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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1909
Page
2
Real estate notes describe eighti es 80 acres with a six room house and orchard, 30 acres with a four room dwelling, and 15 to 40 acre tracts near city limits. Exchanges offered to city property, small farms, or cash, with terms. Also mixed local items on streets, taxes, and municipal bids.
Three trustees announce monthly and weekly office hours for local affairs. Frank Swann will meet on the second and last Thursdays at his Veale township residence. R. V. Cox will handle Alfordsville requests on Saturdays. Grant Keith sets Friday sessions for poor business at Washington Township over Waller's harness shop corner.
A well known farmer in Owensville reports a gale blew a five gallon oil can dry outside his kitchen door. He found oil spilled on the ground upon returning from the field and believes the wind caused the curious loss. The can had a pump on top with a loose cap and is now under investigation.
Postmaster E Faith and Mrs Faith celebrate a fifteenth year of marriage with a crystal wedding anniversary party at their home on the Troy road. About ninety of one hundred invited guests attend as decorative flowers Japanese lanterns and flags mark Flag Day. The couple, married in Bloomfield, moved to Washington a year after Mr Faith’s law studies in Indianapolis. They have two sons and received many gifts including cut glass. Mrs Faith's mother Laura O Haver of Bloomfield attended as a guest.
In Pike county and Petersburg residents react to an advertisement urging license for William Selby to run a saloon. Selby operates the county’s only saloon, license due to expire June 29, after a costly dry election. The Good Citizens League plans to oppose any move to reopen saloons in the county.
Mrs Frances Folsom Cleveland widow of former President Cleveland will testify this afternoon in the case of Broughton Brandenberg the magazine writer on trial in the criminal branch of the New York Supreme Court charged with grand larceny. Brandenberg allegedly sold an article published in the New York Times before the last national election. Mrs Cleveland repudiated the article after her husband’s death.
By virtue of a decree and order of sale issued on a judgment rendered in the Daviess circuit court on the 27th day of April 2909, and to me.
Notice of a judicial sale in Daviess County Indiana listing the real estate to be sold at public outcry to satisfy a judgment. Names include Walter J. Hubbard plaintiff and Thomas F. Carson with Emily Carson, Charles Boyer, Sylvia Graham and others. Property lies in townships described as sections twenty and twenty one, township two north, range two west. Sale subject to redemption laws with bids at the courthouse in Washington County Indiana. Deputy and attorney names included.
A damaged note lists multiple parties including Benjamin Myers and Joseph F Zimmermann in a land title suit in Daviess County Indiana. The defendant is summoned to appear at the September term to plead or answer the complaint. also includes setting contract bid notice for a school addition in Plainville Indiana with bids due by June 30 1904 and a trustee Ollie Gilliatt.
Court clerk William A Wallace files notice dated May 26 1909 with Hastings Allen Hastings attorneys for plaintiffs. The fragmentary text indicates a formal court entry and legal representation in a Hastings area matter.
In Indiana Daviess county the case Wesley Brown vs N gom Hubbard et al No 12748 cites a complaint filed by Fait Faith alleging non residents William Critchlow Alice Critchlow Clarence Critchlow Dorens Critchlow are necessary parties to quiet title. Defendants must appear by the first day of September 1909 or answer. Clerk WM A Wallace notes the June 2 4999 date.
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