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Newspaper
Otterbein Sun
Location
Otterbein, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1913
Page
5
Local residents and visitors are noted in a string of brief items. People travel to Oxford, Lafayette, Crawfordsville, Boswell, and Rensselaer. several families visit kin, attend funerals, picnics, or reunions. businesses advertise hammocks croquet sets and photography services. the Otterbein Telephone Co announces limited calls on the Fourth.
A letter from King Hill Idaho dated June 20 1913 recounts travel through Shoshone Gooding and King Hill. The writer notes town features including brick buildings a school livery and depot, social events and meetings with friends, and details on King Hill Tract farming irrigation challenges alfalfa yields and markets. He mentions Ed also known as Jack, Chandler Walsh Frank Laird and James Smith and Boise as capital with pleasant scenery and roses.
The text notes a high school commencement with 128 graduates, 68 of them young men. Prof. Francis W. Sheppardson of Chicago University delivered the address, described as fine, while the observer remarks on the new State Capitol and a future Fourth of July fishing trip on the Malad River. They joke about catching a thousand-pound sturgeon to ship to Otterbein.
Concluding notes express belief of a future return to home in Jay. The writer signs off as A. M. Smith Sr delivering a personal farewell and expressed hope.
Glenn Patch a bay horse weighing 1050 pounds with white markings, sired by Dan's Brother a relation to Dan Patch, is eligible to register but not yet registered. To stand at the Mather Burn in northwest Otterbein. terms:
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