Smithville News 1909-12-31

              THE SMITHVILLE NEWS.
VOL. II.
SMITHVILLE, INDIANA,- FRIDAY, DEC., 31, 1909.
No,18

LOCAL NEWS
Gilbert Luzadder was down from Bloomington yesterday.
Xmas is over—and it is well, we can now live in peaceful tranquility until the 4th of July.
Mrs. Dean May of Clear Creek is spending the week with relatives here.
The W. C. T. U meets with Mrs. Dr. C. M. Jackson, next Thursday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Eads have returned from a visit with George Eads, north of town.
Millard Ray and wife of Peerless are here to attend the funeral et Mary Bennett.
Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Baker, of Bloomington, visited relatives and friends here over Xmas.
Mrs. John Ramsey and daughter Maysie, were visiting Wm. Butchers and other relatives here over Xmas.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Fogle entertained at dinner Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Hainey, Dr. and Mrs. Jackson.
A good joke is going the rounds about a well known farmer, going out to assist a neighbor kill hogs and forgot ts put ou his shirt and his wife brought it out to him and made him put it on.
This is the last Smithville News you will get this year, but it is intended to give you more newspaper during 1910 as it is intended to buy a regular newspaper press, folder and other machinery so that it can de gotten out with less labor and make a larger psper.
Mr. and Mrs Bud Deckard gave a turkey dinner Sunday to a number of friends and relatives. Among those present where Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Butcher, Lillie and Edgar, Mrs. John Ramsey and daughter Maysie.
Harrodsburg Masonic Lodge last Thursday night elected the following officers for the ensuing year; H. T. Cornwell, W. M.; W. F. Deckard, S. W.; Harry Oliphant, J. W,; D. E. Strain, S. D.; Roy Ketcham, J. D.; L. H. Strain, Treas.; Orville Butcher, Sec'y. and Steve Sherlock, Tyler.

DEATH OF MARY BENNETT.
Miss Mary Bennett,. 21 years of age, died Wednesday night at 10 o'clock, after an illness of more than six months of tuberculosis. Miss Bennett never was healthy and strong like other girls and life was one long siege of suffering and pain and her condition was a most pitiable one. She always longed to get out and be with other young people, but her weakened condition prevented her from enjoying any of the pleasures of life. She was the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Bennett and has three brothers, Miller, George and Joe The funeral was held this morning at 10:30, at the M. E. church, in charge of Rev. Bair and undertaker Harrell. Interrment at the Lucas cemetery, east of town.
The new M. E. church, being constructed at Bloomington, will be when completed, one of the most up to date religious edifices in Southern Indiana. There will be rooms for the ministers private study, Sunday school class rooms, places to give church festivals, cooking rooms, etc, and all will be electrically connected so that all is needed will be to press the button. A novel feature, that only a few of the large churches in the great cities have, will be a system of instruments placed on the back of seats in a part of the house for the benefit of people who are hard of hearing, by which they may place a tiny instrument to the ear and hear every word the preacher says. Such an arrangement would be greatly appreciated, as  about one person in every ten, is hard of hearing.
The Madison Square Garden, New York city, which was built at a cost of $3,000,000, by Stanford White, who was murdered by Thaw; is to be torn down and rebuilt into modern office buildings. Few people know what Madison Square Garden really is. It is a gigantic theatre where the same play is played each night for nine months in a year and the lowest admission fee is $1.00 for a seat. Mack Ketcham, who is a son of D. W. Ketcham, has been one of the actors there for several years.
Misses Ada Gaither, Lora Johnston and Leafy Deckard attended State Teachers Association, at Indianapolis this week.

We are well prepared to fill your wants and you can select here from a large and varied stock.
Blankets 39c and up.
Comforts $1.25 and up.
Campbell & Co.
Big Cash Store, Bloomington, Ind.

(News Special Correspondent.)
Mose Burris and family spent Xmas wifh Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Burris.
Mr. and Mrs. Mort Sciscoe visited their son Willie at Jeffersonville, Monday.
Chauncey Babb and family, of Bedford, are visiting relatives in Sanders.
Miss Lotty Hainey has returned home from Avoca.
Booze was very plentiful Xmas, and quite a number of drunds were reported, in spite of the fact that this is a dry county.
Abe Patton went to Illinois Sunday, for a visit of several days.
Mrs. Oliver Tatum is suffering a evere attack
Joe Hainey and daughter Ruth, of Bloomington, spent Sunday with Mrs. N. E. Hainey and family.
It is rather odd that people who really pretend to be living a Christian life and are members of the M. E. church find the weather too bad to attend prayer meeting one night out of the week when they can go to an entertainment on a night like last Saturday night was.

MONON ROUTE
is the best route to
Chicago, LaFayette, Indianapolis and Louisville
and all points
North and Northwest.
Solid Vestibule Trains, Dining Cars, on through day trains and Pullman Sleepers on all night train. SMITHVILLE
North Bound
No. 8 Bloomington Accom 6 56 p m
No. 12 Lafayette Accom 3 47 p m
South Bound
No. 7 Louisville Accom 6 37 a m
No. 11 French Lick Accnm 10 55 am
No. 41 Local Freight 7 20 a m
For time tables, folders and all other information apply to
T. Thrasher, Agt.
Smithville, Indiana.

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

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Giger and children, of Avoca, visited Mrs. Giger's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Strain of Harrodsburg, Xmas. Mr. Giger is sheriff-elect of Bedford and will go into office the first of the year.