Local Items From the Week in Rockport and Vicinity
Births include a girl to Mr and Mrs Roll Luckado and a boy to Mr and Mrs Hardin Thomas. Squirrel hunting opens July 1 for three months. Jacob Baum moved his family from rooms above the Fair Store to Elm Street. U B church offers a Saturday ice cream social. Joseph Birk injures finger with an awl. infection requires lancing. German Lutheran services Sunday at 3 pm conducted by Rev Caldemyer of Newburg. Green Grimes, longtime Rockport resident, dies. School trustees upgrade the colored school on 5th Street with new windows and repairs. Wheat harvest 1908 nearing end. weather favorable. Children’s Day services scheduled at Ebenezer Mt Zion and Union churches. Rockport U B church preaching Sunday at 7:30 pm. A double header baseball at Fair Grounds next Sunday Tell City vs Rockport and Hatfield vs Fairs. Tell City aims to beat Rockport.
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5Th Street
Samuel Caldemyer
Newburg
Alda McCoy
Richland City
Weil Weil
Lizzie Cain
Central City
Albert A. Kemp
Wm. G Hille
Dile
Thomas E. Chrisney
Chas. Darneal
Delze
Boonville
F. Garris Cromier
Louisville
J. M. Hoagland
University of Chicago
Nell Ince
Jonesville
Jessie Wallace
Evansville
Garrett Quirey
Tara Ellis
Lester Yager
Clay County
Orpha Graham
James G. Taylor
Muncie
Ind
S. P. Gwaltney
Midway
Spencer County Medical Society
Cora
Jesse
Owensboro
Anna
Katharine Mass
Thomas Strassell
J. L.strassell
EF. Swayne
Fr. Wayne
Children's Day Program At Trinity Lutheran Church
The Sunday school presents a special children's day program next Sunday evening at 7 30 consisting of recitations solos and exercises by children plus choir music The offering supports the church orphanage The event is open to all and adapted for the children Trinity Lutheran Church June 21 1908 Pastor L W Gross Sunday school 915 morning service 1030 Oesterlin Orphan's Home collection also requested All invited to attend.
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Trinity Lutheran Church
L. W. Gross
Oesterlin
Two Fingers Amputated After Granite Handling Accident
Last Friday at the depot J F Bauman trapped two fingers under a granite block. One finger was amputated and the other badly mashed. Mrs C W Halbruge hosted an O E S Auxiliary lawn party with Augusta Jacobs winning a Japanese cup and saucer in the button hole contest. Dr H G Weiss represents Spencer county at the State Medical Society in French Lick this Thursday and Friday. Robert Atkinson renovates his Mill Street home repainting its front.
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J. F. Bauman
C. W. Halbruge
Augusta Jacobs
H. G. Weiss
Spencer County
State Medical Society
French Lick
Weiss
Robert Atkinson
Mill Street
Rockport Classifieds Include Rentals and Farm Sale Notices
A collection of local ads lists rentals in Rockport with rooms and utilities, hardware and farm equipment sales, and service notices. It mentions F. W. Krieger sales of meats, harvest oil, and John about eyes, plus a concrete sidewalk contract offer and river supplies. It also advertises a George Hawes farm near Maceo Kentucky with 200 acres and an 8712 acre parcel nearby, with contact James L. Hawes.
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George Hawes
Maceo
Iceland Landing
James L. Hawes
Aristocracy of Gold Foretold By English Novelist
An English novelist predicts five centuries hence England becomes a republic and the United States a monarchy due to growing fortunes. The essay argues tariff laws create a rich class with special privileges, shaping politics and elections, and warns of a monetary empire and titles for the wealthy if trends continue. The piece ends with a call for democratic reform and a warning about an impending revolutionary shift.
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America
England
United States
Venice
Naples
Athens
Rome
Roosevelt
New York
Congress
Steel
Wood Pulp
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Tae Roxport Democrat
T. C. Basye
G. Taylor
Mrs. Roll Luckado
Methodist
Dirs
Hardin Thomas
Jacob Baum
Main Street
Elm Street
2Nd
Ladies’ Aid
U. B. Church
Church Lawn
Joseph Birk
Green Grimes
Rockport
Board of School Trustees
Ebenezer
Mt. Zion
Union
Rockport U
Fair Ground
Tell City
Hatfield
Mande Martin
F. W. Krieger
F. W Krieger's
F. W. John
R. E. Roberts
Atty
Deering, McCormick and Osborn
Rimstidt Hardware Co
Third Street
John T. McKenney
Tyne
Lake Mill Road
Richland
H. F. Ray
L. F. Weiss
Miller Bros
Rockport Milling Co
Henry Maas Jr
Earl Nester
P. A. Qelze
Bess Logan
Troy
J. H. Logan
Salm
Harry Harter
Newtonville
W. L. Sountag
J. C. Glackman
J. W. Cooper
Dale
Charles Patmore
Chrisney
Adolph Seipel
Tillie
May Vetter
Helen Ward
Jeffersonville
Elsie Trenary
Epworth League
Oakland City
Imogene Warner
Charles Salm
Anna Hawk
Bertha
Moore’s Gill
Gertrude Roberts
Hugh Hales
Calhoun
Kentucky
Ed Markland
St. Louis
Lizzie Mohr
A. R. Gentry
Eva Buxton
Charles L. Kasser
Willie
I. A. Peckinpaugh
Clyde Wadlow
Edna Weiss
Springfield
W. J. Weiss
Elizabeth Renfer
Gertrude
J. O. Williams
Pittsburg
Henry Ullman
Mary Hall
Ewing, Ill
Clarence Parsley
Bride
Jack Parsley
Parsley
Water Works Company
Helen Barnett
Europe
Republican Party
The
Courier Journal
S & Boys
Men & Boy’s Suits
J Ve Lee Y
Mawes
Gadick Milling Go
Cadick
Grandview
Indiana
Henry Hoch
S. Wiener & Son
Clothing Department
Men’s & Boys
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