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Newspaper
Pekin Advance
Location
Pekin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1912
Page
3
Stella Wright traveled to Matsingre to take a diploma exam while many attended Big Springs church. Reported actions include farm visits, schooling disruptions, and local travel. several residents and families are mentioned with trips, purchases, and visits across Pekin, Martinsburg, and nearby farms.
Examination of Bristal records from 154s to 1911 shows meteor activity peaks at end of July and start of August. Observations on clear moonless nights average about six meteors per hour in the first half of the year, rise to a peak of sixty nine per hour by August 10, with an annual mean of twenty four meteors per hour.
Opte Read, known as Ople Read, a prolific writer and storyteller, is described as a versatile showman who mingled with peers during a Chautauqua event in the west. After a lecture he met a fellow platformist and invited him to share a stake, while humor erupts over smoking and self-control.
Howard G. Skiles is listed in a local notice involving a fire incident and life insurance matters connected to real estate holdings. The brief item notes his involvement as a person of interest in the event and references related property records.
Routine church visits, farm talk, and local happenings fill Rural Route 13 notes. Names such as Bethel Lane, Newel Matthews, Samuel Hatthews, Goss School, and Morris Chapel appear among visits, farm plans, and township weather notes. Also brief social observations and a Yeitel esq. epitaph fragment.
Noah Count of Chiggerbite recalls Yule B. Siek who opened in drugs and plastered signs across town. A signmaker’s correction altered “Take Our Drugs” to “Take Our Digs” and transformed Siek into the town’s richest magnate famed at the Busy Corner.
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