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Newspaper
Smithville News
Location
Smithville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1908
Page
3
Reports from the town include visits by Elmer Trisler and Edgar Butcher, a two weeks old Marshall Fleetwood child’s death, and various residents’ travels. Squirrels may be hunted with a license until Oct 1. Victor’s quarry No. 18 shuts down. local editor praises town enterprise and lists amenities and civic life.
For sale or trade a direct current motor and rheostat with complete electrical gear. The motor was part of a plant but cannot be used at current location. It can generate 24 110 volt lights, suitable for a stone ca or factory. Address News, Smithville. call Homer Jones at Sewads foundry who has the item for inquiry.
Reports from the Louis Litz well note a strong coal oil odor in a rock and oil running in sun. The Paris Trisler well shows gas flow and coal oil indications. A drill through mineral water at 900 feet might have hit oil if not stopped. Axtell faces embezzlement charges. McMillen mill builds a new cinder road under J. W. Faris. Taylor Grimes and wife return from Des Moines Iowa after a 10 day visit with his father Silas Grimes.
The piece notes several residents facing grave illnesses including Mrs. Elmer Litz with tuberculosis, Mrs. Geo Palmer with stomach cancer, and Mrs. Esther Huff near death. It also mentions Mrs. Sarah Smith aged 91 and frail at Sanders, along with Mrs. Martha Zikes visiting from Harrodsburg and taken ill, all eliciting community sympathy.
Mrs Laura Meadows is very ill of typhoid fever. Mr and Mrs Leonard Sparks of Stanford visit relatives here. Hazel Fox spent a week with Pleasant Meadows on Allen's Creek. Pink Zike moving his family to east of Smithville. Elizabeth Pearl and Leo of Bedford visit grandmother Mrs Caroline Reynolds. Sanders White Sox defeated Belmon t 6 to 0 in Southern Sunday. Sunday school thrives under Chauncy Babb. Smithville girls visit fortune teller Mr Nelson for visions of long life wealth and happy marriages.
The WCTU will meet at Mrs FE Luzadders next Thursday. Mrs Mollie Fox and son Marshall of Bloomington visit Walter Clift. Earl Duncan, long remembered here, recently married a young woman in Scapoose Oregon. Ollie Collins aided with engine and press installation. The paper aims for near independence with both sides in view and invites views without any ax to grind.
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