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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1908
Page
5
Hughes Cash Store promotions appear alongside multiple social notes from Muncie Bluffton and Montpelier. Mentions include J P Rawlings Hartford City at races, Miss Irene Byron visiting from Ft Wayne, and family visits with Georgian and Canadian trips. Also advertised are Cresc ent Cafe staff, Dawn china sales at the Big Store, and health ads for Foley’s Kidney Remedy and DeWitt’s products.
County residents must act by stated date to clean their allotments or face trustee action. Landowners may clean their own allotment by signing with the trustee, getting a freeholder to sign, and posting bond. If not, costs become a lien and are charged to the land.
Mrs E R Pierson of Auburn Centre Pa touts Dr King s New Discovery as a cure for long standing threats to lungs and throat. She says other treatments gave only temporary relief and the remedy has done her much good. Pioneer drug store sells 60c and 1 00 sizes with a free trial bottle.
Telegram reports the German steamer Anubis wrecked on rocks near San Francisco with passengers' lives in peril. Authorities and rescuers respond as crews battle surf and salvage attempts. The incident prompted emergency calls and updates from coastal observers.
A Geneva bank received fifteen bags from Cincinnati totaling 750 dollars in silver with 14.70 postage 98 cents on each bag. The sender could have used express for about 75 cents. the unusual part was registered mail and the need for the assistant cashier Mr Hale to sign thirty times. Also notes visitors Ettie Franklin and family at Lake George with updates on Mr Burton's serious illness.
Elevator men say farmers are bringing in their wheat more freely than in years and few are holding for higher prices. 1907 crop sellers and first timers join in marketing as prices stay attractive around 61 to 62 pounds per bushel. Wheat is described as the best all around crop in years.
SLOCUM my.c and Mrs Bert Russell and child ren spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Henry Russell. John Brown entertained relatives from Portland and Ridgeville over Saturday and Sunday. Chris Schwartzkopf has purchased another horse. Mr and Mrs Guy Strait and the Misses Blarche Jackson and Mabel Dorton spent Sunday with Dan Pitten gers's. Mr and Mrs Jacob Hiser took dinner with relatives in Hartford City Sunday. Mrs Mandy Rodgers left Wednesday for a visit with relatives in Scott County. A J McColly returned home Monday from a couple of days visit with relatives in Ohio. Farmers await oats before threshing. Mrs Maggie Miller of Monticello spent Friday with A J McColly and wife. Rev Linville will preach at Pleasant Dale next Sunday evening.
Alfred Funk family spent Sunday with Jonas Radabaugh of Montpelier. Clevenger and daughter Opal of Hartford City visited Frank Brumbaugh. Threshing active in area. Fred Stuckey dined with Austin Shadie. Berrier family visited relatives near Montpelier. Local attendance at a lakeside ball game. Underwood family guests of A M Shadle. Rosa Bennett lease to drill a new well. Large crowd at social and band concert Saturday. Mrs Joe Williams ill. A W Stout, Grant Co auditor, met with C A Underwood on business. Ad for Dr King’s New Life Pills 25c.
A 19th or early 20th century price list shows staples with per unit costs: rice five cents per pound, beans four cents per pound, naptha soap two bars at no charge, other laundry soaps four cents per bar, bhuing per box three cents, washboards eleven cents, starch four cents per pound, pickled pork ten cents per pound, bananas two for twenty five cents. This ad reflects everyday household costs of the era and the variety of goods offered.
Chris Flaugh built a water softening device for John Bain from his laundry. The system sits above a storage tank, with a twenty gallon dump cycle releasing chemicals and lifting a valve. Bain has tested one in his laundry for eighteen months, and this model ships to the Troy laundry in Fort Wayne with plans for more units.
A compact sale listing shows prices for shirts waists belts lawns sunbonnets and table linen. Items include white shirts waists black fawn waists India linen waists belts and various per yard prices with small 10c to 45c ranges and note of suitings at two cents per yard and 8 8c values.
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