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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1907
Page
4
Charles W. Stivers announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Representative in Congress from the Sixth District. He plans public addresses in the district’s home counties and will meet voters as they hold nominating elections and conventions next spring.
St Louis Globe Democrat notes the Jacksonian Club in Omaha will host a January 6 banquet where Mr Bryan speaks. It predicts a reconciliatory program pardoning gold Democrats who backed the gold standard, framing it as political amnesty and a test of party unity.
Charles W. Stivers editor of the Liberty Herald backs a district wide direct primary for Republican congressional nominees. The Herald cites other counties holding primaries and asks that Fayette Henry Wayne Union and Bush hold the 1908 primary on the second Monday in February to let Republican voters decide all nominations.
The thirty seventh annual Indiana State Grange session met in Aurora last week. Leaders elected include Major Aaron Jones of South Bend reappointed as head. F J Robinson Overseer. M J Banks Lecturer. Arch Stinson Steward. S J Liscownski Assistant Steward. Rev J F Jackson Chaplain. L B Robertson Secretary. J W Holmes Treasurer. J E Bell Gate Keeper. Captain L S Fitch Executive Committee member. Ruth Sandin Ceres. Mrs M E Tristman Pomona. Mrs Carter Flora. Mrs Gurton Lady Assistant Steward.
A printed hunter warning on muslin is offered at this office for five cents each.
The Farmer's Short Course at Purdue University runs January 13 to 18 1908. It targets corn growers stockmen dairymen horticulturists and homemakers with lectures demonstrations scoring judging and practical instruction. Indiana Corn Growers Association holds its event January 15 along with Acorn and fruit show premiums and exhibits offered. Programs available from J H Skinner Dean of the School of Agriculture Lafayette Indiana.
The Kingston Literary Society held a Friday night meeting debating whether Congress should appropriate funds for legitimate campaign expenses. Affirmative speakers were Tom Hamilton Will Robison and Henry Dravis with judges siding in their favor. Next meeting will study Bible in public schools.
John Garrett of North Mills N C says after forty years with a stubborn sore Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured it. The product is guaranteed for piles burns and similar ailments by F M Henry Co druggists.
Indiana data show Switzerland and Ohio counties without railroads. Records from 1905–1907 cover state area, population, railways, factories, farms, and crops including wheat corn oats tobacco and potatoes. Notable figures include Bartholomew County as population center and 646,085 state population in 1906.
Charles Wolfe, a well known police figure in Connersville Greensburg Shelbyville and Rushville, returned to town Friday and after drinking at rum shops began a violent spree in jail. He beat his tin cup pounded bars with a small scale and torn his clothes while raving through the night.
A lengthy Indianapolis Star notice chronicles Gen Thomas J Lucas of Lawrenceburg, a Mexican and Civil War veteran who rose from adjutant to major general. He later served in internal revenue, as Lawrenceburg postmaster, ran for Congress, and at 81 volunteered for the Spanish American War. He advocates a volunteer retired list bill in Congress.
The Appellate Court affirmed Frank T. Fallis’s conviction for failing to obtain a peddler license in Gas City. It held the city ordinance definition aligned with state law, which defines a peddler as one who sells or offers to sell merchandise directly to customers by going house to house or by taking orders for future delivery. The court noted prior Supreme Court interpretations corroborating this construction.
Clara Shaddy of Cross Plains Ripley county writes a verse in the Versailles Republican praising Old Ripley as a sheltering refuge from storm and fear. She contrasts raging winds and troubled seas with the comfort and warmth found in a loved one’s embrace and kiss.
Ex mayor John W Holtzman of Indianapolis says Vice President Fairbanks will be the Republican nominee at the Chicago convention next June. He argues Roosevelt’s renominating decision weakens Taft, while Hughes Knox and others lack strength, leaving Fairbanks as the sole viable front runner.
An ad notes public speakers are often interrupted by coughing and promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as a cure for colds and coughs. It claims the remedy prevents pneumonia and consumption, notes it contains no opiates, and mentions a yellow package with J. H. Batterton. ml Pat aes
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