Smithville News, Volume 2, Number 29, Smithville, Monroe County, 25 February 1910 — Page 2

THE SMITH VILLE NEWS Issued on Friday. BY THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. Office Monroe Co. Telephone Co. Bld’g

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Tom Gillam, of Kirksville visited relatives here last week.

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I. W. Dixon was in Bloomington Wednesday.

Entered as second class matter Aug. 3rd, 1908, at the Post Office at Smithville, Indiana, under the act of March 3rd, 1879.

J. B. Smallwood was in Bloomington Tuesday on business.

John Ferguson of Chicago and Geo. Taylor of Iowa, were business visitors with Ike Dixon Saturday.

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Denny Chambers. has resigned the intermediate grade to accept a clerkship in the Bedford P. O. It was a lather touching: sighG Friday evening when he told the pupils that he could no longer be with them, nearly all the pupils were in tears. Grover Bell will finish the term.

The W. C. T. U. met with Hrs Sallie Oldham, this afternoon.

When qeople fight over religion, its a sure sign that they’ve got none.

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Wes Burris had recieved a car load of fine coal which came when about half the town is out of coal.

■ , ——— ' It seems it was easier to discover the Pole than it is to discover Doc Cook.

Mrs. Bert Adams and mother, Mrs.Montgomery are spending the day with Mrs. Gus Rice at Clear Creek to-day.

Ben Emery, a school teacher west of town, visited the schools here Tuesday.

Suicides are on the increase. More Democrats trying to get rid of Bryan.

Willis Warner, of Bloomington is visiting his uncle, F. M. Chamb ers.

Lowell Mason,of Dowgiac Mich, is here on a visit with Mrs. Keith, his grandmother, and the Rhorer, Davenport, and Trisler families.

A chauffeur married a suffragette the other day. Was it Shakespeare who wtote “Two fools well met and mated?” i

Mrs. Flora Chambers is visiting her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Norman of Bartlettsviile.

Ths world is divided into two classes, those who are trying to get th9ir names into the newspapers and those who are trying to keep their names out.

The sale at Whisenands Thursday was

Avy Taylor is getting along nicely and is able to sit up part of the time.

a succes and they are well pleased with

the prices. They are not figuring on

moving away as there was some talk

Kate Eller, west of Bloomington is visiting her cousin, Mabel Strain.

Getting out of bed before daylight to see the comet is fun even ori the coldest morning, but to do it%o build the kitchen fire is cruelty. —Star.

It is said that a merger exists between Butcher and Deckard that if Mr. Deckard gets the postoffice he is to buy out Butcher and no change will be made in the location of the office.

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Tom Hawkins has returned home he has been clerking for his father Wm.

A Texas landowner traded off 100,000 acres of land for 100,000 gallons of whiskey. “He must be laying in material for the Democratic campaign.' '

Easter Sunday falls on March 27 this year and the present weather indications are that there will be icicles hanging on the lettuce on your new Easter bonnet.

Hawkins

Fred Shields made a business trip to Bloomington yesterday.

GEO, R, BENTON Proprietor. Indianapolis Illinois and NewYork Sts. 6 Blocks from Union Depot.

Mr. and Mrs. ken Shields are talking of putting up a grocrey and dry

Somebody asked a Western North Carolina lawyer past 70 why he about to marry a girl of 16. He replied: My soul abhors the tasteless dry embrace Of a stale virgin with a winter face.

The Bloomington World office has recently added a lot of new machinery to their already well equipped plant and now have a regular up to date metropolitan plant.

goods store

Charlie Shield’s mother is very ill

Oscar Shields and Willie Stillions

were callers at Jeff Rayls store yesterday.

ken Sheilds and wife spent Tuesday

2 Blocks from Interurban Station

with Manda Shields

An operator in a Kansas railway station let a train go by that should have been side-tracked. He phoned a farmer and had him flag the train thus praventing a wreck, the faster we build rural telephone lines the better.—Oolitic News.

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LOUDEN & LOUDEN Attorneys at Law

Oscar Sbeilds took dinner with his

All Outside with Fire Escape

sister Flora May Tuesday

Telephone in Every Room, Rates, 75c to {2.00 Per Day

Mrs Lucinda Sherrill spent Monday

evening with Mrs Wilf Adams,

George Adams called on Wilf Adams 3 Monday.

Bloomington, Ind. jyHre Over First National Bank* SJedal attention given collections of iReal Estate Mortgages and Probate cases.

Dining Room Special Rates to Famil es .jandJ? ft-rmnant Dtiftsfg Ladies Traveling Alone Will Find This a Very Desirable Stopping Place.

Monday night after 8 o’clock three judges will be selected by Kitson, the music man to adjudicate the answers of the prize rebus so extensively advertised during the past xo days. If you haven’t sent in your solution, you should do so before that date as you have nothing to loose and stand a chance to win something.

Miss Lucinda Stillions is staying with

Mrs. Omer May

Abstracts of Title.

Dave Shields is talking of buying him

Office and residence phones 916 . DR. C. A. COLEMAN, Special Attention to General Surgery and Stomach Diseases. Suite 1 Allen Bldg.

are better prepared than any otliier firm to furnish abstracts, as we have the only complete set o Abstract Books in Monroe county

a fine driving horse

Tom Stillions is going to move to

Lawrence McCameronS place, he is

certainly fond of moving.

Nettie and Corda Shields were callers

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