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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1905
Page
1
Sunday visits abound as Sylvia Lint, Emily Fish, Anna Doster, and others travel between Hillsdale Eden and surrounding towns. Local bargains shine with Adrian wire fence sale and Cameron's drug store supplies. Community updates include farm trades, church sales, school events, and a Hadermann musical program at the opera house.
The new drainage law passed last winter is bulky and hard to explain. It allows the county surveyor to control ditch repairs, bidding powers, and contracts, with four dollars a day plus assistant pay, while notices run ten days in township spots and courthouse doors. Farmers fear cost hikes but some see county surveyors benefiting.
Two well known citizens explored the town’s red light district to prove the adage that half the world does not know how the other half lives. They visited the so called ten derloin without police protection, found unwelcoming venues yet returned convinced that local life mirrors distant cities.
A letter to Dr. C A Moore in Fremont offers $1000 plus payment for any chemist who finds adulteration in Devoe lead and zinc paint. It touts Devoe as the best paint and claims superior coverage and durability versus lead and oil. The note ends with a postscript naming H C Cameron as the seller’s agent in New York and Chicago.
The reports praise Miss Sidney Farmer for her expressive elocution and voice development at Hall's opera house on Monday evening. Attendees also commend Miss Jennie Hadermann for cornet solos and duets with strong training and virtuosity amid enthusiastic applause at Robinson Park.
Two Chicago youths, stuck in Indiana after a gravel train setback, speak in a rough local slang while trying to travel west. They explain their misadventures in Chicago slang and discuss trips to California before switching to eastern routes.
D. H. Buck will buy hay for C. A. Herkin in Fremont and vicinity at the highest market price. The notice invites farmers to sell hay and states ongoing purchasing efforts in Angola for buying hay.
Nicnoxs Bros. offer farm loans at 5 percent and provide abstracts of titles along with land buying and selling services. Visit Bachelor Block, Angola, Indiana.
Real estate transfers across Indiana settlements listed by Nichols Bros Abstractors of Titles Angola. Transactions include parcels in Otsego Salem Jamestown Ashley Lake James Scott and Fremont among others with prices ranging from $1 to $7500 for various lots and acres.
The first Hughey family reunion took place August 24 at the home of Mr and Mrs James Johnson seven miles north of Freemont. About fifty attended including Wi Hughey and wife from Marion Ohio John Hughey and wife Mrs Ellen Jackson Mrs Rada Cole and Fred Hughey from Mendon Michigan Mrs Will Griffith from Toledo Ohio and J A Hughey from Jackson Michigan with relatives from Coldwater Quincy Angola and Fremont. Ice cream cake and fruit were served and a short talk and prayer closed the day.
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