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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1915
Page
2
An advertisement touts "dai Salts" made from prapes and lemon juice with lithia as a safe, inexpensive kidney cleanser. It claims to flush clogged kidneys, reduce acidity in urine, prevent bladder disorders, and benefit health for meat eaters and wheat eaters alike with a daily tablespoon in water before breakfast.
Local social notes list Sunday and Monday visits by Fiddler and families including Richard Sears, Charles Franklin, Esther Wilkey, Lena Bolding, Lula Wade, Marion Gasniler, John Yout, Will Fielders, Isaac Andis, and Claytod Long. Preaching announced at Concord. Social calls span several households in Shiloh and nearby areas.
A vintage ad touts Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound as a 50 cent solution to gray or dull hair. It promises natural, even darkening, added thickness, and relief from dandruff and itching when applied with a sponge or brush.
Allen Breeding Stock announces a sale at Healy liver barn Montgomery Indiana featuring a Ton Percheron stallion and a jack. Service fees set at ten dollars for a horse and eight dollars for a jack. George R Allen contact 451-25d.
Perkins breeding stock will season 1915 at his breeding farm in Zinkans building. All parties with colts and breeding check on 9 day and paying season will discount the service fee ten per cent. A Perkins phone 1087.
A string of visits and social calls is reported across Chandler and surrounding towns. Neighbors and relatives from Washington, El Nora, Odon, Liberty, Ragfieldsville, and Burne City are noted visiting friends and attending gatherings, with names including Chestnut, Resler, Chandler, Humerickhouse, and Byer among others.
Big wind and a Sunday gathering at the Swanns celebrated the eldest son’s eighteenth birthday with games and strawberries and cream. Nearby, Mrs. Perry Singleton returned home after her daughter's illness. Bethel church’s Children’s Day service drew a large crowd. a mare drowned in the river after loose horses fled the stable.
Local notes show James Grove and family visiting George Roach and family, Leslie Leatherland visiting Clarence McCalland, Roscoe Myers visiting Frank Brock, and multiple calls on neighbors in Southern Bogard. Several families including Grove, Brock, York, Tomey, Hager, Perkins, and Martin are mentioned with Sunday visits and Saturday-night gatherings.
Eastern Reeve Township notes John Jr Kelso and James Giller visit Loogootee Friday. Mentions Ottie Allen Margie Grannar and Elizabeth Grannan returning from Washington and planning summer study in Terre Haute. Local tradesmen, farmers, and families listed with travel, health, schooling, and road work affecting the community.
Ray Abbotts preached the memorial sermon in Hornettsville. Mr and Mrs Alfred Bilis came from Washington Friday. Mrs George Summitt visited from Washington Saturday. Omar Meyers and Miss Lora Awe wed Saturday. Washington visits noted and locals seen in Plainville Fenton and Epsom areas.
The community observed Memorial day with services at the IM church Monday morning. The Rev McCoy of Odon delivered the address. In the afternoon attendees from here went to Liberty for a special program.
Matthew Kellett was badly used up in a public highway fight near Corning A on Wednesday night during a dance intermission. The assailant is alleged to be Ernest Carrico and the dispute involved a girl. Kellett required medical care and the prosecutor seeks to identify the aggressor.
The county commissioners and the county council meet in special sessions at the court house. Bridges contracts are to be let this afternoon and the council will appropriate funds after awards are made.
An ad claims Ely's Cream Balm opens congested nostrils and relieves head colds or catarrh. A small fragrance scented bottle is rubbed inside the nose for instant soothing of swollen membranes and clearer breathing. Relief is advertised as immediate and lasting.
Widespread hog selling pressure from Sioux City to Omaha drives prices down while June hog receipts look liberal. Prices in the range 7.50 to 7.65 per hundredweight. Cattle supply remains burdensome with feeders cutting feed costs and steers around 38.25 to 39.10. Sheep prices steady to firm after last week decline.
Cattle steady to slow with prices for butcher cattle and cows listing around 3.73 to 6.60. Calves and calves prices show strength around 5.75, hogs at 7.25 to 7.70, sheep and lambs steady with lambs up to 13.25. Bulls and heifers display midrange values, while selected heavy categories reach about 7.70.
Millers from Washington Plainville Laogootee Peters burg and Elnora gather in the Meredith house parlors this afternoon seeking to form an organization to benefit the local milling trade and community.
News from the warfront covers a British submarine sinking a German transport near Constantinople, and Paris reports a US request for funds to sustain three months of war effort. President Wilson presses Germany to honor rights at sea as battles rage at Przemysl and Gallipoli with Turkish pressure on Allied lines.
About twenty five farmers and business men joined an alfalfa tour led by C. Williams from the high school faculty. They left the courthouse in six autos, inspected five fields, and returned to Washington at 12 30. J W Schwab of Pursue University spoke informally and will lecture at 7 30 tonight at the new high school. Another tour with four more fields is planned for tomorrow with Schwab accompanying the party.
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