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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1915
Page
2
A reflection on how friendliness advances a human career. Smiling and a handshake cost nothing and can replace a frown. When work blinds a person to others, it suggests a needed fresh start and renewed social approach.
If you are a farmer and want to move to town we invite you to investigate our incentives before locating. Kingman boasts the lowest tax rate in the county a fine school good stores and as fine a lot of people as you ever met excluding the editor. If you are going to move to town come to Kingman.
The writer urges Kingman to start organizing a chautauqua next year, predicting larger crowds and more talent. They advocate beginning investigations now to secure better dates and stronger acts.
Citizens are told each town grows by its own effort and that locals must advertise and back Kingman. Merchants are urged to advertise, while residents are urged to be Kingman boosters and avoid using outside suppliers. The call emphasizes community pride and doing right for the town’s future.
A reflective aphorism highlights the risk of tribute to hypocritical behavior. The saying warns listeners to watch those who promise one course yet pursue a different path.
Indiana Sixth district, covering fifty seven counties, will see liquor tax receipts drop by over 1 million dollars for the year ending this month, due to the dry wave. Indianapolis and branch offices are expected to surpass last year by about 1 million thanks to the war tax. Through June 1 whiskey and beer revenues totaled 7.37 million and 0.89 million respectively, with about 160 thousand in war tax from beer. Over 300 thousand barrels of beer were manufactured in the district not counting Terre Haute and Evansville breweries. Other districts report declines in whiskey and beer revenues nationwide.
A new Indiana department urges citizenship to aid health authorities in enforcing the tuberculosis law. People moving into vacant properties should check for death or consumption and ensure disinfection before occupancy. Current cases should be reported by physicians to local health officers. Landlords may be held responsible if a new tenant contracts TB after moving into a previously consumptive vacated house unless disinfected.
Kingman residents face repeated embarrassments as the newly improved east street remains soft and prone to traffic jams. Heavier cars risk getting stuck, with incidents last Sunday including near burial of rear wheels and a damaged axle. A fatal buggy crash near Riverside crossin g involving Clyde Williams worsens concerns. Local visits note John Deere and Spencer families traveling to Indianapolis and Chicago for business and family matters.
Miss Ivaloo Rowlett returned from Terre Haute Sunday after finishing her course of study at the State Normal. Miss Pearl Mulvihill traveled to Covington Saturday to take the teacher's examination.
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