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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1922
Page
8
The author Rupert Hughes paid $7.25 after a magazine reader fainted at his story The Butcher's Daughter. The editor received a complaint and the writer apologized with a check covering the doctor’s fee of $5 and taxi fare of $2, plus the magazine price.
The Canadian Lignite Utilization Board reports successful experiments and hopes to produce briquet from lignite soon. It could rival U S anthracite for domestic use at about 7.50 dollars per ton on board. The effort, costing 400000 dollars, is a joint venture of the Canadian government and two provinces.
Mrs Franks Hill is on the sick list while Rex and Beth Carr recover from severe colds. Dale Flour of Diske spent Sunday with Everett Whittenberger, Fred Davis and family with Al Marshal and family. Artie Carr and wife shopped at North Manchester Saturday afternoon. A local minister will preach next Sunday morning from Dayton Ohio. Many attended the Mel Minear sale west of Claypool Tuesday and the Farmers Visiting in Warsaw Saturday afternoon. Burdeen Sellers was ill with croup and bronchitis. Mr and Mrs Wyancoop of Columbia City visited their daughter Mrs Ross Stout and family. Myrie Alexander of Lenox Oil and Paint Co. transacted business in Mentone and Burket Thursday. Mr and Mrs Joe Parker and children Rex and Betty dined with Krank Ulsh west of Claypool. Frank Alexander hosted a dinner for Gurnet's birthday anniversary. All reported a fine time. Floor and daughters Beulah and Mae Gordon Shirley and family and Claire Barber spent Sunday evening with Joe Parker and family.
In Mildred White's serialized piece a mysterious woman Olivia seeks the Reverend Philip Forrester's counsel about a friend who married into foreign nobility for flowers not title. Philip urges the friend to stay true to her life and hearts, suggesting she maintain her own garden of memories. The story contrasts romantic longing with moral restraint as Olivia departs, leaving a quiet note of remembrance in Philip's life.
The passage notes that plantain is a European plant introduced by colonists and that Indians had no known use for it. It remarks on Indian pipe and tobacco pipes resembling a pipe, with references to Indian pink growing from Virginia onward.
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