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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1892
Page
4
Local items report Tue P. C. D. A. meeting planned for tomorrow and various small town happenings. Notable entries include Hart Reno aged 72, river boating stage on Tuesday, a predicted cold snap next Monday and Tuesday, and Little ice coming with the river rise.
Advertising copy touts Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption and La Grippe as the best remedy. It claims rapid relief with no bad after effects and guarantees satisfaction or refund. Trial bottles free at Mumfords Drugstore with large bottles priced at 50 cents and 1 dollar.
Phillipstown correspondent of the Carmi Times recounts John Clark and G Sullivan being saved from drowning when ice broke on the Wabash near New Harmony last Saturday. Friends aided them just in time, averting a watery grave in a dramatic incident.
The young ladies of St Stephens Church invite friends to an event at the opera house next Wednesday evening February 17. A program of tableaux recitations songs and instrumental music will be followed by a display featuring Mysterious Baskets. Fine French can dies and other items will be sold at Booth No 1. The program ends with A Gliding Festival and admission is 10 cents.
Burglars entered the freight room at the depot last Saturday morning and stole 13 cans of oysters owned by Ford & Bennett. A shoe drum trunk was broken into but nothing else was taken. No clues were found and doors were secure when the morning arrived.
The town council met Tuesday with members Johnson Duclos Rawlings Mann and Trethewey present. Minutes were approved and several claims allowed including marshal Stallings 40 and Duclos Lumber 528.60. Fire wardens reported coal sheds to Hecksman and HUSB and orders required repairs to prevent fire risk. Trethewey moved to notify south Church Street businesses to clear obstructions in the ditch ahead of street cleaning. Adjourned.
The St. Louis Republic is advertised as the best national news journal issued twice weekly on Tuesday and Friday. It claims 8 to 16 pages per issue, a Democratic paper with a tariff department edited by W. L. Wilson, M.D., and contributions from other leaders. Subscriptions are $1 per year, with free sample copies available.
The Hyers Sisters, a ten member company with a fine band, will occupy the opera house next Monday presenting a piece titled A Darkey's Dream. Press praise from New York Boston and Chicago lauds them as premier colored vocalists and entertaining performers. Beatrice printer notes a Saturday auditorium show of minstrelry burlesque and farce by Callender Hyers Sisters Co. and calls it highly enjoyable with a warm reception and hopes for another full house.
Ida ville postmaster Timmons, farmer John Leslie, and hardware dealer J W Gardner endorse Electric Bitters for kidney and liver trouble, general weakness, and revived health. They report renewed strength and appetite. Available at Mumford's Drug Store for 50 cents a bottle.
Public sale of farm machinery and livestock to be held opposite Hawkins Livery Stable New Harmony Indiana at 1 30 p m Saturday February 27 1892 describe items including Plano Binder Champion Drill Excelsior Mower Casaday Plow Hay Rake Cultivator two horse wagon express track wagon and other machinery two brood mares three year old mare four year old gelding two year old mare one year old mare one mule one cow with a 10 month credit for sums over five dollars cash on day of sale for amounts under five dollars note with approved security bearing six percent interest per annum. feb 12 3t
The undersigned will apply at the next session of the Posey County Board of Commissioners to retail spirituous and malt liquors on Lot 95 at the corner of Main and Tavern Streets in New Harmony Posey County.
Mrs E S L Thompson of Muncie Ind will give an entertainment at the opera house Saturday evening February 20 entitled Hovering in the Cabin blending humor and pathos of colored life in the sunny south Tickets on sale at Mumford's for 10 and 25 cents Thompson, a leading Indiana literary figure, has appeared with James Whitcomb Riley and Bill Nye in major cities.
An advertisement touts Buckilen's Arnica Salve with a money back guarantee and 25 cent price. A Lynn township dog claimed by Bob Richards and Enoch McFaddin occupies cis cuit court time. case ends with dismissal and dog in McFaddin's possession. Weather and local notes report failed planet conjunction, a portable mill near Stilwell cemetery, and Evansville buyers offering 874 cents per bushel for the Cut-Off I com but not accepted.
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