Advertising Rates and Editorial Staff Listing
Subscription options offered with prices for one year six months and three months. Advertising rates ten cents per column inch with eight cents for more than ten inches. Special inducement for regular contract. Editor Elmer E Nixon manager associate editor Ralph B Carter general solicitor Walter Trisler office Monroe Co Telephone Co Building. Entered second class matter August 1 1908 at Smithville Indiana Post Office under March 3 1979 act.
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Columan Incu
Elmer E. Nixon
Ralph B. Carter
Walter Trisler
Oifice Monroe Co. Telephone Co
Smithville
Indiana
Oranges and Gifts Highlight Local Holiday Trade
Oranges sell for 20c a dozen at C E Deckard's while Harvey Pryor offers customers a souvenir wineglass for Christmas. Mrs Louis Litz takes mince meat orders for delivery next week at 12 1 2 cents per pound to support M E church. The text notes illness among children and various local residents visiting Bloomington.
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Louis Litz
M. E. Church
Christmas entertainments at two churches this season
Sunday schools of both churches plan Xmas programs with the Christain church hosting Xmas eye and the M. E. church presenting Xmas night. John and Wm Parnell visit Bedford society. Mrs. Doc Parnell recovers from a serious illness. Miss Ruth Parnell suffers tonsillitis. Abner Scott of Oakland Illinois visits relatives in town.
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Christain Church
M. E
Humor and Philosophy on Life and Beliefs
A collection of wry maxims on life, happiness, error, and persuasion. The piece reflects on our thirst for improvement, the joy of children, the stubbornness of certainty, health fads, seasonal contrasts, pride in being right, curiosity about ordinary matters, and human desire.
Inanimate Depravity Furnace Versus Winter Comfort
A humorous verse on a balky furnace that balks in autumn and winter, sparking frosty rooms and chilly nerves. The speaker frets over heat that never comes and jokes how a stubborn boiler tests patience, ending with a playful job printing jab.
Notice of Sale of Real Estate by Commissioner
Fred H. Batnan as Commissioner in the Monroe Circuit Court will offer for sale at public auction on Monday Dec 28 1908 at 1 30 PM at the courthouse steps Bloomington Indiana the west half of the northeast quarter and the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter in section 25 township 7 north range 1 east Monroe County Indiana free from liens except 1908 taxes. One third cash in hand in three months and one third in six months with option to pay cash on day or before last payment. Purchaser to secure by note at 6 percent or by mortgage on the property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred H. Batman
Monre Circuit Court
Isaac D. Stevens
Anna E. Stevens
Court House
Bloomington
Indiana
Towit
Monroe County
Fairfax People and Placements in Bloomington Gossip
Fairfax notes report De John Parnell and Walter Scott on business in Bloomington Tuesday. Miss Coldie Parnell returns from Mooresville after a two week visit with relatives. James A. Kelly mourns his sweet heart. Wm. H. Butcher visits Bud Deckard on Sunday. Two Tom Deckard children ill with throat trouble. Winfield Scott also noted in Bloomington on business. Bennie Meadows guests of Marshall Watson Sunday. Mrs. Matthew Butcher suffers from dropsy of the heart. Everett Chambers and family return from Thanksgiving with Mrs. Cev Fox. Fred Deckard spends Sunday with Elmer Deckard. Raymond Deckard now working at Johnson mill.
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Wm. H. Butcher
Bud Deckards
Tom Deckard
Winfield Scott
Bloomington
Bennie Meadows
Marshall Watson
Matthew Butcher
Everett Chambers
Cev. Fox
Fred Deckard
Elmer Deckard
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News Publishing CO
C. E. Deckards
Harvey Pryor
the Tittle
Elmer Chambers
Sanders
Jimmy Jayttes
Bedford
Jasper Hainey
Julia Meadows
Xmas Entertainments
John and
Wm. Parnell
Doc Parnell
Ruth Parnell
Abner Scott
Oakland Il
Monroe Co. Tel. Co
By Duncan M. Smith
Jewvip
J. M. Hunter
South Walnut Street
Fred H. Batnan
Fairfax
John Parnell
Walter Scott
Coldie Parnell
Mooresville
James A. Kelly
Raymond Deckard
Johnson Mill
W. A. Gass
Furn
Plato
French Lick, Indiana
the Deckard Hotel
Monon Station
Geo. M. Deckard
Stevens
J. Stevens Arms & Tool CO
Chicopee Falls
Mass
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