Twenty five years ago reminiscences and local items
The column relays assorted readings from Monticello, Kentland and surrounding towns. It notes a new resort at the old swimmin hole, births, marriages, local visits, market prices for Wheat and eggs, a stone plant in Monon, church events, school movements, shifts in sheriff residences, and a bridge closure. It also covers a disastrous shooting involving Judge Ward’s family in Oregon and a teamsters strike resolution plus Monticello volunteers in Chickamauga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Ward
Kentland
Oregon
Herbert
Judge Ward
Portland
Hall's Catarrh Medicine claim and sales pitch
Hall's Catarrh Medicine promises to relieve catarrh from deafness by an ointment reducing inflammation and an internal tonic acting on mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists for over 40 years by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Card of Thanks for John Stellhorn
Family expresses heartfelt thanks to friends and neighbors for sympathy and kindness after the death of John Stellhorn. They acknowledge the minister undertaker pallbearers and others for consoling acts at the funeral. Mrs. Calisty Stellhorn and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Stellhorn
Calisty Stellhorn
Peanut crop value rises and falls through 1920s
The United States Department of Agriculture estimates the 1922 peanut crop value at 29,222,000 dollars, down from 33,007,000 in 1921 and 44,256,900 in 1920, indicating a decline in returns over the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Gumber
Forum Service
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad System
Not Due to Sex Alone Monticello Women Learn Kidney Cause
Monticello residents are urged to consider kidney weakness as a cause of backaches headaches and urinary issues in both women and men. Dean's Kidney Pills are recommended as a simple remedy with a local testimonial from Mrs. Chas Davidson of West Broadway. The ad notes 60 cents at dealers and cites Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean S
Monticello
Chas. Davidson
West Broadway
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Msgrs
Buffalo, N. Y
Privacy and the need for room in crowded living
An observant woman argues that lack of privacy in apartments and boarding houses causes nervous strain as families and neighbors live in cramped spaces. The piece notes people move from one box to another seeking personal space. Bly is disturbed by a friend calling his baby brother darling lamb, explaining his name is Leigh not a lamb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gunder
Chickamauga
160Th
Monticello
Effen Ea
Chaplain Weaver
Major Harter
Camp Thomas
Bly
Lamb
Leigh
Desert distances claim vast, lone observer's domain
The desert's immense distances render space illimitable. A distant mountain range may appear as a border, and the observer feels sole claim to temporal authority with no dispute or challengers.
Proverb on Saving and Value of Labor
A reflective line warns that a man who does not learn to save will burn himself out with hard work and die worth nothing in the end. The saying cautions against wasting effort without prudence.
Also Mentioned on This Page
John E. Conn
Clifton R. Barnes
C. & B. Insurance Agency
Ssa
McBeth
W. N. Scott Insurance Agency
EL M. Childers
Avent
Ohio Farmers Insurance CO
The
Henry Insurance Agency
Monticello Indiana
J.B. Dorsett
W. H. Henry
Ora Daugherty
Eagle “Mikado
Aaa
Elon Tee
Eagle Pencil Company
New York
Clarence R. Cowger
Law Building
Indiana
H. L. Miller
D.C
Ree
Gee
Mair
City Hall
Francesville
Herald
Ss. W. Thompson
Monticello Herald
Ohio Farmer
Monticello, Ind
R. KF. D
Coe
GonMertable
Toi
Lake Evie
City OF Erie
Buffalo
Cleveland
Jacara Falls
Buffalo Transit Co
Ohio
Baye
White County
Levi Reynolds
Sitk
Wm. Fuller
Patton
Daghter
Robert Criswell
Guernsey
Little Joe Kellenburger
Willis McCuaig
Elisha Warden
H. G. Rice
U. P
Idaville
Bailey
Monon
He Presbyterian Junior Endeavor Society
Mary P. Kingsbury
Supt
F. F. Heighway
Crown Point Schools
G. W. VanAlstine
Dobbins
Spencer
Waois and
Marion Streets
Chas Sill
Lawrie
Epworth League
Delphi
J. W. Hamilton
Lulu Bennett
Gail Johnsonbaugh
Ray Rothrock
A. T. Briggs
Brookston
John B. Ross
J. A. Kneal
R. H Little
Kious & Brackney
Samuel Williams
Bessie Murphey
Mathew S. Babb
Minnie F. Zarse
W. J. Fisher
Mattie Harrison
Sylvester Pp. Scott
Mary I. Vaughn
Orrin PD. Lucas
Mary Ellen Simons
Arthur Lavinder
Maude Haines
J. F. Thompson
Dora B. Guise
Harry Robison
Anderson
Carrie Koonsfield
Kentland Enterprise
Lanora Altman Briggs
Kentland Friends
Briggs
Trinity Parsonage
Norway
Tioga
Robert Tinsdale
Riverview
Logansport
Schrader
Walton
California
Teamsters
L. P. McCormack
Amelia
Peter Davey
England
G. A. Stephan
B. Wolcott
Wolcott Brick & Drain Tile CO
Wolcott, Ind
Chevrolet
Monticello Drug CO
United States
U. S
Mason & McCuaig
Monticello Sales Co
Shoop «& Garr
Burnettsville
Ind
Small & Son
Idnville
Corn Belt Garage
Reynolds
Blume Bros
Wolcott
Joe A
Bertha
Chalmers
Pennsylvania Railroad Organization
Pennsylvania
Standard Railroad of the World
Nelson Motor Sales
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