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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1909
Page
4
The notice touts suits tailored in the best manner by top makers. It contrasts with discounted suits of 50 percent, claiming they are not this season’s and promoting the offered values as superior and desirable.
Indiana Methodists gathered in Warren for the cornerstone ceremony of a new Old People's Home funded by a major gift from William Chopson. Services filled the day with statewide church leaders on the program, promising a home for elderly in need. The project, when completed, will be a handsome facility and a God send to those left without shelter.
Weslie Gilland, reported to have slandered by the Herald, is jailed in the local station and will be sent back to the Jeffersonville Reformatory once arrival of an officer permits. Gilland, sentenced in Blackford County Circuit Court in late 1406 to one to three years for larceny, was on parole since June and stayed with his brother Thomas Gilland.
Invitations have been sent to members of the High School Alumni Association for a meeting tomorrow evening at the home of Waldo T. Bradstreet and wife on West Green 81.
Races run Friday and Saturday at the F. M. Buckner private track one half mile east of Poneto. About fifty horses entered across events. Friday features a green road race a two year old colt race a 2:25 pace or trot and a half mile run. Saturday includes a mile road and a mile run plus repeats. Emipa the lone pacer with Rex R. tours in an exhibition.
In Fedora Tennessee rejoicing follows a life saved by Dr. King's New Discovery for lung hemorrhages. A patient, C V Pepper, reports recovery after three weeks, enabling renewed work. The advertisement promotes this cough remedy for lung diseases with trial bottle offer and a 50 cent to 1 dollar price. Bonge and Maddox sell and guarantee the product.
Hendersons' Shoe Store runs a limited week sale with significant discounts on footwear. The promotion ends Saturday night, inviting shoppers to hurry for bargain prices on men and women’s styles.
A vintage advertisement portrays idleness as causing constipation headache jaundice and skin issues. It promotes Dr King's New Life Pills as a remedy to banish liver troubles and restore health, priced 25 cents at Pioneer Drug Store.
Carmel area notes a flurry of visits and gatherings. Grace Garrett, Oscar Runkle, Eva Turner and many Morrical and Bedwell families are listed at various homes, with dinners, calls, and a niece visit from Grand Rapids Michigan noted. Farmers thresh, and illnesses include Henry Rainsie’s sickness as part of the community updates.
R W Bowman president of the Wells Blackford and Jay old settlers reports the trio will hold a reunion in Pennville on Sunday August 29 with a large basket dinner as a major feature. Details on the program are to be announced. The event will be east of Pennville on the road to Petunia Indiana.
Four applicants, Orville L. Fisher Earl V. Stump Adam Teagle and Grant Shellabarger, sat the civil service exam in Bluffton for rural carrier eligibility. Route No 1 was created February 1 1903 with Wellington Young first and later Oscar O Oliver as carrier while Route No 2 started February 1 1905 with Edgar L Cochran continuing in that role.
All persons are recommended to take Foley's Kidney Remedy for back ache rheumatism and kidney and bladder trouble. It will correct urinary irregularities and prevent serious illness. It will restore health and strength. Do not neglect signs of kidney or bladder trouble and risk Bright's disease or diabetes Pioneer Drug Store.
Joseph A. Willson, a resident of Montpelier, Harrison Township, seeks a license for a one year period to sell and drink liquors in a first story room of a two story brick building on High Street Montpelier. The filing requests granting access during the regular session of the Blackford County Board of Commissioners at Hartford City.
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