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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1908
Page
8
Monrovia community updates include visitors from Richmond Indianapolis and Plainfield, a cremery site purchase, church events, a horse show association election, and a death in the area. Residents travel for family visits, examinations, and church services while local societies plan meetings and a musical fundraiser.
Farmers missed some wheat cutting after a needed rain. Sunday evening Siloam saw strong children's day exercises with a solo by Mrs. George Passmore. Obituaries recall Mrs. Bellefer and Mrs. Ann Hinson, detailing a long life of faith, family ties, and moral character culminating in June 29, 1908.
Mrs Sarah Marine of Mooresville presented a temperance talk on Sunday morning while Mary Reynolds and Daisy Thompson delivered recitations. Francis White, age, recovered from whooping cough. Bethesda hosted children exercises and Miss Stevens gave an India lecture. Mrs Aaron Stanton visited Martinsville. Noble and Myron Stanton returned with her, and guests from Des Moines, Iowa joined the visit.
Weather records a good rain as Wesley Brown and families visit Barlow Aldrich and others. Reuben Aldrich stays with his sister Minnie Morgan. Cottage prayer meeting hosted by Wim Collins. Nettie Taylor visits Mary Landers. Revival at Waverly Church July 17 to 27. Mooresville families visit Camp Jolly.
Annie N Hinson born 1852 remained single never married. She lived with her brother, kept house for six years after parents died and joined the M E church in early life. Her memory lingered in the quiet cottage and was deeply cherished by those who knew her.
New evidence shows William IV fulfilled the sailor motto as he slept through a Westminster festival in 1884. Queen Adelaide nudged him during a bass duet in Israel in Weypt with the remark about a fine duet The Lord Is a Man of War. He asked how many guns she carries.
Sandy and his sweetheart stroll through Selkirk fair ground. They enter a pie shop where he orders a pie and begins to eat while Jennie looks on shyly. The exchange ends with the girl urged to buy one. Penny Pictorial.
Judge Charles P. Daly of New York is praised as a charming conversationalist, model citizen, and accomplished jurist. He recalls meeting the Duke of Wellington who remarked Daly looked too young for the bench. Daly attributes his rise to fortune’s accidents, while the duke concedes Daly is where he belongs.
While on a lecturing tour Henry Ward Beecher found a sealed envelope given by a railroad magnate he had married months earlier. He opened it to reveal five $1,000 bills, tucked away in the pocket as he prepared to depart. Major Pond, his manager, sat nearby in the railway car listening to the tale.
A crowd tested eggs for freshness by spinning them on a table as told by St. Nicholas. A boiled egg spun like a top, while a raw one would not, revealing the raw egg among boiled ones. A visitor quickly solved the puzzle by this spinning test.
The column urges temperance and mercy, cites a Sunday lecture by Mr. Brown at the Friends church, and notes the World Is Going Dry theme from the Temperance Centennial Congress. It reports 21 of 28 Oregon counties voting dry and mentions a new state prohibition bill in the legislature. Senator Kociker of New York is highlighted for his 60 mile journey to roll call post operation.
Morgan Lodge No. 211 passes resolutions expressing deep sorrow at the death of Amos Thornburgh’s wife. The letter notes his loss as a devoted husband and asks members to offer sympathy. The resolutions instruct that a copy be recorded and published in the Mooresville Times.
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