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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
7
Readable fragments show Smith-Clark Co advertising Home Outfitters rugs at $18 each and Wilton velvet rugs for $18 at Stivers. Hawks Electric Company reportedly owns several large generators and ample supplies.
Local store promotes a quarter off on bed spreads with cheerful marketing. The ad highlights a nightly tea product by Geo. W. Rule and extols happiness and brightness as a result.
Hotel Blanchard repainted. D. M. Weybright and wife attend German Baptists meeting in Des Moines. Fred Conrad recovering from typhoid fever. Arthur Eckleberger moved onto John Rohrer farm east of New Paris. Children’s Day services planned at M E church. Local visitors include Mrs. Addie Paul and Mrs. Clinghouse of Ligonier. Baccalaureate at Goshen College attended by Mr. and Mrs. D H Fisher. Dr BE Stuckman to move family to New Paris occupying part of T J Juday’s residence. Mrs. Lewis McClure returns from Indianapolis hospital improved. New Paris ball team defeats Goshen Cubs 21 to 11. New cement walk laid before John Rohrer and Jacob Harshman residences. Rohrer adds veranda. Louis Whitehead dies in St Louis from heart disease. remains cremated and brought to New Paris for funeral and interment.
Mrs. C Rice returns to Toledo after a stay with Bristol relatives. Mr. Noe of Kimmel buys J M Lowell farm and reportedly sells at a substantial advance. Wes Wilson recovers from rheumatism. James Congdon and F R Nicholson visit Chicago. Congdon reportedly buys an auto. Danials siblings travel to Boston for summer. Rumor links the Stamps to move to Washington with Perry Stamp to occupy Bristol home. R P Probasco visits from Los Angeles and reports improving finances. proceeds to Houghton, Michigan to visit family. Wm Probasco’s mother and sister reside. Mrs Langworthy contemplates Lansing move for daughter’s seminary. William Probasco, a mining engineer graduate, noted. Bristol descendants of Robert and Catherine Cook hold a reunion in Elkhart. about 195 attend.
Crowe's ads tout new macabres and tea bargains while Crowe's and Smith-Clark Co. vie for shoppers. The piece lists deliveries, a rye bread offer, fruit specials, a tea social, free show tickets, and a 25 percent china closet sale at Silver's. Also notes a June clearance on hats, electric service, and a piece on Ora Brannon’s death. Mentions a plan for a garden hose ad, performances by Arthur F. Griffith and Tommy Linder, a mystery letter, and WGC T A flower mission day. Concludes with farm notes about dry soil and July harvest timing.
Three blocks of asphalt have been laid on South Sixth street and contractors expect to finish the job a week from tomorrow. The pavement should give good satisfaction and Sixth street will soon be one of the most beautiful residence thoroughfares in the state.
Local advertisement cites names Charles Edward Lander Pearl T Myers Charles N Worley Ida B Spencer and addresses Three Rivers Elkheart Hartford City Nappanee detailing Union suits Balbriggan and single garments for men women and children offered by Abe Kaats Clothing and Shoes for Mankind.
Attorney George Miles recalls a historic Sunday school record from Syracuse when it was a village with one union school. The document lists members including William Strombeck Julia H Thomas Maria Phebus H J Beyerle Eliza Kindig John Gordy Chas Strombeck Harvey Venamon Jacob Ott Emma Guy Sharon Hall and Adam Ketring now a boy. Beyerle Venamon and Sharon Hall later moved to Goshen with Beyerle the only one still living.
The Whitehead reunion will be held at West Side Park Milford on Thursday June 18. About 300 people are expected to attend, with descendants of the Lewis, Peter, Samuel, Valentine, Henry, Moses, Adam, David and John tribes gathered.
Captain Tom Halls of the United States secret service travels through Goshen Elkhart LaPorte South Bend Warsaw and other towns inspecting for counterfeit currency. Counterfeiting was found in LaPorte during the tour. The widow Langdon Smith sister of James McM Smith of South Bend died by suicide in Brooklyn after mourning her husband. She was 32 and formerly Miss Marie Antoinette Wright of Louisville Ky.
Last night the Postal Telegraph office inside the Elks Temple was entered and $10 stolen. The method matched the Turnock store burglary the prior night, marking a second break in the same building.
Charles N. Worley of Hartford City and Ida B. Spencer of Nappanee were married this morning at the county clerk's office officiated by Justice Whisler.
Ora May of Kendallville was arrested in Marshall Michigan on a charge of forging the name of Ora L Etter of Kendallville and securing money from John Watters. The case highlights a local fraud involving forged signatures and cross state activity.
The Warsaw Military band directed by Frank Umbenhour performed in the Knights Templar parade in Warsaw. Clothing offers summer shirts and straw hats in a wide range of styles and grades. Abe Kaatz operates Clothing and Shoes for Mankind in town.
A special session of the Kosciusko county grand jury will be held at Warsaw to address the county bank matter.
Rev. S. L. Slagle of Wooster Ohio has accepted a call to serve as pastor of the Presbyterian church at La Grange. The move brings a new leader to the local congregation and reinforces denominational ties in the region.
T C Little sold the Garrett Clipper to C B Hamilton who formerly ran the Fostoria Democrat in Ohio.
Miss McKinley of the West Side has fully recovered from a severe bout of typhoid fever. Lost a flannel baby shoulder cap. Mrs. Arthur Overholt, 721 South 9th Street. No 1 salt white fish by the piece at Poyaser's.
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