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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1908
Page
7
The Port Chronicle society editor argues that a respectable single woman should pursue marriage promptly. It promotes widowers as reliable prospects, notes shifting ages and tactics, and warns against long hesitation. The piece suggests widowers marry quickly, with widows and older bachelors as competing factors in love.
The county board of review has nearly a week to finish equalizing township assessments. They focus on corporate valuations and added improvements while aiming to avoid boosts. Banks protest the eighty percent rate on undivided profits and capital stock as unfair, with several institutions set at eighty percent and others at seventy percent.
Lightning struck the barn of Mrs. Frank Winree Friday, starting a blaze that consumed two horses and one colt. The fire quickly spread, damaging the building and its contents.
The week closes with obituaries for Thomas Archbold a 76 year old farmer who died suddenly from heart trouble at Fordsyiles and for Charles Beverly Berry once of Washington who died of consumption in Robinson Illinois. Phillip M Catt a Pike county native died suddenly from heart disease after a period of illness. Burial plans and survivor lists are noted.
The Rev. A M McGuire officiated weddings in the county clerk office. George Scott and Emily Fulkerson, Bogard township residents, were married in a short ceremony. Emily is sixteen and George eighteen, having just reached age after a prior license denial. James Sutherland and Della May Dayton were wed at the groom's mother's Veale township home. Della May is eighteen and a Veale township resident. James is a farmer and Hattle Sutherland's youngest son. The couple plans to live with Mrs Sutherland.
The Herald reports two living mothers of Civil War veterans in Daviess County. Mrs. Catherine Baldwin of Harrison Township aged eighty two and Mrs. Nancy Wilson of Sandy Hook both had sons who served in the war of the rebellion and remain vigorous despite their ages.
Alvin Padgett will attend the Democratic National Convention in Denver as part of a Indiana delegation. He will join fellow Indiana Democrats including Stokes Jackson, the Democratic state chair, and others in Indianapolis.
Spokane reports a 3 000 foot oil well near Lenore thirty miles south of Spokane hit pockets of pebbles and wood at depths of 560 and 585 feet. The wood appears charred and beeswax like substance found with the pebbles will be sent to Washington State College at Pullman for analysis.
Descriptions note success eruptions of lava from major fissures and a thick basaltic ash layer laid down by winds after the eruptions.
The Republican Congressional Committee offers 150 for an article up to 1000 words arguing why the Republican Party should be successful next November. Open to all writers. Submissions due by July 15 to the Literary Bureau at Metropolitan Bank Building Washington DC. winners announced around August 15.
In Adelaide, a mother dismisses criticism of Gold Medal Flour with a brief statement and a dismissive tone, signaling a defensive stance amid comments she deems unfair or unkind.
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