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Newspaper
North Vernon Sun
Location
North Vernon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1913
Page
3
North Vernon lively with shop notices and community updates. Happy John's ads offer catalogues and bargains. local banks, trains, and telegraph items reflect December bustle. Mention of festivals, temperance talks, court matters, and travels from Seymour, Scipio, and Cincinnati color the scene.
The Seymour items note a washerwoman’s shirts stolen in the southeast, speculation about editors, a secrecy tease for May 1876, Colonel Kenedy Brown visiting, Joe Mille and Joe Hemphill tales, Muncie couple Lee Coffeen and Miss Matie Faulkconer wed at Faulkconer House, blessings wished, a widow’s proposed offer to Joe rejected, the dull matrimonial market, and a humorously quoted timing for marriageable ladies amid gold prices.
Bargains abound at Happy John's this week with discounts on a wide range of goods. The store invites shoppers to visit daily for special offers and limited time price cuts.
A revival continues at the Methodist Church with Benjamin Malmabury assisting at the mill. Teaac Thickatine has traveled to Rockford to pursue milling. A meeting at the Reading Room is urged for tonight. Reports mention a natural curiosity north of town near Cherry Valley with hints of pleasant study opportunities.
A Christmas gift of books is praised as highly suitable and valuable. Mr. Cope provides a wide range of large and small volumes, standard history and romance works, and juvenile titles sure to delight readers of all ages, promising usefulness and satisfaction.
The first issue of Vicks Floral Guide for 1874 appears with quarterly Jan April July October issues at twenty five cents yearly. Published by James Vick Rochester NY, it runs 126 pages with cuts, descriptions of Bowers and culture methods, full flower and seed catalog and price list, printed on tinted paper, claiming superior information. Readers seeking seeds or plants can order from Mr Vick. also note Happy John moving into Wrepe and Morgens Block this week.
A list of new subscriptions received since the last publication includes names and amounts from Johny Myer Norton Donahue 75 Miss Mollie Gooding 100 T Wilkerson 150 Jao McKay 200 Owen Byrne 100 Geo Inter City 65 Jaa McCaffrey City 45 Myron B. King 150 Godfrey Winkler Hardaburg 150 A A Simmons to 2 25 Jacob Jolly us 150 Geo Waughter Scipio 150 Reuben Waits 195 Sannel Burnett Queensville 75 Thaniel O Marra 73 Ed Atchison Brewersville 100 Jno Grier Rockford abode 1 50 Gilaon Wantz Loovett 1 95 Ambrose Hamrick Vernon 1 50 Hiram Elliott tf 1 50 Jno Wenzell 7h i Walter Lynch Seymour 75 Robert Lanz Charlestown a 1 50 G L Jackson Ghallatin Tenn 1 50 Der P W Corva Dopent cntane eybattase 75 Atlantic Cable tobacco at the Postoffice Wawtep The ladies of North Vernon to know that Master Rowland Shreeve keeps constantly on hands a supply of new ing machine needles of all kinds and sizes for sale cheap for cash Nov26tf
Public examination of applicants for teachers license will be held at the Court House in Vernon on the last Saturday of the month. Applicants must be present at 9 o'clock a.m. promptly. [Dec34t] Joan Carney Sup't
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