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Newspaper
Knightstown Journal
Location
Knightstown, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1905
Page
4
Rushville news mentions George Bundy and Edna Overman teaching in Greenfield next year. Nearby residents attend a Mrs. Kennard picnic at Dye's Lake. Jeptha Hudelson travels to Indianapolis and Lincoln Nebraska. Classifieds list sales and jobs including canopies, waxero clerk, B P Rock eggs, and 30 to 40 farms in three counties.
The Journal lists residents visiting relatives, travels and small events. Names include N. C Swain Raysville Indiana Mr and Mrs John D Maple Lewisville, Miss Blanche Palmer, Miss Mabel Woodard, Miss Alberta Hadley Marion, Capt. Lee Harris Greenfield, and many others. Reports mention health updates and upcoming reads of Journal want ads.
A man presented a ten pound note at the Bank of Enzland and learned the note was stopped twenty three years earlier. A former clerk and a colleague, fearing exposure, kept the loss quiet, but the note and messenger vanished after the error. The note later reappeared as part of a relative’s papers, revealing the old scheme.
J. W. Beck trades residence on Brown Street to Thomas Cox for an interest in Cox's Carthage will valued at 1650 dollars. Beck plans to move to Carthage to work with Cox, leaving Knightstown. William Brinkman was in Indianapolis on Wednesday. C. W. Fithian opens a North Addine Street carriage painting shop offering high quality work at reasonable prices. Mrs. Elmer Roberts visits Enionville Ohio, where her husband once lived. Clyde Ruley of Anderson visited with J. W. Beck. Wrighter R. Steele travels from Newcastle to Owensboro Kentucky to locate. company moves there this fall. Samuel Higginbottom and family accompany him. Steele is Newcastle Shovel Co. secretary. Roy W. Steele attends Muncie commencement for Murcie high school. cousin Miss Lottie Reeves, daughter of A. B. Reeves, Knights Town, graduates. Dr. W. B. McGavran has his house repainted.
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