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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1908
Page
4
The Mooresville Times announces a new subscription rate of one dollar per year with postage free across the United States. The paper is published every Friday and entered as second class on January 16 1905 in Mooresville Indiana. Communications should be addressed to W H Sage publisher at Mooresville Indiana.
Announcement confirms financing of a new electric line from here near the Monrovia bridge to Brazil via Monrovia. A recently surveyed southward route will create many cuts and fills and start work early next year. Local social notes mention Rev Newlin and Mr Karvey returning from Bloomington and a revival service.
In Plainfeld a tale unfolds of Bob Lewis now in Monrovia who entraps a possum on Mrs. Rachel Clark’s porch during a cold night. The preacher, Mrs. Clark, and neighbors join the scramble over the errant meal with social proprieties forgotten as the possum loses the bout to Bob. Also noted are a lost horse blanket and local notices of butchering season and thanks from the Ladies' Aid to local lodges and the Mary Harvey fund.
Nina Wilson travels to Indianapolis for aunt Eliza McCracken's funeral and returns Saturday. Ladies Aid plans a meeting at Oscar and Mrs Henson’s home next week. Local crimes include a broken window at Mrs Hubbard's house during absence. Carl and Morton McCracken attend aunt Mrs McCracken's funeral in Indianapolis. Several residents reported sick including Dr T F Holiday and Mrs W Williams. The high school rents a piano and hosts a December 18 program with a box supper. Purdue hosts the Second Annual Fruit Show January 11-16 with large cash premiums and a new potato class. entries urged from three state sections. contact C G Woodbury at Purdue for details.
The Morrison sale drew a good crowd with corn selling from 80 to 10 cents a bushel. Local voices discuss debt deals, ailing relatives in Illinois, crime in Indianapolis, funeral regrets, aging neighbors born in 1826, and pollution along White River prompting calls for river purification and city health action.
Capital 25000.00 Surplus 2200.00 The bank solicits business of individuals firms and corporations Drafts issued free to customers Safety deposit boxes for rent at a reasonable rate per year Geo R Scruggs President Eli H Anderson Vice President H H Leathers Cashier Carl L White Assist Cashier
Office hours listed as 8 to 9 a m 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p m. Special entice hours arranged to suit peer convenience of any patient.
Notice announces the I O O F will elect one trustee for a three year term on Wednesday December 23 1908. St H C Hadley sec'y.
An election will be held on December 14, 1908, for one Trustee position No. 327 in the I O R M Moapa Tribe to serve an eighteen month term.
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