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Newspaper
Roanoke Review
Location
Roanoke, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1923
Page
7
Detroit woman Mrs. Denrietta Forbes reports relief from a bad cough stomach trouble and nervous fatigue after using Hypo-Cod. The advertisement urges readers to visit their local drug store to buy a bottle and claim similar health gains.
A humorous remark notes that many so called realistic novelists claim to depict real life yet rarely feature likable people, while audiences see numerous such characters in novels. The joke hinges on the tension between literary realism and reader appeal.
A harmless vegetable butter color named Dandelion has sold in drug and general stores for 50 years. Bottles go for 35 cents. An admonition remarks that men must endure hardships caused by their own faults.
A compact saying asserts that sharp truth can emerge from missteps and mistakes. It reflects on how candid or plainspoken remarks reveal genuine intent and wisdom despite early oversight.
In a court transcript a woman laments lack of love while the man asks why she believes so. The judge notes a pattern of departures with statements about leaving before. The exchange hints at ongoing marital conflict evaluated in the hearing.
An advertisement claims Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills restore regularity without griping. It lists 372 Pearl St. N. and asserts the medicine addresses disordered stomach and bowels. A line notes the legal principle that debtors cannot be jailed, and mentions a pioneering blue sky law.
A concise reflection on virtue and judgment describing how a disciplined intellect favors good over evil and seeks moral clarity in choices. It contrasts refined thinking with the instinct to avoid harmful or harmful influences.
Louis Otte and William Wayman trapped a fox while hunting near Tampico located fifteen miles southeast of Seymour confirming two local men as participants in a fox hunt near the county countryside.
O. J. Johnston is re elected chairman and A C Brouse of Kendalville is chosen secretary. Huntington county jail reports no prisoner for the first time since last June as Peter Joy was released on bond. Catholic drive reaches its $575,000 goal to fund a community center and a girls home in Fort Wayne.
Orion Peed served as town chairman and justice of the peace in Washington township and became the second person to announce his bid for the Republican nomination for mayor of the new city of Petersburg.
John H. Burton aged 72, a prominent Loganport citizen, was killed when struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train as it entered the station. Both legs were severed at the hips in the fatal accident.
Jenkins brothers of Orleans Indiana won grand champion boar in Berkshire hogs at the International Live Stock show in Chicago and also captured grand champion sow and reserve champion sow prizes.
The third member of the bandit trio that killed Otto Lieferman at Terre Haute on September 19 was sentenced to life in Sullivan. William Goings pleaded guilty to first degree murder before Judge Walter F. Wood.
Fred Bowen, son of Mr and Mrs L M Bowen of Huntington, writes that he is en route to Cuba after enlisting in the navy. The missing boy, aged fourteen, disappeared three weeks ago and now sends a brief message to his worried parents. Local authorities pursue leads.
Miss Lela May Creekmore married Ralph Waterman in Noblesville in a ceremony held for both couples. Creekmore is daughter of J. T. Creekmore who also wed Miss Lilly Ferguson in the same event.
Professor Arthur L. Foley of Indiana University at Bloomington says moving locomotive whistles to forward positions and using a single high pitched note would save many lives and reduce railroad coal bills by about 5 million dollars.
Contractors will begin work in a few days on two concrete and brick houses for lockkeepers at government sum No. 47 on the Ohio river near Newburg. The new dam work is progressing rapidly but may pause with rising water or cold weather.
Superintendents and foremen of the American Window Glass factory at Hartford City will be entertained at a dinner on the evening of December 15 to mark the plant's achievement of producing more window glass per capacity than any other plant.
Officers for the ensuing year were elected at the English meeting. Mrs A N Bobbitt is worthy matron and Mrs H W Mack worthy patron. Leonard Cummins is associate matron with Charles T Brown secretary and Ernest L Leasor treasurer. Selah M Austin conducts and Joseph M Patton associates conductress.
At Wabash meeting the James Emmet post of the G A R announced officers for 1924 including Commander Daniel Jackson, Senior Vice John Coe, Junior Vice Samuel J Payne, Chaplain T C McClure, Surgeon Isaac Needham, Quartermaster A F Ebbinghouse, Officer of the Day J C Waite, and Officer of the Guard August Seamans.
Charles O. Thomas, a railway mail clerk from Bloomington, was chosen grand master of the Indiana grand lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows at the convention closing session in Indianapolis. Joseph G. Long of Logansport was elected grand warden.
The Louisville Cement company plant at Milltown presented a smoker to Milltown employees at the community house. Service buttons for five through thirty five years of service were also distributed.
Lew Shank, mayor of Indianapolis, has accepted an invitation to speak at the Anderson Rotary club luncheon on December 11. Two hundred road marking sis sent by the Hoosier Motor club will be placed on highways near Anderson by members of the Anderson Lions club. A general store, dance hall and residences were destroyed by fire in Otis Laporte county with a loss near 15000 dollars.
The Trinity Methodist church congregation in Seymour was formally dedicated by Bishop Theodore S. Henderson of the Detroit area. The Dixie Bee Line highway between Terre Haute and Sullivan opens 183 miles of recently paved road to traffic, part of 26 miles of new paving. A. L. Laubscher appointed Superintendent of Vanderburgh county infirmary at Evansville, succeeding Al Schaefer who resigned recently.
Boulton Wilson of Indianapolis drank two ounces of acid in J. C. Wilson funeral home after selecting his coffin. He died shortly after the ingestion.
Numerous reports of chicken cholera like illness reach the county agent at Logansport. Veterinarians say they have been called repeatedly to diagnose a disease resembling cholera, which is decimating flocks.
C I Newby engineer for the state highway commission says the French Lick trail segment east of Boonville is finished. He has led work since last April, completing the road between Otter Creek bridge and Sargent Creek bridge.
Harry Sheridan the referee in bankruptcy has been chosen as Clinton County chairman for the Harding Memorial association drive. Gilbert Adams a Frankfort attorney is named assistant chairman and Sheridan plans to organize each township.
Walter Bowyer the sheriff-elect in Logansport has named C. R. Ixadler a former railroad conductor as deputy sheriff Bruce Vaughn of Royal Center is chosen as turnkey of the county jail.
The dedication was attended by more than 1000 people with attendees from across Indiana. Dr. Carlos M. Dinsmore of Indianapolis, superintendent of Indiana Baptist churches, delivered the dedicatory sermon.
The Delta Tau sorority under Mrs Eva B Rohbock at Wabash completed its annual Red Cross roll call raising 1193 70 dollars Fifty cents of each subscription goes to national headquarters and the rest plus other donations fund local service.
Drainage districts formed in 20 Indiana counties from 1920 through 1922 cover over 128000 acres and anticipate expenditures above 1048000 dollars. Data were gathered by the United States Department of Agriculture’s division of agricultural engineering in 1923. These public ditches were established under state drainage laws.
Officers elected by Joe Welsh post No. 129 of the American Legion at Jeensburg include Karl H. Zoller as commander Robert G. Haas as adjutant Dyar Wood as senior vice commander C W Bartholomew as junior vice commander Arthur J Fuchtman as treasurer Ross Reed as sergeant at arms Sanford Starks as chaplain and Ira Miller as executive committee member.
The livestock pavilion and adjacent real estate owned by the Huntington Pure Bred Livestock and Agricultural Association are to be sold to meet liabilities after the board decided liquidation. Liabilities total $16,500 with assets at $18,000, the venture deemed not a paying proposition under current farming conditions.
Jesse Newsom Bartholomew County farmer and Indiana State Grange master arrived in Columbus after attending the annual national grange meeting in Pittsburgh Pa. He denied reports of splits among grangers but said state masters’ remarks reflected a pessimistic mood at the gathering.
A Hendricks county grand jury investigation into the North Salem bank closure last July resulted in the indictment of Joseph B. Fleese assistant cashier Charles W. Davis president and Miss Lottie Davis bookkeeper. All three were arrested and released on bond.
A subscription fund totaling nearly $1,500 was presented by Evangelist George Stephens of Winona Lake after he completed a six weeks campaign in Hartford City.
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