needmore Brown County, trades store for a farm. Charles Lowe resigns Marshfield school, to work as draughtsman in Danville shops. Zinc found in John Zufall's coal mine at Dresser, samples worth $60 ton. Gov Hanly urged to call legislature. H. P. Layton ill with cold air treatment. Rural mails delayed by bad roads. Rev A. L. Briggs helps in Attica meetings. will stay until tomorrow evening.
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