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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1904
Page
4
An old advertisement extols Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a universal kidney remedy. It links kidney health to blood filtering and general well being, claims cures for various pains and constitutional diseases, and urges readers to order a sample bottle and pamphlet. It includes address details for Binghamton New York.
The Mooresville Indiana edition lists subscription rate as 75 cents per year. notices mention Mrs Ham Jackson traveling to Indianapolis for an eye operation and local social visits by Horace Major and Isa Major of Martinsville. L A Shamafeit resigns from the town board over time for duties, and the club meeting with Mrs Laura Eaton precedes summer vacation.
Mrs James Watson remains ill. Reuben Robertson visited Indianapolis on Sunday. Fletcher Arms began a huckster wagon and bought Cook Park. The river is high. Grandma Duncan remains very ill with little chance of recovery. L E Armstrong is sick. Bad. Shamebarver injures heel but improving. Dodie Sawyers renovates his dwelling with a veranda. M F Fields plans moving to Mooresville. Wilkie Prescott returns from Mississippi with Horton saw mill. Jim Horton visits. High water hindered last week’s reports.
Local notes report a child’s death and burial, sick residents, and widespread rain delaying farm work. Flood conditions evoke memories of the Ist, 7 flood year with high water on White river, plus a call to enforce a $5,000 bond on the bedstead factory promoters to protect town interests.
Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary have been issued to the undersigned as executor of the last will of Nannie E. Weesner, deceased, late of Morgan County Indiana. J Marvel dated 25, 1904. J M Bishop, Attorney.
At Tuesday night’s meeting the board awarded the South Street concrete walk contract to Mann & Barker of Lebanon at 9.9 cents per square foot, a new low. Petitions seek walks on Washington Street east to Plainfield and on Main Street from Indiana to Madison. The Public Service Company accepted the town franchise. Annexation of the electric line power house and grounds was postponed.
For sale and for rent a good house three miles from Mooresville offered by R Townsend. The lot sits on East Main Street with options to purchase or lease.
Consumption The only kind of consumption to fear is neglected. People are learning that consumption is curable disease, it is neglected consumption that is incurable. At the faintest suspicion of cough take Scott's Emulsion at once. Prompt use checks the disease while it can be checked. Scott & Bowne, New York, 27-425 Pearl Street. goc and $1.00, all druggists.
The Town of Mooresville Indiana notifies residents of a proposed concrete sidewalk project five feet wide along Indiana Street from Main to Madison. Remonstrances may be filed by May 3 at 5:00 PM. The Board will hear objections and act at the meeting in Mooresville.
Report of the condition of the Farmers Bank at Mooresville Indiana as of March 28 190d. Resources include Loans and Discounts 37913. Overdrafts 0. Due from Banks and Bankers 0. Banking House 2520.00. Currency and Specie. Cash on Hand 10,960.02.
A note suggests the Public Service Company provide exhaust steam to heat the nearby M E church building by using one car load of coal per day to generate warmth for the edifice.
April 22d to 50th inclusive excursion tickets to Los Angeles and San Francisco sold via Pennsylvania Lines. Fare details and train times available from nearby ticket agents. Proceeds benefit the General Conference Methodist Episcopal Church and the National Association of Retail Grocers of United States.
State of Indiana Morgan County ss. W F Hadley cashier of Farmers Bank of Mooresville Indiana swears the figures are true. The document lists capital stock paid in thirty five thousand sixty dollars surplus fund fifteen thousand dollars discount exchange and a few items interest on deposits due to banks and bankers totaling one hundred sixty thousand six hundred eighty two dollars and thirty five cents. Notary Levi F E Ballard notarizes on April 2 1904 with commission expiring April 8 1904.
Timetable shows trains leaving Indianapolis Martinsville and Mooresville with first departures at 5 30 a m and 5 40 a m respectively. Northbound service runs hourly until 7 08 p m with late 9 08 and 11 06 p m. Southbound to Indianapolis and Martinsville runs hourly until 7 20 p m with 9 20 and 12 20 p m final runs. 7 50 p m cars terminate at Mooresville.
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