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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1910
Page
4
Residents plan visits and attend events as visitors from Minster and Bourbon join grandparents in town. Easter cards offered at the Record office while local trades promote mortgage exemptions and coal deliveries. Miscellaneous notes include livery sales, road conditions, church roof update, and a science museum observation on dust patterns.
Dr White Law was attacked on a lonely road his pockets rifled and a thermometer used to take a fever patient’s temp was stolen. He later recalled the reading and the mercury was still set. A thermometer matching that reading was found in a Glasgow pawnshop aiding police to arrest the assailants in a theater.
An Italian shell craftsman explains his method calling himself a shell sculptor. He shows folding and welding shell pieces from hot water into seamless structures, asserting Neapolitans are the best in shell and coral work.
A kind woman welcomes a homeless girl Irene into her home. She gives her a bath, brushes her hair, styles it with a ribbon, and the friend notes a striking, almost unrecognizable change. The girl then softly reveals her continued name Irene.
In the House of Commons one morning at half past one, Mr. O Donnell rose and interrupted the debate with a sharp remark. He said at this late hour, then corrected himself to this early hour of the following day, drawing laughter from both sides.
Rosella E. Flors of Silver Lake Indiana advertises hair combings with a promise to weave a switch for 50 cents and puffs for 10 cents. The notice urges readers to mail the items and paste the ad in a clock for future use.
Weekly snippet shows Jared Harter family moving to the Jontz farm east of town. J P Keeler of Warsaw visits, Ed Drudge and family move to Mrs Alice Tridle property on Sycamore. Measles strike Walter and Albert Groninger. Noah Butterbaugh ill in East Silver Lake. Also appears notes on sick Mrs E Braude and visitors Mrs Warren Hammond and Otis Hunter.
Ralph Shepherd reports Charles Barlow nephew of Mrs Shepherd is seriously ill at his home in Olney Illinois. Mrs L B Yount returns from Marion after visiting there. Union Oldfather delivered a horse for Arthur Barber in Wakarusa and returned home. The Cisypool Lumber Co stocks shingles fence posts cement blocks and cement. Walter Homman and wife visited Alexandria due to sickness of Mrs Homman’s brother Mary Hill of near Claypool. Alfred M Sheets visits Indiana with Jona Sheets’s brother. Maynard Young visits grandparents near Yellow Creek Lake and returns with parents.
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