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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1907
Page
5
A local retailer states all wash goods will be offered at a single price to clear current stock and ensure only new season merchandise remains. The plan centers on simplifying pricing to move leftovers and refresh inventory.
Readable display presents various materials organized by 12 Yec 15c 18c and 206. The window shows examples and prompts visitors to view them closely.
Sale offers dress goods at bargain prices for the remainder of the week. 36 inch black voile priced at 39 cents per yard. 45 inch black panama and 45 inch black silk finish mohair offered at reduced rates.
A fragment notes Danish cloth and yards with a mention of a black Henrietta item priced at $1.00 and a value code 789c.
Remainder of the week sales feature 36 inch black taffeta at 89 cents and 27 inch black taffeta discounts. Also listed are 27 inch black and white silks, plain and fancy waistings, and Banzai silks at reduced prices with various quality notes amid garbled text.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe cotton yardage and fabric terms including bleached toweling and aprons. The garbled text mentions measurements such as 17 inch cotton and 500 yards, but no coherent event or identifiable entities. The fragment offers limited factual anchors for a concise news item.
A fragmented textile advertisement details various fabrics including silk damask linens and cotton blends. It lists patterns described as fancy and floral, with yardage and price hints such as 12%6¢ values and 60 inch wide damask in bleached and unbleached varieties.
Classified line lists Ladies' underwear with 25c and 30c vests and pants. Also mentions 19 Ladies' 50c vests and pants, with price reductions of 29c.
Advertises specials on belts and purses including leather lined items at 69c and 25c hairbrushes, torchon, safety pins, and miscellaneous small goods. Mentions swastika and teddy bear hat accessories priced at 10c.
Our entire stock of white lawn waists has been placed in two lots. Prices show waists for 5.98 each.
A vintage price ad lists Ladies 20c vests Men’s 25c balbriggan shirts and drawers 19c Men’s 50c balbriggan shirts and drawers 89c indicating historical garment costs and inventory.
Pro P B Fitzwater will preach at the Dunkard Brethren church tonight on The Prodigal Son. Pleasant Valley M E church ladies host an ice cream social next Saturday evening August 24. Local visits and travel notes include Miss Florence Wilden in Goshen, Miss Helen Walden to Lima, Miss Nelle Calligan visiting Chicago, and others from Elkhart through the week.
The Home Guards of St Pauls church held an ice cream social on the church lawn last evening and cleared nearly $10. The First M E church South Bend Sunday School and the Northeast Elkhart U B church held a picnic on Island Park yesterday. Mrs W G Muzzy of Marion street entertained guests in honor of her sister Mrs Gamon of Chicago. Miss Blanche Perham, an elocutionist from Chicago, recited several pieces. Miss Hazel Lahomadieu and Miss Snyder gave piano selections. Light refreshments were served. guests departed praising Mrs Muzzy as a royal entertainer.
Lloyd C Hecht of Monroe street married Miss Elizabeth Hoover of South Bend at the groom’s home. The bridal party included Miss Hecht as maid and Ed Madison and Madge Spangler as maids as the ceremony opened promptly at eight with Mendelssohn music.
Weather record shows a high of 77 degrees and a low of 47 with southerly wind at miles per hour. Data covers the 24 hours ending today at 2 o'clock.
A local water color artist of modest reputation left this morning with a passenger and brakeman on the Lake Shore line. They are bound for Niagara Falls, Buffalo, and New York. They plan to return and be at home to friends in about two weeks.
One hundred fifty descendants of Daniel Moyer of Butler County Pennsylvania held a reunion at Island Park. A noon repast was served. Officers for 1908 were elected: President D. S. Moyer Vice president Ewa Moyer secretary J B Moyer treasurer Samuel Moyer. Distinct guests included H Bixler of Kansas Abe Moyer of Illinois George Foster of Benton County Indiana and Mrs Kate Buckwalter and son Frank of Garden Hill. The oldest attendee was Nancy Moyer aged 86 mother of J B Moyer. The reunion for 1908 will be at Island Park on the third Wednesday in August.
The Ninetys 2 descendants of Martin Stauffer of Lancaster County Pa met at Island Park for their fourth annual reunion. A sumptuous noon dinner was served. Officers elected to serve the coming year include President Emanuel Stauffer Filkhart Secretary Edgar Atin of Sterlis ne Be Treasurer Jacob Metzler of Wakarusa. The next reunion will be held at Island on the second Thursday in August. A photographer captured attendees.
Mrs Patten an early LaGrange County resident dies at 84 after supper dying in her bed with family at Valentine. John Barkey 71 dies at home northwest of Wakarusa. Mrs Frank Reed dies suddenly in Nappanee. funeral at German Baptist Church. Postmaster Miller’s wife 45 dies after lingering illness. survived by husband and two children.
This item notes Melcher P. Culp and Ty Monge discussing a plan to use a three cell restaurant concept in Minor City. Details are fragmented but indicate a local business decision.
The Buena Vista Plantation Co. annual stockholders meeting is held this afternoon at the Century Club. Attending from outside include J. Wm Marvin FLA Lyon I M Stewart Hindsale R E Clarke M D Campbell Otto Leanders Andrew Kerr Coldwater Dr W S Cockrell Mexico City Eugene Atkins Bristol Ron Wickwire W M Ellwood Behart.
Police report an incident this afternoon involving Inman Perry Inman who tried to dispose of several machinists tools by pawning them. He faces an intoxication charge and was locked up as investigators determine if the tools were lawfully in his possession.
Thomas A. Keith son of the Goshen Transfer Co proprietor recently graduated from Goshen High School and now earns a $15,000 yearly salary in the Orient. He represents the Great Eastern Shipping Co of Seattle and was last heard from in Hong Kong, China. His current voyage will circumnavigate the earth.
Fragmentary readable lines describe H Ee Bucklen and P L Turner dining together at the Bucklen hotel. A muted exchange hints at a minor incident and a claim for rightful damages connected to a prior event.
A fragmented OCR item from Opole highlights an anthropology event drawing local attention. Details are unreadable, but the piece references public curiosity and community engagement around the topic.
Mrs Eva A Smith aged years died Wednesday afternoon at her daughter Mrs S Shriber’s home 123 Prairie Street after an attack of cholera morbus She was widow of Speaker Smith and lived in Elkhart for may years Survived by three sons Thomas C Smith of Collinwood Gategon Henry Smith once a familiar Elkhart newsboy Funeral Sunday at 3 o clock at First Evangelical Church Rev J O Mosier in charge with interment at Grace Lawn cemetery
A prisoner known as Whisky Jack kept inmates awake and lively in the county work-house cell house last night. He staged a playful scene and entertained others, earning a release this morning after prosecution was waived. The notes say Morpheus avoided the iron cots as Whisky Jack kept up the banter and kept the mood light among the stone pile gang.
The report notes four years of devoted service from mission members including Dre Hoskins SOF Beirut Syria. It mentions the tragedy involving eight foreign missions and reference to $100000 per publication.
The City Attorney favored creating an automo bile patrol as an urgent measure while noting finances must improve before action. Absent councilmen Hazelton Hartman and Keely and the page continues with a shipping clerk ad seeking three years experience.
The report notes a shift in spending as ordinary citizens face higher prices, with every month bringing more purchases by residents of New York. Restaurants and small shops report a rising number of customers.
The report notes Japan and China use more mercury than most other countries and that its price has fallen recently. Mercury is used in making vermillion and, in Japan, largely in the compounding of a secret explosive.
Te We Palmer, director of agriculture in the Orange River Colony, has returned to Bloemfontein after a holiday in England. He says a large London firm is prepared to receive consignments from South Africa of locusts, poultry food, and related preparations for the bird and poultry sector.
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