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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1908
Page
7
Neighborhood notes list guests and visits from Tipton Indianapolis Kirklin Sheridan Noblesville and other towns. Events include a medical appendicitis operation on Phillip Small high school graduation plans for Angola and a Cicero baseball club season ahead. Local church preaching plans and a dramatic fire drill are also noted.
R F D No 21 notes Mrs Ola Padgett's illness. E C McGaughey returned to Michigan City. S P Mantooth hunted for a farm in Washington county. J E Stark bought a new base burner stove. Mr Berry and wife of Lebanon visited J F Neal’s family. Rev Nellie L Reeder of Indianapolis filed appointment at Sedwick Chapel. Mrs Mary Shook and son Fred of Terhune spent with R E Kinnick. Bill Wade and family visited J H Padgett’s home.
Floyd Graham and Harry Rollier of Noblesville and J. A. Graham with family were guests of Anthony Baker and wife Sunday. Mrs. Grace Wiles plans to leave for Peoria Illinois on April first where she will be met by her husband.
Chamberlain's Salve is praised for tetter salt rheum and eczema. It quickly relieves itching and smarting and effects a cure. Price 25c. Sold at Kott's drug store.
Cicero resident May Foster visits her brother at Sheridan this week. Edward Jessup plans to move to Carson Corner next week. Preparations for the business men's carnival on the 27th and 28th advance with over 40 casts mostly music. Walter Clawson, a J. E. W. brakeman, has a 90 day leave of absence.
Me and Mrs Grant Lohr attended a Sunday school convention at Whitestown last week. Newlin Stewart and wife from Eagletown visited with Wm Swain and family Sunday. Mrs Clarence Walker and Mrs L N Newcomer returned from Elwood after spending several days with relatives. Bert Collins entertained Grant Lohr and wife at dinner Sunday. The Quarterly Sunday School Conference will be held at Lamong on April 4. The W C T U met last Friday at Mrs Murry Barnes home.
Mesdames Sarah Baker and Jala Stanley and Curt Taylor are listed as sick. The Wilson baby recovers from pneumonia. Local visits include Mrs. Louvenia Jackson at dinner with C. B. Jones. Phillips Simmonds moves to a farm near West Grove. Mills and Jones attend an auto show. Hodson family at Horton school closing. Baker family at Baccalaureate in Boxley. Leander Kellum helps build a barn addition for C. B. Jones. Lawrence Baker visits Lebanon. Emor Baker and Sheridan relatives join Harvey Pickett for Sunday dinner. Elwood Jessup’s family moves to Sarah Pretzinger’s vacant house. W. H. Baker and niece Gertrude attend State Spiritualist Convention in Indianapolis. School closes with recitations and music. Lizzie Lees sings solos with guitar. George Sumner hosts dinner at Jessups. Mary S. Baker and 18-month-old baby girl at St Vincent Hospital Indianapolis for tumor removal. specialist warns of limb loss if untreated.
Sheridan readers urged to act quickly against kidney distress using Dean's Kidney Pills. Mrs Emma Hackleman of Sheridan credits the pills with easing back pain, headaches, and dizziness, noting rapid improvement after buying at Elliott's drug store. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY is the US sole agent, price 50 cents.
Union Loan and Trust Company offers loans on solid mortgage security at a five percent rate. Sheridan Indiana announces this financial service with emphasis on reliable fixed rates.
The lambing season is the most trying part of sheep husbandry. Ewes should be watched from yeaning to the period's end to save the lambs. Early lambs fetch good prices but need shelter and warm housing, especially in March winds. A strong, well-fed ewe with good milk yields healthier lambs, reducing bottle feeding.
Fountain county Farmers institute at Veedersburg passes a measure supporting home merchants. It urges farmers to buy locally to strengthen mutual prosperity and deplores patronizing mail order houses for goods that could be bought at home with similar prices.
Hints from the Missouri experiment station show corn plus wheat middlings or oilmeal as the cheapest hog fattening rations with costs per hundredweight around 2.75 to 3.63 depending on mix and pasture. It notes higher efficiency with pasture such as blue grass plus corn at 2.50 and alfalfa plus corn at 2.13. Also stresses every farmer should have a shop near the barn with a bench, vise, and tools for iron wood and leather work.
An Ohio poultry raiser describes a quick effective cure for scaly legs using kerosene emulsion. He reports dipping hens in a mixture with kerosene and oil, achieving a complete cure without harming the birds.
The piece argues that a productive dairy cow should be fed generously to maximize milk and butter output. It notes retiring cows as they lose enthusiasm for milking. It adds that pork can profitably use waste milk, and describes the cow as a machine turning feed into ink with profits tied to digestion and assimilation.
The Kansas experiment station reports corn yields by preceding crop. After potatoes 69.98 bu/acre, after soybeans 67.55 bu/acre, after corn 60.74 bu/acre, after small grains lower than after corn, with Kaffir corn and sorghum giving the lowest corn yields.
Guidance on keeping a vessel of water within reach of horses in stables, stressing summer needs and the after work hydration of hot, sweating animals. It notes horses drink less at work and require extra water after drying out and eating dry feed.
Farm Journal notes the need for grit to wait for land to dry before plowing. Beginning too soon spoils soil for years, as wet earth bakes and remains hard and unprofitable.
The best dairy cow is one that yields the most milk and milks the longest. Some cows give a large quantity briefly, others continue longer but at lower output. A profitable cow pays for feed and care by delivering both high yield and long productive life.
I. H. McMurtry announces a limited sale of Barred Ply Rock settings priced at one dollar per fifteen. This offer targets poultry enthusiasts seeking quality stock in a small batch sale.
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