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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1908
Page
6
County news notes a rise in illness locally. It reports the birth of a daughter to Mr John Goodman and his wife last Thursday, adding a personal milestone amid regional sickness.
Jas Peacock suffers gastritis as daughter Tula returns from St Louis. Walter Jones and G F Adye of Newtonville visit Adye home. A ten pound daughter born to Jas Parsley. Gum Grove box social nets 9 dollars for library books. Local church plans Christmas entertainment and Mt Moriah hosts protracted meetings with many attendees. Burkhart family visits Grandview guests of Rimstidt.
Samuel Pierson and wife of Mt Carmel Illinois visit relatives here. Walter Snonder and family of Evansville Indiana guests of relatives. Mrs Lanie Bridges shopped in Grandview last Saturday.
Evansville visitors include Mr and Mrs Archie Herman Miss Clara Harter and Grover Harris over a weekend. Dramas of church notices announce protracted meetings at M E B and Christian churches with a pie supper planned by the Ladies Aid on November 28.
The telegram announced the death of Joe Holstein's father in Fairfield Illinois. Holstein departed immediately for home. A new agent has been appointed to serve until his return.
An all day Ladies Aid meeting is set for Friday at Mrs. Lonny Marsh home. A box social occurred at Oak Springs Tuesday night. Eva Miller teaches the local school. J. W. Atkinson made a business trip to Owensboro last Saturday. Rev. R. BR. Bryan will lecture on Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde at Shiloh church next Sunday evening. After next Sunday Shiloh services switch to alternating morning and evening. W Y Kincaid and W F Waters plan a winter move to New Mexico for health reasons.
George Ensor remains very ill as Frank B. Posey of Evansville plans to speak Friday night December 4 at the farmers institute session on Ancient and Modern Agriculture. The Richland City lecture series second program Monday offered a first rate entertainment with a violinist soprano and reader each performing well. Clarence Cissna aged 21 died Monday November 23 at home from typhoid fever and was buried at Mt. Zion on Saturday. A new railroad switch is under construction extending north from Haines and Schumacher store for about two blocks.
Grandview records announce a daughter born to Vernie Dawson and husband last Friday. C. C. Mason and family visit Rockport. Pp. T. Huffman and daughter Lenora move to Evansville for good positions. Junior Epworth League hosts a Thanksgiving social at Rev. Fish’s residence Friday with a literary program. Mrs. P. T. Huffman visits Rockport relatives. Miss Callie Tell returns to Lewisport for high school. Fitch B. Cooper, impersonator.
A performer will give a show at this place Friday. A W Youngblood and sisters Pearl and Anna of Yankee town visited Miss Lila Wollner last Sunday. Mrs Nannie Blincoe of Lewisport visited Chas and Lute Wollner this week. Teachers will attend the Chrisney association Friday and Saturday. Rev RW Fish will lead Thanksgiving services at the M E church Thursday evening. The Christian Science society holds Thanksgiving services at J Anderson's residence Thursday at 2 30. Mrs John Robinson and daughter Goldie spent Sunday with relatives in Evansville. Otto Sarver and Nettie Trisler were married last Sunday evening at the M E parsonage by Rev Fish.
In Maxville the school reports an enrollment of thirty this winter under Otto Dixon. Neighbor L. A. Cassidy visited Evanston, and county superintendent A. B. Lindsey toured the school. Reports note scarce drinking water, a critical injury to George Crossley, and ongoing barn projects by Henry Cassidy and Cullen Souder. Wild cat captured near Evanston. wheat looks poor. forest fires cause county damage. farmers post farms to deter quail slaughter.
Community event notes outline the Richland City farmers institute with sessions on dairying corn raising wheat drainage poultry and soil fertility across Friday and Saturday December 4 and 5 1908 plus prize listings for crops and livestock and a separate auction notice for Jonathan Parker estate furniture and goods in Rockport Indiana.
A letter from Hon George W Honey National Chaplain U V A ex Chaplain Fourthe Wisconsin Cavalry and ex Treasurer Wisconsin and ex Quartermaster General G A R praises Peruna for catarrhal troubles. Testimony from Fred Hebard Kansas City photographer lauds Peruna as a cure and tonic. Dr Hartman reports Peruna tablets now available for those who object to liquids.
The notice lists various farm goods and prices from Laird and Mohr including roosters, butter, hams, potatoes, bacon, turkeys, ducks, hides, root crops, and a grain sale by Rockport Milling Co. It also advertises celery cranberries and oysters for Thanksgiving and contains an unrelated medical ad for deafness remedies and Hall's Catarrh Cure.
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