Silver Cake Post Office Second Class Notice
Entry recorded at the Silver Cake post office in Indiana as second class matter with illegible OCR trailing text.
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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1920
Page
4
Entry recorded at the Silver Cake post office in Indiana as second class matter with illegible OCR trailing text.
Rates for display advertising available on application. Obituaries free for subscribers up to 25 lines. non-subscriber obituaries 3 cents per line. Card of Thanks 2 cents per line with minimum 25 cents. Notices for churches or societies for fundraising events charged per line per issue 2 cents.
A collection of satirical quips on effort and success. It urges saving to pay spring taxes and notes common blame games about hard times. The items mock perceptions of greed and power, protest government limits on alcohol, and announce free 1920 patent medicine almanacs for readers unable to subscribe.
Thomas Belt of Union Mills La Porte County shot one quail and paid a fine totaling 37 dollars 40 cents in the local game enforcement action.
Bargain offered for 80 acre farm with 2 miles of Silver Lake access, a good room house with furnace, bank barn 40 by 70, solid fencing, rolling but well tiled land. 4 acres timber, rest cultivated on strong soil. Contact EB Henderson Akron Indiana, office over Exchange Bank, telephone 153.
Critically ill at her daughter Mrs Harmon Drudge’s home on the town’s west edge. Grandmother Chapman, aged 83, suffers a complication of diseases and is growing weaker though not improved in a week.
Reports from Peru mention talk of investigations into the Mexico Orphans Home amid persistent criticism. The prosecutor says he will seek a grand jury inquiry if complaints surface, though no direct filing has been made. The home is overseen by the State Board of Charities and correction with ongoing state scrutiny.
The first week’s heavy snow forced rural carriers to shorten routes daily, abandoning motor vehicles for sleighs and arriving late along their routes.
EB M Funk was called to Monti cello the first of the week for the serious illness of his mother Mrs Anna Funk who suffers creeping paralysis. She has been at the home of her daughter Mrs Orpha Bridge and family for several months. Latest report Funk was in a critical condition.
Entertained members of the Victoria reading club held a Monday night meeting at the Mrs. FE D Hayman residence. Mazda class of the M B W Sunday School were entertained at the Ross Gamble home south of town last Wednesday evening. Embroidery Club gathered Friday afternoon at Mrs. J W Ferverda home. Mathers club met last Friday afternoon at Mrs. H P Gemmer home.
Irvin Wissler visited his sister Miss Madge Wissler at Rager drug store. Hago Gemmer spoke with business contacts in Huntington. Dick Jontz returned from LaPorte for a short family visit and to see his niece Sarah Jane Wedrick. Mrs. Charles Brown and Claire came home from Warsaw after time with Mrs. Jesse Jones and family. William Dillman came home from a week visiting relatives in North Manchester Bash and Huntington. Vera Kern was home from Osian Sunday and doing well in school. O F Brown returned from Elkhart after visiting Royal Brown family and relatives.
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