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Rockport Democrat

Location

Rockport, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Jun 10, 1921

Page

5

French's New Sensation Saturday Night

Mrs. Bob Richey and Mrs. Carl Kramer are ill at this writing. Blackberries are appearing on the market at 50c a gallon. About fifty members of the Gwensboro Rebekah lodge were entertained by the Rockport Rebekahs. Lilly, agent for the Metropolitan Insurance Company, is ill with appendicitis at his home on Em street. The offices of the M and P Contract Company are being repainted and restyled with new electric fixtures.

Bob Richey Carl Kramer Gwensboro Rebekah Lodge Rockport Rebekahs Co. D. Lilly The Metropolitan Insurance Company Em Street M. & P. Contract Company French Main Street Landing

Rockport Fair Becomes Homecoming Highlight With Memorial Observance

Memorial Day observances were held Sunday with Royal Neighbors and Modern Woodmen lodges part of the program at the Baptist church. Members then marched to Sunset Hill for the final ceremony. Ellen Holmes hosted a park picnic with friends including Anna Karney Marie Lusk Everett Gentry and Carl Whitehouse.

Baptist Church Sunset Hill Ellen Holmes Anna Karney Marie Lusk Everett Gentry Camp Davis Carl Whitehouse

Local Residents Enter City on Various Trips and Calls

A succession of visits and journeys is noted with residents from St Meinrad Troy Grandview Evansville Indianapolis Huntingburg Boonville Nashville Morgenfield Mariah Hill and Chrisney traveling to or through the city on business or for family visits. Notables include A J Gruelich J F Ruxer Simon Phillipps and Joseph F Vaal among others. Mrs Frances Warner and grandson Dan Hare from Evansville stay with the Salm family while Miss Katherine Wagoner heads to Evansville for nurse training. The report also lists trustees and railway officials visiting on official business and family visits to Greencastle Detroit or Canada planned.

A. J.gruelich St. Meinrad J. F.ruxer Simon Phillipps Troy Esq G. W. Brown Gentryville Robert Titus Grandview Court House Charles Salm Alan Owen Louis Schoenfeld Elizabeth Laird Evansville Minnie Kanzler Terre Haute P. F. Kanzler Zack Kern Mariah‘ Hill John W. Wroe Chrisney R. 3 Leonard Phillips Morgenfield Olle Orum Indianapolis Henry Kehrer Jacob Baum EB. Glick Nashville Tenn Katherine Wagoner Walker Dorothy Ehrman Monticello Seminary Godfrey Liv Frank Harris Huntingburg Ind L. C. Smith Harris Southern Railway Joseph F. Vaal John H. Waninger Harrison Huff Charles Fay Robert Elizabeth Elmer van Cleve Greencastle Gilbert Bosler Lelia Taylor Boonville S. F. Bosler

L M John Lawn Swing Sale on Porch Swing

L M John offers a porch swing for nine dollars with discount pricing of four fifty and six dollars noted in the listing.

Cook Wanted and Sale Notice at Wetzel's Restaurant

Wetzel's restaurant on Main Street seeks a cook and advertises sale or trade options including Purebred Holstein male calves eligible for registration and Purebred Big Type Poland China gilts. Louis P. Eigenmann.

Cook Wetzel Main Street Poland China Louis P. Eigenmann

For sale: Two-story frame house on Fifth Street Rockport

Ten room two story frame house with modern equipment bath toilet and sanitary sewer connections. Includes water and electric attachments. Located on Fifth Street between Main and Walnut. Purchase possible at a reasonable figure. Apply to R. E. Roberts Rockport Ind. phone 76 J.

Fifth Street Main and Walnut R. E. Roberts Rockport Ind

Classifieds notice for sale and want ads in Rockport

A local business column advertises one cent per word with a 25 cent minimum for insertion. It invites readers to place Wanted and For Sale notices, noting ads run day and night on June 11th in Rockport and mentions Mattingley Mfg. Co. as a reference.

For Rent and For Sale Notices from Rockport Indiana

A cluttered Rockport page lists rentals and sales including a five room house at 210 Walnut Street with mailing applications to C. C. Hale, a two ton truck at 400 dollars in first condition from Hudson Bros., a No.1 Holstein bull aged three and pasture land for rent from Karl W. Kramer, concrete blocks lumber and wood from A. B. Branch, a brick eight room Rockport home near the court house for Mrs. F. B. Posey, coal and feed price figures for Ayrshire lump coal and various feeds, “White Lily” flour, and a notice from All Farm Federation about binder twine and a meeting on Monday June 6 1921. Also a WANTED ad for a settled woman to care for children with Mrs. R. S. Mattingly and a Samson tractors shipment noted by G. W. Feigel.

Rockport Court House F. B. Posey

Local notices and sales listed in Evansville area

Listings include sale of two polled Shorthorn bull calves six months old. Invitations to an organ recital by Prof. Gillette in Evansville. Office closure notice for dentist O P Goldman from June 13 to 27. Lost black leather grip with Bible belonging to G F Porter between Rockport Church and Boonville, with return offers in Evansville or Rockport.

Irving Munier Troy Ind J. R. Gillette Evansville Methodist Church Rockport Baptist Church Boonville G. F. Porter Cincinnati Cherry St Edith Hammond Rockport

Insure your wheat on the farm through threshing stage

Insurance coverage applies to wheat in the field, during cutting, stacks or shocks, and through threshing until sale, as long as the grain remains on the farm.

Henry Hoch

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T. C. Basye Victrola Records Kodaks Rockport Fair Harvey Mulhall Detroit Canada G. M. Bellville Whitney Bise Floradora Bise Walter Schmidt Hart, Schafner Marx Palm Beach NER & Sons Indiana L. M. John Redebaik Self Rising Ada William Rubush Chiropraectic Research Bureau E. F. Matejka Chiropractic Ophone HEAD Edefences Mechanics Want Mattingley Mfg. Co Eigenmann Ice Eigenmann Ice Co Walnut Street C. C. Hale Hudson Bros Orchard Cryderman Spokane Wash Karl W. Kramer Tel Titan Fordson Tractor G. W. Feigel Elm Street A. B. Branch C. C. Pirtle Richland Ayrshire Richards & Martin Luce Township Sidney Carter Luce Township Farmers’ Ass’n R. S. Mattingly Rockport Milling Co Elnora Kirchgessner Balderson & Ashcraft Kodak Pictures Mary Jones H. C. Knapp O. P. Goldman Barnett Clint Barnett Burbank Leo Birchler Mee Vigor Groenfeld the Hiver Mitalt Silk Hase Tom Sawyer Line Men’s Union J.G. Baum
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