Local notes mixed with town events and notices
Mesdames Ross and Davis hosted relatives in Monon. Moulding and Framing dept now offers full picture framing. Mrs Jentz returned from Medaryville. Higgins and Co give away free 42 piece dinner sets with purchases. Readers hear a quip about senators and millionaires. County taxes seek back payments totaling 2128.36, plus 32 255 remembered. Royal Center curfew targets unmarried girls at night. A Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern train fatality prompts burial in Mitchell. Local visits and regional celebrations noted. Ditch case postponed to September. Local option votes update: Harrison dry, Floyd and LaPorte wet. Old deeds surface in law records. Bruce Lake plans a 50 000 hotel. A partial solar eclipse forecast for June 17. Medaryville reports on a patented cement railroad tie.
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Maude Brown
Knox
Ben Markley
Jacob Goble
Monon
Monticello
Medaryville
Francesville
Laura Nicols
Kokomo
Maud DePoy
Frankfort
Ind
L. N. Hollett
William Schleman
County Board of Review
Mark Fritz
Jefferson
Solomon Conn
Winamac
T. B. Hedges
Rees
Louise
Margaret Degner
New York
Paul von Tobel
Hungary
E. L. Clark
Wanda Meade
J. F. Warren
Warren
Oklahoma City
Ernest Mason
Frand Rapids
William Porter
Harrison County
Floyd County
LaPorte County
Jacob’ Malchow
White Post Township
Surprise Party In Gillam Honors Julius Marion
Friends gathered at Geo s home on Saturday evening for a surprise party honoring Julius Marion. Refreshments and music filled the event with many attendees listed, including William Watson Roy Watson Roby Stein Rocky Baker Schoonover Culp Tillett Rosen Osborne Hermanson Parker Robin Stevens Watson Kauffman Turner Logan and others. A guest list details the social gathering and local acquaintances.
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Julius Marion
Geo
Agd
Messrs
Wiliam
Roy Watson
Fred Roby
Ray Stein
William
Ernest Rocky Elmer
Ova Baker
el Straight
Ross Schoonover
Faris
Grover Culp
Clinters
Leslie Tillett
True Rosen
Judson Osborne
Mr Ethel
Dina Hermanson
Ma Rockwell
Nellie Osbo
Blanche Parker
Cora Robin
Minnie
May Stevens
Lia
Oe Watson
My Kauffman
Sir Turner
Thom Logan
Woman Answers Marriage Proposal in One Month
An Atchison girl, asked for time to decide on a marriage proposal, visits four married sisters to weigh life after marriage. Each sister reveals hardships: one with three children and no theater, one supporting a husband, another constrained by her husband’s presence, and a divorced sister. She returns home, writes a reply: she can be ready in a month.
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Atchison
Atchis Globe
Childr
Anothe
Local doctor offers diabetes cure without drugs or surgery
S. U. Dobbins advertises Prof. Braun Myself as principal instructor at Braun Health Institute Bloomington. He claims numerous patients including White county residents were cured and invites all sufferers to meet Braun next Monday with free consultation if accompanied by the head of family. The event runs rain or shine for one day only.
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Prof. Braun
The
Braun Health Institute
Bloomington
Ill
Braun
White County
S. U. Dobbins
Veterans' graves may lose markers without support
A Francesville veteran urges providing grave markers for soldiers buried in the cemetery east of town. He warns that as veterans pass on, surviving residents must continue the custom of decorating graves to honor them. Buy your Chair Seats at W. J. Hubbard's.
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Francesville
W. J. Hubbard’s
Protect Bob White Habitat With Feeding Grounds
A plea to conserve the bob white by creating feeding and shelter on unused plots. Plant sugar cane broom corn on a quarter acre to provide cover and seed, then monitor and aggressively deter hunters near the site.
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Bob White
Bob
Indiana
Insanity Plea Trials Highlight New Indiana Law
In Indianapolis criminal court George Sloan aged 24 faced grand larceny charges and pleaded insanity under the new law. He later said he preferred a guilty plea and penitentiary to indefinite confinement in a department for the insane. The case suggests kleptomania and murder motives may be treated as insanity.
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Michigan City
Indianapolis
George Sloan
Sloan
Forestry in Schools Gains Wide Attention in U S
Forestry draws growing interest from colleges to elementary grades. Universities add forestry programs and schools integrate the subject into high school curricula. Teachers report it engages children, sharpens observation, and provides practical, tangible material for study.
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United States
Old Soldiers Decorate on Decoration Day Amid Rain
A Decoration Day observance at Nauvoo was partly rained out in the morning but resumed later with L. W. Hubbell delivering an oration. He honored Civil War veterans and spoke on slavery, union preservation, and the valor of G A R members and veterans from the Spanish American War in 1898.
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Nauvoo
L. W. Hubbell
Fort Sumpter
Lincoln
Union States
Southland
High Heaven
South
Union of States
The
Blue
Gray
United Government of States
Reopening Abandoned Rural Schools Debated
The 1907 law required trustees to close schools with fewer than twelve attendees if transport was feasible. The 1909 law allowed reopening if attendance reached twelve or more or if a majority petitioned the trustee. An attorney general ruling says petitioners must show more than a few scholars to compel reopening. A test case may settle the issue.
Summer Goods by Gutwein & Sons
Gutwein and Sons advertise a large summer goods display with fly nets dusters stable blankets and a wide range of harness and horse furnishings offered at quality and affordable prices to attract customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gutwein & Sons
The Telephone Girl
A poem portrays the quiet telephoner who knows every gossip and secret, able to ruin reputations and spark townwide trouble if she revealed what she knows. It notes the power of idle knowledge and the consequences of secrets among townsfolk.
Bus Runabouts Demonstration Ahead of Orders
The Bush Runabout by M. M. Ocker of Medaryville is advertised as the agent for the famous Bus Runabouts. A demonstration is offered before placing orders.
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M. M. Ocker
Medaryville
Improve Your Property With Fresh Paint This Year
If you plan to upgrade your property this year, consider painting. We offer paint in any quantity and promise fair prices and satisfaction. IJ E Tillett, the druggist.
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IJ. E. Tillett
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Mesdames
John Ross
Chas. H. Davis
Blue Front Drug Store
John Jentz
Higgins and Co’s
Fulton County
Chicago
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pension Department
Royal Center
Marshal Gaby
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
Mitchell
Recorder Stipp
Philip Sickman
Levi Burker
Tippecanoe Township
Lawton
Winamac Democrat Journal
Cordelia
Bruce Lake
Kewanna Herald
Bruce Lake Hotel Company
Keen & Mather
San Francisco
Brownsville
Texas
Richard How
How
Pulaski County
Democrat
Gillam
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