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Newspaper
Smithville News
Location
Smithville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1908
Page
2
The Smithville News lists Elmer E Nixon as editor and manager Ralph B Carter as associate editor and Wilthr Trisler as general solicitor. The office is Monroe Co and subscriptions are in advance at 50c for one year 25c for six months and 25c for three months.
Local news notes outline new two cent postage to Great Britain and its appeal as a bargain day. Mentions W C T U meeting, Sunday visits among neighbors, church and town events, a Harrodsburg speaking engagement, pie supper fundraiser, and a trustee election comment on telephone system and township improvements.
Walter McLaughlin ill of typhoid fever. Numerous residents and visitors travel between Bloomington Smithville and Harrodsburg for business and family visits. W.G. Updegraff reports record tobacco shipments. Telephone expansion eyed to connect Clear Creek Harrodsburg exchanges. Everett Ramsey injured by a horse recovers after jaw and ear injuries realign.
Clear Creek residents and visitors spent Sunday in Martinsville Bloomington Ellettsville and Chapel Hill. Families included Dodd May Binkley Borland Douglass Eckels. Two year old Lew Dillman’s son suffered a broken arm from a fall. Bertha McNeely returned from J E Marlins home to Washington Davies county. Newland Duncan and companions treated their ladies to a day trip to Chapel Hill.
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