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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1914
Page
6
Sheriff McKay on the sick list. Numerous residents travel for visits to Seymour Indianapolis Cincinnati Danville and Louisville. Local clergy and families are listed visiting relatives and attending funerals in Indianapolis Davenport and Danville.
Janet Rosa McGlasson hosted a 7 to 9 30 pm party for 21 girls in Toledo Ohio. Guests wore pretty frocks and played games with prizes awarded to Leah Fay Austin Mildred Lucile Leakey and Margaret Shannon Reed. Dainty refreshments followed and guests praised Janet as a delightful hostess.
St. Albans West Virginia August 31 a distinctive WV farm owned by Aiken Livesay at Grassy Meadow raises ginseng and skunks. After moles and mice destroyed roots he turned to skunks, kept them in pens then released them to eradicate pests. He recently sold 60 of the skunks for a good price and notes the venture pays to raise skrike and ginseng together.
Miss Daisy Ernst and Curtis Marshall wed at noon today at the bride’s parents’ home. The gown came from China via the sister in the mission field. The ceremony featured ring service and bouquets, with harp music and travel plans to the East and the lakes after a train trip. They will reside at 625 W. Second.
The De Loste drug store site at Main and Mulberry, used for over 30 years, is leased by owner Fred Foltz to Milton Kentucky’s Jobo Inglis for five years. DeLoste Medical Co will relocate to West Street to expand trade and production. Inglis plans a modern drug store at the corner after remodeling by October 1, with his family moving to Madison.
Milton column reports Mrs. Enoch Wood at deathbed sister Mrs. John Cull Locust revived care mel hosts Mrs. Albert Brauer of Cincinnati visits Geo McAlister Carmel. Staples sell home to Mr Beetem Carroll Co plans Louisville move. Roba Perkinson returns from North Vernon visit. Baptist association session at Campbellsville. Ashby Rogers buys John Aldridge farm Carmel area. Shellie Poland sister Ivez Bird with L L Bird. O P Wood and wife visit in law's family. Crops outlook favorable. Rev J T Boyer returns from Winona. Mrs Boyer returns from Kentucky visit.
Miss Myrtle Reed, 25, a hotel waitress in North Manchester, Indiana, marries Frank Reed, a Detroit manufacturer reputedly worth 400000. The couple’s tale unfolds after a previous divorce and a cancer diagnosis that left Myrtle unable to pay medical bills, prompting Frank Reed to visit North Manchester to arrange her care.
The thirty second annual Liberty Old Settler gathering drew the largest crowd on record. Attendees include Achilles A. R. Lee 89 Dennis Beach 89 Mrs Dennis Beach 87 Wm B Stout 87 and numerous others with ages spanning 75 to 89. Speakers Will Denny's choir the Dupont band boys and organizers are thanked by Jesse Housefield President John Murphy Secretary and Harvey Denny Assistant Secretary.
New York officials of the Aero Club of America propose an emergency fueling stop at Flemish Cap off Newfoundland to shorten the America’s transatlantic flight. The plan splits the journey St Johns to Flemish Cap then Azores and Spain to Plymouth, with rest stops and nighttime navigation considerations. In Petersburg, Indiana, farmer Carl Cooper escaped injury when a windlifted hay wagon roll carried him to a field.
Frank Lockridge and wife of Peach Orchard Ark are visiting relatives here. J W Hash was in Holton Tuesday. James Hash wife and family of Middlefork spent Sunday with Abe Van Antwerp and family. Ralph Van Antwerp of Holton spent last week with relatives here. A daughter was born to James Anderson and wife on August 25 named Geneva Lorene. Preaching service here next Sunday morning. Mrs Stella Gaskill and Mrs Ella White of Cincinnati are visiting Mrs Martha Thomas. George Van Antwerp of Hanover spent part of last week with relatives here and left for Franklin Sunday to visit his daughter Mrs Roy Weatherford.
Market items at Madison include flour brand names such as Perfection Invincible and Peerless Flour with meal and shipstuff bran. Prices shown cover wheat per bushel eggs butter and live poultry with terms for hens springers cocks turkeys geese ducks and feed Timothy mixed Clover straw all in a single price list.
Wheat prices show strength with No 2 red and No 3 red near 1.12 to 1.15 in August and September. Corn weak with No 3 white and No 3 mixed varying, hay steady, timothy and clover miscellaneous grades, cattle ranges from good to prime with veal calves and bulls, hog receipts around 8,000 with varying weights and quality from light to heavy.
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