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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1913
Page
5
Local notes from Covington Indiana show Mort Patton visiting from Veedersburg and Louie Martin at home. J Loeb runs a one third discount sale while the Baptist church plans an February 5 book store exchange. Court business and Crumley trial occupy the February term. deaths and travel touch the community.
A testimonial style drug ad from Floydale Texas touts Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs colds and throat ailments. It claims a first dose relief and a money back guarantee if it fails to cure with reader J R Wells reporting a 15 pound gain.
A weekly column mentions a newborn girl to Mr and Mrs John Wilson and a theatre trip to Danville to hear Maud Adams. It notes zero degree weather, river ice forming, and an ice merchant ahead. Public sales, Democratic shifts, military moves, and county business are summarized with brief local items.
The Red Cross Christmas Seals sale will net the county more than 50 dollars and send 3000 dollars to the state treasury. A list shows township contributions led by Attica and Covington with Hillsboro close behind. The State meeting in Indianapolis on January 25 discussed using funds for education against tuberculosis.
The record lists President Dr. H. K. Fox Vice President OB Ratcliff Secretary Miss Blossom Board Treasurer W. W. Layton and notes routine board officers for the period.
Indiana veterans are urged to send names company regiment and post office address to Adjutant Gen. Geo W McCoy Indianapolis by February 16 1903 to secure funds for transporting veterans to Gettysburg. Meals and hospital care available. rail reduced rates sought. Obituary notes Mrs Barbara Phillips aged 84 died at her son Oliphant Phillips home near Foster burial at Gopher Hill.
A brief wit exchanges a moralist’s ascent guidance with a youth who counters I run an elevator. The quip plays on ambition and perspective in a light literary note.
Notice announces a special session of the Fountain County Council at the County Auditor's office in Covington Indiana starting at 10 00 a m on.
The Fountain County Indiana Board of Commissioners meets Monday February 17 1913 to arrange a temporary loan re allocate funds for contracts begun in 1912 and handle additional business. Orders dated February 4 1913 by Commissioners Copeland Waggoner and Wright. Sealed and signed February 4 1918.
Having concluded to reduce my stock I will offer at public auction at my home four miles east of Covington and four miles northwest of Venderaburg on Friday February 7 1913 at 730 PM sharp. The sale includes horses two mares and several colts cattle two Jersey cows and calves twenty five head of shoats farm implements including a Deering binder and plows and harvest equipment notes and terms of sale cash up to 5 00 and 9 months on larger purchases with 8 percent interest notes and 4 percent cash discount real property not involved. Granvilla P Grubbs Col C W Smith Auctioneer C D Smith Clerk
The Orphans Court in Baltimore approves a $25,000 counsel fee to Maurice Leon and Marbury Gosnell & Williams to be deducted from the $500,000 awarded to Prince De Bearn’s grandchildren. The payment reduces all legacies accordingly, including Miss Dorothy Bateman of Newport. Unclear if Thomas R. Winans will contest for a larger share remains.
John Crohan, foreman for an asphalt firm, rushed to East Thirty-fifth Street station claiming a baby lay in a lower tree at Thirty-seventh Street and Park Avenue. Patrols and Bellevue Hospital ambulance searched, but no infant found. A paper fluttered down, and Crohan stood by his sighting insisting a kidnapping had occurred.
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