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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
5
Local brief items include a bicycle for sale and a new daughter born to the McCoys. Community events span the Owensboro Chautauqua August 14, the Rockport Fair August 17–22, and church services at U B and Mt Zion. Also noted are postcard views, a lumber-yard consolidation, egg and produce buying, and a jone pacer exhibition at Chrisney Fair.
Miss Nora Rimstidt, Miss Carrie Kreuger, Miss Amelia Fella and Miss Elizabeth Lark form a party planning a Tuesday departure for Niagara Falls. Joseph Schoenfeld reached his 87th milestone on Wednesday the 5th. Uncle Jon remains hale and hearty and eager for a fight as a local note. Christian church corner See nd and Walnut streets holds Bible school at 9:30, communion at 10:45, and evening service at 7:45 led by C. C. Pirtle. all welcome.
Keep the kitchen sanitary light and clean cover dust and grease with Basye’s floor paint. Basye's drug store advertises adamant floor paint as the solution for clean durable floors.
The George Hawes home place near Maceo Kentucky offers a 200 acre well improved farm in high cultivation and a second farm of 8712 acres near Maceo and Iceland Landing. For terms contact James L. Hawes Maceo Kentucky.
For sale describes forty acres of coal land with a good orchard a four room house water and pasture one mile from Sibrel coal banks and trade for town property near school. Also a clearanced millinery sale at Mrs M Weil with hats from $3 to $10 and half price flowers and shapes.
Notice to stockholders states a meeting at Richland City on August 22 at 2 PM to elect a board of directors for the ensuing year. Also appears Fox hunting ban on Allen J Parton’s farms and various notices including fairs in Chrisney and Rockport, local sales, loans, and ads for goods and services. Overall list of local notices and advertisements.
In a rare security move newspaper men were barred from covering a famed trial. One veteran journalist sighed that the rule would spare reporters from being hampered by facts while reporting the case.
Uncle Allen Sparks offers a pointed quip about rope and risk, suggesting some men hasten their own downfall when given room to fail. The remark frames a cautionary view of reckless freedom and self-sabotage.
Uncle Eben notes two kinds of politicians regardless of party those who try to shape voter thinking and those who keep voters from realizing it. The remark emphasizes manipulation versus obstruction in political leadership.
A string of visits and travels unfolds with Atty A Drew of Eureka in town on Tuesday. Residents and relatives from Tell City Fort Branch Cloverport and Nashville converge for visits and short stays including ministers teachers and farmers. The item also notes local business travel and a closing advertisement urging Armour Fertilizers for soil improvement.
A short local listing shows poultry and egg items with varying prices including hens springers roosters and small hams along with eggs butter and potatoes priced in small column entries.
A mid 19th century author contrasting busy communal labor with stagnant isolation. The remark urges perseverance in work and engagement, implying better fatigue from activity than decay in withdrawal. It reflects themes of duty, social vitality, and resilience.
The Ladies' Field advises the social climber to begin with a London mansion in a premier west end square a country retreat five motor cars several horses and carriages three tiaras and a very thick skin as crucial assets for social ascent.
A Chicago newspaper correspondent notes the man or woman who marries on a $12 a week basis faces big risks. The piece suggests confirmed bachelors may push to drop that phrase from the idea of marriage.
A clipped line from Clover Leaves notes Milli gan’s success in obtaining money but misery from lack of longer wealth than the Swizzlehams. It mentions toast in one club and roasting in another for absent members.
A reflective quote about the elusive ideal life and the tension between what we should be and what we are, attributed to Phillips Brooks.
The saying frames knowledge as the balance wheel for zeal, warning that zeal without knowledge leads to aimless effort. It invokes Newton’s quotation to emphasize disciplined learning as guiding force.
An old Persian proverb states that one pound of learning needs ten pounds of common sense to apply. The saying emphasizes practical understanding over theoretical knowledge in everyday use.
A concise phrase notes loyalty among companions who refuse to alter their original positions or possessions. It reflects a social stance where friendship survives despite refusals to change opinions or goods.
A compact proverb notes selfishness as like growing nails the longer it lasts the greater the personal suffering becomes in the end.
A Strand Magazine note asserts water a sheet an inch thick could stop the fastest bomb shells, matching the resistance of steel armor on the latest battleships. The concept imagines water offering formidable defense if given sufficient velocity.
Phoebe Wardell discusses semi invalidism among women of today. Many seek constant specialist consultation for nonorganic ailments caused by overexertion lack of rest and insufficient nutrition.
A satirical remark on social climates where a woman seen as a fool is shunned by all including other fools. The piece notes that female folly evokes pity from peers, implying fearlessness in others when no pity is felt. The tone mimics a column from The Ladies Field.
The excerpt defines jealousy as a negative form of love driven by ego and desire for possession. It contrasts jealousy with love, noting love seeks the other's welfare while jealousy seeks personal dominance and triumph.
A Louisville Courier Journal piece extols small daily kindnesses and courtesies as shaping character more than grand talent. It notes opportunities and polite habits in social life as lasting virtues.
A succinct quote from the Somerville Journal remarks on the pity that a man with great language ability does not often use it to keep silent.
A dialogue features a skeptic who questions adding Mr. Peddent to a journey. The reply labels him as a person who enjoys memorizing the guide book as his idea of entertainment.
Passenger service schedules show Rockport Evansville Hatfield and Richland connections with hourly departures from early morning to night. Additional freight departures run daily except Sunday from Rockport via Main and 9th streets. Contact numbers Home 229 and Cumberland 170.
Real estate transfers last week show Mormon Green transferring lot 84 in Santa Fe to John Q Eigenmann for 12750. John Hurm Sr transfers to John Hurm Jr with several parcels and a 3500 price. Philip Price sells to Hannah Price with four nw and personal property. John T Parker et al transfer to Hilbert Bennett with multiple sw nw and wi sw parcels for 2160. W H H Harvey transfers to Nine Harvey and to Rose Nichols with se 3476 will. Nine mortgages four releases one will one article of incorporation and two assignments recorded.
Music will be a principal feature at the Rockport fair with the Third Regiment Military band performing throughout the week August 17 to 22. The Grand View brass band also assists on Thursday improving the event’s entertainment lineup.
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