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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1901
Page
2
Long list of local merchants offerings groceries tools and farm supplies. Items include seeds, building materials, wagons, buggies, soap, tea, coffee, cranberry, ammonia, curtains, and dry goods. Notices mention weddings births and a sermon series, with several community events and sales across Lawrence county.
October 190s school notes show classes in geography literature and elocution with seniors on a Lawrence County Farmers Institute program on Nov. 23. Halloween events at multiple homes featured fortune telling, games, and social gatherings, followed by a publicized play The 11th Hour at the Olney opera house with advance ticket sales.
Former Lawrenceville resident Migs Barton, now in Jackson Mississippi, returned from Terre Haute Indiana with a brick sample made from white sand at Pearl River. Factory managers say bricks are superior and many fires in the area are built with sand bricks. Barton has attracted capitalists and hopes to establish a local brick factory soon.
The Jasper county church Chearch Deak Rafetown Christian will be dedicated on the fourth Sunday in November at 11:00 p m. Rev. P Wade will lead the service assisted by Evangelist A A Bennett. Everyone is invited to attend.
The Osney Times notes a new church four miles east of West Liberty in Jasper County with dedication on November 4 led by Rev. P Wade and assisted by Rav ne H Benast of Merion Indiana. Also reported are a延期 murder retrial for George Durden, a Cairo jail issue, and local crime and health brief items from surrounding towns.
An old advertising style notice extols a newspaper for affordable quality and full coverage. It promises first class news, reliable reporting, and year round readership. Subscription is $1 annually with options to subscribe via dealers or mail to Tur Reevelle, St. Louis, Missouri. Burials and thanks from Burial Association members are included in a short, grateful farewell.
Cincinnati Enquirer note reports Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern trains speeding up service to St. Louis and Cincinnati starting on the 17th. The 8:50 a.m. departure will reach St. Louis by 2:50 p.m., cutting one hour five minutes from the current timetable and reducing the St. Louis to Cincinnati run by forty minutes. Also includes a card of thanks, a lodge notice, and an advertisement seeking fifty thousand pounds of old geraphen with cash payment.
Fragmentary note from Sumner market listing items per basket with unclear terms and punctuation. Reads like an OCR garble with unclear product names and prices. Contains no clear event, dates, or identifiable entities.
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