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Newspaper
Paoli Republican
Location
Paoli, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1920
Page
11
Wanted: a man with a team or automobile who can post bond to sell 187 Watkins home and farm products. Potential yearly income from $1500 to $5000. Territory open in this county. Write today to J. R. Watkins & Co Dept 116 Winona Minnesota 6 5.
Sealed bids will be received by the Director of the State Highway Commission in Indianapolis for the French Lick to Crystal route project in Dubois Orange counties. Bidding details include plans, bonds, and plans cost. contracts awarded to lowest bid and right reserved to reject all bids.
Sunday School at 9 20 morning worship at 10 80 preaching and 8 00 evening service. Prayer meeting Thursday at 7 80 p m Epworth League 6 45 local church notices align with standard church hour guidelines.
The American Protective Tariff League promotes a campaign button reading Harc ing and Coolidge SMILE with Protection Prosperity on the back. Two buttons can be obtained by mail for six cents, address W F Wakeman Secretary 339 Broadway New York. Also offers a camping trip suggestion and lists agricultural staple prices and a newspaper offer of The Republican and Globe-Democrat at one dollar forty cents for one year.
Advertisement urges readers to maintain health for family duties. Recommends Chamberlain's Tablets for constipation bilious digestion and general stomach troubles with simple directions to feel better and be able to work.
The Trustee of French Lick township Orange county calls a meeting of the Advisory Board on September 6 1920 at 1 pm to review estimates for 1920 including township expenditures 1640.75 township tax 0.20 local tuition 98500.80 tax 0.45 special school tax 2947.03 tax 0.45 road tax 98.00 tax 0.10 additional road tax 62.00 tax 0.05 pope expenditures 800 tax 0.01 total expenditures 17888.58 and total tax 126.00. August 2 1920 H Burton Trustee.
Petitioners, legal voters of Orleans township in Orange County, request rebuilding and widening of a public highway to join Orleans and Liberty free gravel roads. They seek a 20 foot wide crushed limestone surface, 14 feet wide with a center thickness of 12 inches, using limestone screening. Hearing set for September 6, 1920, before the Orange County Board of Commissioners.
A column argues depreciated government bonds hold value amid global military spending, warning against further bond sales. It notes sugar procurement costs and criticizes administration actions, then presents a testimonial about Hall’s Catarrh Remedy and a patent medicine advertisement folded into the page.
The Paoli township Sunday School Convention is announced for August 22 at the M E Church. A stray ad promotes Dean’s Olotment for babies and rheumatic relief, while a political note criticizes Indiana legislative Republicans for rising state expenses and prints cost comparisons with Democrats.
Advertisement from The Hawkes Nursery Up in Wauwatosa Wisconsin seeking agents to sell superior nursery stock. Weekly pay, free outfit, good territory, experience not required. Also listing Baltead wheat straw and oate straw by Rhodes & Lewis.
Notice to creditors heirs and legatees to appear in Orsaye eet Court in Cadiana on the 8th day of August to show cause why final settlement accounts should not be approved. Witness Thomas G. Ellis, clerk, circuit court. Burdock Blood Bitters advertisement included. Price 1.21.
Myrtle hackmeister of Evansville Indiana praised Tanlac after a severe flu left her weak and unable to work for a year. She says after five bottles her appetite improved, weight returned, and she now feels at least twenty years younger, urging others to try the medicine.
Rev William Cox and brother Christopher Cox visit E R Lishbrook family renewing old acquaintances in town Saturday. Rev C E Cogswell and family visit relatives in Orange county while he prepares to take a Bethany College professorship next month. George E Moore of Wilson county Kansas visits Orange county relatives. born near Paoli. Big County Sunday School Convention at Old Union Sept 2 plans largest turnout with speakers Hall Purdue Bill Indianapolis Rev Marshall Orleans Rev Ashby Orleans and West Baden pastors. evangelistic music and dinner on the ground.
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