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Newspaper
Smithville News
Location
Smithville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1909
Page
2
The Smithville News announces subscription options in advance with rates: one year for 25 cents plus a cent tax, six months for 15 cents, and three months for 5 cents. The paper is issued Fridays by The News Publishing Co with office in Monroe County.
Chas Cline on sick list. Yona Fox is ill. Maurice Lucas of Clear Creek wed Mrs Cynthia Luter of Bloomington. Judge Wilson to open June term Monday with many docketed cases. Memorial Day service planned at Harrodsburg. Rev Quincy Short to speak. Springville to deliver address. lodges decorate on Sunday the 13th. Debate over administration and temperance drought amid high prices. Fred Trisler birthday surprise party last Monday with post cards. Attendants listed include Diisy Deckard Ethel Wood en Muriel Trisler Anna Updegraff Anna and Olive Hepley Ola Botkin Maude Sylvester Esther Gaither Edgar Deckard Byron Davenport Guy Adams.
A party of about twenty five friends gathered at Mrs Edith Bowers country home west of town to celebrate her birthday with a noon meal. Attendees included Mrs Cora Fox and family, Mattie Humphrey and family, Alice Harney and family, Lizzie Litz and granddaughter, Mollie Cantrell and daughter, Olive Sherlock, Maud Kentling, Emma Eads, Blanche Zikes, Frances Parnell and daughter Mary, Miss Coldie Parnell and Mary Thrasher.
The U S Supreme Court ruled in favor of Adams Express Company against Kentucky over shipping whiskey into a local option county. The company had been fined $50 per offense by Hart County Circuit Court for transporting liquor from Indiana and Tennessee to Bonnieville. In township news, graduates from the township schools are listed with commencement set for June 17 at Blooming ton VMem s Gym.
A woman places a silent white hen beside others laid to rest and keeps quiet until a moment when nature seems to break. She loudly cries out, soon joined by others, then the scene falls silent as she questions the purpose, noting the prize hen will lay another egg tomorrow.
Bloomington residents and friends visited relatives and neighbors including Mr and Mrs James A Sexton Mrs Eli Eads and children Mr and Mrs Omer May Dorothy Shields and others were seen at Bloomington Unionville and Unionville visits noted Jeff Rayl Fred Shields and several Shields family members were among callers on Sunday and Monday with multiple stops by Sexton and Prior households.
Mr Homer Hepley of Bloomington visits Paris Trisler as he faces temporary layoff from Oaks Factory. David Burkhart buys John Walls property in Leonard's Saddion for 900 dollars. Mr Walls plans to buy a small farm elsewhere. W H Conner's young child is seriously ill.
J G Fogle went to Indianapolis this morning. The Stull delivery team panicked and ran, causing a wagon to overturn and a broken tongue. Ed Stull was thrown from the wagon but unharmed.
Time table shows northbound and southbound trains in October 1908 from Terre Haute to Seymour and Bedford with station times at Jasonville Linton Bedford and Seymour. Includes contact details for Bedford and Terre Haute agents.
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