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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1902
Page
1
Brief reflections survey current micro trends in architectural design with a sharp, wry tone. Observers highlight minimalist forms, modular partitions, and restrained ornamentation shaping urban spaces and interiors. The piece notes influence from European modernists and local project examples.
A bustling column tracks visits and trips by locals like Marx Herzog in Georgetown and Os. J. L. Allen Jr. in Milwaukee, plus society notes on marriages, shop ads, and weather impacts. The Leader reports wool purchases by Marx Herzog and local business activity, with countywide notes on rail and market movement.
A notice notes J. M. Rhodes offering second hand buggies at low prices. The piece mentions visitors who spent two weeks with A. P. Burnside and family, including Ruth Baker, Grace Walker, Ben Walker’s daughter, Master Harry Morrison, and visitors Vera, Louise, and Ruth McCane, with details of their social calls in Omaha and Anderson.
A local sale offers shoes originally priced at 2.00 and 3.00 dollars for 49 cents. The event starts this Saturday, July 19, with limited stock and early hours.
The county baseball scene features ongoing play with teams competing for standings and playoff positioning. Report highlights include key hits, pitching performances, and regional matchups shaping the season’s narrative.
The column lists standings with Covington Veedersburg Mellett Williamsport Attica and others. Next Sunday's games feature Leaders versus Danville Orientals Covington vs Perrysville Attica vs Delphi. Last Sunday's results include Attica 1 Mellett 5 and Williamsport 5 Danville Orientals 4.
The excerpt argues that action defines capability and claims love rests on fact while purity is taste in experience. It presents a flirtatious comparison between love and flirtation and suggests contentment stems from limited imagination.
Sunday evening last at five o'clock, Miss Jessie Miller married Chas Gilman of this place with Squire Black officiating. A lavish wedding supper followed. The bride wore cream and the groom blue. They will live with the bride's mother Mrs Nancy Miller. The State Line car notes the Indianapolis excursion was well patronized.
Albert A. Hunter and Evalyn S. Smith obtain marriage license. William O. Switzer and Eva M. Songer receive license.
W B Redden sold the old Taylor farm south of Rossville to James Pricer of Muncie. Pricer paid 6000 dollars for the land, equating to 125 dollars per acre.
Allen Dunkin struck several good coal veins while boring for water near Rob Roy. Will Calvert found a 5 foot vein of coal on his Stone Bluff farm during water well boring. Shawnee township is well supplied and poised for future paying mines.
T A Clifton has moved the Covington Republican into commodious quarters reflecting its size and standing. Since 1897 he has run the paper, keeping it original and forcible in its utterances and a power in its circulation territory.
Isaac Smith aged 73 years 10 months and 21 days died Sunday evening at 6 30 at his East End home after a paralytic stroke. Born in New York he moved to this county as a child and served in the War of the Revolution. He was twice married with nine children. Funeral services were held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the family residence Rev J P Henson officiating and interment at the old Liberty Street cemetery.
Lightning struck the M. M. McNeal barn during Friday night’s storm causing a blaze. The hay-filled structure was a total loss but is fully insured.
The Ninth District Democrats will meet in Lebanon on Thursday August 14 to nominate a candidate for Congress. The contenders are Judge Kirkpatrick of Kokomo or Michael Foley of Crawfordsville as reported by the Fountain-Warren Democrat.
Republican papers in Newton county oppose Mr Hanly of Rennsellaer, the standard Republican nominee for judge, and threaten vigorous action as the district's judicial contest continues.
The band concert and festival proceeded Saturday but rain forced both events indoors in the courtroom. The boys finished $3.50 in the hole yet remain hopeful to balance losses later. The concert itself was satisfactory.
The Midway area saw a second suicide attempt in recent weeks linked to rejected love. Kate Reynolds attempted to end her troubles with chloroform in an Arlington hotel room, prompting Dr. Bolling to administer a stomach pump after summoning from the river Styx.
A man attempted to pass a forged $77 check at First National Bank in Danville but fled after teller Charles Olmsted and L. D. Gass condemned the signature. The check bore the name M W Current, a State Line elevator operator, and the passer was unfamiliar to locals.
Postmasters will stock the new McKinley postal cards when old stock runs out. Cards, similar in size, feature a likeness of the late president with birth and death years and a U S seal, and carry the caption Postal Card. Capt Showmaker, once of Vermilion County, is dead.
Ed Harris Fletcher Boyd Read Miles John Peters Fred Hedges and Clint Kaufman all Master Masons went to Veedersburg Monday evening to attend lodge there and witness work in the Third Degree. They report a royal good time.
Henry Brown, an experienced driller, started Tuesday a series of tests of coal lands in the southern county for a Williamsport company that has taken options on a large tract along Possum Run for the project.
Dr SalLor the dentist advertises a forced sale of high grade teeth and dental materials. A full set of high grade teeth is offered for $8 with a guaranteed set at $5 and similar pricing on other work. Samples available by request.
Mont Boord selects furniture and queensware with one of the region’s largest rocker collections. Prices promise 10 to 25 percent savings versus competitors. The ad notes over 250 rockers in stock and emphasizes affordable home comfort with a varied range.
The Merry-go-Round Club of this city, four years old, enjoyed a day trip to Miss Jessie Wells’s home south of town last Friday. Twelve members attended including Mrs. Frank Luke and Misses Nettie Lemp Mira Lemp Helen Allen Emily Jones Grace Dunlap Bess Dunlap Pearle Board Pauline Miller Bertha Bergdahl Lydia Mayer Nellie MacComas. Edna Mick of Illinois joined the party for the hospitality Unfoldment shows a social needlework group meeting biweekly and valued for its pleasant companionship.
In Cayuga Indiana on July 16 a $12 000 appropriation passed for a Wabash River bridge at Lodi. Voters favored the measure 462 to 46, about 93 percent, with east Cayuga precinct opposing only three ballots. The town celebrated with fireworks dynamite explosions and a street parade as crowds filled the streets at 10 p.m. The Cayuga Telephone Co. reportedly could not handle business amid the revelry.
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