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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1912
Page
8
All property owners and ten ants are hereby notified to mow the weeks and grass on their premises and to the center of the street or alley, or the City will cause the same to be done at your expense. T.H. McGrorce Jr. Mayer.
Milton Petit aged father of Dr Milton Petit died at the home of his son in Veedersburg Saturday night at 10 25 Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at 1045 at the residence by Rev J P Henson of Waynetown The body was taken to Newtown on the noon train for interment in the cemetery there
The Church of Christ announces preaching by L. J. Jackson of Secord linvis next Saturday night and over Sunday. A brief protracted meeting is planned in September with a contracted preacher described as worthy and able. Further notices will follow.
The church presents a morning theme Stepping over Our Dead Selves and an evening subject The Use of Vacation. A service of song titled Winooa Evensong will close the day’s worship, marking the last services before the pastor’s vacation.
For sale 120 acres of black land mostly cleared with 10 acres uncleared, well tiled and level on a gravel road. Includes a six room residence, good barn and orchard, near two railroad towns C and E I and Clover Leaf, a school and R F D route. Underlaid with a coal vein. methane operation nearby within a mile. Priced at 150 dollars per acre. Adjacent 80 acres available at 125 dollars per acre. W R Massey & Sons, Covington Indiana.
The contract for a large drainage ditch in the township has been let to National Drain Tile Co. of Verre Haute at about 46000 dollars. Costs are shared by landowners, Troy township, and the Bash railroad, with the railroad bearing the heaviest assessment. The project drains a bog along the old canal, reclaiming valuable land and will use 20 16 and 12 inch tiles, discharging on the Bilsland farm south of Bend M E church. W B Coffing and Roy Smith own the largest tracts of land benefited and will pay the largest share, backing the project with strong belief in its value despite high costs.
An old advertisement urges women to avoid weakness and bad breath and to take Dr Kings New Life Pills for new strength and a fine complexion. It promises cheerful spirit and success in attracting men, noting the pills are easy to take and cost 25 cents at druggists.
Heirs of William C. Smith challenge the tax board over estate taxes. They contend gifts in the will to Williamsport Purdue University and Liberty Township Warren County should not be taxed since paid by the estate trustee. The assessment occurred before the heirs filed their appeal, leaving the board undecided.
The National Tribune recounts major party bolts from Republicans across eras. Fremont’s 1864 bid collapsed. 1868 purge and Johnson split. 1872 mugwumps and Liberal Republicans backed Greely, yielding modest gains for Grant. 1896 Colorado Teller bolted on free silver. McKinley triumphed. Bolts generally boosted regular nominees.
The Temple in London hosts a legendary ghost named Benjamin Benjamin a nineteenth century American born barrister who rose to brilliance in the English bar after Confederate leadership. He earned about 125000 a year then moved to Paris for retirement. His successor and a clerk encounter Benjamin’s chambers with a telegram announcing his death last night.
Little Bilderson prided himself on appetite and humor as he dined with a friend and host family. The six year old daughter sparked a witty exchange, and the guest quipped he would return daily to avoid leaving cold leftovers the next day. London Tit-Bits
A compact reminiscence on proper diction and top editors. It mocks genteel phrasing, notes common substitutions like proven vs. proved and can vs may, and recounts a city editor teaching a rookie reporter about word choice and refinement.
A touring theatrical man convinces a New York manager he has the seating knack that makes 50 appear as 400. The manager hires him, wagering the box office will look full even with a smaller crowd. The anecdote comes from the New York Times.
The Washington Star recalls General F D Grant’s Memorial Day tale about a soldier with a facial scar from Bull Run. Asked how he got it, the veteran explains he looked back after running several miles and was shot in the face, a joke illustrating carelessness.
The passage surveys footwear adorned with gems and precious metals from Roman emperors through medieval and early modern figures. It cites Pliny on fashionable ladies, Julius Caesar, Heliogabalus, Alcibiades, and monarchs like Charlemagne and Henry VII, noting boots named after figures, royal footwear decorations, and critiques of cork soles and embroidered slippers per Philip Stubbes.
The note highlights Sir Edward Coke and Immanuel Kant as early risers. Coke reportedly woke at 3 a.m. and worked until 8 a.m., retiring at 9. Kant began precisely at 4 55 each day, awakened by his servant announcing the time.
A London Answers quip recalls a novelist at Epsom Downs who guides a foreign visitor through the derby crowd. They note a pair of sailors, mistaken for pickpockets, but the novelist explains they are “only Epsom salts,” a pun that lands amid the bustling scene.
A mother urges Tommy to avoid quarrel citing a soft answer. He admits recalling the saying yet admits striking Bobby Jones with a chunk of mud after an insult, illustrating the clash between restraint and impulse. The exchange highlights temper and the lesson of turning wrath away.
An exchange features De Riter and a friend from Catholic Standard and Times. The friend says Crittick read your essay and claims you are beyond your depth. De Riter agrees and notes the critic means he is beyond his depth.
Chris Nicklas, 58, on his northeast of this city farm, was badly hurt yesterday afternoon when his loaded wagon jolted as the young horses frightened and ran. He was thrown under the wagon, suffering a deep gash to the head and injuries to the face eyes and collar bone. He remained unconscious for much of the night but showed some improvement by morning. The team was halted and no further damage occurred.
Hon Lindley Little suffered the death of their baby, born a few hours earlier, on Thursday morning. The brief notice records a heartbreaking loss shortly after birth.
Covington traveled to Veedersburg on Sunday and lost the third meeting of the season. Despite the defeats, Covington players are praised for solid play. The fourth game is slated for Covington next Sunday and is expected to draw strong interest.
The city schools begin September second with all teachers now employed.
Summary of concise notes: Greece imports all coal. Swiss hotel workers’ board and lodging cost about 33 cents daily. Canada’s first cottonseed oil refinery is in Toronto. a Paris economist claims America lacks real money. Seoul’s population grows by 3,000 Japanese arrivals monthly. European rural dress gives way to manufactured clothing. over 500 Filipinos live in New York with 75 forming a Brooklyn club. death statistics show fewer self-inflicted deaths in 100 U.S. cities over three years. Philadelphia doctors allegedly kept a patient alive three hours after heart stoppage using electricity. two Washington wastebasket examiners process all wastebaskets. U.S. poultry leads globally with 85 million birds and over 6 billion eggs yearly. Hamburg and Bremen emigrants total 123,600 in seven months versus 192,100 last year.
A historical overview of John Law, the Mississippi company, and the great French financial bubble. Law moved from Scotland to Paris, created a national debt scheme, granted a monopoly over global trade, and attracted massive public investment before the bubble burst, ruining thousands and ending in Law's exile and death in Venice.
Lobsters and crabs are described as rapacious eaters that do not abandon the first prey. Nature provides teeth in their stomachs to finish chewing the initial morsel after seizing a second target with their claws. They lack teeth in their mouths and rely on stomachs to complete digestion.
A Boston man lost his leg from an insect bite two years earlier. To avert such calamities use Backlen's Anica Salve promptly to kill the poison and prevent inflammation, swelling and pain. Heals burns, boils, ulcers, piles eczema, cuts, bruises. Only 25c at all draggists.
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