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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1912
Page
4
This item notes the mailing address classification as second class matter with the Montezuma Indiana post office dated August 9, 1912, under the 1879 act.
One year in advance five dollars and twenty five cents? Wait. The text states advertising rates and deadlines for Montezuma Indiana on November 8 1912. The reader is instructed that rates are set for one year six months and three months with specific prices and that all copy must reach this office by Wednesday morning to insure insertion for that week.
An eminent professor warns that since 1896 the dollar’s purchasing power fell 33 percent, now buying only 67 cents what it did sixteen years ago. The piece argues for reader support to sustain local journalism for Montezuma and vicinity. Other items: Knights of Mecca box supper profit, Rockville business, Dee Clay Plant injury, local moves, and a pig roast for moving miners.
A collection of names and brief movements shows residents and guests visiting Rockville Bloomington Indianapolis Waveland Montezuma Terre Haute Newport Russellville Judson Carmel and nearby towns over a sequence of days. Several social events and visits from family and friends are noted with multiple towns represented.
Local notes list residents visiting and traveling between Indianapolis Dana and Hillsdale including Mrs Ella Doss Henry Osborn Paul Staats and Paul Mack with plans to California. A Bulgarian shot a Turk at Mecca after a heated war argument. victim survived and the assailant fled. Both men were clay workers.
An extract from the 1907 amended state acts warns that anyone who dumps rubbish on public highways may be fined up to fifty dollars. The notice urges citizens to dispose of litter properly and notes the law is plain and to be enforced by township trustees or county boards.
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