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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1908
Page
7
District notes show wheat harvest preparing as farmers cut grain and buy new equipment. Local visits include W R Hulbbartt purchasing a binder J R Swain a mowing machine and E A Sedwick a separator. Numerous social events and church activities fill Sundays with gatherings and dinners across Sedwick Chapel, Ekin Pickard Kempton and nearby towns.
A rural improvement essay urges farmers to enhance homes with flowers and neat yards despite budget limits. It notes neglected fences, gates, and back lots mar beauty, and calls for orderly, weed free spaces, more trees, and care for both front and back yards to elevate refinement and daily life.
Advice urges using Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin to cure constipation first, as piles often stem from it. Prizes the laxative over salves or surgery, claiming nine of ten cases improve with regular bowel movements and digestion.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Neill were at Tipton on business Monday. John Goings and family of Tipton visited relatives over Sunday. Mrs Della Cornell and daughter Bertha were Sheridan visitors Monday. Mr and Mrs Oscar Howe are the happy parents of a fine baby boy. Mr and Mrs Henry Alexander were Sunday guests at the John Straley home. Perry Foster and wife were the guests of Alfred Thompson and family at Sunday dinner. Miss Edith Goings spent Sunday in the country with Vinton Ryan and family. Martin Small was a Sheridan visitor Monday evening. Omer Johnson is no better. Children exercises at Hills church Sunday night was largely attended. Homer Wiles and wife of Boxley visited the latters parents Lee Howes and wife Sunday.
Miss Roberta Kincaid returned from Bloomington where she spent a week with her friend Alice Barker. Rev Winfield Walker and wife of Greencastle visited this week at Emmitt Walker’s home. Mary and Fred Wilson Elmer Davis Sylvia Rays Carrie Cox of Indianapolis Edna Millikan and Effie Newcomer spent Sunday at Clark Millikan’s home. Miss Florence Kincaid left last week for Wisconsin for vacation.
Mr and Mrs Sim Cox hosted a surprise 20th birthday for their daughter Edith on June 25. The evening featured games and a dainty lunch at 10 o clock with guests including Grace Vickery Maude Owens Fanny Cox Madge Lindley Lenora Lindley Nellie Kercheval Lora Leonard Bernice Melson Emma Orbaugh Daisy Coleman Dollie Coleman Bertha Cox Lois Henderson Ruby Henderson Clem Vickery John Cox Harry Owens George Owens Orla Lindley Clint Kercheval Fred Harvey Gilbert Melson Clyde Moore Lemuel Crumfield and Edith’s return from Danville where she had been attending college.
The Coca Colas of Indianapolis faced the Alcos in a Sunday matchup. The game was called at 2 15 PM, with a promising duel anticipated before the pause.
The De lineator recommends honeysuckle Lonicera grata for hedges to block views and intrusion. It can be trained on a simple wire fence, grows rapidly, crowds out poison ivy, and blooms twice, spreading fragrance. It is cheaper than box or privet and lowers maintenance.
Municipalities increasingly recognize street trees as valuable assets and push for protection. Eastern courts have valued fine old trees at hundreds of dollars when damaged by utility work, while linemen often prune aggressively, ignoring rights of the public and adjacent property owners.
The town faces an unsightly weed weed crop on vacant lots that are going to seed. Immediate removal and burning are urged to improve streetscapes and curb next year’s weed growth, since one year’s seeding can create seven years of weeds.
Readers urged to distinguish fact from fiction as the cycle continues. Officials advise careful, accurate reporting and vigilance in upcoming events.
Flower bedecked windows could beautify towns and Ti'aris municipality offers prizes for the most attractive window decorations using blooming plants. Competitions include single windows, entire house fronts, and fronts of mercantile establishments.
The article explains that mercury spreads into tiny globules that roll away, making collection difficult. It recommends forming a wet ring with a wash bottle to contain the globules, then gathering them with a small shovel cut from thin card or an envelope.
A Manchester Union reflection notes that life includes hurdles and obstacles that will persist. It counsels acceptance rather than complaint, affirming resilience as the common human experience.
A comic exchange shows a Sunday School teacher asking why the Lord commands love for neighbors. Lola replies that it’s another way to tell us to love our enemies. The quip reflects a playful moral twist in The Times-Democrat column.
A Seneca quotation contrasts nobility with innate gifts and temperament, asserting true virtue comes from superior abilities and a more amiable disposition rather than birth.
A St Louis chemist promotes Zemo a vegetable liquid that supposedly draws germs and poisons to the skin surface to destroy them. The ad claims broad cures for eczema pimples dandruff and itching and offers a free trial package from E W Rose Medicine Co and notes a local agency agent in Sheridan.
A Sunday baseball game between Coca Colas of Indianapolis and the Alcos opened with a 2 15 p m call. The report notes a solid contest with the Coca Colas showing confidence and claiming a favorable result.
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