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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
5
Fragmentary notice references Buffle and Sarat medicines made from glyceric extracts, claiming safety and freedom from alcohol. Includes garbled market listings for wheat oats corn hay butter potatoes apples onions cabbage and wool prices, with numerous distorted phrases and unclear context.
Local brief mentions guests and visitors to Marion include Mrs. Van veman of Marion with Mrs. H. H. Fenton, Miss Hazel Gartin of Bluffton visiting Miss Georgia Maadox, and others like Mrs. Urr Braden in Fort Wayne. Shoppers frequent the Mammoth Racket, with ads for DeWitt's remedies and discounted groceries, plus reports of reunions and upcoming county fair events.
The twelfth annual reunion of Blackford county soldiers sailors and sons of veterans and W R C is held at the race track with Hartford City chosen as next meeting place. Officers elected include Wm L Irvin Pres HB G Shinn Secy E M Stahl Treas. About one hundred veterans attend along with visiting comrades from nearby counties.
A newspaper listing shows bacon offered at 12c and 18c per unit with a price note of 12jc per nb at the Mammoth Racket. Picnic hams are advertised at 12c and 156 per pound at 10c at the Mammoth.
The appeal bonds for the Hartford City fourth ward remonstrance case were filed with Auditor Daugherty. Forty three prominent citizens signed the bonds guaranteeing costs for three saloon licenses granted despite remonstrances. Antis claim satisfaction with signatures and plan no new remonstrance, while saloon supporters anticipate a favorable court challenge and ongoing spending to obtain licenses. The dispute attracts statewide temperance interest.
Crop reports indicate further fruit losses with grapes rotting in many localities and peaches and apples deteriorating due to scab, drought, and insects. Outlook suggests overall smaller apple and fruit production across Arkansas Missouri Kansas Iowa Illinois Indiana Ohio Pennsylvania Michigan New England and New York with few price offers and guarded grower expectations.
A threshing ring held a large picnic in the Brown grove four and a half miles south of Montpelier on Sunday. About 150 people attended as Effie Schwartzkopf and Jane and Ethel Hiser posed on horses for photos amid ice cream cake and well filled baskets. Enroll with Hunting a Business University in Huntington.
The 28th Judicial Circuit of Indiana, Wells and Blackford counties, will hold a joint delegate convention at Republican headquarters in Montpelier on August 27 at 11:00 a.m. to nominate a prosecuting attorney. Blackford delegates are chosen by township mass meetings on August 20 at 8:00 p.m., Harrison township meeting at Republican HQ in Montpelier, 8 delegates and 8 alternates. Jackson township meeting at Mill Grove for 1 delegate.
The text lists delegates and alternates by county for a party, with Wells County chaired by J. W. Cook and secretary L. E. Roush, and Blackford County chaired by L. C. Johnson and secretary Finley Geiger. Washington township in Rell Indiana receives one delegate and one alternate.
Mrs. Slater and Golda Carpenter visited Mrs. A. C. Beeks. J. W. Rinard of Plymouth along with Wm. Rinard and Paul stayed with their mother Mrs. Emeline Rinard. The Rinard reunion was held at Moreland. Mrs. Spaulding and Olive Wright visited the Spaulding family. L. Garrett spent Tuesday with Charles Garrett and family.
Mrs Ida Lockwood and Flossy visit Mrs Annie Hapner last Tuesday. Charles Jones family from Muncie visit Homer Brittenham Sunday. Sarkanu family dine with George Fink. Miss Verna Courtney of Montpelier visits her father Charles Courtney. Nell Roberts visits sister Besale Dawley in Montpelier. Monroe Courtney's son ill Friday. Large crowd attends Sunday school picnic in Haynes woods with Rev J Mary and Rev Wella of Muncie. Huntington Business University advert promotes commercial courses for youths.
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