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Newspaper
Smithville News
Location
Smithville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1908
Page
1
Local news mentions a Thursday birth a girl to Mr and Mrs Dean May. Visits include Maude Sylvester to Ily Pate and Edith Richardson from Bloomington to Belle Parnell. Discussions cover a water wagon delivery by Cra Wooden, drilling for Wm Girtman, and outings to Gosport Bedford and school opening September 14. Shown also are social visits by Mrs A A Burris and Mrs Duglay and band night attendance.
Local notice advertises a good business location for rent in a room vacated by J. G. Fogle. Call or write to the office for details and location. Also notes a lost pocket book worth recovering with checks and cash. The rest mentions a Bloomington advertising stunt and a postcard from Lelia Nossaman in Attica Kansas.
Clear Creek tonight hosts a band concert for fun while residents arrange a two-mile telephone line plan from Smithville to the west. Bloomington and Smithville papers note regional interest. Miss Grace Hainey teaches in Indian Creek and telephony projects move forward with local cooperation.
A humorous verse laments rising living costs and public figures from doctors to preachers. The speaker mocks price hikes in meat, groceries, coal, railways and taxes, ending with a defiant note about a boy and a boyish mischief.
The old Fulwider quarry in the quarry district near the National quarry is being refitted with machinery and will resume operations once readiness is achieved. Theo Thrasher reports a fence theft. an investigation found it wedged in a cow and bull collision incident involving George Gaiter. Bedford Buff Stone Co. of Peerless, led by Mr. McMillen, installs a tramway and traveler, a new derrick, and a stripping system with a 150 HP boiler to power a 300 lb per square inch pump lifting water 300 ft from Salt Creek bottom.
J G Fogle who ran a stone building restaurant forms a partnership with Noble Burkhart and moves stock to the old Underwood building now owned by Geo Gaither and Paris Trisler. The new location is under repairs and should reopen soon with best wishes from the News. Readers are urged to patronize advertisers and note those who support the paper.
A wagon load of local youths visited the home of Mr and Mrs Wim Mercer south of town last Tuesday night. The gathering featured conversation and games with a long list of attendees including Lillie Butcher Belle Goldie Ruth Parnell Sallie Amelia Wampler Maude Oldham Maude Updegraff Cecil Botkins Edna Gladys McNeely Ada Mattie Maude Gaither Ruth Heistand Anna Grimes Kate Reeves Daisy Zikes Homer Clark Clarence Zikes John Buster Parnell Willie Clark Chauncey Wooden Eugene McCormick John Mitchell and Edgar Butcher.
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