Rain delays wheat cutting but aids blackberry crop
The weekend rain postpones harvests for several days while boosting the blackberry crop to a potential record. Local remarks note farmers facing delayed wheat work, a vaudeville touring company arriving soon, and repairs to Seymour and Vince ville concrete streets with new liquid sealant. Individuals mentioned include Paul Staver of Mt Vernon, Marshall Bryan and K W Brown, Harry Gordon returning from France, and Frank Geyer of Terre Haute. An Orleans area dry kilns project by Logansport Clay Products is planned at Loogootee with about 40000 dollars in remodeling.
Fishing Man Sends Message on Tarpon Scale Novelty
A man landed a 13 pound tarpon six feet two inches long. He wrote a note on a palm leaf scale, mailed it to his sister Miss Mary Ellen Barton, and the scale arrived days later with the message intact. A crowd heard Tom Onxo perform a contortion act at Eastside Park, claiming to be the world’s oldest straight contortionist.
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Mary Ellen Barton
Eastside Bark
Tom Onxo
Aunt Julia Kerns Dies After Long Life in County
Julia Kerns known as Aunt Jule, 94, died at the Van Trees home on East Main Street. Born January 26, 1826 near Washington, she spent over seventy five years with the Van Trees family, was a Methodist, and left a long life of service. Funeral at the Van Trees home Tuesday at 1 with ministers Virgil Thompson and W A Motter officiating. interment Oak Grove cemetery.
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Julia Kerns
Wag ‘Trove Horns
Julia” Kearns
van Trees
East Main Street
Julia Kearns
Washington
Harvey Kearns
Esther Chadd
Col
John van Trees
Jule
Methodist Church
Kentucky
Virgil Thompson
W.A. Motter
Boriol
Oak Grove Cemetery
Hale Tolson Gets Reformatory Term
Hale Tolson aged 18 pleaded guilty to vehicle taking in Vincennes Indiana. Judge Coulter sentenced him to the Indiana Reformatory for from six months to five years and disfranchised him for five years. Tolson, arrested in Washington, was linked to the theft of Dr. B. E. Johnsons Chevrolet car stolen several evenings ago.
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Vincennes
Ind
Hale Tolson
Circuit Court
Coulter
Indiana Reformatory
Tolson
Washington
B. E. Johnson
Norton Motor Co to Open Sales Room in Washington
The Norton Motor Sales Company announces a new Buick agency in Washington. It has leased the Eskridge building at Main and East Fifth, including the Eskridge-Aven garagh at the rear, and will operate a Buick repair garage with a large stock of tires and accessories. Mr Norton from Louisville is an experienced auto man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norton Motor Sales Company
Washington
Eskridge
Main
East Fifth Streets
Buick Automobiles
Buick
Norton
Loulaville
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Mee
Omson
Hamersly. Store
Paul Staver
Staver
Mt. Vernon
Marshall Bryan
Stevensville
Texan
K. W. Brown
Harry Gordon
France
Frank Geyer
Tor Terre Haute
Noah Bogard
W. A. Routt & Song
Erett Dry
Logpootee Clay Products Company
Thare
Mac-Taf Stock Company
Carnegie Morory
Seymour
Fairground Avenue
Vincefines
W. E. Barton
T “Elty
Indianapolis
Lisle Union Suite
Nainsook Union
Volk
Louis W. Volk
E. Main Street
Mary Peek Mathews
Fenton AL Mathews
Detroit Michigan
William Walker
First Methodist Church
Norton Motor CO
Nobblest
East Main St
Deore Hero Renee
Dillon’s
Cabel &, Kauffman
Bob White
Pillsbury
Swift
Marts Cash Store
van Tress Street
Nase C. W
Jeadi Co
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