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Newspaper
Otterbein Sun
Location
Otterbein, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1914
Page
2
Notices note revival meetings at the M. E. church Sunday night. Public sales are announced with Walker Timmons’ event on February 16. Local illnesses, visits, and funerals are listed along with shop ads and garden fixtures.
As Cam moves away a public auction will be held at the James Sheetz farm located six miles south and two east of Remington and near Otterbein Chalmers and Walcott. The sale includes 17 head brood sows bred to Salt blood Poland China near due to farrow in March and April and 26 head pigs around 50 pounds. A full blood Poland China boar weighing 275 pounds will also be offered.
A. E. VanNattra is in the capital city this week attending the state convention of lumbermen. Mrs. George Bodley of Chicago visited the home of her brother T. A. Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Foster spent last Thursday with their daughter Mrs. Ernest Abel. Ray Marvin of Hoopeston was a guest of rank Perigo and family over the Sabbath.
Saltone stock feed is offered by Opp Hardware, advertised as available for purchase. The notice highlights purchasing options and local availability for farmers feeding livestock.
Mr and Mrs Morton Woodhams left Tuesday for a three week visit at Helena Mississippi. Miss Hazel Kennedy of Morocco and Messrs Laurence and Burkland of Brook were guests of Miss Grace Taylor last Thursday. Dr and Mrs N A Chamberlain from West Lafayette visited friends in the vicinity for a few days. Fred Sheetz of Cedar Rapids came to visit his mother Mrs Ella Sheetz.
Numerous residents and visitors are listed across Fowler and nearby areas including Mary Hawkins Abe Switzer Frazier Katherine Woodhams and Simeon McGahan with travel to Oxford Templeton Vincennes Montivideo and Ponca. The Otterbein Grain Co motor test and a Country Club monthly gathering with County Agent McFarland are also noted.
Mrs Mary Abrams aged ninety two celebrated her birthday with a family dinner at the Shipps home in Oxford. Grandsons Howard and Larry Shippe attended. she was born in Sweeden and has lived in the area sixty two years. A ninety birthday delegation once gave her a chair. Charles Shipps is her son in law.
A hospital ward tale follows Mary near death after a churchyard accident. Her husband William Walton seeks to comfort her with a faked hopeful letter about a country cottage and honest work. Sister Evelyn orchestrates a final ruse by delivering the letter, bringing Mary peace as she dies with a hopeful dream of Bill.
The article discusses M Garre of Basle proposing a footwear based science to judge character. Shoes supposedly reveal energy, negligence, and humor through heel and sole wear patterns, suggesting outer-edge wear signals adventure and stubbornness while inner-edge wear hints at modesty and self control.
The European Herald mockingly notes how scarpology and other pseudo sciences such as phrenology and chiromancy mislead. It cites an incident where worn boots edge wear helped identify a thief, warning against placing trust in such methods.
On a misty Tuesday near a tollhouse Reverend S F Heynolds stopped a couple aged 21 for questioning, then declared them man and wife. The couple Miss Alita Frazier of Spruce Lick and Youla Lycan of Fort Gay were praised as nice teachers and sent home with instruction to avoid repeats.
A copper colored viper killed a visitor on a Dartmoor farm during Christmas. Vipors usually hibernate in winter and small torpid colonies are noted for warmth. Naturalists note color variation and a highly venomous reddish form may exist.
A terse note describes a seller with the goods present and a customer urged to obtain prices. The fragment mentions the min and the supplier, indicating a sale or bargaining scene.
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