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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1915
Page
8
Community punters headline a program at Dresain Theater tonight with a quirky note about the fail of the sem ents in a humorous presentation.
The board is returned to Star Office with details on the ladies watch and pin betting event at East Market and Heights School. The note records a proceeding reoffice action and the location involved.
Charles Norris was fined $5 and costs after arraignment before Magistrate Penson R. Veasey on a charge of carrying concealed a deadly weapon. No razor was found on his person.
Charles Cartwright aged 65, longtime Charlestown resident, died at his home. A brother James Cartwright died about two weeks earlier. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at the Christian church. He is survived by another brother Newton Cartwright, a widow, and one child.
Arrangements are made for the Wood Township Farmers Institute annual meeting on January 7 1916 in the college chapel Lafayette under Purdue University agricultural extension department. A farm show is planned in connection with the event.
A vintage storefront ad shows Wood’s Wholesale-Retail Grocers on Spring and Chestnut Streets offering mixed nuts fresh fruit evaporated peaches and prunes granulated sugar at cut prices. Also notes license figures from Kokomo automobile factory showing savings in the secretary of state office and lower license plate bids for next year.
Open season closes Monday under law yet the Circuit Clerk Curtis W. Ballard’s office continues issuing bird hunting permits. Local bird hunting reports say conditions have been poor in most areas.
Mrs F T Hornung is ill at her Spring street home while Blanche and Myrtle Andrews have returned from Eng lish Indiana. Mrs F H Miller turns eighty two today and is recovering from a prior hip fracture. Roy Clark plans to come home from Alida NL for the holidays. Abraham Fry of Utica township recovers from pneumonia and Oliver Keart will visit Seymour after Christmas. Bonnie O Donnell of Milwaukee arrives to visit Mrs Edward Wilcoxson on West Front street.
Dr Sallie C Jackson holds a birthday reception Monday evening at her West Chestnut street home from 7 to 11 to mark her seventy fifth birthday. She asks guests not to bring gifts or flowers with no refreshments provided.
Al Bash of Salem, last election's Republican nominee for Congress in this district, announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor.
Reports from yesterday note creek overflow in the county causing damage and impassable fords. City cellars flooded and seepage damaged interiors while sewers clogged and the street cleaning crew fought to free a stuck fire hose at Sprins and Maple.
Figures from the office of Secretary of State Homer I. Cook show Indiana has 96,915 automobiles, about one per 30 residents, with 1,703 license plates issued for 1916. Plates for 1918 are black on white, selected by Mrs. Cook, while Charles J. Murphy earns license No. 1 for 1916.
An old advertisement from White Mfg. Dept. 10 Cincinnati promotes GASO-TONIC gasoline claiming it cuts carbon and guarantees sales with a dollar an hour profit. The notice urges quick action and lists date 12-18-16.
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