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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1913
Page
2
The page combines a November 24 1912 rail timetable listing trains north and south with Sheridan Indiana community notices dated June 6 1913. It lists train numbers and times and includes local social items such as visits, family events, purchases, and upcoming events at churches and halls.
The writer recalls a Sunday at Lun y Park enjoying rides and reflections after visiting Euclid Beach with a 2000 skaters on four acres of rink. He notes a steamer trip on Lake Erie, a Barnum & Bailey show, a bumpy flight over Cleveland, and heavy rain while in Erie Toledo travel. He ends with plans to clean sand from his hair and hopes for warmer weather.
The Sheridan News carried its largest advertising load for one month in May with 150 columns of display and 54 columns of classified and legal notices. The total marked an increase of about 400 percent over the same month last year.
Receipts for May 1913 totaled six million dollars less than May 1912. Tariff rate reductions are cited as the primary cause for the drop, with analysts noting economic impact across sectors.
Rev and Mrs Newcombe were guests of Afro Wm Woods on Sunday. Miss Flossie Caldwell dined with Air and Mrs H H Newby. Dave Norman and family visited Chas Hutchens home. Harry Gunn family joined Chas Lee home for supper Friday. Harriet Maxine Kincaid ate supper with Elizabeth Couch. Grace Johnson of Cicero visits C M Johnson this week. Bernie Johnson and wife hosted dinner with Paul English Clyde Charles Walker Rosston, Effie Cooney Carrie Dye Nora Lang of Indianapolis, Chas Taylor and wife Whitestown, Glen Hickson and wife C P Hickson and daughter of Rosston.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Orval Cox a boy on Sunday. A boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Roberts on May 29. A girl was born June 2 to M. L. Teter and wife. A boy was born to Earl Neal and wife on Thursday.
The Boxley Cemetery Association invites help from interested parties. One dollar per share stock is offered for sale by Elmer E. Teter, Secretary Treasurer.
Edgar Ernest Michaels son of L A and Ellen Michaels died May 29 1913 at age 23 years 10 months and 18 days. He was converted at about 16 and faced illness that prevented work. He expressed a Christian life in letters to his parents and wished others in the family to follow Heaven. He leaves a father mother three brothers one sister grandparents and many relatives and friends who mourn. A precious one from us is gone and a voice we loved is stilled with a vacant place in our home. God recalled His boon and the soul is safe in Heaven.
An advertisement extols Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney relief with a Sheridan endorsement from Mrs Emma Hackleman and lists sale by Foster Milburn Co. It also carries a legal notice in Hamilton Circuit Court Noblesville Indiana calling creditors heirs and legatees to appear June 16 1913 for final settlement of Rachel J Wicker estate with Will F Wall as clerk.
The notice asks subscribers to renew promptly or inform the paper to stop the service immediately if they do not wish to renew. It warns against delaying until several months overdue and expects payment for the overdue period if continued.
The town of Sheridan adopts a fire ordinance defining the fire limits from Main Street area to Seventh Street and prohibits frame or wooden structures and exterior stairs. It bans moving buildings into or within the limits and imposes a misdemeanor with fines up to twenty dollars. Lumber yards are barred within the fire limits and the ordinance takes effect after two publications in May and June. A.A. Henderson presides, A.C. Seu seals the document.
Notice that heirs of Squire Newby deceased must appear in Hamilton Circuit Court Noblesville Indiana on June 28 1923 to show cause why final settlement of the estate should not be approved and to prove heirship and receive distributive shares Clerk Will F Wall issues this notice June 3 1913
The Circuit Court of Hamilton County Indiana names Chas E Chew administrator of the estate of William E Cooper deceased. The estate is stated to be solvent with administration occurring in 1915.
The family expresses gratitude to neighbors friends lodges and others for kindness and sympathy shown during the last illness of their husband and father.
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