Smithville News, Volume 1, Number 35, Smithville, Monroe County, 9 April 1909 — Page 1

PHE SMITHVILLE NEWS.

VOL. I.

SMITHVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL. 9 1909

No. 35

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COUNTY OQMISSIONERB

APPOINT NEW VIEWERS On Adams Cinder Pike.

Frank Trisler is one of the grand jurors.

In compliance with a remonstrance filed by the tax payers of Perry township, the county commisioners Tuesday, reappointed a new set of viewers to go over the road and see if the new proposed change would be a public utility. The first set of viewers, composed of five men, did not report favorable on the change, another set of three reported that it would be a public utility to make the change, whereupon the taxpayers ren*on> strata d. Our county commissioners, we are proud to say, are a clean set of men and we believe they will act with the wishes of the people and upon the merit- of the law. The new viewers are Silas Grimes, Amos Jones and Eller.

Homer Eads has sold his horse to Walker Burkhart.

W. G. UpdegrafE has only seventeen hundred pounds of tobacco left.

Several of our citizens were summoned on the special venire to try the Axtell case.

Raymond Deckard is arranging to move here from Clear Creek, he will occupy the John Moore property.

Smithville is to loose a good citizen. John W. Moore has rented a house in Bloomington, and will move there next week.

OUR SLIDE TROMBONE IN Bb

Birthday surprises are all the rage. The ladies are going to try and arrange it some way, so they can have two birthdays in one year.

Takes unto Himself a Wife

Clarence Zikes, a fancy manipulator of the slide trombone in our famous cornet band, now has a 11 1-1*1 - etc"

as he returns from work each evening, and was wedded in the holy bonds of matrimony, last Saturday at the Clerks office in Bloomington, to Miss Blanche Sylvester, who is a daughter of Foris Sylvester, the well known farmer living two miles west of town. Clarence is a son of PinkZikes and is a highly respected young man. He has bought the Tom Clark property and will go to housekeeping shortly. Their many friends wish them a long and happy life.

— Mod^nr T^'DmTiirpir 1 rouge a* Harrodsburg have organized an opera troupe and will make their “debut” at that place to-morrow night. The selection of actors is out of good material and no doubt there will be a creditable presentation. The subject is “Saved by the Woodman.”

mum «i' m'lOTraprr****" The local paper should be found in every home. No child, says an exchange, will grow up ignorant who can be taught to appreciate the home paper. It is the stepping stone to intelligence in all those matters not to be learned in books. Give your children a foreign paper which contains not one word about any person, place or thing which they ever saw, or perhaps ever heard of, and how can you expect them to be interested. But let them have the home paper and read of persons whom they meet, and places with which they are familiar and soon an interest is awakened | which increases with every arrival of the local paper. Thus a habit of reading is formed, and those children will read the papers all their lives and become intelligent men and women, a credit to their ancestors, strong in their knoweledgt of the world as it is to-day.

The decapitated body of a man found ®nthe Indianapolis Southern tracks at Bloomington, proved to be W ' H. Robertson, of Ensley, Alabama.

James E. Smith has sold his farm and will sell his personal property at public auction the 13th. Mr. Smith will locate somewhere in the southwest.

Stinesville is going to have a fine new school building. Since the starting of a newspaper at that place, the town has been rapidly pushing to the front.

Milt Pittman and Ora Wooden know how to get busy when their “boss’ ’ lays down on the job, as was demonstrated yesterday morning when Milt was trying to start to Bloomington.

ORATORICAL CONTENT

Mrs. Dr. C. M. Jackson has returned from a visit with relatives at Bedford and Springville.

The W. C. T. U. will give a Married Ladies, Silver Medal Contest, to-morrow night at the Christain church. The following ladies will speak: Mrs. Laura Deckard, Mrs. Ella Updegraff, Mrs. Maude Kentling, Mrs. Bessie Tatun, and Mrs. Maude Burkhart. An admission of 10 cents will be charged.

The blind-tiger case of H. F. Strain, at Harrodsburg, came up before Judge Wilson, Wednesday, and about half of that town was subpoened as witnesses.

Dr. Kent ling is suffering with rheumatism.*

Woff’t some one act on the suggestion of the weather, and write some spring poetry?

The last legislature passed a law just what this paper suggested a longtime ago, to adpoint a public accountant to go over all the books of public officers at frequent intervals, and fiixng a penalty on any one hindering, bribeingar trying to bribe any such accountant. The appointment is made by the govenor

Milt Pittman has bought a new horse clipping machine.

Miss Belle Parnell has returned to Bloomington after a weeks visit with her paients, west of town.

Johnny was the 7th son, and a new brother had just arrived. I The preacher asked Johnny the next day if he wouldn’t much mther it had been a little sister. ' ‘Not on your life,” spoke up Johnny, “we are trying for a badeball nine.” I #

The band boys are going to have their pictures taken Sunday.

Miss Lucy Lucas has returned to her home in Brown Co. f after an extended visit with her sister. Mrs. John Moore.

—J. E Smith will give a public sale of all his personal property on April 13, at his farm 1% miles northwest of Harroclsburg.