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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1902
Page
6
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Grover Brewer works on railroad grade near Sherwood while Chet Baldwin and wife host two brothers from Zenas. Andy Jones visits Frank Robbins in Rodney. James Taylor and wife visit from Gaynorsville. Don Hunter runs the engine at Baldwin sawmill. Flo Jessup visits A. E. Sucker near St. Dennis with children. Old Settlers Meeting begins Tuesday Aug 26 with anticipated great turnout.
Oscar Bowman of Lebanon Ry says Foley's cure gave him a permanent cure from kidney disease that would have cost him his life. He urges others to take Foley's and rely on it alone.
Mack Hazelrigg visits relatives in Mattoon with Sam Glass and wife visiting Hazelrigg's mother. Miss Mary Rhorer from Hartsville visits Miss Dessie Guthre. Mrs Zella Go and Miss Dora Hazelrigg ill with malaria. Will Roberts moves into Mrs Doggett's property. Forrest Logan of Greensburg visits Ed Shields family. Miss Lydia Snoddy of Indianapolis stays with friends. Lynch and wife of Seven Mile Ohio visit T J Shields. Carrie Stewart visits Westport guest of Zelda Gartin for Old Settler's Reunion. Mrs E Shields Bernice and Lydia Snordy attend 37th Indiana regiment reunion at Greensburg. Emma Wyatt of Kansas City and E Harris marriage announced for the 20th.
Look Pleasant, Please. Photographer C. C. Harlan of EBaton suffered untold agony from indigestion after years of failed remedies. Electric Bitters eased his dyspepsia and stomach troubles, rebuilding vitality. 50c guaranteed by Grover & Bonner, druggists.
Burney notes show Mrs Sharp Galbraith visiting relatives in Chicago. W A Miers attends the Franklin Fair. Master Braden Miers is seriously ill with appendicitis. Mort Luther and wife moved to John Luther's farm. Sharp Galbraith and Ed Bach were in Greensburg on business. Nellie and Mamie Minor of Boone county visit relatives here. Nellie Stewart of Vandergrift Pa visits aunt Mrs John Johnson. Mrs Emory and Miss Favors of St Paul guests of Sharp Galbraith. Mrs Davis and baby of Old St Louis visit daughter Mrs Josie Dean. Mrs Meseka and son Frank from St Louis Crossing visit here. Rev C C Bonnell of Browns Town to lecture Epworth League Tuesday night Sept 2. Everyone invited.
F A Galledge of Verbena Alabama paid doctors a vast sum for piles causing 24 tumors. After all failed Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him. It soothes inflammation and relieves aches and pains. 25 cents at Grover and Bonner's drug store. ml
Newpoint residents and surrounding towns appear in the social and civic briefs. Mrs Henry Wolfe and Miss Bessie Hilliard visit relatives while John Owens delivers a piano to Dr Jerman and families relocate. Democrats Dave Riddinger and local movers are active as gas company plans expansion.
J H Johnston of Broughton Ga writes that years of bronchitis left him unable to work until Dr King’s New Discovery cured him. He says his wife’s asthma also vanished and calls it the best croup medicine. Guaranteed bottles 50c and 1.00. Free trials at Groyer Bonners.
Hartsville reports visits by Mrs A N Graham of Greensburg and Mrs Douglas Moore of Indianapolis. Harlen Chamberlain from St Louis shakes hands with friends. The Christian church meetings concluded Sunday night. Mrs Thomas Rominger visits daughter in Calendonia Michigan. Attorney Austin Sweet of Terre Haute visits W H Beck family. Victor Carr of Trinity moves to Cal Carter property. William F Powell and Walter J Hughes of Indianapolis mentioned.
Residents and visitors gathered across Seymour Greensburg and Indianapolis with families hosting dinners and calls. U S officers arrested and fined Felix and Orlando Williams for illicit liquor sales and immediately licensed anew. A long list of guests included Mrs Esther Elliott Ida Collins Carrie Burney and many local families.
Mrs Curtis Baker of Bookwalter Ohio recalls an infantum cholera case where Cham berslain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy saved the child after doctors gave up. She reports full recovery in two days and recommends the remedy widely. For sale by Batterton. ml
Born to Fred Cromwell and wife last Friday morning a daughter. William Bartee made a business trip to Gaynorsville last Wednesday. Miss Jessie LeMasters of Indianapolis visited Mrs. Gartin's family last week. Emma Langhurst returned home from Cincinnati. J S Moir and family were in Chicago visiting his sister Mrs. Inkston. Mrs. Ed Dalton of Indianapolis visited William Ross's family last week. Pearl Stewart went to Sioux City to visit her brother John Stewart. Charles Glasscock moved into one of Simon McCullough's houses on the railroad. Mattie Cordin Lizzie Robbins and Clyde to Niagara Falls on excursion. Mrs. Lida Meredith Layton and husband of Winimac visiting here. A large delegation of G A R W R C visited Soldiers Home at Marion last Thursday. Mrs. Ellen Scripture rented her farm to her son Elmer and will move here in September. Mrs. Henry Hollensbe and children of Duoreith returned home after visiting Mollie Fulkerson. Fulkerson starts Monday for Springertown Illinois to visit Thomas Stevens.
Happy Hill residents report George Knorr still baking hay. William Barnes died Wednesday night. Fred Stier varnishes a buggy. Lizzie Hamer works for Mrs. Huckleberry. Frank Deweese seen on Sunday eve. Mr. Eubanks builds a rock bridge for Charles Ferris. Steve Stier prides a new baby girl born Tuesday. Charles Kuarr stops stone cutting to work on John Rob bins farm. John Alexander's oldest child died last Friday and was laid to rest in the Baptist church cemetery. A R Bass of Morgantown suffered nightly backache and kidney pains cured by Foley's Kidney Cure.
Middle Branch residents and relatives attend visits and gatherings. Edith Redington and Miss Ina Doles travel or return home from Horace and Newpoint. The Greensburg W C T U picnicked at Doles pond while local farmers attended Hardeback and Myers sale near Greensburg. Several neighbors visit Westport Old Settlers and Catholic services in Greensburg.
In Tientsin a German captain led officers to uncover a thief at the officers club. He summoned native servants and had them press their hands on a table. the culprit avoided the touch due to superstition, leaving his coal black hands while others were stained with oil and soot. The Chinaman confessed and vowed restitution.
A scientist tests magnet influence on a spider using a U shaped steel magnet. The spider slows, follows, becomes immobilized, then dies after a tumbler covers spider and magnet. The experiment ends with the spider dead and the magnet removed.
This item states that any person receiving a newspaper regularly is responsible for payment whether addressed to them or another. It adds that discontinued orders require full arrearages, and courts have ruled that not taking papers from the post office is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud.
The paper prints obituary notices of not more than 20 lines free. Notices over 20 lines billed at regular rates. Cards of thanks 25c. Societal resolutions treated as advertising. Church notices free unless a charity event charges admission. G A R W R C and Ladies Aid notices treated as church notices.
Frank J Cheney senior partner of F J Cheney Co declares the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The remedy is taken internally and acts on the blood and mucous surfaces. Send for testimonials free. Sold by Druggists.
A short linguistic note traces how words meaning to wag a tail recur in northern languages and connect to flattery. From Norman stagra to Danish logre and loger cen Dutch vieyden and vieydsteerten to German wedeln and English wheedle the idea of tail wagging links to flattering gain.
A Scottish farmer on market day carried a hen in his trap to train it to pick up what his horse dropped from its nosebag. The practice, observed by a friend, showed the hen learned to retrieve every discarded morsel, ensuring nothing was wasted.
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