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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1910
Page
8
Local notes report visitors and travels including Mrs Thresia Schnell of Oregon visiting friends. Families announce illness and church events. a marriage and a birthday death are noted. Community members travel to Spring Lake Michigan and Lowville. sleigh rides and church meetings mark the period.
Jeff Bennett is reported ill with pneumonia. The Luckado child is on the sick list this week. Argis Therbe sustained a ankle injury last Wednesday when run over by a horse on his way to school.
A birth notice reports the arrival of twin boys to Gust and Frank Schaeffer and their parents Mr and Mrs Victor Fleishman.
Lamar notes a long-absent return as Conover Ryker’s family comes home after two weeks with relatives. R. E. Roberts of Rockport is 22 Our town last Sunday. Goldie and Olive Ferguson study in Danville Indiana. No local doctor. Dr. Tully departs for Louisville. Theodore Tablemen buys Albert Schauck property and plans to move. Town reports widespread colds and sore throats.
Bessie and Elmer Brown suffer scarlet fever as Stella Crowder four weeks old grows sick. Mrs. Huger is ill this week while Salem Nuelle son of Mr and Mrs Crowder improves. A Methodist church protracted meeting begins soon and eleven candidates are initiated into Odd Fellowship with praise from visiting members from Rockport Richland City and elsewhere.
Peter C. Barker notes lingering Dutch customs in Hudson Valley villages. A 1690s summer house shows Dutch meanings for everyday words like file, while traditional water use powered churns and turn spitts, now driving ice cream freezers and sewing machines.
The quote defines philosophy as counting things you cannot have if you want them and do want if you can have them, reflecting a paradox of desire and constraint. It presents a witty view on human longing and the limits of attainable goods.
The passage urges residents to embrace faith, hope, and charity as core guides. It emphasizes holding fast to these virtues to overcome failings and backslidings and to ensure a better future through steadfast belief and acts of goodwill.
The column lists a string of residents and visitors including Ed Dauervever Jorn Peter and Fred Bollaveer on a bus trip to Mt Vernon. Frances Hollander visits Ferdinand with sister Mrs John Seger while Mrs Thresa Heicken arrives for a week’s recreation. Leonard Spayd travels to Warwick county and Will Dilger to Huntingburg, with Frank Lehr returning home for the winter. Mrs Paul Lehr and Mr Adam Lehr hosted visitors from Louisville who plan a country stay.
An attractive 100 dollar reward note asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarra at all stages by constitutional treatment. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and offers testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. Druggists supply the remedy and recommends Hall's Family Pills for constitution.
Thomas H. Woolfork Jr publishes notice to apply on February first 1910 to the Spencer County Board of Commissioners for a one year license to sell spirituous vinous and malt liquors for on premises consumption at a described Grandview lot room. He seeks permission to sell cigars tobacco and seed products in connection with the business.
Charles W Morse, once a New York banker worth millions, begins a fifteen year sentence as convict No 2814 in first grade at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. He adapts to a blue uniform, limited speech, and strict routines while clinging to claims of innocence and planning legal steps. He finds solace in poetry and keeps Invictus close as he endures confinement.
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson in Washington argued the United States needs more farmers to reduce food prices. He announced plans for a thorough inquiry into wholesale and retail price differences and criticized overstaffed distribution sectors while urging rural production and work on farms.
The Southern Pacific adopts Mallet articulated compound locomotives built to run backward with the tender attached to the pilot. Oil burner engines number fifteen, designed to overcome the limited forward visibility. A stub pilot and pilot coupler support the frame, while an enclosed cab with sliding windows and side-entry doors houses the engineer facing forward.
Protestant churches within fifty miles of New York join laymen for a series of meetings through January 16 aimed at world evangelization. The movement unites denominations to recruit volunteers and secure large financial pledges. After New York campaigns, rallies will spread to other cities leading to a Chicago convention in May.
Wisconsin aims to host the national army rifle shoots with General Grant backing the effort. The events have taken place at Seagirt New Jersey and Camp Perry Ohio.
Representative Alexander chairman of the house rivers and harbors committee announced that another large canal lock will be constructed at Sault Ste. Marie. He said it would be the largest lock in the world and part of the ongoing canal expansion.
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