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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1907
Page
3
H E Barnard state food and drug commissioner orders candy dealers to keep candies covered in stores through the holiday season. Merchants argued delays from uncovering displays hurt trade. Barnard said he cannot lift the order for a special time and that November coverage applies to the holidays as well.
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A Christmas entertainment synopsis reports a Christmas play to be staged at the Christian church in Newpoint next Tuesday. Santa contracts a grip but is cured by a US Grippe Tablet after visits from Uncle Sam Columbia and visiting royals. The finale features a star tableau and a return to delivering gifts.
Deputy Prosecutor Frank Hamilton and Miss Mary Frances Isgrigg wed at the bride’s South Franklin street home in a small ceremony officiated by Rev. W F Scoular. The couple, who left on the 2 02 p m train for Cincinnati, honeymooned in Covington and returned Monday. Hamilton, son of Mr and Mrs Everett Hamilton of Fugit township, is a 1905 graduate of the State University law school and a member of the Ewing Hamilton firm, with two years in deputy prosecutor service. The bride, a Greensburg socialite, is a city high school graduate and member of Tri Kappas and the Carmencita Club.
C. C. Lyon editor of Shelbyville Daily Republican will become editor of the Morning Journal in Dayton Ohio and begin work within days. He has spent the past year at the Star of Indianapolis as political editor and joins Dayton paper owned by George A. McClellan, former manager of Star League papers.
Bernice Collier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Collier, won the Fairyland baby contest. She received a large Teddy bear after polls showed her ahead by 371 votes in a tight race among four other entrants.
Shelbyville factory owner Charles A. Karmire receives a large order and plans to ship a car load of furniture to Paris, France, while sending a sample of his goods to Moscow, Russia, highlighting the town's rising fame abroad.
Rushville Indiana December 17 Walter Oldham thirteen year old son of a prominent county farmer shot his seven year old sister on the way to school with an old pistol. The bullet lodged in the girl’s back and may prove fatal. They were taking the pistol to shop to use in a Christmas exercise.
The second session of the Decatur County Farmers Institute is set for Newpoint today and tomorrow following a successful first session at Burney. Local attendees will travel by train, with departures at 8 58 a m and returns at 5 05 p m, ensuring full participation in the program.
The Board of County Commissioners met in extra session and accepted the pike built by Lowe & Craig in Sandcreek township after a complaint about quality. They appointed pike superintendents Will E. White Walker road Adams township Willie Williams Poor Farm road Clinton and David Seright Brookville road Clinton. Dr T B Guliefer again awarded medical services at the Orphans Home Jail and Poor Farm for 3800 dollars per year for 1908.
A Jackson township couple traveled to the city to obtain a marriage license but the groom’s intoxication led the bride to cancel the engagement. She acted promptly and decisively, affirming her choice and courage in ending the arrangement.
Harry Lathrop proprietor of the Lathrop Laundry recalls this is the sixteenth Christmas since starting the business in Greensburg and thanks customers for their patronage. Foreman Lucien Wiley and solicitor Chester Taylor have long tenures with the firm at its West North street location. The shop pledges careful service and to “return everything except the dirt” while wishing customers Christmas joys and a prosperous New Year.
The Sixth District School of Corn and Livestock Judging and Domestic Science opened in Rushville with a businesslike tone. Mayor absence aside, A L Gary delivered a sharp welcome, praising Rush county as a hub of advanced agriculture and Rushville as an ideal site for the first school. Prof G I Christie of Purdue gave the principal address on seed corn selection and care.
H N Christy died at his Delhi home Friday evening after a brief illness. Born near Westport in 1841, he spent his life in the county and ran a grain business. Survived by wife Elizabeth Hillis two sons Guy and Bert and two daughters Eva Roberson and Jennie Ganot, plus brothers Joshua Will Wallace John and sister Mae Woods Funeral held at home Wednesday.
Former Clay township resident Joseph M. Dodd died at his home in Wellington after a long illness. Born April 12, 1838 in Clay township, he lived near Horace before moving to Kansas twenty years ago. Survived by wife Hettie Sailors and son George, a Kansas City druggist, with a sister in Kingston. Civil War veteran of the Seventy sixth Indiana regiment. Funeral in Wellington Christian church Monday at 10 30 AM.
New court filings include Almira Sanders suing Elijah and Cadence Rogers for mortgage foreclosure. Oscar Pryibil sues Clyde Stagg on a contract dispute. Board of Children’s Guardians seeks custody of a child from Sylvia Ethel Leisure.
The Leggitt family expresses sincere thanks to neighbors and friends for kindness during illness and at Mrs Leggitt’s death. James Leggitt and family.
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