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Newspaper
Smithville News
Location
Smithville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1908
Page
1
Muriel Trisler and Lily Pate visited Grace Stanley Friday. It is time to begin ordering winter wood and coal. Fifty visiting cards printed at this office for 25 cents. Bessie Wampler ill with typhoid fever but improving.
Emma Johnson 36 wife of Andrew Johnson a lodge boss ends her life by jumping with a basket into a deep quarry water near Leonards Crove Sullivan county. The incident occurred before daylight while family and workers were nearby with McCormick and Miller contractors and others from Bloomington.
A woman fell or jumped from a water pipe into a quarry hole, nearly drowning with only part of her body visible under water. Meanwhile contractor Wm. Deck McCormick was ambushed by Romey Goss in a dispute over equipment, leaving McCormick injured and a warrant issued. The incident ties to local labor unrest and family trouble amid a string of building mishaps in Bloomington area.
While Ed Stull repaired an old wagon a nail he struck split and pierced his eye. Doctors expect the injury to heal in a few days with proper care.
J. L. Waring purchased Thompson's Smithville general store this Monday from L. R. Thompson who ran Sanders branch for years under Loebe Warring. Trade details undisclosed. both sellers and buyers express satisfaction. Waring, a respected local businessman, formerly served as township trustee and enjoys community support.
James Leech was hooking on the mill derrick at the Oolitic quarry when his foot was caught under a truck. Two toes on his right foot were badly mashed. Dr. Jackson dressed the wound.
A Brown County scene in a Columbus Evening Republican report describes an artist of national reputation painting a sunrise nude model atop a hill near Nashville. The work, to be sold for thousands, stirs talk as locals wake at 3 am to glimpse the daily pose before sunrise.
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