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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1908
Page
8
Croquet becomes the summer fad with lawns on Fifth street given to the game. East end gardens see heavy use as champions and skilled players proliferate. The sport, once forsaken in Sheridan, returns this spring replacing tennis courts that have seen reduced patronage.
Oklahoma's blind senator Thomas P. Gore hopes a surgical operation will restore vision in one eye and improve his prospects. The noted politician has long campaigned for disability rights and medical relief.
80 acre Wiles farm two miles east of Boxley offered for sale. For details contact E. E. Phillips on the farm or J H. Wiles at 6003 Prairie Ave Chicago Ill.
An letter from Captain R L Jacobs to Arthur R Palmer confirms the second annual reunion of the 158th Indiana Volunteers will be held in Frankfort on September 3. Sheridan veterans who served in Co I are urged to attend at Allenstown for a most excellent time.
Sheridan halts street sprinkling after three to four weeks of effort due to water shortages. The project began last month amid high hope but collapsed as authorities could not obtain sufficient water supply.
Farmers preparing fall public sales are reminded that the sale bills printed by this office are on heavier stock and show up better. Charges are no higher than elsewhere for inferior work. Notices are printed free in the News.
Jasper Davis H P Willworth H H Newby and I H McMurtry attended the Tuesday funeral in Noblesville for Judge T J Kane who died Sunday at age 78 after fifty years of legal practice in the town.
The court adjourned after distributing child support funds and approving multiple divorce and guardianship actions. Notable items include Lewis Baldwin's divorce from Francis Baldwin, custody ordered to mother Elsie, and William Partlow admitted to an insane hospital after prior rejection due to crowding. Civil suits include Farm ers and Merchants Bank seeking 3000 against Roney and associates, plus notes tied to the Cicero bank collapse. Guardian appointed for Mary A. Allen and estate settlements for Leota Forbea. Additional descretion orders set alimony and child support terms.
The Hamilton Trust Company as administrator of the Daniel Tucker estate has been granted the privilege of selling real estate to satisfy claims against the estate.
Real estate transfers include Wain Trust Co to A J Crossley 33 acres in Delaware for 1825 and many parcels in Noblesville Sheridan and Cicero. Also multiple complaints for divorce note foreclosure quiet title and title disputes listed with names. Marriage licenses appear alongside transfers in this column.
The Epworth League and Christian Endeavor announce their winter entertainment course. It features Ella E. Koethe as impersonator and dialect reader, the Illinois Glee Club, John Richard Reitzel D D with lectures on travels in the Holy Land and Turkey, plus the Glazier Colored Jubilee Singers and Farrante the Magician.
A new beverage labeled dry beer hits Sheridan shelves claiming non intoxicating effects and physician endorsement as a malt tonic. It closely imitates Budweiser and Anheuser in taste and appearance, with some claiming under 1 percent alcohol and others up to 2 percent, raising speculation about its intoxicating potential and substitution for real beer in dry towns.
Knights of Pythias lodge officers for the next six months were elected Tuesday night. Elected: H. C. Evans C. C. Ralph Pearson W. C. Arthur Baker P. Ora Sumner M. A. Ed Foust I. G. E. Mendhlnhall C. G. Jacob Pritsch M. W. J. H. Campbell Installing Officer.
The first of ten monthly installments on the Thistlethwaite drain fell due July 1. Construction work is expected to start around the middle of the month.
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