Local notes from Silver Lake and nearby towns
Silver Lake and Rose Hill items report a sick child of Charley Amiss, new subscribers like Judd Babcock, a baby girl for Dr. and Mrs. Ira Leckrone, and various notes on locals including subscriptions, a moving operation, and a school meeting. Other items cover fishing arrests, a state almanac release, and church leader Rev. E. E. Campbell’s success and Fairfield donations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clay
Silver Lake
Judd Babcock
Rose Hill
Ira Leckrone
Packerton
H. T. Sarper
Sunday Church Service Led by Mrs Meilinger on Character
Miss Bettie Yates remains sick. Miss Lulu Gamble visited home over Sunday. The meeting series continues with growing interest. Mable and Jessie Leffel from North Manchester returned to school Monday. A profitable service was held at the church with Mrs S J Meilinger conducting in the pastor's absence. The topic was The Building of Character. A couple of young men were reported to have attended one night drunk. South Pleasant residents note they are not strangers to the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westfield Ind
Westfield News
A. Subberger
Spurgeon
Chester Townships
No. 4
Kosciusko County
Manchester Journal
Silver Lake
E. E. Cambell
Corunna
Noble County
Fairfield
Lulu Gamble
Mable
Jessie Leffel
North Manchester
S. J. Meilinger
South Pleasant
Bert Vancamp
Carl Sullivan
W. Herendeen
No. 3
Ada Beber
Claypool
Drucilla Rickle
Cora Priser
Glaypool
Beaver Dam Community Notes on Sick List and Local Events
Alta Summe and Alta Engle in town and at home over Sunday. The sick list grows with H G Thomas ill with pneumonia and Roy Keesey cited. Clara Heiselman buried at Franklin after dying at Milton Ritter’s. Protracted meeting continues with three conversions. Various neighbors visit, dine, and attend gatherings at Center, Gospel Hill, and No. 3. A new minister hosts large audiences at the Dunkard church and a visitor, Frank Summe, appears. a Bryan is noted as a free silver man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daisy Meredith
Warsaw
Dunkard
Frank Summe
Bryan
Local notices and market notes from the era
Recop pays 1.00 per year. Sam offered second hand dinner bell for sale at Recop office. Wertenberger shipped 1,500 rabbits this season, paying sportsmen over 80. Theodore Durrant hanged at San Quentin for murder, protested innocence. Soup and coffee served weekly for 10 cents at Saratoga restaurant. Hire and Oldfather shipped a large hog load over 18,000 pounds. Wm Stout visited town from Silver Creek area. Clarence Thoma remanded to Jeffersonville reform school for robbery. Dr. E J Sheron death linked to cocaine. Prairie Farmer offers special low clubbing rates to readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Wertenberger
Theodore Durrant
San Quentin Prison
Cal
Blanch Lamont
Minnie Williams
Saratoga
Deaths Play Endurance Checker Match in Thomasville
Uncle Brill, famed local checker champion, meets a traveling stranger in a hours-long duel that lasts through two days and ends with Brill’s death at the board. The stranger claims he could have beaten him if not for Brill’s resolve to finish the game. The tale reflects old frontier skill and stubborn honor. Also notes the great bustard as England’s rare game bird protected since Henry VIII.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Uncle Brill
Checkers
Brill
Ines
Philadelphia Press
England
Salisbury Plain
William IV
Local Social Notes Highlight Miss Iva Olafather and Others
Center Miss Iva Olafather visited guest of Mrs. Frank Metheny Thursday. Grandma Beher spends a few days with son Sam. Mrs. John Warren guest of sister Mrs. T. J. Alspaugh. Mrs. George Michaels confined to room. Dr Hines of War saw. George Michaels called to mother's bedside Thursday as she suffered paralysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iva Olafather
Frank Metheny
Grandma Beher
Sam
John Warren
T. J. Alspaugh
George Michaels
Dr. Hines
Warsaw
Local Residents News Roundup Across Indiana
Mrs Geo Michaels suffers neuralgia. Miss Myrtle Trndle returns to Warsaw. Mr and Mrs Edgar Metheny of Argos visit brother Frank. Aunt Yannabi Jamison returns from Chicago. Michaels daughters return home. Ettie Spencer heads to Missouri. John Kindle and Belle Wilson travel to Marion and Starke county homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Trndle
Warsaw
Edgar Metheny
Argos
Frank
Yannabi Jamison
Chicago
George
Michaels
Ettie Spencer
Missouri
John Kindle
Marion
Belle Wilson
Starke County
Local Notes on Sickness and Hogs
Chas Garman sick this week. M Snyder butchered fine hogs Monday. L Clink spent Sunday with Samuel Krieger. Tfield and wife spent Sunday together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Garman i
Snyder
L. Clink
Samuel Krieter
Tfield Hd
Chamberlain’s Pain Balm Reported to Relieve Back Pain
A reader from Sar_dis, Ky, quotes Louden Crowe saying his daughter suffered fever and severe back and hip pain after an attack. After trying several remedies, she used one bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and experienced complete relief. The ad also claims it cures rheumatism and is sold by IL. As Snoberger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frantz Rager
Ed Snyder
Indianapolis Sentinel
Warsaw
A. A. Kist
Opuc
Pierceton Record
Louden Crowe
Sardis
Chamberlain
Snoberger
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Ermoto
Brown & Teeter
Ind
Charley Amiss
Smith Higgins
Wisighes
Syeamore Street
H. L. Oldfather
Silver Creek
John Ball
George M. Grose
North Dakota
Snoberger’ Corner
John Wertenberger
John Bilger
Man Hamman
Yellow Creek Lake
T.S. Keller
Huntington
Keller
John Fruit
Indiana Sentinel
Indiana
United States
Lake
Seward
Locauitizs Nor Burr
Beaver Dam
Alta Engle
Roy Keesey
H G Thomas
Clara Heiselman
Milton Ritter
Franklin
Sam Beber
Samuel Clink
Martin Strain
Wm. Little
Wm. Worley
Jake Worley
Frank Arnold
Lady Friend
Levi Windbegler
Gospel Hill
Randolph Callison
Mollie Dillingham
Geoge Michaels
Mrs. Michaels
Maggie Little
Deasie Snyder
Miss Close Carr
Hire & Oldfather
Wm. Stout
Silver Creek School House
Clarence Thoma
Jeffersonville
F. M. Jaques
New York Sunday Herald
E. J. Sheron
S. C. Jaques
Prairie Farmer
Kansas City
The
Prairie
Farmer
Inter
Geo. Michaels
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