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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1919
Page
4
The Churches announce Sunday school at 10:00 and 9:45 for different groups, worship at 11:00, communion and baptism, evening service at 8:00, mid week meeting Thursday at 8:00. Methodist notices list Epworth League at 6:00, Bend preaching every other Sunday at 9:00, and Sunday school each week with R. E. Smith and C. B. Stanforth named as officers.
The notice lists church activities including Sunday school every Sunday at 10 am, morning service at 11 am, evening service at 8 pm, and a Thursday night prayer meeting at 7 pm, with preaching on the second and fourth Sundays of each month.
First Church of Christ Ruth Busland Swpt holds morning worship at 11 o'clock and the evening service at 8 o'clock. Sunday School meets at 10 30 o'clock led by Rev George Moffett, pastor.
Rate schedule for notices limits three to four lines per item. Notices over four lines incur five cents per line. Each line counted includes up to six words. The column applies to standard community notices and public announcements.
An old classifieds note advertises a speedy marriage service by The Old Reliable Club, run by Mrs Wrubel of Oakland California, inviting confidential descriptions. It also offers two coon hounds and one skunk hound for sale.
Central Illinois boards of review discuss assessment procedures and land values with Vermilion Douglas Pratt DeWitt McLean Macon Champaign counties invited. Vermilion county reports rising land values but some assessments unchanged since four years ago. Total Vermilion property value totals rise to 98 million with land and personal property allocations noted.
Lieut Robert Carmier, former French, British and American army officer, seeks re employment in New York or abroad after his home in Lille was destroyed and family losses during the war. He speaks English, knows foreign trade and mercantile matters, led a vegetable concern in France, and would start at a moderate salary. He hopes to join a New York firm utilizing his French skills and would consider marrying an American.
Charlie Chaplin weeps at his Hollywood home after his first child is buried. The infant lived seven ty two hours before death, and Chaplin left the Mother Goose nursery room where toys once lay, closing the door on a sorrowful tragedy in early July.
Government revenue officials audited the Willard Bell heavyweight fight held July 4 in Toledo and found the promoters owe 1 248.75 returned, with the commission having net 410 732 from a 30 000 advance and 7 percent city tax. The discrepancy prompted refunds to promoters.
A Goodyear dirigible on a test flight fell about 5 00 pm 500 feet into the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago. Twelve people died and twenty five were injured as fire and explosions trapped workers and engulfed the rotunda. Four parachutists survived the plunge as flames spread through the bank area.
The 41st Old Settlers meeting will be held one mile north and east of Yedio on Thursday August 14 1919. A large turnout is expected for the annual reunion with a horse event and a goose program plus a campfire.
A low cost substitute for meat scraps in poultry feed is fish heads from local dealers. Boil heads to soften outer shell then feed to chickens. dealers often dispose of them for 4 to 5 cents a quart as a protein rich addition. Ensure proper ventilation in housing, using open doors and windows or cloth curtains to control drafts.
Denton R Craig, noted Lafayette auto salesman, purchased a Curtis JN-4 army biplane from Kokomo aviation. He hires Lieutenant Stanley Dann of New Richland to pilot the craft for an aerial taxi service, with Dann having flown from Grant Park Chicago to Lafayette in about one hour and thirty minutes, including a stop for gas and oil.
Miss Davidson aged about thirty five committed death by her own action at her home near New Richmond early Thursday morning of last week. She took a fatal dose of carbolic acid. Relatives could offer no reason for the act though they believed her mind was temporarily affected and she had been acting strangely for several days.
William F. Jones of New Richmond was killed in Dayton Ohio when a new airplane failed during a test flight. His mechanic, Buzane, was fatally injured and both men were crushed after the aircraft fell about 300 feet.
Abbott Hughes of Gessie was taken to Lakeview hospital in Danville Monday afternoon where he underwent an operation for appendicitis. Read the ads. It will pay you.
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