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Newspaper
Pekin Advance
Location
Pekin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1921
Page
5
A fragmented OCR snippet from January 25 1912 references Advance and Bean with scattered words and misread lines. The readable elements hint at a periodical page note or brief item but lack coherent context or a clear event.
Church notes show a weekly schedule with social meetings every Sunday morning at 10 30 A M and Bible reading Sunday night. Mentioned is St Julius appearing on the Mark day each month and a college hill social meeting on Lord s Day at 10 30 A M. Everyone is invited to these gatherings.
M E Church Pekin and Borden M E Church announce Sunday school at 1 o clock and preaching on the first and third Sundays at 2:30 PM or 3 PM. Evening services scheduled for the second Sunday at 7 PM and fourth Sunday at 7 PM. Prayer meeting and good fellowship weekly. Rev J A Lorton, pastor invites all to attend.
A preacher named Olive Branca HIGINATIVE delivers services each fourth Saturday night and the following Sunday across Campbellaburg area with Pastor Ghd Qiner Chastain leading.
Ulured every and Saturday night Sunday and sunday night. Pastor Rev A Carney leads services at Morris Chapel Christian Church with weekly gatherings and church events.
Isaac Colglazier of Salem Indiana touts a medical tea and Blackroot as a life saving tonic. He recalls a 1883 railroad wreck and claims the tea restored his health after years of illness and failed remedies. He sells 2500 pounds and invites orders by mail from Pekin and beyond.
A flood of Sunday calls and weekend visits occurred as Roy Walker and wife with Lloyd, Ernest Motsinger, O L Scifera, Win Stewart and families, Noel Tash and wives, Oscar Sifers, Carl Stewart, W P Stewart and son Roy, L M Stewart, Frank Applegate, Hugh Metsinger, Wilber Ashabraner, Clement Rickard, Lebert Gorman, Mabel Motinger, Paul Motinger, John Sease and others dropped by various homes. Afternoon visitors included Sohn Neideffer, Earl Sease, and C W Radcliff among others.
Indiana public school contracts for next year adopt a new form from the state superintendent. A key feature allows termination after a fifteen day written notice by either party, with licensure penalties for breaches without notice. Other provisions require writing, term dates, term length, salary, payment schedule, and pay during closures except a two week Christmas holidays.
A meeting of the Washington Co Farmers Association is set for Saturday afternoon May 14 at 1 30 at the courthouse. Speakers include Mr Charles Douglas district director and Mr Charles Patterson from the state office. All farmers are urged to attend and hear Patterson discuss state and national federation activities.
A compact classifieds list offers poultry and plant sales from Salem Indiana. Items include Rhode Island Red eggs and setting, rosecomb f hens, 8 purebred China boar, baby chicks, barred rocks eggs with large well bred matings, Gandy strawberry and red raspberry plants, with prices and seller names such as Oscar Nale J W Hiestand Stant Phillips Thompson A R Martin and C W Mattox. Local delivery to Pekin noted and fertility guarantees stated.
An ad for Pekin Fruit & Poultry Farm promises baby chicks via Buckeye Incubator, with Mr A R Martin of Pekin Indiana and The Ocean Wave Garage offering quick first class work. Also for sale a 0.1.C boar and three hay stacks from Ferd Hein.
A fragmented reflection on town growth tied to local press. The author argues that a town prospers when its newspapers showcase it strongly, influencing outsiders and guiding planning changes. Boosting the home paper is seen as essential for civic progress and advertising the town.
The item lists multiple local mentions including Clement Rickard as the first to print corn in the neighborhood. It records attendees at Sunday School convocation, family visits, and various movements among residents such as O W and Albert Mead, Alice Rickard, Dora Hall, Welch Owlsley, and others across Cedar Edge, Jeffersonville, Pekin, and Fredericksburg. It notes a community editor leaving and a Montana man resisting bachelor taxes as class legislation.
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