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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1908
Page
1
The largest lot of moulding ever shipped to Sheridan is available at Clayton Ft. Cox's repair shop, just west of the First National Bank. They make and sell frames at pre raise prices and have 16x20 inch frames for enlargements. Repairs, furniture making and upholstery also offered.
A notice invites readers to call at the new place of business in jewelry cut glass and chinaware. The advertisement highlights a showroom opening and contact point for potential customers.
The Advisory Board approved a 66 levy split 28 tuition 23 special school 6 township 7 special road 2 poor a decrease of ten wents from last year. Mrs Lobes and her daughter Lenora visited the C E Elliott home late last week.
A Republican meeting attracted a large crowd including families. Speakers Ralph Pearson E J Mendenhall and A C Pearson championed the Local Option plank. About two hundred signed to join the Lincoln Club as a five member committee was named to arrange the Watson Rally on September 29.
The 29th annual reunion of the 57th Indiana Volunteers will meet in Sheridan next week with a business session at the Post room and a Camp Fire at the M. E. church. Company H, organized at Boxleytown by Rev. W. H. Hoback, included Adams township men who fought at Shiloh Franklin Missionary Ridge and other battles, then watched the Maximilian T exas affair after the war.
A young woman torn between wealth and love drives a plot of romance and social ambition. Across a sunlit station platform Siward meets Miss Landis at Shotover House. He agrees to transport the Sagamore pup Flynn and his luggage as a phaeton arrives, signaling the next chapter in their entwined destinies.
The Sheridan schools list changes for the next year with Supt. E. J. Llewelyn and staff including W. P. Dyer and Harriet R. Ward. Grade assignments cite 8th Daisy Tipton, 7th Charles Martin, 6th Della Pogue, 4th Lemon Steffey, 2nd Edith Cox, 1st Mae Scott along with supply teachers Mary Drake Eunice Branson and Edna Manship.
The Town Board met Monday with full attendance to set the 1909 tax levy. General fund 50 cents, street electric poll tax $1 and $2, and a $175 apparent cost per deep well on Main Street with first wells for merchants between Fourth and Pitth. California street to be improved under Free gravel road law. Bills allowed include Pacific Electric, Lindley, Stevens, Carter, Hess, Lovellesh, Pommons, Robbins, Harvey Oil Co. and others.
The premium list for the Sheridan Horse Fair and Corn Festival runs September 24 26 with detailed prizes across horse and corn classes. The event, supported by fraternal societies and merchants, aims for large entries and a major community effort.
Considerable damage from last Wednesday's frost. Tomato fields suffer the worst losses with estimates as high as $10 per acre in the black soil area south of town. Some corn damage noted a few miles east. clay ground escaped.
The note offers 25c in merchandise for every two pages of trading stamps. It touts fall and winter shop stock from top U.S. factories and encourages shoppers to stay home for the best deals.
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