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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1907
Page
8
W. W. Layton, cashier of Covington Bank, bought a new Auburn at the Indianapolis auto show. He and Capt Gray drove the two cylinder machine home through mud, while Mrs. Layton stays in Noblesville with Clyde. Will may wish to visit Noblesville again upon her return.
Warsaw Indiana July 11 Hoosiers from Jewell county Kansas will meet at Burr Oak August 22 for an annual reunion. An engineer who ran the first passenger train into Indianapolis will speak. Rev Eli Renner will give an address. Songs include Away Down in Old Indiana and Away Down on the Wabash with all attending. Balloons games and athletic events are planned. Invitations extend to Hoosiers across Kansas and neighboring states. Bur Oak lies near North Branch on the Rock Island railroad. At the 1906 census Jewell county had 743 Indiana-born residents.
Crystal Stamm eighteen of 3014 Belle Fontaine street died by swallowing strychnine amid a quarrel with her sweetheart in Indianapolis. John R. Wilson prominent Marion County lawyer died at his home on Central Avenue after Bright’s disease illness. A Cambridge City speed violation delayed Glidden tour entrants and led to a fine. In Bowling Green a rifle accident killed the Halton child during a scuffle with Albert Sample’s son.
The Mellott Hustler reports plans to drill a large well on the Daniel Carpenter farm southwest of town to determine what lies beneath the earth there, possibly coal gravel shale oil or gas, with drilling machinery expected to arrive soon. The issue also notes music from Boys Bann for a big horse show and a stock reduction sale offering summer goods at cut prices.
Real estate transfers show multiple deeds in Fountain County from Covington Kingman Veedersburg and Hillsboro with sums from 1 to 150 dollars and some parcels described as fractions or lots. Notable entries include Steinbaugh Black to A A Alexander and J W Furnish to Samuel Martin with various lot numbers. Also mentions improvements at the courthouse towers and a pigeon relocation. Reverend A R Heath to preach at Grange Chapel on Sunday July 28 with two services and sermon topics on religion and unity.
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