1897 Parke County
Indiana Newspaper Items
These
extracted items from various newspapers from Parke and surrounding counties.
Most of these have been contributed by volunteers. If you have access to
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James D.
VanDerMark
Rockville Republican, February 3, 1897
PARKEVILLE
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“Mrs.
Claude ENSEY did not have a fine piano destroyed when her father’s (John
STARK’s) house burned. Her mother had an organ, but it was saved.
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Master
Lennie NORMAN received a fine gilt-edged flexible back Bible presented by
his mother.
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Pete
ENSOR arrived from Tennessee last Friday where he has been at work in timber
since last July.”
Rockville Tribune, November 25, 1897
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“Samuel
Skeeters has purchased that part of the Laverty land known as the ‘upper
bottom’.
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Judson
item – ‘With eggs 20 cents a dozen in our town the poor man will have to eat
his bacon without them and be thankful for the bacon.’
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Married
at the Friends Church, Bloomingdale, Nov. 17, John Cook to Miss Alice
Lindley.
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M. W.
Marshall is now our postmaster, Cyril Connelley will be his deputy.”
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