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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1906
Page
7
Personal mentions include Mrs C W Dice improving nicely and Jim Allen Sr and Guy Baker traveling to Indianapolis. Visitors Fletcher Wilson Elmer Coats Francis Smith Julius DeLancey and A Wagoner are noted. Burton's Clearance Sale features shirts hats and neckwear while three specials at The Leader attract attention. Regular excursion to Indianapolis announced for Sunday.
M. Board's Furniture Store promotes rugs and Oxford styles while Burton's Clearance Sale launches June 9 for 10 days. Visitors include L. R. Barkley and James Barkley of Chicago, Mrs. Zeigler and child from Attica, and Russell Campbell of Engle, New Mexico returning to his old home.
Local ads promote Burton's clearance with clothing bargains and housewares. Notables include John Bilsland's new house, a M. E. Walker fruit farm, job moves, and a call to install a courthouse clock. Community events feature marriages, family visits, and Masonic celebration reports.
Sam Ritchey visits home with Harry Spining from Attica while Mrs. M. Ritchey travels to Peoria after a friend's death. Danville and Indianapolis guests stop by. Burton's offers furnishings. Pearl Board returns from Mundie. A baby boy is born to Dr. Martin and his wife, with grandparents Arthur and Mrs. DeHaven delighted.
S F McConehey of Attica aimed assessor business Monday. FOR SALE a one horse wagon and harness. N M Keerns Covington Ind. Albert Bostic and wife Danville visited relatives Sunday. Steam shovel left Mound City Friday to Urbana for repairs as the big pit nears Rogers farm opening. L P Little offers farm loans from Covington. Fred Randolph and son Hallie of Fulton in Covington Monday. Gordon St Clair of Chicago, son of Robert St Clair, visiting in Veedersburg en route home.
FOR SYLE A 5 room house good cellar cistern summer kitchen and orchard All in good repair at a bargain Rev Palmer received notice Wednesday morning of the death of A D Young an uncle of Huntington He left on the evening train for that city to attend the funeral W A Brown of the Brown Settlement was in the city Saturday looking after interests Will was for years a railroader but has retired and finds farm life far more congenial Plenty of fine cedar posts Come and see them J L Townsley
For Chattel Loans in small sums go to L P Little Covington Ind. if The West Section of the Big Four is now working some twelve or fourteen men for the summer. William Vice was badly injured last week while working on the Isaac Harber residence when scaffold was thrown from the roof. He was struck in the side and two ribs broken. He is now able to be about again. See our carpets M Boord.
Mrs. S C Kaufman traveled to Mackinaw Island to aid her aged mother Mrs Sargent then returned home after a Sunday visit. Mrs Eliza Thornton wife of John Thornton Hillsboro was declared insane and admitted to Central hospital by Sheriff Hardesty. EK M Board spent Sunday in Chicago visiting his daughter Mrs J W Gillard and noted the Gillards have moved to a new home.
The Newtown Baptist church was dedicated on Sunday with an $8000 edifice funded before ordination. Sig Leon, a former resident, married Ida Lowenthail of Chicago in Kokomo with a Grand Pacific reception. Dr. Eva Nebeker, Indianapolis Medical College graduate, returned home worn but hopeful for future practice.
Help sought for picking berries and peas at C. W. Welchel fruit farm. We offer liberal wages and seek good boys girls and young women.
Florist sale offers scarlet sage geraniums cannas coltons and many other plants at low prices. Special sale today and tomorrow. Visit C. W. Welchel, fruit grower, to see bargains.
A first combination horse sale will be held at Sam Simms livery barn in Covington Indiana on Saturday June 16. All parties with horses for sale are asked to consign them as demand is strong. A $2 per head commission applies. teams sold together incur no extra charge. Wagons harness and farm equipment may also be consigned. For details contact Sam Simms Covington or auctioneer T W Cosat.
Dr A C Fears, graduate of South Bend Optical College, has upgraded and opened optical parlors over W B Coleman’s store on the square. The office features eye charts and an opthotmeoscope, offering free eye tests and one year guarantee on all glasses.
Fountain County Judge Milford Adams presided over the per mitting saloon offense trial of Jrs Robinson and Thomas Ansberry in Veedersburg. Each man received the minimum fine of 10.00 plus costs, with a warning that a second offense would bring six months in jail and license revocation. The remarks targeted saloon conduct, signaling tough law enforcement in the county. Also noted: Oliver Harlow of Crawfordsville hosted Nate Harlow's guest, and Rena Davis visited from Danville.
KC Davis, father of Albert Davis, left Thursday morning for Waverly Iowa to spend the summer with his daughter Mrs William Beebe.
Esquire Vincent of State Line staying at the Lafayette Soldiers Home visited Covington Saturday. The Squire shows little change but grows older. Auditor Bell returned to his office Monday after a week at Lithia springs with Mrs Bell slowly improving. friends wish for their speedy recovery.
The infant daughter Helen Maren Bybee died Friday from a complication of diseases at about one year old. Funeral services were held Sunday with interment in Cooper cemetery. Hon. A. P. Burnside visited from Greencastle on Tuesday and Wednesday to assess personal and estate interests. The family plans not to return to the farm this year. Mrs. W. E. Biggs of New Rockford, N C, has stayed with the Henselmans since last Thursday and will visit relatives in Lebanon on Monday for a couple of weeks.
John Gregory, editor of the Williamsport Republican, was nominated by .440f a vote for joint Representative of Benton and Warren counties in Oxford. Before the vote was announced a correction moved, changing ballots and defeating Gregory by one vote plus a fraction. Edle Zeis of Oxford was nominated amid reported bad feeling over the result.
A week of Fountain County real estate transfers shows Philip P. Griffin selling Covington parcels to C. M. McCabe and related tracts totaling 30 acres near Wabashin and Fowler. Lief and Zeigler parties in Attica receive RB acres and part of block 27. Other entries include Nathaniel V. Davand with J. W. Hayes in Fairview add Hillsboro, E. R. Kent selling to Pleasant V. Root in Newtown, Mary J. Rateliff with husband conveying Int 840 in Sterrett-NM Summers transfer to John M. Summers Millcreek, J. W. Haveston and Wm. M. Lyon, and Stuffleheam to Clara B. Harrison in Attica. Further entries list Moweny to Hitch in Veedersburg and additional lots in Hillsboro and Attica.
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