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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1907
Page
7
The community reports Merle Baldwin and Eula Horney winning medals at a local event. Visits include Mr. Arthur Hiatt from Kansas and Mr. and Mrs. Love Wainscott. Family news covers illness, travel to Indianapolis to see the President, funeral observances for Ed Thornton, and Decoration Day observances with trips to nearby towns.
R F D No 23 notes a county clerk office marriage for Guy Timmons and Ida McVey on Wednesday May 29. Supper followed at the bride’s home for immediate relatives. The notice ends with well wishes for the new couple.
In Big Springs farmers work fields while a Scarlet fever outbreak affects Chas Paddock family. Dr J A McGee improves his house with paint and Paddock updates his fence. Children’s exercises occurred Sunday night and a quarterly meeting is set two weeks from next Sunday. Mr Breese moves his store to Inglewood and Wm Richardson plans to move into his former property. Mary Baldwin returns from Putnam county visiting relatives.
North Washington residents host relatives and visitors including John Neal and wife Fred Neal and Minnie Smith with Butler Neal of Lebanon. Rev. Charles Huddleston preached at Lanong. Nell Swain returns from visit with grandparents. L N Newcomer hosts Orville Pettijohn and Eva Pettijohn. Wm Swain and families visit Clarence Walker. Jesse Fesmire is ill. Claude Barker visits from Cleveland and preaches. June Allen shows improvement. Susan Teague and son visit Lamong relatives.
The passage notes residents including Mrs Anna Fanbush ill with asthma and heart trouble. Attendees from this place joined children’s exercises at Hills Sunday morning. Mr Smelscher of Arcadia lectured at Boxley in the M E church on three nights, well attended. Mr and Mrs Wm Albertson left.
R F D No 21 reports attendees at I O O F Memorial services in Sheridan Sunday. Sunday is Children’s Day at Sedwick Chapel. Families including Fred Neal relatives and J H Padgett with wife and Miss Atha Fray visited W H Stafford. R E Kinnick and family joined R M Cox near Terhune. J R Swain and T S Brandenburgs hosted guests. Decoration services held at Spencer cemetery and Sheridan.
The rainy spell persists as George Stephens and children of near Westfield visited Jesse Hodson and family Sunday. Arthur Baker and Charley Simmonds hauled potatoes to the city last Friday and returned Sunday. Charles Zigler and family of Tipton visited Cyrus George and family Sunday. Thomas Baker and family hosted Mr. and Mrs. Burnie Baker and Jesse Kellum and wife at dinner Sunday. D C Leonard and wife entertained their son Floyd and wife Sunday. Rev John P Baker and family of Hamlet arrived recently and plan visiting local friends. Leander Kellum visited Arthur Bak- on Saturday night and Sunday.
L D Martin of 221 Virginia Avenue Kokomo Indiana says he suffered fifteen years with backache and kidney weakness. After using two boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills from local dealer Hutchings Murphy's, his kidney function improved and back pain disappeared. He endorses the product eight years later. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sells Doan's 50 cents.
A Rural New Yorker writer recounts 1905 1906 field trials using a bush Ford hook trap crop to protect Fordhook and Delicious squash varieties from borers and stink bugs. He notes early planting of bush squash reduces losses, use of kerosene emulsion sprays, wire screen protectors, and timely removal of bush crops. Also brief notes on pear scab and blight affecting California orchards.
A Minnesota observer notes durum wheat performs best on high rolling land with light soil and good drainage, yielding 8 to 20 bushels more per acre than blue stem in favorable conditions. On heavy loam, yields are poorer, and drought could boost durum advantage. Durum’s high protein and large kernels suggest strong feed value for hogs dairy cattle and poultry when ground and soaked.
Potatoes should be sprayed with Bordeaux mixture containing Paris green at four to six ounces per fifty gallons. In New York early varieties get a June first spray, medium varieties July 1 to 15, and late varieties ready for treatment by the third week in July. Repeat every two to four weeks, typically three applications cover beetles and fungi.
An elderly Dumas forgets he rarely counts money until a louis disappears from the mantel. Returning to give instructions, he counts again and sighs that counting money now does not pay.
W C Stephenson advertises a bay horse named Jay D with 3 white feet and 16 hands tall for the 1907 season at his barn located about 3 to 4 miles west of Possum Trot. The notice notes a public trial on 2129 and a sharp 2:26 record for the horse.
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