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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1908
Page
5
Local items report visits by Lee Thompson and Mrs Harriet Cox to Indianapolis Plainfield and Martinsville. illnesses verifications, real estate and home improvements, sales at Mills Cash Store and carpet and wallpaper updates. A moving picture show opens. church and school events planned with attendance noted. The grain elevator fire at Brooklyn causes significant loss with minor insurance coverage.
A rural Indiana Farmer note urges using native wild flowers and foliage plants to beautify lawns. Transplant after removal to rich soil, with shade or sun considerations. Varieties like violets, spring beauties, ferns, adder tongue, blue flags, woodbine, and wild grape are highlighted for natural charm.
State of Indiana Morgan County notice in the April 1908 term of the Circuit Court. Henry B. Taylor as executor files a complaint to sell real estate against Maud Hornaday Cloc Hornaday and Farr Hornaday nonresidents or residence unknown. Defendants must appear or demur by June 12 1908 at Martinsville Court House. Clerk Odin R. Smith. Attorney George W. Grubbs.
Twenty self supporting Chicago women form the Art Craft Colony to settle on government irrigated lands in the West. They express confidence in farming without men and plan mainly poultry keeping and fruit growing.
For sale offering 1000 fine geraniums and many bedding plants including roses of various varieties. Also listed are Alternantheras red and yellow Salvia Splendens vines Coleus Asparagus Plumosus and Asparagus Sprengeri Petunia and American Favorite varieties.
J. B. Moore serves as President as his Benediction statement outlines leadership direction for the organization. The note emphasizes guidance and forward planning under his tenure.
A New Bedford tale recalls young lawyer Timothy Coffin pleading unprepared as his mother, traveled from Nantucket to hear his first case. From the courthouse gallery she rebuked him with a sharp parental chorus, “Timothy, Timothy, how often have I chastised thee for lying.”
In a brief exchange cited by the Houston Post the wife defends her husband’s purchases. The dialogue references his spending on cigars and a diamond, with the wife noting the latter was for her. The fragment suggests tension over finances in a domestic setting.
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