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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1907
Page
5
A pox social is planned at Center School this Friday night. Dec 14 invites the community to join. local residents report various personal updates and small town happenings.
Walter Norton aged nine years three months and twelve days died Sunday evening at seven o clock after six months illness of tuberculosis. He died at his father M H Norton’s home near the Good Hope schoolhouse southeast of this city. Norton and his wife and child recently came from Dayton Ohio where he was employed.
The Ohio Pipe Line Co. plans a new right of way from Bluffton station through Lima and west to Rockford. The line will be laid as quickly as possible and will provide employment for many workers including Montpelier men. Some expect a refinery near Bluffton, but this is not official.
OCR fragment lists various commodity prices by location and type. Entries include cora yellow per 100 Ibe, Lagos mixed baled, hay No 1 Timothy, Timothy seeds, and regional prices for Indiana Somerset Ragiana Princeton. Readable figures suggest bulk price points and unit labels though many words are garbled.
Local brief items include Alfred Spaulding visiting Bluffton, DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Saive promoted, and Bert McCullick visiting Pennville with his sister Mrs. Thomas Almon. Advertisements tout Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, Urro Laxative Fruit Syrup, and Dr Shoop's Cough Cure with claims of safety and herbal ingredients.
Addison Maddox of Keystone visits the city while DeWitt's Life Early Riser Pills and DeWitt's Little Early Risers are sold by Pioneer Drug Store. Local residents attend funerals, travel to Bluffton, and a market line includes catarrh remedies and patent medicines. Community notices cover illnesses, a church gathering, and a poultry meeting in Hartford City with broader concerns about banks and safety.
The Huntington Times suggests Major George W. Steele and Hon. Frederick Landis as Republican national convention delegates. Both men decline comment citing no interest in public statements. The plan has sparked wide debate among supporters and critics across the district with overall calls for party harmony.
The report notes no Sunday school at the place while Oak Chapel work nears completion for dedication next Sunday. Quarterly meeting set for Pleasantdale with Bishop Matthess in charge Sunday morning and Rev Linville starting protracted meetings next Sunday evening. Various residents visited relatives and spent Sunday with neighbors.
Ruth George Carnes and family and George Marsh visited Wm Lockwood and wife Sunday. Hillary Shoemaker and wife dined with S R Buchanan family in honor of Mrs Francis Ward and Nes. Jobo Littie of Ashville Ohio. A Williams and wife dined Sunday with J P Lockwood and wife. Grandma Roce improving. Sawyer family to Ashville NC next Thursday. Fick Smith Shoemaker dined with Sawyer family Sunday. Ochscorider family visited Poneto Sunday. Preaching at Airline church next Sunday evening. High school term ends. Christmas vacation follows with examinations.
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