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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1908
Page
4
Montpelier Herald and RALD Publishing announce management details for the newspaper office located at Herald Block North Main Street Montpelier Indiana. Office room 1 lists L Troutman as manager overseeing editorial and production operations.
The piece reports another potential excommunication of Count Tolstoy by Boly Sruod with familiar indifference from Tolstoy. Rumors swirl from St. Petersburg about Libsop dispatches causing Imperial unease. A note suggests Barry Toan keeps busy with a lighthearted ditty rather than state matters.
A Budapest dispatch notes a five million dollar credit to a local bank for the Count and Countess Szaebenyi with no settlement. It adds the count took half the money with the bride. The piece then contrasts Crimean War veterans in England and the United States, citing paupers in English workhouses and US pension generosity.
Blackford county Democrats are summoned to a 1 30 p m conven tion at the Hartford City court house to select township committeemen Harrison Jackson Licking and Washington townships The convention will determine the selection method and all Democrats and supporters are urged to attend to ensure capable leaders on the county central committee John Burns chairman Ethan S crester secretary C A Balawin Interurban official was in town on business this morning.
The piece asserts American forests harbor valuable medicinal plants and promotes Dr. Pierce of Buffalo offering a free book with extracts from standard medical works. It claims cures for indigestion fever and other ailments and urges readers to request the book by mail.
U S Marshal Petit arrived in Bluffton and arrested Paul Courtney for destroying a rural route mailbox near John Hodges farm. Courtney confessed, and the case will go to federal court in Fort Wayne with Postmaster Spivey as a witness. Authorities expect leniency, possibly a suspended sentence or fine, to set an example against tampering with government property.
Richmond dispatch reports Dr Samuel E Smith responds to John W Terrell mental illness charges against Easthaven management. Smith says Terrell's condition unchanged since admission five years ago, though physically he improves. He calls Terrell’s accusations delusional and notes past behavior as a physical wreck.
A United States geological survey report highlights a booming Wabash river pearl industry. Estimates place 1906 U S pearl production from the river at 100 000 to 150 000 with the national pearl value around 500 000 and Mississippi basin activity near 2 000 000 annually.
AOL Me and Mrs. Ashbaugh visit Blackford friends. Miss Daisy Kelly recovers from diphtheria as revival at the M E church continues. Ernest Wittiker visits from Hartford City. T C Schooley moves a small house to his farm with Wm Meyer to occupy. Various local visits and illnesses noted among Kitterman Beeks Ricard Carpenter and neighbors.
Several members of the district attended a William Elliot sale last Wednesday. Mrs W H Sills visited Grandma Schwartzkopf last Wednesday afternoon. Otto Biser hauled logs the past week. Mrs Simon Kuttler visited Mrs Mary Hiser last Wednesday. Maud Johnson works for L Schwartzkopf. The ground bog and shadow comment reference a prior saying. Wesley Sills spent Saturday with Jake Schwartzkopf and family. Jake Kuttler visited his parents last Sunday. Otto and Christ Hiser were at Hartford City last Sunday. Ma Manuel Johnson and daughter visited her parents Dorton's home last Sunday.
Mrs Thos Blount has returned from Kenton Ohio after a three week visit. Sick list includes Lwols Blount Dan Gar ranger and Mrs Riley Mansfield. Sunday school poorly attended due to bad weather. Lewis Blount butchered last week. Wm Brown kept up his usual sale at Jacksons Sunday night. Local youths attend protracted meeting at Slater. Andrew Jackson and Arthur Shannon visited Hartford City on business.
H B Huff and family spent Sunday in Van Buren. James Stalder returns home from Illinois to visit his parents Mr and Mrs Lewis Stalder. Mrs Lona S B Ketring of Munéle visits Mrs S A Sala. Charles Berter hauled a boiler from Montpelier to Parker City for the Erle Crawford Oil Co. lagrippe circulating locally. Myre Lena Kerring visits Mrs Etta Cronin of Roll. Burr Palmer of Roll on the sick list. Jackson township east half will be assessed this spring by Evert Alexander and the west half by Wm Younes. Wm Stults family and J E Burkala family return from the South last Saturday.
Heavy wet snow followed by rain strains on plant roots. Officials warn about potential soil saturation and moisture-related issues around properties. Authorities advise monitoring drainage and protecting vulnerable vegetation through careful watering and mulch management.
An unknown assailant fired a shot into a Bluffton traction car on the Hartford line as it left Hartford City at 8:08 p.m. two women narrowly escaped injury. Motorman Cox and Conductor Gordy led the crew. Bluffton police searched for the shooter but found nothing. Officials suspect a motive tied to local labor tensions and the Amalgamated Association, with conductor Gowdy shaken but continuing duty after illness.
In a swift twenty minute meeting at Marion the Eleventh district convention elected delegates Harry Tucker and George Ostone to the National Convention with A G Lupton and Chas Bans as alternates and Milton Krass as presidential elector. W P Modlin of Hartford City chaired the gathering which endorsed Fairbanks for president and pledged support, giving him early lead among named delegates.
A public sale near Keystone Indiana lists livestock including a mare in foal a 16 month old colt 17 month old colt cattle and poultry plus farm equipment such as a Deering binder mower clipper cultivator hay rake wagons sheller belts and a gasoline engine sale starts at 10 00 am with Joseph urns as auctioneer and D Beavens as clerk.
The Ohio Oil Co. camp east of Bluffton boosted business by supplying groceries clothing and other goods to hundreds of workers. A gang leader purchased eighty pairs of rubber boots for his crew as the group’s interpreters and bosses managed the bilingual workers. The boots and related items stayed in the city for days.
The article extols Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription as open about ingredients and proven to cure catarrhal diseases and certain women’s ailments. It notes local forests supply medicinal roots, claims alcohol free formulas, and urges readers to request a free booklet from Buffalo New York.
Indiana field last week shows a modest uptick with seventeen wells completed. Ten productive wells yielded 240 barrels daily, an average of twenty five barrels per well, while seven were dry. weather elsewhere is good but market and pipeline constraints slow Oklahoma and Illinois fields.
About forty neighbors gathered at Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Moos home at Five Points Friday night to surprise Mrs. Moos on her thirtieth birthday. She enjoyed a new piece of music as guests arrived unseen and the crowd shared a three course supper. The evening included music and sociability before guests departed late.
Last evening the force at the Pees Office hosted a lobby gathering where Miss Della Wilson produced a chaffing dish and oyster stew was enjoyed. Attendees included Espeh VanAtts, Sam Pugh, and William Palmer.
A series of five domes was unveiled at the IIT campus in a coordinated ceremony. Officials from IIT and the city government attended, marking a milestone in the campus’ expansion project and public space renovation.
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