MORGAN COUNTY INDIANA
NEWS
MOORESVILLE
TIMES — NOVEMBER 1905 & 1930
November 9, 1905:
With this issue the Times...completed
16 years of its publication. The Guide was established in 1889, by 0.
H. Moudy, and remained under his management for four years, when L. E.
Ballard purchased the plant and conducted the business until it was
purchased by W. H. Sage, the senior member of the present firm... .the
paper.. .has witnessed the growth of Mooresville from a sleepy town of
700 population to a thriving town of 1800 people. Last January the name
was changed.. .We are ever ready to do all in our power to advance the
influence of our churches, Sunday schools, benevolent organizations,
and public schools, because these institutions have a powerful
influence...on the morals of our town
November
9, 1905: ....
Mooresville set the pace for all the
thriving towns in Indiana, last Tuesday. It was the first election day
in the history of our great state that both men and women were allowed
to go side by side and prepare their ballots and cast them for their
choice. The liberty which many of the fair sex have longed for, was
made possible by B. V. Hubbard having the Times editors prepare a
ballot, headed, Mooresville Citizens ticket, which was distributed at
the houses giving both men and women a chance to vote for the many
advantages to be derived from the erection of an ice plant in
Mooresville. Mr. Hubbard says the ticket carried by an overwhelming
majority....”
November
9, 1905: ....
The town election at this place, last
Tuesday, passed off quietly. The entire Citizens ticket was elected.
The following is the vote cast:
For Councilman 1st Ward,
C. B. Rariden 107,
B. F. Trogden 185;
For Councilman 2nd Ward,
Charles Manker 236;
For Councilman 3rd Ward,
B. F. Jones 46,
E. B. Hadley 234;
For Councilman 4th Ward,
P. Thompson 226;
For Councilman 5th Ward,
E. W. Day 152,
F. Jamison 237;
For Clerk,
A. H. Keller 78,
J. E. Corner 210;
For Treasurer,
Ellis Stone 83,
F. M. Hadley 200....”
November 9, 1905: ...
Three traveling men representing a
wholesale grocery house of Dayton, Ohio, are scouring Mooresville and
vicinity selling goods. They pretend to, and no doubt in some cases do,
sell cheaper than our local merchants. ..but, dear reader, stop and
think a moment, and when these smooth tongued fellows solicit your
orders ask them, if you get sick and don’t have the money to pay for
the goods when they are delivered will they wait on you for the
money? will they buy your butter, eggs, and other produce?..
.will (they) pay any tax into our town or county treasure next
spring?.. .Now really, after studying the matter over don't you believe
you can buy goods of Mooresville merchants just as cheap if not cheaper
than any place else, when everything is taken into consideration?...If
sickness or other misfortune overtakes you and you are compelled
to...go to your home merchant.. .to give you a little time, you can do
so with a clearer heart and better countenance than if you let those
out-of-town fellows along? Favor those of whom you expect to ask favors
November 23, 1905: ....
The Times is always endeavoring to
advance...Mooresville and vicinity. And the citizens should not forget
that the editors have families to support and our only source of
revenue is the patronage given the Times, and if you appreciate our
efforts. ..you should give us a more liberal patronage....”
November 23, 1905: ....
There is no question about the
Indiana Southern being built via Monrovia. It will run about three
miles north of us. Suppose the Monon is built south of us, what will be
the result? It means that...trade that now comes here will go
elsewhere. Get ready to make a united effort.. .Encourage every
enterprise be it large or small....”
November 23, 1905: ...
The elevators at this place are doing
an immediate business. There was a good yield of corn in this vicinity
this season and our farmers are busy marketing their crop....” And
“Station agent, Frank Jamison, says the Vandalia railroad does more
business in Mooresville than any other station between Indianapolis and
Vincennes....”
November 30, 1930: “....
Show us a good weekly paper, full of
live local ads, with a general circulation throughout the country, and
we will show you an up to date, prosperous, progressive community. Show
us a community that persistently proceeds on the idea that the editor
of the home paper can live on the “pi” that accumulates in the office,
whose official bodies think it a waste of public money to throw him a
bit of public printing occasionally at living prices, whose citizens
have come to regard it as one of their inalienable rights to work him
for long winded obituary notices and in “memoriams”, with three inches
of hymn book poetry at the end, to say nothing about an occasional
notice of a lost cow or some cottonseed sale, and we will show you a
community that is living from hand to mouth, and is always on the
ragged edge of adversity. People ought to stop and think about these
things
Martinsville, IN.
Oct. 7,1897..The
Jennings county soldiers’ reunion held at this city today, was a grand
success. The city was decorated and many soldiers from a distance were
present. This afternoon Col. Will Cumback delivered an eloquent speech
to the veterans at the fair grounds. Tonight a campfire was held at the
opera house.
Martinsville, IN.
Oct. 9, 1897.
The Journal was in error in today’s paper in the statement that the
sentence of life imprisonment for John Ferriter was the first sentence
of the kind. Sebastian price, who murdered Fred Weemer, a blacksmith at
Morgantown, this county, was tried before Judge J.H. Jordan at the
February term of court in 1880, found guilty of murder in the first
degree, and sentenced for life. About 10 years later he was pardoned.
Martinsville, IN.
Aug. 31. 1899. Col. W.T. Durbin and family, of Anderson,
are in Martinsville taking mineral water baths. Colonel Durbin
repudiates the statement that he is activity seeking the nomination for
Governor. Many of his close friends say, however, that he will be
announced in a few days.
Martinsville, IN.
Feb. 2,1898. Henry Hite,
related
to one of the wealthiest and most influential families of this city,
disappeared about 20 years ago after moving with his family to
Illinois. There his wife died, leaving him with 3 small daughters.
These he sent to his brothers and sisters in thus city and they grew up
and are now married. One is Mrs. Harry Guinn, a Big Four conductor of
Lafayette; another Mrs. William Tuttle, an attorney in Monticello,Ky.
And the third is Mrs. Alex Kennedy, a young farmer here. Mr. Hite has
just been heard from for the first time since that time, he is rich, at
Leewood Va. He was thought to have been dead all these years.
Martinsville, IN.
Sept.24,1898. Deputy Fish
Commissioner Earl arrested Robert A. Caldwell, a young farmer near
here. Thursday night, of a charge of dynamiting. On being taken before
Justice Aldrich he confessed and was fined $5 and costs. There are
others to be caught.
Martinsville, IN.
Sept. 23,1898. Members of the
33rd Indiana Regiment, about 200 strong, will hold their annual reunion
in this city on Thursday, Oct. 13. A large percentage of this regiment
consisted of Morgan county volunteers and a good attendance is
expected. Col. John Coburn was in command of this regiment.
Martinsville, IN.
Sept. 24,1898. Though
well advertised, the opening meeting of the campaign here by the
Democrats Saturday night was slimly attended. W.A. Cullop, of
Vincennes, was the speaker and his audience was not responsive to his
berating of the government officials for their management of the war in
Spain. His charges on that line not meeting with the desired effect, he
then charged Republicans of Indiana with manipulating the returns at
the November election in 1896 after the polls had closed, so as to give
a Republican plurality instead of 10,000 for William J. Bryan, as he
believed it honestly was.