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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1908
Page
2
The Kerr brothers evangelists closed their Shelbyville revival Sunday and will open a joint Greensburg Methodist gathering next Sunday. The Shelbyville News notes Rev W Kerr preached from John 12 21, urging faith to see Jesus. The special series ended with fruitful results and spiritual refreshing for the church.
The Kingston Literary Society debated the motion that domestic science aids digestion of civilized man. Mrs. W. K. Stewart Mrs. A. M. Brown and Luther Donnell spoke for the affirmative while Mrs. Will Robison Earl Hamilton and Henry Dravis spoke for the negative. Audience volunteers illustrated contrasts between cooking methods, and the judges sided with the affirmative noting surplus fat has no value.
Revival meetings start Sunday in February at the Christian church. Pastor James Mailley will preach morning and evening with nightly services except Saturdays. The weeklong campaign aims to reach many as Mailley leaves for Colorado Springs. On February %th Rev James Small and Leroy St John will attend to continue the revival throughout the month. Committees are organizing, a large chorus choir will provide music, and the public is invited.
Mr and Mrs J G DePrez and son Wray hosted a large circle of friends at a social dance in the Elks club rooms Tuesday evening. The decorated venue and special music made it a standout event of the winter season with several Greensburg attendees including Mr and Mrs Louie Zoller and others.
Mrs. W. M. Talkington, nearly seventy, died Monday at her Sardinia home after paralysis. She had two prior strokes and had lived near Wesley with her husband. Survived by husband two sons and one daughter. Funeral held yesterday at Wesley where she was a member.
An old advertisement proclaims a 100 dollar reward for incurable catarrh and promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure as an internal medicine. It includes a 15 year trust claim about F J Cheney and a testimonial from Walding Kinnan and Marvin Toledo wholesalers, with price 75 cents and praise for Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Henry Ahring of Saltcreek township Fred W Boyl Alfred A Barnes Tosh Hendricks Lindsey Jackson of Marion township and Albert Roberts of Sandcreek township are named as candidates for sheriff subject to the Republican county primary election.
Frank Alexander of Clay township seeks the Second District seat in the Republican primary. W Gibb Updike of Sandcreek township runs for the Third District county commissioner nomination in the Republican primary.
Ehrhardt and Rhodes are candidates for Washington township trustee seats, each subject to the outcome of the Republican primary election. The notice lists their names and election as the race proceeds.
Web Woodfill runs in the Republican county primary for Representative. The race centers on party backing and local voter support as candidates seek the nomination.
President Roosevelt and Vice President Fairbanks attended a Gridiron Club banquet in Washington. William Jennings Bryan was name checked when Miss Democracy, in search of Governor Johnson of Minnesota, quipped that he had jilted her in 1896 and 1900.
S D Layton once a blacksmith now in Letts neighborhood sold rights to manufacture and sell his Farm Draining Machine and Voting Machine in ten states. The Crawfordsville buyer John C Fullenwider paid eight thousand five hundred dollars. The Westport Courier notes Layton’s rise from local craftsman to successful inventor and praises his achievement.
Decatur county delegates and Republicans plan a special 8 30 departure on the traction line to Shel byville for the Cambridge City convention next Tuesday. The afternoon train will be held a couple of hours to allow attendance. Decatur should be well represented with a Congress candidate. Return on the 8 00 p m car.
George Powers, an employee of the Big Four, was awarded 6500 in a Decatur circuit court verdict for loss of an arm and permanent crippling after a 1907 railroad collision in the yards. The verdict, reached after hours of deliberation, is described as the largest damages in the court’s history and may be appealed by the railroad company.
William Martin died at his Poplar street home on Sunday morning. Born 1834 in Grant County Kentucky, he married Mary Ann Dunn around 1858, with three children two surviving. He moved to the city in 1863, served as toll keeper on West Main and later South Michigan avenue, was a track farmer, Mason, Republican, and Christian, first wife predeceased him, married Elizabeth Bryan in 1899. Funeral Tuesday at two, Rev. J. B. Lathrop officiating. Masons conducted the service.
Miss Lillian Smith avoided revealing her age by placing eighteen in her shoes before agreeing to marry William Grouch in Jeffersonville. The father urged an investigation for involving a sixteen year old, but officials confirmed the marriage is legal after reviewing the certificate.
Mrs. George Lehman died at her home near Tuckertown in Marion township Saturday night at age thirty six. She was the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. D A Tucker of Aurora Iowa who traveled here to attend the funeral held Wednesday afternoon. The family has the community’s sympathy in their sad affliction.
A sale held by John H. Logan three-fourths mile west of Clarksburg begins at ten oclock on February 5 1908. The auction includes horses mules milch cows 20 head of feeding steers broad sows stock hogs 10 sheep 20 tons timothy hay corn in crib fodder in the field farm implements and other farm goods. Free lunch for all.
An old health note advises avoiding pneumonia from a cold by using Foley's Honey and Tar to stop coughing and expel the cold. It claims mild laxative effect and warns to refuse imitations, urging use of the genuine yellow package from J. H. Batterton.
Tom Davidson of Greensburg draws praise from Shelbyville News as a plain straight Republican, who campaigns across Wayne Fayet te Rush Henry counties and plans Franklin Union Shelby Hancock counties. He is praised for independence from rings and for steadfast promises.
Township trustees and county corporations received semi annual tax warrants on Monday. Provisional sums show Washington and Adams townships with higher receipts, while Greensburg and Milford areas report substantial treasury totals. An old Dutch Bible and a quip about busy telephone lines appear in the margins of the piece.
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