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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1913
Page
5
James and Greenleaf Woody left Saturday for Clarksville Tennessee where they will play ball this season. Get it at Robinson and Reath's for a pork or beef roast.
An extensive local ad touts a large department store selling dry goods, clothing, footwear, furniture, pianos, sewing machines, and more with home delivery. It also notes a 27.14 acre Kingman land offering with a three room house and wells, plus a Covington business trip by Irvin Lindley and George Keller.
S. E. Douglass and over fifty freeholder voters of Mill Creek Township Fountain County Indiana petition the Board of Commissioners to grade drain and pave a described highway with gravel. They seek to straighten a road segment and fund the project by taxation without an election. The petition is filed in the county auditor's office as a full true copy.
Petition by Mill Creek Township residents with over fifty signers requests locating opening and improving a new road less than three miles long connecting Mill Creek and Vanburr townships. It details route from section 25 to section 36, descriptions of landowners, road width grade drainage culverts and materials and notes a United States Free Rural Mail Route. Hearing set for May 6 1913 before Fountain County Board of Commissioners.
Albert Roberts administrator of Jacob H. Myers estate announces a public auction at the late residence near Wallace Jackson Township Fountain County Indiana on May 8 1913 starting at 10 AM. Items include hay cattle oats corn household goods and other articles. Terms: cash under five dollars otherwise credit up to nine months with note and six percent interest. Auctioneer A G Madden. Clerk Albert Lowe.
The notice lists Sunday School at 9:30, Communion at 10:45, preaching at 11:00, Christian Endeavor at 11:00, and an evening service at 7:30 led by Pastor A. L. Carney. It invites readers to let The Star print it.
A fragment references Sire-Borgnet 17542, sired by Bruid Or 7902, out of abouse 10007, indicating a concise lineage record in a stud listing.
The Imported Percheron stallion Imposable No. 69476 weighs about 1800 and is described as a powerful, showy, well-built horse with a fine head and neck and good disposition. Imported in May 1910 by Maywood Stock Farm Importing Co. of Indianapolis, he was foaled March 7, 1908 and bred from Sire Didier with a long line of ancestors. will seasonally stand at Yeddo, Indiana in 1913.
Money due when the colt stands and sticks. Mare is parted with or bred to other stock. Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but the owners will not be responsible for any occurrence.
H W Jones owner of DennIs Shell posts a notice in the local column offering farm access and directing inquiries to a barn phone in Kepser. The item reads as a brief business or property notice with the contact line.
Kingman Friends Church invites all Friends to worship next Sabbath at 11:00 A.M. and 7:30 P.M. The S.S. Sunday school is at 9:30 A.M. Pastor Miss Martilla Cox is expected to attend these services.
Reed’s Yellow Dent seed corn offered by John Laban of Veedersburg Indiana. Price listed at 1.25 dollars per bushel. Contact Stone Bluff Telephone for details.
Joe Towell and his wife were visiting Lafayette from Saturday until Tuesday, staying during the weekend and early week.
Mrs Chas Manwaring of Indianapolis visited her relatives Mr and Mrs M T Woody. She traveled to Goodland for several days as her fireman husband with the Big Four is on a run in Ohio. Mrs J A Boswell and children went to Veedersburg to visit her parents. Second hand Wagner motorcycle for sale for 75 dollars by J M Hanner Bloomingdale.
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