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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1926
Page
2
Advertising rates listed include per column inch and per line for reading notices with permanent contracts available upon application. Obituaries and cards of thanks and non-news social announcements priced at standard line rates. classified ads charged by word with a minimum first insertion.
Considerable wheat in the locality has already been cut and the yield is fairly good. Corn is doing fine and with warm weather will make rapid growth. A lighthearted note contrasts scientific and theological ages, but finds the world remains a pretty good one.
Indications point to a very large Fourth of July celebration in Linton on Monday. A meeting of committees last night reported good progress with a program of varied attractions and amusements. Activities begin at 10 a.m. and run through the night fireworks.
The speaker urges people to display better standards like store windows and ideals. He argues Americans should know poetry, exaggerate virtue a bit, and hover near higher things while remaining grounded in reality. He calls for practical effort and daily work to improve society.
In Moscow on June 29 Nathan Nazaroff, aged 14, graduated from the Middle Asiatic University, a prodigy who originally applied at age 10. He impressed professors in a mathematics contest and later outExcelled the faculty in figures, challenging their entrance standards and earning recognition as a remarkable young scholar.
Noted funerals highlight Welch service with Sanitary cleanliness, sterilized instruments, and pure linens. The embalming room is described as a surgeon’s operating room for privacy and precision. The firm emphasizes economy, experienced buying, and 24 hour telephone readiness to respond instantly to any service need.
The Indiana Benevolent and Protective Orders of Elks organizes a state float for the national convention in Chicago. Will E. Hendricks of Terre Haute heads the contract effort with Will A. Fread to build the float. Indiana Queen and six maids will ride, with six Elks as escort, as the convention runs July 12 to July 18 in Lincoln Park.
Indiana news briefs report Earl Romanski trying to gouge stitches with a butter knife after his wife used a mill bottle in self defense. Gypsy fortune tellers ordered out of Fort Wayne. Mary Langowsky jailed for moonshine sales per husband’s charges. Two 44-year-olds confess stealing $177 from a Michigan City candy store. A 18-pound turtle wandered into Bluffton, eaten by locals Eversole and Woodward.
A 15 year old colored boy in Clinton claims he did not steal a ukulele from a local music dealer. He says he bought it from a boy he has never seen before or since.
Ottawa report states the late John R Booth famed lumberman. his will filed today disposes of an estate estimated at 8 million dollars. The entire fortune goes to his three surviving Ottawa children.
Indianapolis June 29 Governor Jackson's vacation plans were set today for an automobile tour to Yellowstone National Park. The governor and his family will depart July 23 and will be guests of Robert E Hicks publisher of South Whitly.
Mrs Grace O Bange received a prison term between two and a half and five years after a New York court found her guilty of larceny in a stock transaction. She was dubbed the girl Ponzi by local observers.
Hogs receipts 9 000 market 6e to 15c lower best heavies 14.10 14.25 medium and mixed 14.25 14.45 common to new 14.65 14.90 bulk 14.10 14.65. Cattle receipts 1 600 market steady steers 8.00 10.25 cows and heifers 6.00 10.00. Sheep receipts 800 market steady top 7.00 lambs 10.00 14.50. Calves receipts 1 100 market strong top 12.50 bulk 12.00 12.50. Eggs 24 25c delivered. Butter creamery best 41 48e packing stock 21 22e. Poultry fowls 24e leghorns 24 26e old turkeys 28 24e ducks 14 15e.
The Women’s Missionary Society of the Saron Reformed church will meet Thursday at 2 o’clock with Miss Minnie Striedemier. A good attendance is anticipated.
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