The Smithville News front matter and staff listing
The Smithville News published Friday by News Publishing Co includes editor Elmer E Nixon manager, associate editor Ralph B Carter and general solicitor Walter Trissler. Subscription rates and postal entry details are listed with filing information for second class matter at Smithville Indiana post office.
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Walter Trissler
Office Monroe Co. Telephone Co
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Smithville
Indiana
Local News Notes from Harrodsburg Area
Harold Kyle and Raymond Gordon of Chicago camp near Harrodsburg. Jewett Tatem of Smithville visited Miss Mary Taylor in Harrodsburg. Mrs Edna Tourner returned to Indianapolis after visiting her aunt Jennie George. Helen and Daisy Dixon of Harrodsburg traveled to Mt Sterling Ohio to visit grandparents for six weeks. A display advertisement for Miss E A Deckard appears in another column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jewett Tatem
Smithville
Mary Taylor
Harrodsburg
Edna Tourner
Indianapolis
Jennie George
Helen and
Daisy Dixon
Mt. Sterling, Ohio
E. A. Deckard
Harrodsburg Businesses Expand and Hotel Changeups
A local merchant adds chinaware and glassware to a millinery stock, Miss Deckard offers up to date goods, and Ray Medaris with wife plan to move to Washington to run a hotel. Ed Boucher becomes landlord at the burg. Jennie George courts matrimony, the town’s Harrodsburg telephone operator.
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Notion
Ray Medaris
Harrodsburg
Washington
Ed Boucher
Burg
Jennie George
Harrodsburg Exchange
Bedford
Jennie
Smithville News Jumps Into Monroe County Press
The Smithville News debuts as a four column folio in Monroe county. Editor Ralph Carter leads the team with a focus on Smithville news and local interests. Exchanges praise the paper as well edited and promising for the future.
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Smithville
Monroe County
Ralph Carter
Carter
Seymour Republican
Harrodsburg A Growing Town On Monon Line
A feature on Harrodsburg notes its small size of about four hundred residents and status as a developing town on the Monon railroad. It describes multiple stocked general stores, drugstores, farming implement firms, a dental parlor, and a roller mill, highlighting business activity and modernization.
Harrodsburg’s Notable Dwellings and Old Timers Highlight Town
The article catalogs Harrodsburg’s commerce and amenities including the best flour, the livery stable owned by Dick Strain with ample rigs and a new year for train service. It lists churches Presbyterian Methodist Christian lodges K of P Masons I O O F and a well furnished Harrodsburg hotel run by Mrs Ray Medaris. It notes restaurants Harley Koontz’s establishment and several other businesses. It also salutes long established residents such as Thomas Clay Isaac Graves Alex Smallwood Alex Strain Wm Strain Jonathan Boucher Ray Buchanan Wm Bennett Mrs Martha Oliver R W Carr Hazel Smallwood Wine Kinser and Newt McFadden. The piece praises locals’ sociability and loyalty to Harrodsburg and notes the town’s famous public well said to keep townsfolk from thirst and to draw return visitors.
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Masons
Harrodsburg
Ray Medaris
Harley Koontz
Thomas Clay
Isaac Graves
Alex Smallwood
Alex Strain
Wm. Strain
Johnathan Boucher
Ray Buchanan
Wm. Bennett
Mirs
Martha Oliver
R. W. Carr
Hazel Smallwood
Wine Kinser
Newt McFadden
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the News Publishing CO
Elmer E. Nixon
Ralph B. Carter
Harold Kyle and
Raymond Cordon
Chicago
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Sarand
Oolitic News
Smallwood
Claude Smallwood
William Carmichael
Sam Wooden
John Bell
Frank Strain
John Nance
Baker &Treadway
Asoral Parlor
Walter Thrasher
Samuel Crum
Eros
Fowler & Floyd Roller Mills
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Metropolitan Mixed Paints
Pure Drugs
J. W. Charrow
Bloomington, Ind
Rabbsawe
Undertaker
Harrell
North Side Square
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