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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1902
Page
4
Corning residents recount Fourth of July outings and visits while noting local farming. Fragments describe a 92 acre wheat patch yielding 832 bushels, social dances, travel to East St Louis, and various neighbors visiting Washington and Terre Haute.
A string of partial clippings recounts sudden deaths in Indiana towns. Charles Green, 11, dies allegedly by revolver accident. a 19 year old, pumpered and crushed to death. Mrs Easter struck by lightning. a small child dies after clothes catch fire. coroner seeks locality history as bar association meets. The scattered notes mention Kokomo, Anderson, Indianapolis, and Merrillville in a grim roundup of fatal incidents and inquiries.
The notice promotes the Weekly Gazette of Washington Indiana, claiming full city and county coverage with rapid mail delivery at 10 cents per week or $1 per year. It urges sending copies to friends and touts Grover Cleveland as a thoughtful leader while noting varied political notes and odd currency mentions.
Miss Gladys Hyatt and Master John Dickey of Piginyil visited with Mrs Phosba Simpson and family this week. The Hyatt party, including Mr Lewis Billon and relatives, spent the day at the Armitage Park. They enjoyed games of croqi and listening to music together.
A fragmented notice mentions a celebration with about 2000 attendees, travel by tea returning relatives and friends, and relatives gathering. It notes a road condition or advertisement urging arrival by the 14th with two per person, one in the afternoon and one in the evening on 2 April. It references Mr and others and mentions a phone and fools in unclear context.
In Cornettville on Sunday evening at 7 30 at the home of the bride's parents a wedding united Maud Williams and Lawrence Cox in the presence of twenty four friends and relatives. Relatives including Charles Ross and his father were noted in attendance amid local chatter.
Fragmentary OCR shows officials discussing road inspection, bridge issues, and an upcoming election. Names and exact dates are unclear, but Washington proposals and a 310000 figure appear amid mentions of commissioners and August. The readable items point to municipal planning and assessment tasks.
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