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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1908
Page
5
Doings of Sheridan and vicinity recounts visits and gatherings. Local residents travel to Chicago and Indianapolis, host dinners, entertain relatives, and attend picnics and church events. Numerous families are named with weekend visits and trips to nearby towns.
State board of education decides teachers at institutes may stay to finish school work. Other actions include extending high school courses to four years after Sept 1 1909 and issuing a commission to the Alexandria forth school.
Miss Mabel Groninger of Rockfield travels to Chapman Lake near Warsaw for a two week vacation with J. E. Bereheval and family and W. K. Cox and daughter Lena. The party plans a reunion Saturday in Los Wercheval's home. Mrs. E. T. Williams and two sons return to Sheridan for summer as a plague drives many from the island until control is established.
C Cunningham and family of Terhune return from three months in Manitoba where Cunningham runs a 480 acre cultivated farm. The notice lists numerous Sunday visits and gatherings among area residents including Miss Lilian Underwood, Alf Underwood, Mr and Mrs Ernest Bradfield of Indianapolis, Lane Higbee, Jesse Moreland, Mabel Perry, and others visiting at Kirklin, Delphi, Lebanon, Monon, Corydon, and local homes.
Professor M H Stuart and his wife of St. Paul Minnesota are guests of Geo Symons and wife. They will stay in this locality until fall and then return to St. Paul where Mr Stuart will resume his teaching position this winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Underwood of Pendleton with Daniel Underwood and wife of Olio and John Underwood of Springfield TL attend Hannibal Underwood's funeral and visit their sister Mrs. Charles Thistlethwaite for a few days.
The Indianapolis Star argues that tariff revision is used as a pretext by foes of protection to undermine America’s capital and labor. It contends a fair and updated 1909 tariff strengthens schedules, while critics secretly seek to destroy the protective measure by tearing the tree from its roots.
The Pittsburg Gazette Times warns that a November decision adverse to the protective principle would be vastly more unsettling than any other outcome. It argues that gains in industry and commerce since last fall could be wiped out if protection is overturned, leaving the national fabric in ruins.
The Philadelphia Inquirer comments that tariffs cannot block ideas and notes a preference to prohibit some imports, including government ownership of railways once advocated by William J. Bryan when drawn from European thought.
Public notice offers details for B G Teter Southern Real Estate with instruction to write Sheridan for more information.
Miss Almira Cox of Kempton visited the John N. Cooper home on the Fourth. Misses Ava Owens and Florence Underwood spent Saturday with Mrs. Ruth Owens. The Alcos plan a Sunday game in Noblesville against Bunny Hare's group. Mrs. John N. Cooper attended a Methodist Sunday school picnic near Kirklin. The July meeting of the W C T U will be at Mrs. Moore's on West 2nd Street Friday July 17 at 2 PM. All members urged to attend.
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