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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1912
Page
5
Leader's new ad appears while Col Madden will start the race at the Covington fair. Local notices mention real estate activity, new car arrivals, porch additions, nursing training, and numerous residents visiting nearby towns.
Ed Evans coal oil and gasoline outfit owner seeks share of trade. Barton Donaldson and Mrs Russell Allen return from wedding trip and stay with groom’s mother. W E Fleming of Bartlesville and Mary Rothrock of Attica wed, to live in Oklahoma. Covington Friend notes frequent fights on West side since county option ended. township option chosen now. O B Ratcliff buys Wilbur Young’s Metz and plans house to house canvass for judge race. J H Purfeerst and wife of Robinson visit, traveled to Frankfort and Indianapolis to see relatives.
D. J. Young & Co. asks customers who hold cement sacks to return them so the sacks can be sent back to Smith mills, which are pressing the company for repayment.
Covington welcomes guests to the Big Dance at the fair Thursday night with music by W. E. Brandkamp. Ladies admitted free while gentlemen pay 25 cents. The ad touts tailored suits at Mrs Ora LaTourette’s millinery store and promises quality, price and style. Also notes local editor Chester French visiting, and a Sluggers baseball game result 9 to 8. Dink Ridge opens a barber shop in Martin Hill room on South Fourth Street as Ridge plans to move to the city with family. Mr and Mrs Warren Jones from Parsons Kansas visit Henry Dicken and friends here. Jones recalls Wallace Lake farm and past ties to the area.
Mrs Homer Sewell visits Chicago two weeks. Lannie Cox returns from Muskogee Heights Michigan with views on Bull Mooser presence. Brick lay begins on new graded school replacing the fire-damaged building. first brick laid by William Goldbach Jr. Waugh Florey resigns county clerk deputy post for Lafayette Purdue engineering course. Leslie Harlow to replace him. 290 acres near Covington for sale at 140 dollars per acre with plowed land good fences and water. terms negotiable.
James Lincoln, farmer on the Samuel Born farm near Attica, was seriously injured Monday when Allen Warbritton struck him with a fork during a threshing dispute on Gail Boswell’s Romney area farm. Lincoln later died from the wound after being hospitalized. Warbritton surrendered to deputies.
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