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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1921
Page
8
Community notices list visitors and travels of residents from Indianapolis Danville Brownsburg and St Louis. Includes for sale and prices on a 12x32 silo and monuments ads. Lost cameo brooch near the Christian church with reward offered.
The 1883 East River bridge spans Manhattan and Brooklyn to link Long Island Sound with New York Bay. It cost 815000, measures nearly a mile and a half long, and 86 feet wide with four main cables and a 135 foot clearance.
Neighbors debate nuisance as children dart between homes across the street. Tension rises while residents insist the youths are not a bother to elders.
A breakfast table incident features a boy who, after wandering among chiggers, pours molasses on his knee and scratches his pancakes.
The Princess Theater will close for needed repairs after July 2 until further notice. The Saturday night feature is Scrap Iron starring Charles Ray.
Berry recipes describe preparing blackberries to make jelly by crushing a portion, simmering to extract juice, straining, and boiling with sugar before setting in glasses. It notes raspberries and blackberries as common jam fruits requiring equal weights of fruit and sugar.
Instructions describe mashing raspberries in a preserving kettle with a wooden masher until used. Heat to boiling, then add an equal amount of heated sugar gradually. Cook slowly for forty five minutes and fill stone jars or tumblers.
Open competitive examination for Postmaster. Men and women ages 21 to 65 eligible. For free particulars, instruction, specimen questions, etc., write J. Sreenarp former Civil Service Examiner, 246 Equitable Bldg. Washington, DC.
Quaker Oil Co Fairfield Ind against Emrett Cram on account. William F Robbins vs John Clay pool quiet title. William M Snyder vs Scott Plasters et al on note. The Evert R Robards Bank of Stilesville Ind vs Sanford E Apple.
Mortgage Discount Corp. sues Ernest Smith and others in foreclosure. Paul W. McElroy appointed guardian for Colvin L. and Edith C. McElroy and Mary Jean McElroy minors with bond of $2,000 backed by Richardson and Charles E. Shields as sureties.
Indiana state records Rogie Clain pleaded guilty to violating liquor law. He received a $100 fine plus costs and a four term sentence of six months at Indiana State Farm.
Robert Gore Christie of Danville A E to Addie Earns of Hadley. Jacob F. Gerald of Crawfordsville to Marie Neal of Brownsburg. Neil Webb of Brownsburg to Hannah Thornburgh of Brownsburg. Elmer Luebkeman of Acton to Eliza beth Hach of Acton Ind.
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