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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
6
Local notes show Jerry Morgan's building nearing completion and Miss Mabel Leffler heading to Terre Haute for studies. Community events include Nature Study Club meetings, a fatal bone lodged incident, and several marriages, memorials, and school diplomas amid shifting church and civic roles.
Theron Patterson attends Valparaiso Normal. Miss Bessie Poisal visits Greensburg. J B Green and wife recover from illness. William and Sinclair King enlist in the U S Navy. Frances and Sylvia Power stay in Greenfield. A baby boy brings joy to L W Keisling and wife. Hubert Thomas works in the lumber yard. Local house painters busy after sunny weather. Hugh Sparks recovers from broken ribs. F O Hillis's son Thomas very ill with double pneumonia. A colt measures forty three and a half inches at Charles Davis Farm. F O Hillis travels to Michigan for auto business. Trustee Bottorff to complete assembly room of new school this summer. Dr J P D John preaches two sermons Sunday in M E church.
Curtis Goble of Westport notes early field work while Charles Rhodes issued a strong call to local shippers. B F Love and wife buy Westport property for a new home as milk patrons promise ample supply. E J Tucker sale draws buyers. Tucker family moves to Alert. A L Jessup leads barn raising for Henry Frey near Millhousen. 44 by 64 feet structure with 27 foot posts, carpentry praised, and a large community dinner.
Ed Ray loses a valuable horse. John Handiges begins mowing the cemetery. Miss Mary Zeigler improves after a week of illness. George Handiges and family visited Miss Maud Updike. Harry Moore of Indianapolis visited Miss Grace Kitchin. Mrs. Will Harrell called to Kentucky by her father's illness. Tryphosa Tegsa hosted a picnic supper with Miss Fannie McLaughlin. Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society met with Mrs. S. L. Jackson. Mrs. Emma Scott entertained Rev. W. W. McCall and Rev. W. F. Scoular and wife.
Sandusky report lists Mrs. Sarah Bennington ill with fever and Joseph Metzler suffering malaria. Locals including Ronald Ruddell and sister Anna of Greensburg, Ed Ricketts’ family visits, and multiple Sunday gatherings with Martin and Linville families are noted. Community events include church missionary society hosting and a Milroy commencement attendance.
Greensburg visitors include Zella Morgan and Ruth Burton while George M. Moore from Nebraska visits family. Sickness and death prompt Riley Indho to return to Oklahoma. Typhoid illness affects Thomas and wife in Dayton Kentucky. Infant son of Ed Cornelius dies. funeral at Baptist church with interment.
Prominent San Francisco architect Norman R. Coulter endorses Electric Bitters as a tonic. He says it helps stomach, liver, and kidney disorders and strengthens the system. The product is sold at Henry & Co. drug store for 50 cents.
Spilman and Bonner advertise Aermotor windmills and steel tanks for sale. The notice highlights durable equipment for farmers and ranchers seeking reliable water-raising and storage solutions.
A time card policy or system took effect on Sunday April 19 as stated in the notice. The readable fragments indicate a changeover or enforcement of new timekeeping rules starting that date.
The excerpt lists train names and times for the Cc W and M Branches heading north and south. It notes No 34 and 10 percent am No 2 accommodations, No 36 express arriving 3 pm, No 31 express serving Ft No 1 accommodation arriving 50 am, No 33 accommodation at 410 pm, and Nos 2 and 1 M% running to Greensburg only except Sundays.
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