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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1906
Page
4
Saturday at The Fair featured social events, weddings and church notices. The STANDARD announces mortgage of local cabinet line at $1 down and $1 weekly with premiums, plus plans for storm fronts and regional travel notices.
Promoters Will White and L L Canine reach agreement with local Improvement Association and Commercial Club to locate the hay press factory in Shelbyville Illinois. A site and eight thousand dollars cash are provided. deed held by Union Trust Co until twenty thousand dollars in wages are paid. Floyd Addition tract bought for four thousand dollars. half funded by promoters and half by the associations to build equity for the bonus. Building planned as a one story brick 80 by 150 feet with trussed roof and cement floor. Receipts from a school entertainment fund raise amounted to about two hundred dollars for the First M E church.
A packed West End school hall heard Mr and Mrs J Bassett Willard direct a 52 member student cast in a lively show titled Singin' Skule Begiment. The entertainment drew loud praise for performances by Grace Seitz as Polly Rumpus and Dwight Murphy with Alice Haas as Romeo and Juliet among others in what locals called one of the city's best events.
Prominent hospitals including Sisters of the Good Shepherd and Hospital St. John report Peruna provides relief for catarrh and related respiratory ailments. Letters describe improved coughs, fatigue, and tonic effects, with usage guidance and authorizations from Dr. Hartman.
Miss Jennie Smith, a railroad evangelist, spoke at a union meeting of church congregations at the First M. E. church last evening. She recited experiences from her work among railroad men and was well received for her fluent talk and have helped reform efforts.
A Bennettsville SC resident testifies that Electric Bitters restored his wife to health after years of dyspepsia and a torpid liver. The tonic is claimed to cure chills fever malaria biliousness lame back kidney and bladder problems, sold with guarantee by J H Spatterton at 50 cents.
The Board of County Commissioners met in regular session Monday and appointed John F. Goddard as county attorney at 3200 per year, reappointed Fred Boyd as courthouse janitor at 600, appointed Dr. D. W. Weaver as health secretary at 240, employed Dr. T. B. Gullefer to care for the sick at the Orphans Home and county jail at 76, and awarded Newton Brown a bridge repair contract east of Westport for 349.37. The usual bills were allowed.
Notice to customers stating Foley's Honey and Tar cough remedy contains no opiates or harmful drugs and is safe for children and adults. Prepared by J. H. Batterton.
The First M. E. church choir led by Miss Claribel Winchester will perform W. Dudley Buck’s The Coming of the King on Sunday evening December 23. A rich musical treat awaits and everyone is invited.
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