1903. A Winchester Herald man dropped in at J. G. FUGATE's store at Rural, Randolph county one day and for the short time there was most pleasantly entertained by Mr. Fugate and Dr. W. R. TISOR, who also happened in at the same time, and presented us with a petition to raise funds to have their church repainted, which needs it badly. Of course, we put down.
Mr. Fugate has a store that well causes the citizens of Rural and surrounding country to feel proud, as it is most convenient for them to be able to buy near home the necessities of life and that they are sure when buying of Mr. Fugate that they will get value received for produce or money.
Mr. Fugate has a most comfortable home for his store which he has lately been improving by papering and painting the entire interior. The Herald wishes Mr. Fugate a continuance of success as he has had in the past. He has a general store at which almost everything needed at home can be obtained.
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1907. While looking over some of his old papers, which had been filed away many years, W. R. WAY came across the first marriage certificate of his father, Jesse Way, which is quite an unique document. The wedding of his father to Miss Fannie DIGGS occurred at the old Dunkirk church southwest of Winchester, in 1829, which was seventy-eight years ago.
In those early days it was necessary to have each one that witnessed the marriage ceremony sign their names on the certificate. The following names were signed, most of whom have passed away and will only be remembered by the older citizens of the county: John WRIGHT, Anna JACKSON, Martha OATON, Mary PUCKETT, Isom Puckett, William Way, Aryla Diggs, Joseph Puckett, William BALLINGER, William Diggs, Tarlton MOORMAN, John Diggs, Jacob SMALL, Ann Diggs, Abigail Wright, Gincy Ballinger, Caroline Diggs, Matthew Way, Mary Diggs, Lucy Diggs, James Wright, Jesse Moorman and Mahala Puckett.
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1907. Wanted. Your stumps and stones. I will clear your farm for you. I sell the best dynamite made for 15 cents a pound and do the work for $8.00 per hundred pounds. 18 years experience. J.S. WOODARD, Farmland, Indiana.
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1907. Huron H. SMITH of the 1902 class of the Winchester High School has recently been elected by the Board of Trustees of the Marshal Fields Museum of Chicago, to a fine position in connection with the work carried on by that institution.
The curator of that institution on his way to the Bahama Islands, recently stopped at Cornell University, where Huron has been a student and assistant professor in botany for nearly two years, and before leaving assured him that he would be recommended for the position he has received and that it would open up to him a wide field of usefulness.
The work accomplished by him in the schools here enabled him to complete the work with credit to himself and to his alma mater, DePauw University, in three years.
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1915. County Clerk Gard issued a marriage license to Charles SUMWALT, 20, farmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Sumwalt, Randolph county and Miss Edna Opal ULLOM, 19, housekeeper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob A. Ullom, Randolph county.
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1907. On last Friday Mrs. John SLACK, of Buena Vista, presented to her daughters, Mrs. Chester PUCKETT and Mrs. James Puckett and son, Frank Slack, all residing in that neighborhood, each with one hundred dollars. Mrs. Slack had been contemplating for several days what to present them with and she finally reached the conclusion that money would suit them better than anything else. Uncle John will remember their children later with suitable parchment papers, with blanks all filled in satisfactory to each.
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