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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1910
Page
7
Typhoid illness widespread with Johnie Ogle and aunt Susan Jackson among those listed as ill. Community events include a well attended Sunday preaching and barn projects by Ted McKinney and Edward Brouse. Dozens of visitors and relatives are noted visiting or staying with local families across multiple nearby farms and towns, with several church attendances and social gatherings reported.
Sylvester Fitzsimmons and son Beulot visit A. J. Fox family near Russiaville. George Fox stays overnight. Fox sisters shop in Tipton. Cade Burton, Hershman and Stafford visit Elwood. Bowers, Fox, and Burton families host guests at Arcadia and nearby towns. Auto races draw Coppocks and friends to city.
A Washington Post anecdote recalls John Allen and John Sharp Williams swapping campaign stories in multiple stops. Williams repeats Allen s best lines to undercut him, while Allen faces a silent, glassy crowd after a week, prompting a private remark about not repeating the rival s speech.
Mrs. William Cornell shows no improvement. Rev. T. C. Smith gave the Memorial address at Hills on Monday. Isiah Jackson and family along with Mrs. William Amos visited Mrs. Susan Jackson on Saturday. Albert Osborn decorated the Odd Fellows graves at Hills cemetery on Sunday.
Rev and Mrs L H Liddle hosted guests of Mr and Mrs George Palmer on Sunday. Chas McMurtry Harley Ogle and Elmer Palmer attended Indianapolis auto races Saturday. Dick Moore and family visited Mrs George Hart Sunday. Charley Ogle of Indianapolis visited J R Ogle and wife Monday. The Suits and family spent Sunday with the Marion Helfer home. May Christy of North Adams visited Sunday. Meda Lulu Helfer Wesley Walker and Guerney McVey visited Sharpsville Sunday. Rev and Mrs L H Liddle stayed Monday and Tuesday at Upland.
Professor Robert Herrick of the University of Chicago discussed how imagination heals, citing a Chicago man's Asbury Park trip. He slept soundly after hearing imagined seas, only to awake to real garage noise and a sealess view, illustrating imagination versus reality.
Harry Thurston Peck argued that suggestion outperforms direct statement in revealing a hero's excellence. A Century Club talk in New York stressed that subtlety is more artistic, and a joke about an office knife highlighted low wages and scarcity of pants.
Reports from gunnery trials against the discarded Jena describe shells not killing dogs from suffocation but causing severe nervous system damage from repeated concussions. After two days the animals became somber and timid, with some choosing suicide by immersion. A Metropolitan Magazine note also laments the difficulty of enlisting adequate native born troops, citing rigorous exams and wartime losses.
Harper's Weekly notes government gains from destroyed stamps and lost bills. It cites unclaimed bond proceeds totaling nearly $1 million in 1861, with larger sums since, including $32,000 plus on a 1900 loan and over $100,000 still unpaid on 5 percent bonds due in 1904.
An American registrar notes shifting forms for registering couples. Traditionally couples used one line with Mr and Mrs on a single line, but newer practice shows Mrs. John Smith on the first line with John Smith on the second. Some registrars mix formats, yet “Mrs. John Smith and husband” remains rare.
King Gustaf of Sweden traveled to Nice to consult Professor Schweninger, Bismarck’s famed body doctor and fat reducer. Schweninger was the hundredth physician Bismarck had seen, the ninety ninth having diagnosed stomach cancer. When first introduced by Count Bill, the chancellor quipped that Schweninger asked too many questions and jested about calling a veterinary surgeon who would stay silent.
A Hamburg incident shows tipping practices in Germany with a set scale for station porters. Porters must hand excess tips to a common fund, but during busy times some took extra money. The company recently dismissed a dozen porters for dishonesty.
The Cercle authorities at Aix les-Bains report solving the matinee hat problem. The theater length is split into two parts with "Avec chapeaux" on the right and "sans chapeaux" on the left. The solution is praised as simple and brilliant in character.
A fragment discusses the challenge for a young man to join the army and benefit from Roosevelt era rations. Major W. L. Kenly oversees New York recruiting amid evolving enlistment rules and procedures.
The Veytaux communal council weighs buying a steep mountain valued at 55000 francs to build a Pilatus like railroad and top hotels. France debates the true inventor of machine guns with a Japanese claim in 1704. Engineers study Paris floods to keep the Seine in bounds by higher embankments or a bypass canal.
Jacob Ploughe, respected farmer five miles west of Spalding, died May 4 after an abscess of the lungs. A Civil War veteran, he leaves wife and two daughters Mrs Erickson of Chicago and Mrs Bessie Spotts of Spalding. He was a Salt Lick Baptist member and funeral services were led by Rev R A Jones. interment in Salt Lick cemetery. He was born in Indiana May 28, 1839, and came to Missouri about 30 years ago.
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