Pekin Local Notes Roundup of Visitors and Farm News
Pekin sees visits from Miss Bertha Hardman of Orleans and many others, with notes on local clergy, business trips to Salem and Louisville, farm sales near Fredericksburg, barn raisings by Gill Bros near the picnic ground, a cemetery organizing meeting, and a wedding of Harry D. Motsinger and Etta May Shamel. Also mentions a bank reform gag and local civics events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chaginin
Salem
Ola McCoy
Orleans
Mariel Taylor
Pekin
Ola. McCoy
Erith Graves
Frank Jenner
Mabel Taylor
J. Frank Jenner
W. Johnson
Stolia Baker
Farabuemin Pukin
Dane Baker
Canton
J. B. Care
Harry D. Motsinger
Chas
Motsinger
Etta May Shamel
Jesse Shamel
Pek
Charles Motsinger
R C Brown for Judge and local notices
Column reprints praise for R C Brown as a likely judge and notes from Indianapolis papers. Local items include church group meetings in Pekin with Dr Whitsitt and Rev J W Trowbridge, real estate transactions on Main Street, and a Woodville lodge meeting praising new insurance rates. Also humorous bits and county news wrap the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Episcopal Churcht
J. Frank Jenner
Pekin
Methodist Church
Whitsitt
Davdubus
F. Jenner
R. R. Bryan
Mitchell
Indiana
J. W. Trowbridge
Campbellsburg
Trowbridge
L. C. Jeffrey
New Albany
Ind
H. Joseph Black
Salem
Edwards
R. BR. Bryan
Emmanuel
Shiloh
John H. Corn
Albert A. Littell
Main Street
Dr. Green
Mr. Corn
C. B. Elrod
M. E. Parsonage
Carl R. Elrod
Warder Bierly
Cecil Nale
Local Telegraph Operator Spends Weekend With Folks
Old Pekin report notes Chester Gray, operator of West Baden, staying with home folks on Saturday night. Mentions Mrs James Smith hosting a carpet gathering and several local residents visiting friends and relatives through the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Gray
West Baden
Questions for Pekin town upkeep and leadership
Questions from a Pekin citizen ask whether alleys in the town should be maintained or left impassable. Who is responsible for repairing places hard to traverse by vehicle and should such conditions persist season to season. The inquiry also asks if the town has a Major.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pekin
Democrats Name State Ticket At Indianapolis Convention
Large attendance marked the Democratic State convention in Indianapolis last week. The ticket, headed by Samuel M. Ralston of Lebanon, was nominated by acclamation and includes Wm. P. ONeill Mishawaka for lieutenant governor Lew G Ellingham Decatur for secretary of state Wm H OBrien Lawrenceburg for auditor Wm H Vollmer Vincennes for treasurer Thomas M Honan Seymour for attorney general Charles A Greathouse Indianapolis for superintendent of public instruction Thomas W Brolley North Vernon for state statistician Philip Zoercher Tell City for reporter of the supreme court John W Spencer Evansville for judge supreme court first district Richard K Erwin StaYne for judge supreme court fourth district Joseph H Shea Seymour for judge appellate court south division Delegates Charles D Kelso Albany and W E B Clarke ford elected to the national convention in Baltimore
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Samuel M. Ralston
Labanon
Wm. P. O'Neill
Mishawaka
Lew G
Ford
Baltimore
School Notes and Visitor Snatches Last Day Prep
In 6th grade arithmetic troubles and a history test are noted while 5th grade finishes geography and reader reviews. Visitors Jas Gill and Fanny Markland appear midweek. an end of year focus is mentioned. An iceboat scooter race on the Shrewsbury river shocks spectators as a runabout autoscooter, built by Fred Waters of Ned Bank, New York, is shown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goss and Russell
Maple Front Dd Farm
B.C. Brown
A. Curtis
Louisville
Wm. Wells
Frank B. Fippen
Chicago
Chicago Evening Post
Irvin
Cobb
Saya Irvin
Magnolia Avenus
Terpsieliare Plate
Jas. Gill
Fanny Markland
Shrewsbury
Fred Waters
Ned Bank
New York
American
Must Learn to Play Together Across a Port and City
Community ideals on cooperation and duty are urged as essential for municipal success. A Hungarian banker Bela Puky testifies in Columbus Ohio bankruptcy court that fatherhood brings payments of 50 to 80 dollars per birth, with $390 earned over five years from five births, via an insured policy surrendered before the bank’s collapse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Efyle
York
Bela Puky
Columbua
Ohio
Puky
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pekin News
Miss Bertha Hardman
Stant Phillips
Scott
Carl Elrod
Saturn
Miss Lincalter
Nellie Curtis
Corn Ricards
Vina
P. J. Stack
Pekin Camp No
P.M. Tash
Kent Frantz & Mail
Monon
Martinsburg
J. Prank Jenner
John H. Blankenbaker
Jas
Farabee
Charley Bierly
Pearl Delph
Baby
Noble
Jonson
Raymond St. Tash
Pekin Yesturd
Renzo Wells
Borden
Wr. Wells
Miathias Heins
San’ Hemer
Farne
Hod
Hiestand
Ion
Rl Dewees
Albany
Uarvester Clo
James Orr
Preston Martin
Citizens Bank
Gill Bros
Jesse Schamel
Lucas & Falk
R. C. Brown
Zoar
J.C. Weir
Middletown Ind
Jas. W. Overton
Dumpsy Rickard
Route 13
R. E. Elrod
J. Hoyt
W. H. Purlee
Fonio
Littl
H.C. Littell
Dudge
New Albany Public Press
Indianapolis News
Indianapolis Tame League
Harry Graves
Bernard Motsinger
Harry
Berths
Grant Narkland
Woodillen
J. O. R. M.hall
P. J. Strack
Strack
Neighbor Strack
Consul Strack
Edward
Armingham
London
James Smith
George Hedrick
Ernie Lepriert
Sam Johnson
Glaw
Johnson
jNife
Lewis Hurst
Maud Gray
Déhn
Linnie Johnson
Tha Johnson
Herman Baker
Thos
Bellows
F. M. Tash
Howard
Skeles
Cash
JW. Hiestand
Alieather Fics
Alfred Derigt & Coho
Geni Furnishings
Pekin, Ind
Jersey
Sharples Separator Co
Joseph M. Martin
Pyre
I Peking
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