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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1908
Page
5
A shop describes a selection of overcoats not often seen, calling overcoats their special hobby. They claim to have purchased samples from the best houses after surveying the market, and announce a January 25 sale with a big price cut on all coats.
The Republicans of Daviess County Indiana will meet at 2 oclock on Saturday February 1st to select delegates and alternates for the district meeting in Vincennes Indiana on February 4 1908 and to choose two delegates and two alternates for the national convention to be held June 16 1908.
Application filed for Filjah Johnson a Veale township farm laborer recently returned from army service to Evansville Southern Indiana Hospital for the Insane. An insanity commission found him mentally infirm with delusions of a wireless phone and imagined fires. His San Francisco earthquake trauma is cited as factor. Johnson, age 23, is not yet admitted. Meanwhile Robert Wallace was refused admission as the county quota was reached.
A councilman urges careful study of required repairs noting the roof and stonework can be repaired or reworked to extend the building’s life by about twenty five years. He cites a cost not to exceed six thousand to seven thousand dollars and warns against unnecessary remodeling.
David Rankin age eighty one died of pneumonia at his Plainville home on Wednesday night. A Lahsin native born in 1827 he served much of the Civil War and held several trades in Dayless County. He was twice married and survived by three children. Funeral Friday at 2 pm in Plainville led by a local Evansville minister. he belonged to the Washington lodge of Masons.
John Satterfield a farmer from Barr township near the Van Buren Barr line died at 4 PM Thursday. Tuberculosis caused death after years of illness. he had taught school before ill health forced retirement. He was about 35, native of Van Buren, son of Milton Satterfield. Survived by widow Dove Trueblood, infant child, sister Mrs John West, and his father.
Revival meetings led by the Rev. W. H. Faulk of Bloomfield draw religious enthusiasm in the Veale Creek neighborhood with 23 additions to the church. A men’s meeting is planned for Sunday after ten with the discourse topic What Is Man.
Benjamin F. Shiviey, longtime representative of Indiana's Thirteenth district, plans to run for the United States Senate if the next Legislature leans Democratic, aligning with incumbent Jesup James Hemenway.
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The first marriage license since last Saturday was issued Wednesday afternoon by Deputy Clerk Walters to farmer David F. Roobling of Washington township and Clara Beatty of this city. Roobling, son of Slater Franklin Robbling, was married after a prior divorce granted December 13 by Judge Houghton in the Daviess circuit court.
Elizabeth Dayton's will was admitted to probate in Daviess circuit court on Thursday. The document states the real estate goes to Deborah Dayton while the personal property is shared between John L Dayton and Deborah Dayton. The deceased resided in Vegle township and the witnesses were L W Barbers Thomas Singleton and Emery Lett.
A list of Republican precinct committeemen and post office addresses across Washington Township and surrounding areas. Names include A L Donaldson, J W Kellams, Samuel Barnett, Jesse McGehee, Earl Thompson, William Vance, James Colbert, George Hyatt, Zed Morton, Orlando McCoy, William Prater, George Lilie, and others with routes in Washington Plainville Hinore Odon Beading and nearby townships.
A. J. Biddinger and Deborah Dayton offer a 2 acre tract with a five room house, barn, and store room for sale or exchange for city property. Debtors inherit a two thirds share of Elizabeth Dayton who died January 14 this year. she was a spinster.
Leander J Bohnert and Mary Elizabeth Chattin two well known Washinton residents married secretly in Lawrenceville Illinois January 16. They confessed the facts to a Herald reporter after obtaining a license and leaving for home on the noon train. The couple wed by a justice of the peace and later church ceremony to conform with Catholic rules. They will reside at 114 southeast Fifth street Washington.
Wake Plymouth advertises birds for sale with prices and varieties including Rhode Island Reds at 75 cents each. Also announces that Charity Lodge 30 F and A M in Montgomery Indiana changes meeting nights from the first and third Saturdays to the fi month.Henry Aikman secretary notes third Thursday evenings. real estate loan notice mentions forty hundred tent on real estate for individuals and corporations.
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