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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1905
Page
3
The cod liver oil emulsion is praised as a worldwide staple improving nourishment for weak children and thin people. The advert notes a tasteless preparation developed thirty years ago and positions Scott's Emulsion as the premier remedy for wasting and loss of strength. Available at 409-415 Pearl Street New York and from all druggists for $1.00.
The Nelson Music Co will relocate from its current space in Horton News Stand to a corner room in the Columbia Hotel building. The move will open a larger, better displayed stock room and make the new store one of the most complete music shops in the state. The firm has outgrown its present quarters and aims to improve operations as it expands.
Bluffton Banner reports Thanksgiving work on the Fort Wayne Bluffton and Marion line. Crews completed track south of Kings and to Eagleville schoolhouse while bridge gangs sink piling for a mid river Clover Leaf culvert. A crane and pile driver lay down piling as poles are set and compacted. By Christmas cars may run.
N Francis long known in Bluffton as manager of the Empire and American Nitro-Glycerine works died on the operating table in a Chicago hospital Monday after kidney trouble necessitated the operation. He leaves a wife and three children, including son Earl who accompanied him to Chicago. Remains were taken to Titusville Pa. for burial.
Indiana reports 608 of 1025 townships are dry with 243 made so by remonstrance and 114 since May via Moore law. Forty city wards lack saloons and Indianapolis faces a remonstrance that could leave a ward without a bar. The American Anti Saloon League notes 245 saloons closed since May as its Indianapolis session approaches.
A complaint filed in circuit court by Samuel G. Kariger against George S. Morris asks to bar the auditor from placing a ten thousand dollar subsidy voted by Salamonie township on the tax duplicate for the Portland Montpelier Warren and Huntington traction company. A temporary restraining order was issued and the hearing is set for December 12.
Harl Richey barely survives a wagon plunging off a steep bridge embankment near Barbers Mill. He emerges with minor injuries, while the team and wagon suffer severe damage. Hidden cash and a blown five dollar bill are recovered near the water. The Bluffton News notes Richey’s long streak of bad luck and prior injuries.
Walter and Frank Foust of Warren were bound over by a federal grand jury after arrests by U S detectives for passing counterfeit money. They were taken to Indianapolis then await hearings in Fort Wayne when the federal court convenes. The arrest reportedly involved a hay fork attack by the boys' father.
A Montana? Montpe ter citizen notes odd Thanksgiving dinner guests Milo Moore and wife dined with Wm. Wilson and wife near Dunkirk. Wilson found a ripe water melon and kept it in his cellar for three weeks, serving it yesterday with unusually fresh, September-like juiciness.
The state board of education met to plan next fall’s school book purchase, forecasting 800,000 to 900,000 copies and a total value near 300,000 dollars. Most texts will be under ten year contracts, with histories excepted, per a new law, and arithmetics and readers to be renewed in 1909.
Charles Mason of Hazelwood Oil Co was found unconscious at the Holmes Power station south of Warren tonight with a severe wound above the left eye. Dr Layman said Mason cannot recover. he likely was struck by machinery while repairing pumps two weeks after arriving from Keystone.
Yesterday Harry McGeath shot his valued English Setter while flushing birds. He lost sight of the dog and it was struck in the heart, fatally wounding the animal. McGeath had recently declined an offer of fifty dollars for the dog.
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