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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1916
Page
5
The store promotes Christmas offerings with a varied line of gift articles and urges early buying. It notes Victor Talking Machines sold out by December 5 last year and warns many articles are unavailable this year, highlighting Victrola stock from $15 to $100 and asking if a Victrola will be in your home.
Doctor Shirley C. Lang announces temporary office closures in November at Mayo Brothers Clinics Rochester Minnesota for a surgery course and in December in Chicago for advance work in obstetrics and medicine. The notice is signed Very Respectfully.
Mrs. Henry Richwine is ill west of the city and Miss Louise Stowers suffers typhoid fever two miles west. Mrs. Levi Tower has appendicitis but shows improvement. Bumper Evans returns to Rockport and will relocate his family here next week. The Baptist Missionary Society meets with Mrs. Noah Green on Third Street Friday November 8 at 2 p.m. Local turkey prices hit a peak at 20 cents a pound. Thanksgiving services at the Methodist church will discuss The Spirit the Spirit of our free institution. W. A. and C. M. Partridge unload two carloads of cement five carloads of lumber and one carload of gravel for repair work. call to see.
A series of transfers including Levi L Bennett to Elmer Johnson for 37 L. W. R. A. Hureka. Arch Stevenson Com. to James M Abshier for 1, 8001 dollars. Loren F Gage to Fannie F Gage for multiple parcels totaling hundreds of acres in Grandview and surrounding sections. Hensler Joseph to Margaret A Heady for 190 dollars. Schroer F F to Joseph Hensler for 800 dollars. Sidney W Stocking to Southern Railway Co for several parcels for 400 dollars. Travis A Farrow to Southern Railway Co for parcels totaling 275 dollars. Burrell Reaves to Frank M Baker for 400 dollars. Seven mortgages and 14 releases were recorded during the past week.
A roster of marriage licenses shows Frank Schaeffer, 30, to Augusta Collig non. Arthur Penrod, 24, to Katie Free. Evertson H. Zell, 27, to Golden Hile. Leonard Maddox, 27, to Mary Martha Gayhart. and others including Raymond Bays to E Mae Sandage, George Hendricks to Bessie Davis, Otto Teasley to Cathryn Grass, W H Dortch to Iva Barrow, H F Bancum to Ora Orange, Robert Jones to Goldie Gillaspia, John Fischer to Agnes Winona Stewart. Ensuing details list ages, occupations, and counties in Kentucky.
A local offer advertises a large discount on hats. The promotion highlights substantial price cuts to attract shoppers.
J. W. Cook has been ill for an extended period, prompting local concern and potential medical attention. The notice notes the ongoing health issues affecting his daily life.
High mass at St Bernard's at 9:00 a.m. next Sunday followed by Thanksgiving services at Christian Science Chapel Grandview at 2:30 p.m. Trinity Lutheran invites all with services 9:15 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. preaching and a 6:15 p.m. Young Peoples meeting. Baptist theme Do all things in morning and A life that is a life in evening. For sale a full blooded Shetland pony with buggy harness and saddle. Also sale of horses mules cattle implements and household items at Motteler farm three miles SW of Rockport on Tue Dec 12. terms cash under 5 and 12 months credit over 5 with surety. sale by W Nunn.
Mi A S 10 Bazaar promotes a Christmas gift sale at the M E O G A bazaar on Thursday December 7 in the Hardy Building one door west of Hamilton Insurance Co.
Classified notices promote blacksmithing and wagon repairs by P F Kanzler and C F Brown piano consignments with guarantees. Listings include a eight room house on Sixth Street and requests for fifty bushels of black walnuts from R L McCoy Lake Indiana.
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