Local items from Rockport and surroundings
Local notes report shoe bargains at Fred Walker's and a move to a new Fourth street home by Mr. and Mrs. J H Fuerster. Delinquent lot sales, ministerial meeting, teacher exams, and Hobbs divorce witness list are mentioned. Also notes on Rev Overback preaching in German, button factory subscriptions, a factory owner settlement, a hip fracture accident, murder defense claims, abundant quail in Jackson township preserve, and a call for more preserves with Hungarian quails.
Local Sellers Advertise Bargains Across Groceries and Goods
Various listings from Basye's drug store and local merchants promote cheap sheet music, canned beets and spinach, fresh eggs, fall finishes, and a meat smoker. Real estate offers include a two story frame house near the court house in Rockport Indiana and a four room cottage in Rockport with contact options through Mason Jennings and Jos Craig. The Royal Skirt Company to display samples January 29 with order-taking for made to measure skirts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otte
Court House
Rockport
Ind
Mason & Jennings
Jos. Craig
Grandview
Jeff Ray & Sons Elevator Promotes Prices and Grinding
Jeff Ray & Sons offers the highest market price for corn hay and wheat and provides flour and meal for exchange. Prompt grinding at their elevator in North Rockport. For prices call 96-2 Cumberland Home 437-2 or see J. Fleenor Bauman who will call. Also heartfelt thanks to friends for sickness and bereavement from Mrs Peter Miller and family Newtonville Ind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeff Ray & Sons
North Rockport
Cumberland
J. Fleenor Bauman
Peter Miller
Newtonville
Ind
Evansville Theater Schedule and Local Notices
The Evansville and Hudson theaters announce shows and dates for late January and February including The Newlyweds and their baby with Olga Von Hatzfelt at Wells Bijou, and Pierre of the Plains at Hudson. Also notices on stock sale, a peddling wagon, and country produce, plus library additions, a wagon-driver injury, and doctors’ comments on meat consumption.
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Evansville
Olga von Hatzfelt
Wells - Bijou
Hudson Theater
Pierre
the Plains
Canadian Woods
City visitors from many townships and states
Local notes list residents and visitors in the city this week including J J Burkhart Clay township and Fred H Crowder Eureka. Others mentioned are numerous township assessors, attorneys, and business visitors from Hammond Grass Jackson Luce Cross Roads Owensboro and Evansville among various visits and court attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.J. Burkhart
Clay Township
Fred H. Crowder
Eureka
C. N. Bench
Buffaloville
Wm. Seger
Mariah Hill
Isaac Babb
Hammond Township
Alma Swan
Boonville
S. W. Gwaltney
Midway
John
George Karney
Owensboro
Edna Aspy
Linton
Ind
Ruth Morgenthaler
Grandview
Gladys Craig
W. M. Boyd
Luce Township
Lloyd Byrne
Evansville
Mary Rudd
Rudd Hardesty
Denver
Colorado
Wm. Warner
Carter Township
Charles F. Wetherill
A. B. Langley
Fred W. Miller
Newtonville
Court House
Isaac Kramer
Chrisney
Mondax
Tell City Wharf Boat Sunk by Ice Delays and Losses
A Tell City wharf boat was sunk by ice, valued at 10000 dollars. The Sprague towboat, passing Rockport last Saturday with forty five coal barges, lost seventeen in heavy winds near Enterprise. They sank in twenty five feet of water. Recovery possible as river falls. Total loss about 350000. Embroidery sale at Fred Walker's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tell City
Sprague
Rockport
Enterprise
Memorial resolutions for Curtis Sanders and upcoming Valentine display
The lodge votes to mourn Curtis Sanders with 30 days of mourning and to present a copied resolution to his family. Valentines to be sold next week at Basye's book store featuring over 900 Valentine postcards and books for children and gifts.
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United States
Randall Parrish
Ralph Conner
George McCutcheon
Rex Beach
Francis Little
William de Morgan
Basye’s Drug Store
Rockport
J. E. Richardson
W. al. Boyd
G. W. Horrom
Basye’s
Church Services and Lectures Announced in Several Towns
Rev W C Heldt preaches at Shiloh and Eureka next Sunday with Oak Grove services listed. Trinity Lutheran Elm Street near South, Rev Diehl, Sunday schedule 9 15 Sunday school 6 30 preachings. Baptist church offers 9 15 Sunday school 10 30 sermon God s First Word and 7 00 preaching The Marred Girdle. Elizabeth Tipton Stanley W C T U lecturer to speak in Rockport January 29 30 at UC B church M E church and grand mass meeting at M E church all invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Overback
Clay City
5Th Street
M. E
W. C. Heldt
Shiloh
Eureka
Oak Grove
Trinity Lutheran Church
Elm St
Sth
H. Diehl
Baptist Church
J.C. Wratt
Elizabeth Tipton Stanley
Indiana
Rockport
UC. B
Court Houses
Dress Goods Co seeks agents for spring woolens and silks
Lady wanted to introduce a complete Spring line of wool suiting wash fabrics silks laces petticoats etc. samples shipped prepaid with exclusive territory profits listed and no money required. Also included a 1910 notice of election of trustees for Rockport Court No 185 Tribe of Ben Har detailing three trustees terms and meeting location in Rockport Indiana with date February 11 1910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y
Standard ‘Dress Goods Co
Dept. F. J. Binghamton, N.Y
Rockport
Tribe of Ben Har
Third Street
Main and
Walnut Streets
Spencer County
Indiana
Lizzie B. Wright
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Tap Rockport Democrat
China
Harmony
T. G. Basye
Decier
Jas. G. Taylor’s
Fred Walker’s
J. H. Fuerster
Fourth Street
The
Democrat
J. A. Tiedt
Sixth Street
Jackson Township
Hobbs
Wm. Meredith, Sr
Second and
Main Streets
Hal Hardy
Los Angeles
Fred. Walker
J. A. Sargent
Bargains In Clothing
Fred Walker
J. H. Walker
Mammoth Grocery
Henry Hoch
Ben Hulsey
Basye’ S Drug Store
Joseph Miller
Deam
Royal Skirf Company
Cull Shoptaugh
C. W. Halbruge, Co
Produce
Henry Hoch Co
Harry Kercheval
Robert Woodruff
Lieb and
Artman
Harvey W. Wiley
J. N. Hurty
Samuel O. Graham
W. D. Robinson
Princeton
Charles F. Niles
George B. Bullock
Gentryville
Conrad Malke
Charles Lieb
T. C. Basye
River News
S. Wiener & Sons
Curtis Sanders
the Fair Store
Cadick Milling Company
Grandview, Ind
Cadick
Cadick’s
Cook and Consumer
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