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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
4
A Montpelier Herald page mixed with notes and editorial asides questions canal plans for Christmas and compares meat prices Chicago Berlin. Mentions Jimmy Higde and a fashion writer. Speculates on inauguration date changes and references Taft Fairbanks Shaw and Root amid global events and life insurance scandals.
Mrs. Viola Worthyn has returned from Oberlin where she accepted a matron position in a college boarding house with thirty girls to oversee. After fourteen months running the McDirmit hotel she will depart, serving her last meal tomorrow morning as the room is left vacant for rent. Miss Delight stays in Montpelier until January then moves to Oberlin for school.
Oil City Derrick reports November oil operations in Indiana show rising drilling activity. On November 30, 25 wells drilled and 76 rigs active. 168 wells completed, 20 dry holes, 2536 barrels produced, down 153 from October despite 57 more wells. Delaware county leads with 1100 barrels and 37 completions, Weis, Huntington, Jay, and Grant follow in production.
The piece asserts a hoodoo attaches to the Senate seat held by J. R. Burton of Kansas. J L Bristow and Congressman Curtis are said to be ready to demonstrate their bravery in response.
Paris says the Venezuelan situation is bad because Castro has refused to reply to a note from the French ambassador. The note implies France views the ongoing dispute as worsened by this refusal.
A large group from the city and country gathered at Mr and Mrs James Waughs Rustic Park home for a belated housewarming. Guests brought useful furnishings and enjoyed a supper of fried chicken as they celebrated the couple.
George Gardiner, Charles Kingsbury, and William Davis arrived to testify in the Otto Cook case for the state. Several defendants in complicity in the killing were in the city, including Ollie Sanderson, Clara Smith, and Otto Cook, with Sam Emory as a witness. Kingsbury and Davis were jailed on separate charges but overheard conversations relevant to the trial. Bluffton Banner. F Marshal of Indianapolis visited Tuesday.
Last evening John Foster Maddox was lured into a back alley by four assailants, forced into a buggy and taken about five miles east of town. His hands were tied behind him and he was left in a woods to find his way home. He reached home later that afternoon and is indignant about the attack.
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