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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1901
Page
1
A wide scan of notices from Covington and surrounding towns shows residents traveling to Danville and Williamsport, purchases at Loeb's stores, and upcoming events. Highlights include J L Townsley and Anna Phelps trading, Clarence Board visiting Ann Arbor Law School, and a July Fourth wedding planned at the Crawfordsville fairgrounds with a 500-dollar gift pool.
The Covington Woman's Club hosted the Danville Clover Club last Friday. Guests arrived by noon, toured the city, and gathered at Mrs. Lucas Nebeker's home for an afternoon program including greetings, readings, music, and We ll wishes.
N. E. Palmer of Kirkman Ia reports a gasoline stove explosion burned a woman badly. Doctors could not hear the running sore that followed but Bucklen's Arnica Salve completely cured her. For cuts sores boils burns and piles 25 cents at LeRoy Allen's.
The Covington newspaper outlines a plan to publish a handsome half tone illustrated number of the Republican to showcase natural gas wells coal prospects and railroad chances. It will feature street scenes public buildings churches schools private representations and portraits with C L Howell leading the project.
T M Ratcliff of Silverwood leaves with four threshing outfits forMWNingfisher Oklahoma to shell the crop. A lively depot scene accompanies their send off as a jolly group of sixteen, including A M Ratcliff wife and others. Also Mil ton Varient and Miss Nina Metsker wed by Rev Ogden outside Frank McDermond's store. Loeb's Stores offers one hundred dress fabrics.
Julian Martin plans building six modern cottage homes on Sixth and Liberty streets with rental units. A new Masonic lodge number 636 was chartered at Yeddo with George F. Lines as W M L and other officers. Social events include Mrs Ross Crawford hosting guests with a whittling and sewing contest won by Bertha French and Harold Crouch. A Covington wedding unites Lee Harter and Fannie Lebo with a band serenade. The Sant Gray family reunion draws about seventy guests in Montgomery county. Other items mention a Big Four excursion, a K of V dance, and Indiana Sunday School Association gathering in Shelbyville.
The piece extols the landscape around Coyington, praising every hill and dale as nature's best work. It notes furrowed fields, winding rivers, grain, woodland, and the interplay of sunshine and shadow creating living color unmatched by any artist.
An order reaches the city to repair the round house and turntable as a possible prelude to a Chicago bound C E L train, with Attica as the southern terminus. The Kickapoo gravel pit is set to open. James Twiddy faces a libel charge over a saloon license dispute, while State Geologist Cratchley releases Indiana’s twenty fourth annual geology report. Dr King’s New Life Pills touted for health and malaria relief.
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