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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1903
Page
5
A slice of small town life with notes on Arbor Day Bird Day and county fair side shows needing disinfecting. The rural editor sketches births deaths and fashion trends while a vet notes a country medical case. The column preserves local humor and snippets from Packerton and nearby.
A traveler in Mentone asked for sugar for tea at a boarding house. The waiter said to wait as three lumps were held by gents who were marked and shaking dice with them. He received the sugar once the game ended.
Dr Dowie and two train loads of Zion City followers passed through this city Thursday en route to New York where they plan to enlighten the metropolis. Zion City will be practically vacated for two weeks as ten trains of ten coaches each carry the party to New York.
Items of interest and personal notes from Claypool Indiana including visits, sales, travel, health, and local events. Mentions Otto Minear Albert Tucker Jacob Shoemaker Uncle John Bilger and many neighbors with reminders about taxes and upcoming sales.
Among the RECORD subscribers this week are Hub Minear George W Elder Dick Pinney Jacob Leiter C M Rhodes E W C Garman Sammy Showalter John Price M Wertenberger H O Hathaway S B Whittenberger O C Dick L V Hatfield.
Uncle John Wilson, an early Clay township settler who had lived there over forty years, died early Friday at his home. Funeral was held Sunday at Mt. Pleasant at noon conducted by Rev. J. W. Tillman from Silver Lake. He had suffered from multiple afflictions and was blind for six years. The family and community extend sympathy.
In a strange town incident John Price Jr entered the Minear livery barn and asked Will Minear to hang him. He placed a rope around his neck and kicked the chair, initiating a hanging that nearly became fatal before help arrived and the scene concluded unexpectedly.
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