Watermelon Season Closes After Record Carrloads
The Carlisle News reports 161 watermelon cars loaded this season, 27 more than last year, with top prices around 174 cents per melon. Growers such as Percy Wolfe and Richard Hackett shipped Kolb Gems and Triumphs to Columbus and other cities, while notes on farm acreage and sales illustrate a bustling regional harvest.
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Percy Wolfe
Kolb Gems
Oaktown
Columbus
Richard Hackett
Haddon Township
W. S. Racey
Vincennes
Chicago
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
James W. Adams
Carlisle
Hamet Hinkle
Ira Summer
Triumphs
Sol Summers
Lon McKinley
Frank B. Ridgway
C. C. Schlichter
Charles Reynolds
Frank UN
Til Ogle
Ella Robinson
Ed O’haver
J. W. Calvert
Ed Lewis
Garfield Rapp
Through Trains Planned On Indianapolis Southern Line
Large force refits track east of Dugger with a goal to complete from Switz City to Palestine by year end. Hill near Vandalia mine No 5 will be cut 25 to 30 feet improving grades for fast through trains from New Orleans to Indianapolis. Indianapolis to Switz City target is November 1 with 800 workers reported between Bloomington and the line’s western end.
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Indianapolis Southern Railroad
Dugger
Switz City
Palestine
Vandalia Mine No. 5
Effingham
Illinois Central
Indianapolis Southern
Relief Corps at Garlisle Forms Local Unit
The George Rotramel Woman’s Relief Corps organized in Garlisle with 22 members from Frank Neff Relief Corps of Sullivan. The group serves the Grand Army of the Republic and meets at the opera house, with officers led by Ida Starner and speeches by G A R members. The corps, started in Denver in 1883, now numbers about 170000 and meets the second and fourth Tuesdays at 2 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Botramel
George Rotramel Corps
Woman’s Relief Corps
Denver
Col
Opera House
Tuesay
Ida Starner
Sadie Hoover
Rachiel Whalen
Flora Haddon
Sec
Mildred Yocum
Treas
Martha V. Risinger
Frances Hutchison
Ann T. Hoover
Stella Pearce
Ass’t
Dercie Kivett
Jennie McConnell
Nominee for Judge Charles E. Henderson Profile
Republican nominee Charles E. Henderson, candidate for Judge of Indiana's Fourteenth Judicial district, born January 31 1871 to Mr and Mrs Thomas A Henderson. He moved with his parents in 1886 to Eugene Oregon where the University of Oregon sparked a six year study with perfect attendance, graduating June 22, 1893.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Henderson
Fourteenth Judicial District of
Indiana
Thomas A. Henderson
Eugene
Oregon
University of Oregon
Reward Offered for Untampered Dr Miles Remedies
A five thousand dollar reward is offered to anyone who can locate even one atom of opium chloral morphine cocaine ether or chloroform or their derivatives in any Dr Miles Remedies purchased in the open market and untampered with. The ad insists the remedies cure by nervous system strengthening not weakening. It quotes testimonials from WM Crome Salt Lake City and mentions the Nervine Anti Pain Pills and Nerve and Liver Pills as exemplary products. Dr Miles Anti Palm Pills are sold by druggists with a guarantee of benefit or return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
Starving to Death Gets Relief from Electric Bitters
Mrs. Mary H. Walters of Columbus Ohio describes extreme weakness from drugs and nerves, then credits Electric Bitters with immediate improvement and a complete cure. Advertised as the best death tonic on earth, 50 cents, guaranteed by Joe K Smock, druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary H. Walters
St. Clair St
Columbus
Joe K. Smock
Home sought for two sisters in Sullivan Indiana
WANTED Home for two sisters aged 12 and 14. The younger is bright and healthy while the older has curvature of the spine. They wish to stay together in the same home. For details write to Chas. D. Hunt Sullivan Ind. Willis Drake of Fairbanks transacted business in Sullivan Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. D. Hunt, Sullivan
Ind
Willis Drake
Fairbanks
Sullivan
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Pet
Abe Martin
No. 9
Uleable
Scott Bros
Sullivan Co
The
Carlisle News
Mr. Henderson
Bloomfield
Ann Arbor, Mich
Emerson Short
Cavins & Cavins
Seymour Riddle
Greene County
Margaret Cavins
Amelia
Laurens
Henderson
Republican Party
Garlisle
Miles Medical Co
Elkhart, Ind
Hymera
William H. Spear
Crossett
Maxwell-Cowles Shoe Co
Foot
Sullivan County
Notary Public
Davis Hotel
A. E. Hazelrigg
C. J. Stratton Loan Co
North Long & Warren
Glidden & Douthitt
North Side
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