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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1916
Page
8
Practical economy notes that baking powders based on alum or phosphate cost little but vary in leavening. Cheap powders may ruin cakes, wasting costly ingredients. Royal Baking Powder, made from cream of tartar from grapes, yields the finest food and saves resources. Royal Baking Powder Co. New York.
Dan Keely left for Evansville for work. Memorial address by Rev. Dobson at the M E church honored fourteen soldiers with lines and handshakes. Decoration Day to be observed with flowers laid on graves. Storm damage spared fruit trees. Several locals ill or visiting relatives. Iva Kramer died in Grandview from heart trouble.
Olive Carroll Brown son of Mr and Mrs Charles Brown died Friday after an appendicitis operation. Funeral held Saturday at 1 30 p m at the residence with Rev Walls officiating. Burial in Stark cemetery. Local visitors from Buffaloville Huntinburg and Chrisney. Community children drill for children day services on June 18. Farmers finish tobacco setting as continued rain aids planting.
Patronville residents Thomas Moss and son William, Thomas Woolfolk, and Mr Thurman of Grandview visited friends last Sunday. Amos Hamilton and wife and Miss Nora Jeffers visited relatives in Yankeetown last weekend. Naomi Joyce, daughter of Clarence and Mrs Miller, is ill this week. George Atkins spent Sunday with home folks. Don Seay and wife visited Owensboro Kentucky on Wednesday. Gladys Harrison, daughter of Willis and Mrs Harrison, was scalded by hot water Wednesday morning but not seriously burned.
Dr J C Jolly builds new concrete porches and paints his home. A lawsuit, James Sargent versus James Baxton of Warrick county, concerns right of title to property. Miss Dilla Kincaid, 15, was severely scalded by hot coffee on a foot and leg but is improving as the wound heals. Hiram Ray plans to locate permanently in Springfield. Farmers report good progress with corn and tobacco. many residents are painting up and shine up infections are widespread but not serious.
Local residents travel for education and worship. Grace Brinkman plans summer study in Indianapolis. Mrs. Brockman shopped in Tell City. Patmore family visited Bergmans in Lincoln City. Rev Piepenbrock family trip to Evansville. Anna Bahn and Henry Haase with them. Wm. Bahn did business in Tell City. Waldo Schnuck returned from Evangelical conference in Piqua Ohio. Harmon Brinkman lost a cow. Young folks visited Selma Wetzel in Hawesville KY. Memorial services held at Buffaloville. English services and a young peoples league scheduled for Sunday. Preparations underway for 50th church anniversary and mission festival on June 18.
An advertisement touts Lax-A-Man as a great liver medicine that will transform a sallow complexion to pearl like skin after clearing pimples blotches and liver spots. Promoter T. C. Basye guarantees results.
Oil for streets laid this week. Lincoln City ball club defeated local athletics four to one last Sunday. A local picked team lost to a team from another place on Decoration Day ten to seven. Wash Gibbons, former Dale citizen, visited Tuesday. Mrs. D. P. McCoy and Ruth visited Corydon and attended the missionary society. Town board to elect a school trustee next Monday night. Pythian sisters attended county meeting at Lake Mills last Friday. D C Luck and W L Hancock of Orton Kentucky visited J F Luck and family last weekend. J F Beardsley bought a Reo automobile this week.
A Carolina News editor from Chapin S C reports chronic indigestion and liver trouble improved after using three Chamberlain's Tablets. He was confined to the printing office for days but after taking the tablets felt like a new man. Sold by T C Basye.
Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Barnett and daughter Mildred of Warrick county visited relatives here last Mrs. Lem McKenney of Evansville visited the family of Will McKinney last Friday. Glenn Ashby employed in Evansville was here last Sunday visiting. Miss Nellie Wilson of Tennyson visited sister Mrs. Robert Horrom Saturday. Mrs. D. G. Voyles is ill. Friends of Mrs. Henry Taylor of Boonville are sorry to learn of her illness. Miss Seaborn of Hartford Ky was guest of sister Mrs. Dean Hocker last week. C. L. Goodman visited Walter Doyle’s family at Grandview last week. S. W. Nunn and family moved into their newly remodeled home. Mrs. Frank Beeler and children of Ohio township visited Mrs. Beeler's mother Mrs. L. L. Mattingly last. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Montgomery and Mrs. Salem Parker and children were in Boonville on a business mission. Misses Daisy Dean and Cora Ferguson of Richland City were the
The article recalls memorial services at Ebenezer with choir selections, readings by Eloise McKenney and Wyoma Lang, and an address by Marshall Tweedy of Boonville. It notes thinning veteran ranks and future son and daughter of soldiers performing the duties, with flowers placed on graves and references to visitors from Boonville and Rockport attending a class play.
Louisville visitors include George Small and Miss Bird while Mrs. McKasson, Mrs. Harris, and Mrs. Totton attended Dale events. Oil tests near Frakes farm spark interest as Cumberland Telephone upgrades occur. Local folks travel to Iowa and Madison Indiana for visits and work, with decoration day honors and various family visits noted.
An advertises number 40 for the blood as a remedy to expel scrofulous humors from the blood causing constipation malaria rheumatism and sores. It promises satisfaction guaranteed at I C Basye's store.
Several people from here attended the St Meinrad play Sunday. Vitor Schierbaum is visiting relatives at Owensboro this week. Mr and Mrs George Reinke visited relatives at Winslow Saturday. They traveled by auto. Mr and Mrs David Lewis and Mr and Mrs Alfred Scheirbaum and family visited relatives and attended memorial services at Buffalo ville Sunday.
The play More Sinned Against than Sinning, staged by the college thespians, will be repeated next Sunday after its two Sunday performances at the college auditorium.
On Sunday, June 4, organizers announce a make up of performances for those who could not attend earlier shows. The change comes after demand from many attendees seeking another chance to view the production.
The article explains how explosives transform from solids to gases, sometimes thousands of times the original volume, and warns of the extreme instability of iodide of nitrogen. It notes nitroglycerin tolerates heat poorly, decomposing around 100 degrees, and observes the cooling measures used in production of guncotton.
The article describes an ice palace built on the Neva by Czarina Anne of Russia. It measured 56 feet long, 17.5 feet wide, and 21 feet high, with ice windows and ornamental ice balustrades. An elephant statue stood outside, and ice cannons fired bullets of ice and iron. A hot bath sat under a glassy tent, and a water jet and naptha flame lit the display by day and night.
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