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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1923
Page
3
John Blake’s uncommon sense argues time is finite and should be spent wisely. He cites Arnold Bennett on money versus time, urging early life planning, limiting idle hours, and using rest and reading to build memory and productivity for a better life.
A reflective essay contrasts youth leaving the university with the real world. It speaks of expectancy, the pull of ambition, and the need for patient effort and self denial to achieve visible rewards beyond college myth. The piece urges facing the world with practical resolve.
A witty Edison era scene shows a suitor dodging questions about previous employment. The applicant struggles with defining his former clients as he answers a rich lady asking about his last employer and role.
Four Pillars of a Home outlines a house built on Love Truth Thrift and God. The verse argues a strong heart foundation keeps a home steady against life’s shocks and temptations, ensuring lasting happiness and stability through faith and prudent planning.
The passage urges steadfast effort and courage as the path to leadership. It warns against complacency, saying victory requires continuous work and determination from infancy to old age, and that weariness must not block progress. It argues imaginations of destined leadership are insufficient without action.
A fragment blends Harriet Beecher Stowe reflection on love with a cooking instruction about clam chowder. The text juxtaposes moral musings with practical kitchen steps, noting adding one quart of milk and serving with crackers.
A menu style listing highlights cucumbers peas beets carrots spinach watercress with shallots and green onions. It describes a fish chowder with potatoes onions salt pork then shredded codfish meat added to vegetables, plus calorie counts for a 100 calorie meal and another 400 calorie option with cereal oats and cornmeal. A Spring Salad blends lettuce cucumber radish onion green pepper parsley with mayonnaise dressing.
Chopped green onions mixed with salad dressing create a flavorful sandwich filling.
A narrator defends early rising and personal space in a commuting lifestyle. Emphasizes a home garden, bright air, and children enjoying outdoor time away from crowded streets. Ends with a nod to the daily 7 am tracking routine.
The Boston Transcript quotes M. D. defining a dinner as a society function disliked by many diners and many attendees. The remark frames social events as exclusive yet disliked gatherings within elite circles.
Clyde Gurkhart a 39 year old landowner and prominent Tippecanoe county citizen died at his Attica home from pneumonia. Louis Stowe aged 18 died from injuries after an automobile carrying him and his father overturned on an embankment near Richmond.
A blaze caused four thousand dollars in damage to a large barn on the Frei Francis farm north of Hartford City. The barn held hay corn and farming implements and was destroyed. Insurance coverage of two thousand dollars figured in the loss.
Ralph Van Landingham twenty four of Terre Haute was killed when the taxicab he drove overturned near Blanford. His head and neck were caught beneath the car body.
Ed Jackson secretary of state addressed Baugo Township Company No 120 of the National Horse Thief Detectives association at Baugo Grange hall located three miles southwest of Elkhart.
Judge James B. W. Wilson will give the annual Decoration day address in Bloomington. The Memorial day address will be given Sunday morning, May 27, at the United Presbyterian church by Rev. J. L. Kelso.
Charles P. Carr lay uninjured in a brass bed at Fort Wayne when a bolt of lightning wrecked the room. The bolt tore a hole eleven feet long by three feet wide, splintered the roof and a window sill.
Harold Atkins aged three son of Mr and Mrs Roscoe Atkins of Marion died three hours after eating several medicine tablets found in a drawer at his grandparents home Each tablet contained one twentieth of a grain of strychnine authorities consider the circumstances under review in the family incident.
Reverend A H Pitkin pastor of Greensburg Methodist church addressed the Greensburg high school graduating class at the annual baccalaureate sermon. He spoke on the theme The Tremendous Hour.
For the second time this year officials of the Peabody Lumber Company announce a wage hike for all workers. The raise totals about 16000 dollars annually. The firm employs 100 men.
City officials estimated about 20 000 people attended a klan ceremony in Valparaiso. Several thousand marchers, many unmasked, paraded through the town center and an initiation followed without any disturbance.
It took one day of eight hours for 32 neighbors and friends of Elmer F. Pittenger of Desota to rebuild his residence destroyed by fire. The workers wives also prepared many items needed in the Pittenger home.
Charles Maddox an adult leader of a juvenile thief gang at Marion received a sentence from one to eight years in the Indiana state prison on the charge of receiving stolen property. Maddox pleaded guilty and admitted paying boys sums for stealing.
The general contract for constructing the Cass county hospital was awarded to L. B. Wickersham of Logansport for 78532 dollars. The Hipskind Company of Wabash won the heating and plumbing contract for 28187 dollars and George W. Cann of Logansport secured the electrical work for 4200 dollars.
Clyde A. Walb of Lagrange was unanimously chosen as chairman at Indianapolis meeting. Lawrence E. Lyons of Brook resigned, and Lawrence Cartwright of Portland was elected vice-chairman.
Madison county assessor at Anderson values the Lovett estate around 15000 dollars in an appraisal. Two daughters Miss Nellie Reeve and Mrs Louis Seabury of Chicago are to take 153239.26 dollars each. The widow Mrs Pearlie Lovett gets 23616 dollars plus an annuity of 75 dollars weekly for personal expenses.
James E. Starkey state bee inspector uncovered foul brood within bee colonies in northeastern Bartholomew County and shut down a sequence of bee demonstrations at Columbus.
Indianapolis state highway department seeks ten more engineers twenty more state road inspectors and about thirty county road inspectors for its 1928 program announced by John D. Williams director.
A fire leveled the Columbus Wood Turning company factory in Columbus causing an estimated $20,000 in damage. Firefighters battled the blaze but the structure and machinery were heavily damaged. No injuries were reported as of the initial casualty check.
Mrs Jennie E Levering aged eighty a prominent Terre Haute church worker died at her home in Terre Haute placing note on life of local faith service and community leadership as reported by the Terre Haute paper.
The city will develop a two acre camping ground on part of the ground bought with Memorial Park west of Huntington along Maple Grove road.
The old Posey homestead on the high bluffs along the White river at Petersburg burned, destroying a relic of prewar days.
The board of county commissioners reported that a high powered fire engine pumper caused one thousand dollars of damage to the Warsaw courthouse roof during a demonstration.
A petition with 1,401 Warsaw residents names has been presented to the city council asking to repeal or amend the milk pasteurization ordinance so raw milk can be sold.
Seven farmers drawn for petit juror service in the Wabash Circuit court were excused by Judge Switzer after stating they are behind in farm work and cannot obtain laborers.
Charles Cox was fined 11 dollars for visiting a girl’s home in Anderson despite a health board issued smallpox card. He was arrested on the board’s complaint for violating health orders.
A large turnout of prominent men in Indiana attended the funeral for Paul P. Haynes former member of the Indiana public service commission and longtime Anderson attorney held at the First Presbyterian church in Anderson.
The Henry W. Lawton camp No. 55 and the Charles A. Zollinger camp No. 36 in Fort Wayne combined into a single large organization at a joint meeting of both associations.
The Republican state committee in Indianapolis accepted the resignations of state chairman Lawrence E. Lyons of Brook and vice-chairman Mrs. Daisy Barr of Indianapolis. The move follows Lyons stepping down from the top post and Barr exiting her leadership role.
John Fields twelve years old son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Fields of Bedford rode a train with friends toward Mitchell. He alighted at Salem missing his footing and his right foot was crushed by the wheels.
Rollin Gwinn aged 33 and Jesse Gwinn aged 32, half brothers from Anderson, were fatally injured when their car was struck by a Chesapeake & Ohio passenger train at Muncie. Leslie A. Cortner of Winchester named superintendent of the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors' Orphans' home at Knights Town. Cortner, WWI veteran, a Winchester High School and Purdue University graduate. Turn Verein Vorwaerts of Fort Wayne accepts invitation to host the 1924 Midwest meeting in Fort Wayne, with states Illinois Indiana Wisconsin Michigan Ohio and delegates from St Louis and Louisville represented.
A head on collision between passenger train No 2 of the Lake Erie & Western and a freight train near Oakland Ohio between Coldwater and Fort Recovery and near Portland is attributed to the death of George Bassler sixty one of Lima at the throttle of the passenger train.
In Muncie Circuit Court special judge L A Guthrie forfeited McKinley’s 1500 bond after he failed to appear for trial on a Hoover general store robbery in Wheeling. He was part of a quartet of automobile bandits who took over 200 dollars from the owner. the other members are already serving prison terms and one remains at large.
In Frankfort circuit court Mrs. Selah Pickard and her husband Ernest Pickard filed a petition for the adoption of their two children aged two and three born to Mrs. Pickard in a former marriage.
Rev. E. E. Moorman of Frankfort was elected president of the Indiana Ministerial association of the Disciples of Christ by the state convention. Moorman serves as pastor of the Frankfort Christian church.
In its off hours scientists explore crossing a wartime bug with the hookworm. The fragment hints at experimental aims amid broader wartime research context.
One advantage the phonograph offers is that when you want a dance piece it does not spring a bedtime story on you. The remark highlights preference for music playback over narrative interruptions in early entertainment.
The project spent 225000 dollars to build a helicopter that achieved a modest twenty foot ascent. Analysts note the venture may have been an expensive excursion for limited results.
A broad experience leads to the belief that more people care about substance and events than about prestige or status. The emphasis is on understanding issues and details rather than names and ranks.
A satirical note argues that clearing out all two-dollar bills would not alter human superstition. It frames currency quirks as a cultural myth rather than a measurable force shaping belief or behavior.
In a winter of starvation and cold across Europe, the public laments hardship while the continent envisions war in summer. Call grows for a decisive plan to address the intensified crisis and deter further suffering.
A small amount of additional yard work helps alleviate the feeling of time lost to previous chores. The effort adds momentum and routine, reducing backlog and restoring a sense of progress.
A provocative remark suggests that removing people one disdains would strip the world of energy and intrigue. The speaker argues that contrast and disagreement drive attention and debate.
A terse note warns that if Europe continues conflict and productivity stalls, the once strong dollar could buy only half the continent. The comparison highlights currency risk amid ongoing tensions and economic strain.
A playful quip about queenly status in a setting with mentions of Hugh Gladys and a jack handling.
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