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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1916
Page
5
NOTICE Dr. Shirley C. Lang has returned from Mayo Brothers and Chicago Clinics and has resumed his medical practice.
Mrs. B F Bridges moves to 512 Walnut Street and Mrs. W D Shewman suffers illness at Elm Street home. J D card club met at Mrs W E Hartley’s on S Third Street. Zear church to hold annual business meeting next Sunday at 10 30 AM. James Drew resigns as traveling salesman and returns home. Harvey Mulhall family of Mt Carmel Illinois to move to Rockport occupying Baumgaertner block home. Printing plates arrive with unclear instructions to publish. readers invited to speculate on meaning. Various residents and visitors are listed with brief hometowns and relationships to Evansville area.
A long list of residents and visitors frequenting Rockport and surrounding areas during the holidays. Names include Fred E. Scheessele, Hooker Wagner, Will Sullivan, A. J. Rhoades, Carl Rhoades, Jacob Reynolds, Robert Gentry, Ian Beeler, Henry Wetzel, and many others visiting family, attending events, or traveling to Florida, Peoria, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati.
Trinity Lutheran offers Sunday school at 9 15 a m and services at 10 30 a m 6 15 p m and 7 00 p m. Baptist church describes an unusual Christmas Eve entertainment with Santa Claus appearing through crevices and a tableau titled Glad Harvest Time. Gifts were given at the morning service and next week’s theme is What Of This New Born King in the morning and Getting Rid of the Old at night.
For sale a farm of 80 acres located three miles south of Chrisney. The property includes a good house and barn, ample water, and about 8 acres in a bearing orchard. Also offered is clover seed for sale at 8 dollars per bushel with contact Ralph Richardson in Hatfield and Fred Haaff handling the listing.
Several couples obtain licenses in Spencer and Daviess counties including Ruda Stewart and Flossie Dawson from Beauford, Hillary Jackson and Minnie Frantz both of Daviess, and Raliegh Lovell with Flossie Howland of Spencer. Also listed are Albert Dickerson and Edna Davis, William Butler and Essie Miller, Judge Henry Parker and Ida Bell Anderson, Robert Doss and Ellar Harrison, Kee Hulsey and Mary Clayton. Details note ages, counties, and December 26 unions.
Transfers include Adolf Egloff to Isidore Elogif lot on Sixth Street St Meinrad for $1.00 and John P Figenmann to Johan Burkhart for 80 sw se 1955 with $1.00. Other deeds show Florain Weber to Philip Swing and Ambrose Irwin to Swing, plus a Cohoon to Braec. The past week records seven mortgages, fourteen releases, one lien and four assignments. For sale a good eight room home on Sixth Street with barn and outbuildings. inquire at recorder's office. Joseph F. Vaal)
A collage of small notices and snippets includes blacksmithing offers and farm stock for sale, a salesman wanted ad from Central Petroleum Co, a humorous home view exchange, and a quote about sunshine and happiness from Mrs. Child.
The vice consul at Belfast highlights a market for American glassware makers, especially bottles. Belfast is a center for ginger ale and aerated waters, whisky and other drinks, with England supplying most bottles.
In Rumpus Ridge Arkansas Gap Johnson notes extreme dryness. He describes children getting buried in dust while playing on the road and needing to be summoned for dinner or risk being struck by an oncoming car.
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