Community notices and personal updates in Spencer area
Birth announcements for a boy born to Mr and Mrs Ben Keller and for another baby to Mr and Mrs Fred Teague. Local movements include Marsh Farr transacting business in Veedersburg, Claude Redenbaugh visiting relatives in Indianapolis, P G Smith in Brazil and Terre Haute, Chas Bannon starting work in Chatterton elevator, and Ralph Sowers visiting from Terre Haute. Spencer doll and wagon contest closes December 20 at 8 PM. Newtown Enterprise installs a cylinder press and a paper cutter.
Advertising does not pay, claim merchants and one boy
A Telegraph tale notes merchants warn against frequent advertising while recounting a boy sent for water. He pours priming water in, pumps out as much as it pours in, rests, and the priming runs down, leading him to quit. The anecdote likens a merchant who stops advertising after a single effort to the boy’s futile pumping.
Young teacher resigns to become missionary to Africa
A young woman near Fowler resigns from public school teaching to pursue missionary work in Africa. An exchange questions why she aims so far away when Chicago and nearby areas are filled with heathen populations and moral concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fowler
Africa
Chicago
Attica and area news paste from Covington to Danville
A compilation notes Elbert Fleath visiting Covington and J H Ephlin with Lloyd Ward at a Danville horse sale. Attica extends free mail delivery and farmers employ electricity on farms per Indiana and Popular Electricity discussions. Also listed are visits to Wabash and Sikeston for real estate and family, plus a grand December sale at J Frank McDermond's store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Attica
J. Frank McDermond
Toyland
Doliville
Chinatown
Real Estate Transfers in Fountain County Week’s Records
Real estate transfers filed in Fountain County over the past week list multiple deeds. Names include Robert E Bryant, Marielk Livengood, Hamilton Martin, Mary Dyson, C L Steinbaugh, Lizzie Dayton, Dan V Booe, Alberta McGaughey, Edward Hashberger, Hannah Armstrong, Aurilla Gray, Jacob Robbins, Mary J Mayers, with parcels in Covington Hillsboro Newtown Attica and Veedersburg. Amounts range from 1200 to 5000 dollars, reflecting various transfers of lots and tracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fountain Co
Fuhe Star
O. S Douglas
Covington
Ind
We Buy Hides at the Highest Price
T M Jackson advertises premium prices for hides, inviting sellers to bring furs and skins to maximize payment and secure top value for their animal hides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson's
T. M Jackson
Hillsboro Boys Sentenced for Shop Theft and Robberies
Dal Pursley aged 21 and Fred Cronk aged 16 confessed to breaking into Wilt & Laird hardware store and other Hillsboro area robberies. Pursley received one to eight years in Jeffersonville reformatory with possible parole after one year. Cronk to one to three years with suspended sentence for good behavior, requiring schooling and monthly reports. Cronk’s family shown relief as he may return home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dal Pursley
Fred Cronk
Hillsboro
Wilt & Laird Hardware
Schoonover
Pursley
Pursley Lad
Jeffersonville
Cronk
Cain Township
Home treatment for child bedwetting and urine trouble
Mrs. M Summers of Notre Dame Indiana offers a free home treatment and instructions to mothers to address children's bedwetting and related urine difficulties. She states spanking is not a cure and suggests many adults may be helped too by her method. An agent Mrs J C Sanders Box 146 Singman Indiana can be contacted for home reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Summers
Notre Dame
Ind
J. C. Sanders
Isingman
Mecca Incorporation Vote and Local Fire Incident
The Mecca election resulted in 112 votes for incorporation and 81 against with accusations of ballot stuffing. John Kerns and allies contest the result as Maxwell and McFaddin join the incorporation side for the next term in commissioners court. A fire at the C. and E. I. pumping station prompted a mill whistle alarm but local crews quickly extinguished the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mecca
John Kerns
Mecca Clay, Works
Maxwell & McFaddin
Commissioners’ Court
Rockville Tribune
District 4
Also Mentioned on This Page
Moris
C. M. Spencer
Grismore
Blue Front
Myer & Dillon
Mrs
Ben Keller
Marsh Farr
Veedersburg
Fred Teague
Claude Redenbaugh
Indianapolis
P G. Smith
Brazil
Terre Haute
Chas. Bannon
Chatterton
J. W. Metsker
Pine Village
Ralph Sowers
Wash Sowers
Newtown Enterprise
Kingman
B. O. Hudler
Kingmen
Indiana
Elbert Fleath
B O. Hudler
J. H. Ephlin
Lloyd Ward
Danville
Pioneer Drug Store
Henry Zackmire
Sikeston, Mo
Geo. Hughes
Delaware
John
Robt. Ewing
Dexter, Mo
Wabash
Cuthbert
Bloomingdale
Hester
Fountain County Farmers’ Institute
Stone Bluff
Melldit
Popular Electricty Magazine
Pennsylvania
Robert E. Bryant & Wf
Marielk
Livengood
Hamilton Martin
Mary Dyson
Eli N. Robbins
C L. Steinbaugh & Wf
Carrie P. Cuthbert
O. P. Kingman
Lizzie Dayton & Husb
Pearley Bowman Frac
Wallace
Dan V. Booe
Henry C. Smith
Alberta
K. McGaughey & Husb
Perry Glascock
Edward Hashberger
Hannah T. Armstrong
Eric ‘Seely
Newtown
Aurilla Gray & Husb
R.R Claypool & Wf
Jacob Robbins
D. D. Perry
Mary J. Mayers
George A. Johnson
Geo. Wilkins
Myrtie Anglemyer
L. Woody
C. L. Woody
C. C. Wert
Citizens Bank
E. E. Ewbank
D. D
New Opera House
Frank Akers
Drayman
Inhile
U. G. Deselms
Neinpalley
Miles
Eleanor Wadel
Sereee
St. Joseph, Missouri
Boses
Nour
Pitis
Jas. Steinbaugh
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