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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1920
Page
4
Rates of advertising begin January 1 1920. Display ads priced on application. Obituaries for subscribers up to 25 lines. Obituaries for non subscribers billed per line. Card of thanks 3 cents per line. Notices for churches or societies for fundraising 3 cents per line each issue. Minimum charge 8 cents to 25 cents.
A collection of quips on taxes voting behavior and daily life notes the early bird adage, music spending, and the shift away from cheap drunks. It mentions an English inventor patenting a pipe with mirrors on the bowl for smokers.
Center residents report visits by Miss Ruth Tucker Miss Georgia Beber Mrs Ellen Beber and other neighbors. Local illness includes scarlet fever and flu with several families affected. Road conditions worry residents as March assessor looming and weather hints at thawing and gravel roads.
Fairview Ringlets reports Miss Wretha Alexander sick with influenza. Irvin Parker took a business trip to Akron on Wednesday. J. W. Fitton traveled to Warsaw last Friday. George Rouse spent Sunday visiting relatives in Warsaw. Grover Tinkey and family were noted in the roundup.
Charles Hanes returns home from Martinsville after ten days in a sanitarium. Visitors include T C McClure and H W Kline in Warsaw, Arthur Hamilton and wife from Marion, and many others stopping by the area. Notes mention shop promotions, hospital visits, and local dining and business activity.
Local eatery McGlennen's offers fresh bread and buns every morning, promising warm, oven baked goods to diners. The bakery staff work daily shifts to ensure steady supplies for breakfast and lunch rushes.
A new mower attachment for the Fordson tractor uses the pulley shaft power and a bevel gear, reducing weight to less than one third of a horse drawn mower. The system, designed as a single-man operation, places knives ahead of the driver for safety if he falls from the tractor.
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