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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1908
Page
3
Kokomo shop Thalman and Levi promote an annual August clearance with deep cuts on silk dresses suits and lingerie. Sales include silk dresses from 15 to 40 dollars cut to single digits, lawn waists and waists with embroidered fronts, and colored wash goods at drastic reductions alongside household items and accessories.
Thousands of yards of New Fall Dress Goods arrive daily and go on sale at clearance prices. Various fabrics including muslin, gingham, sheeting, prints, cretons, ticking, challies, toweling, table linens, napkins, and bed spreads are offered at substantial discounts with many items priced well below original tag values.
The shoe department markets clearances with prices from 87c to $2.50. Bargains include Misses, Ladies, Mens, and Boys styles such as patent leather, calf, box grain, and John Kelly oxfords.
The Thalman and Levi store advertises a limited clearance with new fall stock and autumn goods. It urges shoppers to act fast to save on reduced prices during the sale week and avoid missing a rare opportunity.
Silk department promotes deep discounts on 36 inch black taffeta, peau de soie, novelty dress silks, colored taffeta, and satin chiffons with clearance prices. Includes 52 inch Sicilian lustre and 33 inch novelty worsteds dresses. mentions corset covers, drawers, gowns, petticoats and gloves with marked sale prices.
Wide range of discounted floor coverings and curtains with prices in cents and dollars. Includes rugs from 95 cents to 24.75, Brussels and Axminster prints, Wilton velvet options, numerous curtain styles, linoleum and oil cloth by yard, and assorted home accessories such as scales, wash supplies, and alarmingly low door rods.
Mrs Jas McClain spent Friday with Logansport friends. Harvey Gray returned home from Martinsville. Will Walker and wife will visit Michigan City tomorrow. Mr and Mrs John McConnell spent Sunday with relatives near Flora. Link McHale and wife returned from Switzerland County. Wash Harness and wife George Tritt and wife plan a Wisconsin fishing trip Friday. Mrs Mina Alcorn of Kokomo with Jessie and Vada Kirby visited the George Winterroad home Sunday. Mrs Jas Holman Geo Conwell and wife were called to Columbia City by the death of Mrs Conwell's sister. Frank Stanley and wife hosted John McIntoush and family, John Butler and family, Emmett Swafford and wives, Florence Burns, Retta Fissel, Bertha Slaybaugh and Josephine Rotherme at Speacapirt. Two men with two hand organs and two monkeys entertained local youngsters Monday.
Mr. W. Stone of East Poland Maine recommends Bucklens Arnica Salve for sore feet burns sores cuts and abrasions. He says it is the proper thing also for piles and notes the product is sold with a guarantee by Galveston Drug.
Sunday School at 9 30 preaching at 7 45 invites all to the day’s services with special music Center service at 10 30 last of the year Rev H Clark preached here last Sunday and at Otterbein Bro Clark praised for zeal and power missionary money telescope subscription due pastor to report Y P C U social at Miss Maud Eck’s this evening promising a good time
H B Nichols of Oakland Ind Ter extols Chambertains Colic Cholera and Diarrheex Remedy saying it cures quickly. A commercial traveler for eighteen years vouches for its reliability and notes he never travels without the remedy. Galveston Drug Co promotes the product.
B B Richards appointed and qualified as Administrator of the estate of Frank B Marshall late of Cass County Indiana deceased. Estate supposed solvent. Dated August 25 1908.
Rev Roase arrives home from Winona Tuesday. Will Logan and wife visit Galveston friends Monday. Oral Barr of Goldsmith guests Ot Pearcy and wife over Sunday. Harness of Kokomo staying with Oliver Harness west of town. S Z Scott and wife depart Monday for Minnesota. W S Lines family visit near Miami. Mrs Millie Meek at daughter Maggie Blue's home sick near Flora. High School Alumni football game draws interest. Cornell family reunion at Spencer Park. Eugene Masters attend Wawpecong schoolmate reunion at Kokomo. Galveston Eastern Star hosts Center Star Lodge degree ceremony with banquet. School begins September 14. Sam Sprinkle visits Logansport Friday. A J and Mrs Haynes of Kokomo visit Galveston. Lawrence McDonald recovering from typhoid fever. Chester Purdy and Lena King visit Logansport. Folding bed and wardrobe for sale by Mrs Jno MCCONNELL. Pansy Robertson returns from Kokomo visit. Cave troughs offered to keep dry around home or barn. W H LaHirey notes new goods this week and Catherine Gillespie to trim hats again.
I have private funds ready to loan on the right security and several million foreign money at low rates for farms. Arranged to write farm or town property insurance on favorable terms. See me, 26 27 B. B. Richards.
In Galveston Indiana a benefit social will be held at the Red Men's hall on Saturday night August 29 to raise funds for Ashton Rays who needs an eye operation. A Kokomo orchestra will provide music and proceeds support the patient. A testimonial notes Chamberlain's Salve cured long standing sore eyes.
The report shows total receipts from all sources of Special School Revenue 81 483.06 and Tuition Revenue 84 285.04. Expenditures run 1 300.44 and 3 358 00 respectively with balances on hand 182.62 and 1 027.04. J A Rodibaugh, Treasurer. Board of Education.
Sunday visits in Indianapolis include Jay Makin and Mrs Holman. G W McCoy acts as agent for The Kahn Tailoring Co. in Indianapolis. Homer Sprinkle and Frank Dag spend early week in Chicago. Rev Sickafoose and family visit Marion and stay with Prof Ora Butz. Catherine Gillespie attends Millinery Opening for Mrs Lytle’s store in Indianapolis. Mr and Mrs I N Holman J W Holman and spouses, and W F Holman and spouses visit Sleepy Hollow. Birthday dinners honor Mrs Dick Wills Mrs Clara Kivett Mrs C A Sickafoose and Miss Dora Poundstone at the U B parsonage.
O M Shirley trustee of Jackson Township announces office days at his residence on Tuesday and at Galveston Drug Co drug store in Galveston Indiana on Friday each week. Mrs John Mills hosted a Wednesday dinner at her Galveston home. Attendees included Mrs R W Joses of Indianapolis Mrs R W Myers Arcadia Mr and Mrs Cecil Coomler and son of Chicago Mrs Will Daniels Theo Daniels and Miss Martha Coomler of this city.
State Fair in Indianapolis runs September 7 to 11 1908. Indiana Union Traction Co promotes clean cool travel with ample equipment and frequent service. Mrs D A Zehring joined the Logansport quartet at the Shelbyville Soldiers Regimental Reunion on August 16 and will sing in Martinsville next year.
Mr A Robinson of Drumquin Ontario credits Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets as the best medicine he ever used for years of indigestion. The ad promises relief for indigestion or constipation, noting easy to take tablets with a pleasant taste. Price 25c samples free at Galveston Drug Co.
Bourbon Santos coffee advertised at 15¢ per pound at McCoy's. A baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Frank McConnell on Saturday. Rent notice for a two story building in West Manchester Ohio. Will Frier and family plan a visit to Oplar Grove and will attend the Old Settlers Meeting in Burlington next Saturday. Valparaiso University to begin its thirty sixth year September 8 1908 with lower expenses and thorough instruction. Sunday School excursion to Lake Maxinkuckee with about eight hundred participants from Galveston Lincoln Walton and Anoka. Jay Makin credited for organizing the event.
Mrs Chas E Smith of West Franklin Maine endorses Dr Kings New Life Pills describing them as effective and easy to use. The Galveston Drug Co sells the purifiers. The Cass County teachers institute at Logansport runs Aug 31 to Sep 4 with attendance records and a two percent raise added to daily wages for those not absent or tardy. Beginning teachers receive the same two percent boost to their scholarship grade.
John H. Zirkle of Phillips West Virginia reports his sixty year old father suffered chronic diarrhoea for years until using Chamberlains Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. One bottle cured him and he has been well for eighteen months. Sold by Galveston Drug Co.
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