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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1901
Page
3
A compact roundup of recent happenings across towns and regions compiled by the paper’s field reporters. Includes brief notes on local meetings, community milestones, and practical updates of interest to residents.
Robert Moody on sick list and many visits and social events noted from churches, farms, and homes. Towns include Benson, Gessie, Covington, and Wareham with illness, dinners, pie suppers, hunts, and social calls among neighbors and families.
Mrs. McCarty is on the sick list. Zach Stuart visited Tuesday. Frank Graham attended church Sunday. Mollie Martin entertained friends Saturday and Miss Nora Brown Sunday. Samuel Warick spent Sunday with son John Warrick. Nellie and Ruth Stuart were with home folks Sunday. Bert Ward visited his brother Sam Thursday. Mrs. Wm Martin visited Mrs. Wm Wilson Friday. Alvin Rawkins and wife called on Wm Wilson Tuesday. Mrs. Mary Campbell visiting relatives nearby. George Brown spent Sunday with friends. Geo Fruits and wife with Samuel Romine and wife Sunday. Francis Smith of Covington attended Salem church Sunday night. Mmes Foley and Glover shopped in Covington Thursday. Wilber, son of Frank Martin, ill with typhoid. Miss Florence Denton guest near Illshire last week. Joseph Denton sick. Dr. Myers of Covington is attending physician. Ww. Coffing and wife spent a day in Attica with Mrs. Martha Coffing. Nora LaBaw has returned from
Community items report residents in Darlington and nearby towns, including travel, illness, harvests, and church matters. Mentions Rev. Brown's father ill in Michigan, elevator changes, several family updates, farm work, and local business notes. Also cites medical endorsements for Dr Miles Nervine and other remedies.
An advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil as a remedy for wasting and undernourishment caused by overwork or poor digestion. It urges reading the genuine label, notes a free sample offer, and lists price points of 50 cents and 1 dollar from Scott & Bowne chemists in New York.
The column lists commodity prices for grain wool hides tallow and agricultural goods in Covington. It includes numbers for old timothy hay straw potatos beans per bushel and butter with varying rates and per hundred or per unit amounts. The figures show a snapshot of local market rates.
Auditor in and for said County presents the report of receipts and disbursements from January 1 1900 to December 31 1900 with totals leading to January 1 1901. The document lists various figures for disbursements overdrafts and receipts and includes items such as chickens turkeys and geese. Respectfully submitted.
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