Local Notes from Rockport and Vicinity
Local items report W R Markle’s show boat coming Saturday night June 24. A good rain fell last Sunday. Mrs A P Rice hosted a Five Hundred club meeting Friday. A new pipe organ for the M and church arrived and is being installed. Mrs Ladoska Spradlin is ill with gangrene. Threshing started near Rockport with poor wheat. Crowds attended Cypress Beach opening on the traction line. Attorneys Smith and McCullough moved to the Walker building near the post office. Rockport plans to play Tell City next Sunday. Messenger to run an excursion for the game. Children’s Day exercises at M E church postponed to July 2 due to weather. W C T U visited county farm Tuesday. program and wagon trip noted. Road work advancing with twelve teams grading streets for rock.
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Ladoska Spradlin
Golden Rod Show Boat to Exhibit Here Next Saturday Night
W. 8 Markles announces the new show boat The Golden Rod will exhibit in Rockport next Saturday night June 24. In Rockville Indiana on June 12 James D. Bullock celebrated his 65th birthday with a dinner at his home. J.2M Killian reports a promising wheat sample from Luce township farm. July 4 races entries close July 1 organized by John R. Feigel and J. Dick Hopkins. Brown warehouse in North Rockport leased to Richards Agnew and Martin to handle farm produce and wheat. Evansville Crescent Cubs beat Rockport 12 to 10 in a fairground slugfest with Young Jones Homers and multiple base hits.
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Markles
Golden Rod
Rockville
Indiana
James D. Bullock
Mr. Bullock
John R. Feigel
J. Dick Hopkins
North Rockport
Richards, Agnew and Martin
Crescent Cubs
Evansville
Rockport
Fair Ground
Cubs
Young Jones
Donahue
Conners
Young
Gulliver
Lee
Garrett
Fender
Martin
Purdue
Meyerhoff
Basye’s Drug Store Adverts Population Trade Notes
A block of classified items lists Basye's drug store offerings including vermin killer louse powder at a quarter per package, extra cheap lubricating oil, and gasoline engine sale. Also mentions farm real estate, rental rooms, coal pricing, and painting services with multiple local business names and contact hints.
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Basye
Basye’s
Good sacks for threshing wheat now available
Houghland and Hardy announce a fresh supply of quality wheat sacks. Buy at Rockport, Enterprise, or along the river and traction line. William McKinney will handle the Enterprise and traction line duties as before.
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Houghland and
Hardy
Rockport
Enterprise
William McKinney
Enterprise and Traction Line
Local residents share visits and business across towns
Numerous individuals including Mr. and Mrs. W H Wetzel Ms G W Horrom and many others travel to Cypress Hatfield Evansville Wilkinson Owensboro and Terre Haute for visits business or education. Students Miss Laura Wright and Miss Eva Kehrer graduate from the state normal and will teach in Terre Haute Evansville Bloomington respectively.
Local residents make trips and preparations for summer
R W Richards made a business trip to Louisville last Wednesday. Dr S F Bosler joined Evansville dentists on an outing on Green River. Miss Lida Hamilton will relocate to St Louis to live with sister Mrs Paul Terry. Alma Swan returned from Bloomington to spend summer vacation. Mrs Jacob Howe and child from St Louis visiting relatives. Thomas I Snyder returned to Schenectady after three weeks with local relatives. District officers D V McClary and Lula B Kean traveled to Grandview to help institute a Rebekah lodge. Kean was hosted by Mrs M Weil. Dan M Deeg left for Bloomington to attend commencement and will stay for summer at IU.
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Wm. J. Phillips
Gentryville
John Wetzel
Oklahoma City
Okla
Hulda Hilemeyer
Owensboro
C. J. Wetzel
Flora Bender
Jackson Township
Smith Hazen
Hatfield
J.C. Glackman
Kate Crooks
Erma Hoch
Grandview
Laura Nohse
Tell City
Pauline Mayhall
Oakland City
Alice Evans
Evansville
Fannie Brown
Louisa Sargent
Charles Kennedy
Wilkinson
Ind
Laura Wright
Terre Haute
State Normal
John Ravens
Clay Township
Bernice Crooks
Ethel Walker
Elnora
H. C. Trenary
George Wetzel
Sapulpa
Albert Hargis
J. M. Killian
Lizzie B. Wright
Sallie Phillips
Mary Jenning
J. A. Long
Portland
Allen P. Brice
Hannah Douglas
New Albany
Maggie Gold
New Madrid
George L. Gold
Philip Zoercher
Rebekah
William H. Forsythe
Maud Ethel James
Louisville
S. F. Bosler
Green‘ River
Lida Hamilton
St. Louis
Paul Terry
Alma Swan
Bloomington
Jacob Howe
Child
Thomas I. Snyder
Schenectady
N. Y
D. V McClary
Dale
Lula B. Kean
Jasper
Indiana Rebekah Assembly
Florence McGregor
Mt. Vernon
Kean
M. Weil
Dan M. Deeg
Deeg
Luce Township
The
State University
Local Church Services and notices in Rockport area
Trinity Lutheran and First Baptist announce Sunday services with Sunday school at 9:15 and worship at 10:30, plus evening activities. Rockport U B churches schedule prayer, youth meeting, and preaching at 7:45, Mt Zion U B 9:30 Sunday school and 10:30 preaching, union service 9:30 and 8. Presbyterian Children’s Day 9:30, sermon 10:30 and 7:30 with anthem and duet. lawn mower and tool repair shop offers service. Golden Rod show boat to perform June 24 with Mr. Markle’s band and orchestra.
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Trinity Lutheran Church
Corner Elm
Fifth Streets
J. H. Diehl
First Baptist Church
O. A. Carmean
Rockport
U. B
5Th Street
The
Morning Star
Mt. Zion
J. A. Hile
Kentucky and Illinois Couples Wed in June Marriages
Marriage licenses list Claude Whitson a 30 year old farmer from Kentucky weds Lillian Cooper a 28 year old from Illinois on June 15 by Rev J T Jacobs. Allen Graham 23 a Kentucky coal miner marries Grace Allen 19 of Kentucky on June 15 by Esq S I Brown. Jacob Ruark 28 a Spencer county farmer weds Ona M Sly 19 also of Spencer county on June 17 by Rev T J Bennett.
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Claude Whitson
Farmer
Kentucky
Lillian Cooper
Illinois
J. T. Jacobs
Allen Graham
Grace Allen
Esq
S. I. Brown
Jacob Ruark
Spencer County
Ona M. Sly
T. J. Bennett
Organ Recital at Trinity Church by F G Haas June 29
Prof F G Haas, organist of Trinity M E Church and Jewish Temple Evansville, performs the new Rockport organ. Admission 25 cents. This promises to be Rockport’s greatest musical treat as Haas plays at his best. The piece also carries a moral note on honest effort and credit.
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Trinity M. E
F. G. Haas
Jewish Temple
Evansville
Rockport
Printed stationery for farmers advertised by Democrat
A local notice urges farmers to obtain printed letterheads and stationery from the Democrat office, offering the same printed matter as businesses at low cost and encouraging use for official correspondence.
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The
Democrat
Girl in Brown at Markle Show Boat Saturday Night
The Girl in Brown will be presented by the Markle Show boat at the landing Saturday night with a large, carefully selected company.
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Markle
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Aoroport Democrat
Red Cedar Lakes
T. C. Easye
Jas. G. Taylor’s
Miss Nohse
W. R. Markle
A. P. Rice
Five Hundred Club
Cypress Beach
Smith & McCullough
Walker
M. E
Messrs. Richards
Agnew
Killian
Basye’s Drug and Book Stores
Haines, Richards & Pirtle
Harry Kercheval
Lamar
Guss L. Tabelman
T. H. Axton
R. R
Cumb
Tel
Basye’s Drug Store
J. A. Sargent
Charles Limberger & Co
Oscar T. Bennett
Rockport Milling Co
H. P. Biedenkopf
J. L. Biggs
A. J. Sprigler
L. N. Savage
Nell Walker
Greenville
Ohio
Fred Walker
W. W. Admire
Detroit
Mich
T. J. Fay
Admire
Fay
Elsie Trenary
Marion
Henry Hoch
Lillian
Indiana University
August
Eva
Katherine Kehrer
Katherine
Presbyterian Church
F. Morgenthaler
Christ
G. N. Wall
Nell Weil
Charles Salm
8Th Street
Fred Pfeifer
J. S. Park
Rougland & Hardy
T. BR. Hardy Co
Hougland & Hardy
Wiener & Sons
Rockport's
Evansville Rebate Association
I. Cen
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