Politician Rascals and Tax Law Debates in Lancaster
The Lancaster Examiner notes widespread beliefs of bribery in state politics, citing Governor Stone and Lieutenant Governor Gobin. It discusses the difficulty of proving corruption in court, the risk of libel suits, and the impact on newspapers in reporting specific charges. It also previews the Indiana tax law battles, praising Claude Matthews as a defender during his governorship bid.
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Philadelphia Press
Examiner
Pittsburg
Stone
Commonwealth
Ubin
Gobin
Lancaster
Tax law clash and a quiet death ripple through era
The piece notes a Republican dig in Indiana tax policy once opposed by Republicans yet praised by a later Republican attorney general as the best tax law in the union. It recalls a Democratic tax enactment from 1901 opposed by Republicans, backed by corporations, and contrasts shifting political fortunes. Cyrus M. C. Williams died suddenly at 64 in Seneca County, Ohio, with a later obituary detailing his marriage in 1809, his move to the county, church membership with United Brethren, and survivors including two sons, a daughter, six grandchildren, and two brothers. funeral at Mt. Pleasant church followed by interment in Mt. Pleasant cemetery.
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Indiana
Taylor
Claude Matthews
Mat' Ras
Union
Cyrus M. C. Williams
Williams
Seneca County
Ohio
A. Decker
Willams
United Brethren Church
Mt. Pleasant Church
H. E. Butler
Mt. Pleasant
Protracted Meetings Start Next Sunday in Pleasant View
Mrs Ed Knepper spent Sunday with her parents near Pleasant View. Protracted meetings begin at this place next Sunday evening with good road conditions. Tone Cummings cut a deep gash in his foot while cutting wood, confining him at home for a few days. Nearby visits include John Stevens, John Kirkendall, Jacob Troupe, and a surprise party for Howard’s seventeenth birthday hosted by Mr and Mrs Andrew Miller attended by about seventy five young people. Graves and Bartol advertise linoleum prices.
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Ed. Knepper
Pleasant View
Dessie Irvine
Tone Cummings
John Stevens
Joe Meek
Clonette
John Kirkendall
Richard Rankin
Packerton
Jacob Troupe
Milford
Peter Troup
Howard
Andrew Miller
Barbee Lake Community Notes and Visits
Lawrence Tuttle is improving. Sam Welty and Zella Tuttle were Warsaw visitors Saturday. Tom Smith and his niece Miss Men towsky were guests of Jerry O'Connell and family Sunday. Michael O'Connell and family visited Peter O'Connell and family Sunday. Farmer Quacklebush and kin called on Lawrence Tuttle Sunday. Mrs Julia Brown and family called on Mrs Catharine O'Connell Sunday. Several sleigh loads from this vicinity attended church at Webster Sunday evening. A great interest is manifested in the meetings.
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Lawrence Tuttle
Sam Welty
Zella Tuttle
Warsaw
Tom Smith
Miss Mentowsky
Jerry O'Connell
Michael O’connell
Peter O'Connell
Farmer Quacklebush
Julia Brown
Catharine O’connell
Dutchtown
10 Live Stock and Household Goods Sale Ad
Local ad lists a Saturday sale featuring Lenox soap cakes five cents each, wash pans six cents, oil wneck sheet iron frying pans sixteen cents, tin corn meal sieves twelve cents, tea kettles eighteen cents, ten quart buckets twelve cents, World Beater glassware ten and a half, liquid smoke, caramels, peas and peanut crisps, rye whiskey fifty cents a quart, ground oyster shells eighty five cents per hundred. Also mentions tobacco, Cecil's tonic, wallpaper, and Roger's second hand furniture at 117 Center Street. Socials, visits, and church fundraising noted with a Valentine program at Whitney school and a Pleasant Valley church social at Alton Wiltrout's February 22.
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Cecil
Notice of Administration in Kosciusko County
Stephen J. Fisher appointed administrator of the estate of Jam Fisher deceased in Kosciusko County Indiana by the Kosciusko Circuit Court clerk. Estate is believed solvent. Dated February 14, 1902.
Notice of Administration in Vesdmini Circuit Court
The undersigned has been appointed by the clerk of the Kyeefusko Circuit Court in the state of Vesdmini as administrator of the estate of Cyrus C. Wiliene Jate of Kochugko County, deceased. The Wald estate is supposed solvent. Date February 18, 1902.
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Kyeefusko
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Durbin
Gov. Durbin
Rascal
Ifyx
Cyrus Williams
Graves & Bartol
Barbee Lake
Roger
Center Street
Stringtown
Mesnard
Kinzie
Joseph Dodds
Nina
Wichita
Kan
E. W. Griffith
Oliie Bodkin
Arche Rossane
Blanch Rawden
Wooster
Alonzo
Florence Wallace
Norman Huffer
Valentine
Whitney School
David Peterson
Will, Magee
Pleasant Valley Church
Alton Wiltrout’s
Ensuin Camelo Fund
Tak Ley
State of
Kosciusko Coursty
Ee John ¥. Pound
Jamen
Attormer
John Eisner
Stephen J. Fisher
Kosciusko
Fisher
Kosciusko County
Bald
Penneylvania Excursions
Charleston
South Carolina
Pennnylvania
Sesson
Ffteen
Fer
Traina
Conault
J. H. Lones
Ind
WM. Conrad. & Son
Wse
Bane
Jocka Dorpess
Chas. F. Nye’s
Chas. F. Nye
South Buffalo Street
Fort Wayne Oxygenor Co
C. N. Bussard
E. Berry
Ft. Wayne, Ind
India
Omar F. Neff
Tod
Coanitop
Tinareatead
Fur Sale
Monroe Township
Rogers
Paraiture House
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