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Newspaper
Pekin Advance
Location
Pekin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1912
Page
1
Pekin News presents a crowded page with sales and notices. Items include Good blocky mule for sale near Pekin, Jersey bull two years old, millinery ads from Johnson Sisters offering spring hats, local visits and town news, births, illness updates, and a feature on Walter D. Colglazier as a Democratic county commissioner candidate reflecting community events and commerce.
The third county Benevolent Group meeting was held at Pekin Methodist Church on Tuesday. The program featured devotions, talks on ministerial support and Christian stewardship, sermons by Rev. L. Jeffery, Rev. Black, and Rev. H. J. Lack, and musical selections. The gathering concluded around 9:30 PM with ministers departing in appreciation of hospitality.
The fragment notes a speaker referring to buying Red Band brand candy and easing their trouble with cigars while with the girls, with unclear surrounding context and attribution. The garbled text includes names like Elrod and partial phrases about trying something worth and future plans.
Flora Gill reports a Geometry II test on Tuesday and a fine time at Friday’s commencement at Borden. Visitors included John Tash, Orvil Hamilton, Miss Reid, Arlie Chastain, Elsie Davis, and the Botany class studies mugses and ferns. Oratorical Association plans next meeting Friday evening.
The Epworth League meets Wednesday evening with Hazel Messer as leader. Regular preaching Sunday services follow at Bethel 10:30 AM and Mt. Pleasant 8:30 PM led by Mt. Borden at 7:30 PM. The Women’s Foreign Missionary Society postpones their meeting to Friday April 12 when Miss Daily, a returned missionary, will speak and address the fabric event that night.
Long feature explains how the ten counties forming Indiana's Third district were organized and named. It covers Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Jasper, Orange, Perry, Scott, Washington, Lawrence, and the newly added Bedford-area, noting founders, seats, and notable figures like Harrison and Perry.
A Pekin Indiana musician notes a piano is almost surely out of tune after the cold season. Warder Meadors guarantees to please the musician with tuning services in Pekin.
The notice advertises a November 0th issue price of $1.00 for the Louisville Evening Post. It targets country residents and cites H C Littell as the agent. It mentions AoMae a Year and promises all news of the bazaar.
Frank Morris, home from Bloomington, rested with family and returned Sunday. Homer Martin visited town last week to buy stock. Margarett Morris and Elbert Fitzpatrick and wife spent Sunday with Millard Terrell and Jacob Terrell. Nelson Morris bought a horse from Carl Motsinger. Lebert Stewart and Mahlon McCoskey cut wood for Newton Spurgeon. Dempsey Rickard bought a new manure spreader. John Floyd delivered a car of fertilizer to Pekin. Charles Wilson bought a milk can from Nelson Morris. Jack Brim and Lee Gorman hauled a load of hogs to Pekin Saturday.
The New Albany Public Press notes broad support for R C Brown for judge praising his nonpartisan stance. Indianapolis Civic League and Indianapolis News quote bipartisan commendation for his independent record and people demanded legislation.
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