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Lulu Fettle is on the sick list.John L. Garten ol‘ Odon visited , relatives in Plainville last Sunday.The M., E. church cleared $19 at their cream festival on last Saturdaynight.David Burke makes final report on his melon -crop. On twelve acres he made $555.W. O. Littell left for West Point, Mississsippi, after a two weeks’ visit among relatives and friends.Robert Denny has traded his barber shop and a house and lot toFloyd Cox for some land on the old Alf Killion farm.Twenty-two tickets were sold here to the state fair on Tuesday morning. The agent was short on tickets and had to send five persons to Slnora to get tickets for Indianapolis. - .Brach Zackery, Mrs. Sarah Adaire and daughter of Knoxville, Tenn., are visiting the Foust families here.Robert Laughlin, who sold his farm at‘the Ten Mile house in Bo-gard township twenty-five years ago and moved to Kansas, is back on a visit for the first time since he left. Very few of his old friends knew him. Ke owns some valuable lands in Kansas.*A wild pony, belonging to a man by the name of Matthews, who lives in the Marsh, ran at full speed from Fair View church, a distance of four and a half miles, to Plainville without stopping. The buggy to which it was hitched was not damaged any. Attempts were made to check the i trantic brute but it continued its flight until it reached Plainville. 'Benjamin Feeney made public sale of his farming' property last Monday and will retire from farming.Aaron Roach, a pearl hunter on the banks of the Wabash, is in town He has two outfits and is gathering shells from the shore and sheckles from the land. He says the Jews do the speculating while the Gentiles do the digging. His stories on the pearl business are interesting. He says a man bought a duck for dinner and while dressing it found a $45 0 pearl in its craw. Another found a $75 pearl in a hog pen where the cooked mussels had been fed to the hogs.
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Washington Daviess County Democrat
Washington, Indiana, US
Sat, Sep 15, 1906
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