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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1900
Page
4
The Greensburg Standard lists QLAYTHEE D Braden as Epior. WOAH T Rogers as Associate Epior terms. A note on county terms appears with a one year out of county option and in county payment terms, including a $1.50 advance and $100 amount referenced.
Friday December 28 1900 local column reports visitors and social calls from Cleveland Franklin and Indianapolis. Mentions appointments, travel, club names and a public sale of 300 plus horses in Cambridge City. Also notes discourse on marriage and divorce and moral questions stirring churches and politics.
H B Sherman argues against primary election laws in The News, claiming they empower county-seat politicians, depress rural voting, and invite manipulation. He proposes township delegates meeting before county conventions to name tickets, urging residents to reject primary laws as costly and divisive.
William J. Bryan announced plans to start a weekly newspaper named the Commoner to defend Kansas City platform principles. He will serve as publisher and editor with Lincoln as the publication city, aiming to address social economic and political issues while funding his family and allowing lectures in college towns. He will handle writing with pencil and expect to hire staff later.
Renick Hamilton of West Jefferson Ohio suffered 18 months from a rectal fistula. Doctors warned of death without a costly operation, but he cured himself using five boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The salve is advertised as a reliable pile cure, priced 25 cents per box and sold by Grover and Bonner druggists.
Frank G. Carpenter notes in the Christmas issue that war delays hinder the Eastern Chinese railway project. The line extends beyond Mukden, about 280 miles from Port Arthur, marking only a fraction of the route through Chinese territory to Siberia. The concession allows Russian and Chinese stock with bonds under Russian government control and places the head offices at Bt.
The project envisions a Russia managed line from St Petersburg toward Peking with Russia building maintaining and protecting it. Russian officials will carry mails free and materials will be duty free. Much of the rolling stock comes from the United States and the Russians favor American machinery. Manchuria’s population of about twelve million suggests initial success.
Protracted meeting began at As bury Monday night and will start at the C U church on January 19 1901. The C U church hosted a Christmas cantata. John Galoway is building a fine fence on Jennings farm. Cort Stansbury is visiting his mother for the holidays. Hyde comedian show scheduled at the hall Friday night. Wirts Co of Grammer bought oak timber from John Gatoway’s new farm. Joe Green bought the Foster house on J H Shafer’s farm and moved it to town. Telephone line conversion transfers line from east to west side with cedar poles. Rev E C J Dickens resigns Bear Creek pastorate to accept Burney full time. Burney secures him as pastor. He reportedly returns to Georgia to bring a life partner. wishes for a long happy prosperous life.
The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Decatur county Indiana appoints A. P. Bone administrator with the will annexed of the estate of John C. Deacon, deceased. The estate is asserted to be solvent. Dated Dec 13 1900.
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