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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
2
The annual M. E. conference at Anderson closed Monday evening and announced assignments. Rev. E. E. Wright, previously stationed here for two years, was assigned to the local pastorate for the coming year. A partial list of appointments follows.
The list shows Wabasa District assignments across towns including Marion, Wabash First Church, Huntington Circuit, and others with named pastors and churches. Additional notes mention state envelopes at the REcorp office, Easter post cards, a public sale by Samuel Clymer near North Manchester, local lost shoe, a death in Wenatchee, and an old testimonial letter about Kodol from 1906.
The Tuesday evening commencement program was carried out successfully despite inclement weather keeping many away. The church was filled with decorations in black and gold and graduates in gowns and caps presented a handsome, intelligent appearance. Miss Kent the reader delighted the audience while the North Manchester quartet offered several selections.
A freight wreck near Fox's station forced detours for the Big Four. Irvin Cripe, 24, was killed at Goshen's First Street crossing by a Lake Shore train, marking the third fatal crossing incident in six months.
A race clash erupts at Syracuse as the Portland Cement Company hires Hungarian workers over Americans. A Hungarian boarding house is dynamited amid ongoing tensions and threats, with no resolution in sight.
A leading London physician warns that flies spread almost every infectious disease and cause epidemics among children. He calls for a proven method to conquer the fly pest, promising lasting gratitude to mankind and animals.
The passage extols practical men with knowledge skill and vigor as their own letters of reference. Among sixty million they rise to the top and lead on desert islands or in need. Those who act with head or hands are in high demand here and now, bettering themselves by doing.
The notice invites non subscribers to try a specimen copy of REcorp and suggests they will be pleased enough to subscribe for a year six months or three months.
Miss Ada Beaver died Monday at her parents home in Claypool after seven weeks at Hope hospital Fort Wayne. Rev Wright conducted the funeral services at Claypool yesterday afternoon.
The note explains amounts due for subscription printing and advertising with names like John Sausaman W. E Colbert and several small figures such as 9.60 3.00 2.50 2.00 1.50 2.75 appearing in the item list. The tone is a ledger style tally of owed payments.
Suffering from lung fever Miss Ethel Yates has been seriously sick for a week. She attended school without tardiness or absence until Thursday evening when she took to bed and missed the final day of the term. She was somewhat better at the last report.
Thurman Krisher son of the late Daniel Krisher of North Manchester died Tuesday from typhoid fever at age 21. He was described as a splendid young man and his death is a sad blow to relatives and friends. Funeral was held today.
An aged herbal remedy note from a period publication touts Burdock Orestes Appatite as purifying the blood and curing rheumatism kidney and bladder ailments. The piece reads as a promotional medicinal claim without modern clinical backing.
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