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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1910
Page
5
Births announce a son to Mr and Mrs Jake Ab shier and to Mr and Mrs Willie Cowen last Thursday. Community items include purchases at L M Johns and a July 4 dress address by Frank Pierson at County Line. Several church social events and a lodge memorial service are listed with names and dates.
Multiple ads list offerings in Rockport Indiana including Kercheval's ice cream event, local real estate for sale on Main Street, contacts for bill posting and blacksmith work, a Rockport Water Works hose claim, clearance hats and flowers, buggy repairs, vacuum cleaning services, violin lessons, mower repairs, Deering machinery, Crystal Palace ware, screen services, box manufacturing and groceries. Also promotions for insurance and loan services with People’s Insurance and Loan Co.
The partnership between T. R. Hardy and R. W. Richards Jr will cease July 1 1910. All who are indebted by note or account are urged to call and settle promptly. T. R. Hardy & Co.
Four farms offered by John C. Haines of Lake Indiana in Spencer County. One parcel of 45 acres lies 2.5 miles northeast of Newtonville, another 40 acres sits 2 miles south of Richland City on a traction line, a third 40 acres is 2 miles northwest of Richland City, and a 120 acre tract is north of Richland City three fourths mile from the traction line.
A department store report notes strong appeal among women shoppers as a new product line becomes a hit. Management emphasizes targeted styling and accessible pricing to capture a growing female audience.
Local church listings cover Trinity Lutheran U B and Albright churches with service times praying meetings and invitations. Notices reference a new Baptist dedication in Newtonville and a Toymaker’s Dream show boat in Rockport Indiana along with a jobless college funding offer and a shoe shipment at Kercheval’s.
The Markle showboat, described as one of the finest to visit the port, packed the house Monday night with attendees from the city and county who praised the performance as the best they had seen on the river. The column notes upcoming visit by the Sun ny South after recent repairs and refitting, in about six weeks.
A Norfolk style call urges rural residents to contact the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Co for full details. The notice touts low cost and strong advantages, claiming the system modernizes farms by linking users directly to important points and markets.
James Veach Post No 123 G A R in meeting assembled united jointly in thanking Wm Adams for delivering the Decoration Day address to John Brown Mrs Miller and Mrs Mason for furnishing music to Rev Boldrey for reading Gov Marshall s proclamation to Revs Wall and Tiedt for devotional exercises to Prof Morgenthaler and school children to the Ladies Relief Corp for decorating the court house and to all who furnished flowers to strew graves of departed comrades also to Rev Boldrey for memorial sermon and to M E church for use of the church. Mr and Mrs Charles Darneal installed in new home on Walnut Street last week.
Public notice announces the dissolution effective July 1 1910. The new firm will assume all debts and accept payments of old notes and accounts. The public is thanked for business and assured courteous treatment by the new firm. Hattie Green, fourteen, convicted of theft, sentenced to Industrial School for Girls until age twenty one. She and Noah Meredith, nine, sentenced to Indiana Boys School at Plainfield for delinquency. both removed to institutions.
Steubenville Gavette notes Markle's theater boat will visit Rockport Tuesday June 14. A packed crowd saw William Markle's show at the foot of Market street last night with up-to-date acts, a strong chorus of pretty good singers, and applauding vaudeville acts. Markle's new beat is praised and his band is regarded as the best yet. Local friends wish him success.
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