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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1920
Page
4
The Madison Herald Weekly Edition lists a subscription rate of £1.00 in advance. It highlights Madison markets and water issues on East Main Street, Madison, Indiana, with an emphasis on local trade and civic notes.
Charles Van Antwerp longtime Hanover College custodian dies at 53 after months of illness. He moved with his family to Hanover in 1910 and served as assistant custodian for two years. He is survived by his wife Nettie and six children, plus four brothers and two sisters. His mother Mrs Nancy Van Antwerp, 86, lives in Versailles.
A Madison item lists several residents and visitors departing by train to Indianapolis and Louisville, with arrivals and visits mentioned. The report notes Mrs Elizabeth Waren, Mrs Charles Tibbs, Mrs Martha Whirato and daughter Miss Floral, and Mr John Donner among those traveling or returning, and records a regional conference with districts and counties including Dearborn and Jefferson.
Fragmentary obituary for James W. King with scattered notes on river steamboat life and family, plus pasted market figures and commodity totals from Snook & Co for 1919. Also includes generic statements about the tea tree, Sicily wine, coal soot, and pencils from California incense cedar.
Mrs Susan Pratt, longtime resident of this city, died recently at her Madison Clio home after a brief illness. She was a daughter of the late Miaroone and Ma Janie. Smith and others note her as a devoted friend and steadfast to those she served. The obituary highlights her generous hospitality and warm character, with a mention of her dear friends and community ties.
Carey H. Kuntz a well known garden farmer died at his home on the Hanover road near Tranover after a long illness with tuberculosis He was a member of Clifty Bails Camp Modern Woodmen and once sought treatment at the Woodmen tuberculosis hospital in Colorado Springs He is survived by his wife and two children and was well known in Madison with many friends learning of his death with regret.
Quotations for live poultry and eggs with prices for turkeys and butter. Dairy items include butter quotations from Dixie Butter Co. and wholesale hay and grain prices with Timothy hay per ton 238 to 30 dollars, alfalfa and clover hay per ton, straw prices per ton, and corn per bushel at 1.50.
An ad warns against mercury in catarrh remedies and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free and effective. The item notes a citizenship school for women planned in Philadelphia.
The Jefferson Circuit Court convened at 10 for the March term with Hon. M R Sulzer as special judge due to Judge Griffiths illness. Proceedings included grand jury deliberation, bailiff appointments, and several case actions including a divorce settlement and a child support continuance. News of Sherley Bradley’s death in Louisville after a brief illness is noted along with marriage licenses issued and a fact on rose sales in the United States.
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