Smithville News 1909-03-12

              THE SMITHVILLE NEWS
VOL. I.
SMITHVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH, 12 1909.
No, 31
LOCAL NEWS
Chas. Botkins has traded for a fine span of brindle mules.
Joe Heltonburg is back at Sanders, in the restaurant business.
Esq. Geo. Davenport is figuring on painting several houses this spring.
Rev. Trusty filled his regular appointment at the Christian church Sunday.
Miss Jane Chambers, of Bloomington, visited relatives here over Sunday.
Miss May Fox, of Bloomington, visited her sister, Mrs. Walter Clifft, Sunday.
Mrs. C. R. Bowles, of Emden, Ill. is here, the guest of her sister, Mrs. A. F. McCormick.
Mrs. Chas. Litz and Mrs. Bank Adams spent the day Wednesday, with Mrs. Robt. Stanley.
Mrs. J. G. Fogle visited her brother, Frank Pritchett and family, at Harrodsburg, Tuesday.
Henry Dillman was down from Clear Creek Wednesday, to see his sister, Mrs. Susan Woodward.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Deckard and children, of Clear Creek, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Deckard, over Sunday.
Homer Utterback, our genial barber, has enlarged his shop and is putting in another chair. His brother-in-law, Elza Fountain, will assist him.
Misses Metta Allen, Gladys Hayse, Bessie Lee and Edna Reeves, came down from Clear Creek to spend the day with Miss Katie Reeves, Sunday.
Since the closing of the revival at the Christian church there has been quite a calm. There isn't a single thing to talk about. Rev. Offutt sprung a new way to wake the people up and the result was very gratifying. On the last night a unamios vote was made to have him return next winter and conduct another revival.

Opportune Time To Select Your Spring Suit
(Alterations Are Free-Always Have Been Free.)
The Spring Suits now being displayed embody the most exclusive styles devised for the coming season by the foremost designers.
We had early choice of Mobels, which places us in a position to present for your approval, suits that carry with them individuality.
Our preparations have been made on a most generous scale and we feel sure that they will be appreciated by all visitors to the store.
Our New Millinery Department
is fast getting ready for business. Our Styles and patterns will be exclusive.
Our Dressmaking Department
Under the management of Madam Aummundson is busy. Our guarantee is to refund the money for labor and material if not satisfactory.
Up-to-the-Minute New Spring Styles Shoes and Oxfords for Men and Women.
Absolutely the greatest showing of corect foot wear this store has ever shown. All new lasts-all diffdrent widths.
CAMPBELL & CO
Big Cash Store
Bloomington, Indiana.

Dave Burkhart, who is arranging to move from the Deckard farm, south of town, will store his household goods at his son-in-law Frank Deckards, until he prospects a little.
Last weeks paper on the inside. Just as we got about all of the first page printed on last Friday the press broke down, and as it took several days to get a new wheel for it, we just let it go until today and print all four pages.
Ceo. Gaither, who returned last week from a prospecting tour in Texas, says there is great prospects for a man there in some of the new towns, along a new railroad just recntly built through that state. Carpenters are in great demand at these places and the average wages is $3.50 per day. He states that he will move there next fall.

Grandma Woodward Falls Down Stairs And Is Badly Hurt.
Mrs. Susan Woodward, who lives with her daughter, Mrs. George Deckard, in trying to go down stairs unassisted, Tuesday evening, fell and broke her hip. Dr. Jackson was called and set the fracture but it will be a long time in healing, on account of her extreme age. Mrs. Woodward will be 91 years old in June, and it is a pathetic sight to see the good old woman as she would sit day by day, with no future hopes or ambitions in view, other than the changing of this world into another, and if justice is meeted out to her, for her good and kindly deeds done in this world, her crown will be a bright one in the next.

A Sad Catastrophe.
Sunday was Dr. Kentling's unlucky day. As he was returning from seeing a patient, Sunday morning, he stopped in front of Mort Sciscoe's residence to let John Cutright get in the buggy, when Dave Corder came along driving a span of young mules, which he was  just breaking in. He was driving in a pretty fast trot and could not turn them in time to prevent the wagon from striking the Dr.'s buggy and completely running over it, smashing it up so badly that he had to buy a new one.
Mrs. Luther Smith, of Clear Creek, spent the day with relatives here, yesterday.
J. L. Warring and Andy Stull, two of our leading merchants, went to Louisville, Wednesday to buy their new spring goods, "They will also probably inspect the theatres at that place to see if they are properly protected with fire escapes."