Bedford Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - April 18, 1908, Bedford, Indiana APRIL 1908, Big eains Last Per cent Shown loi be church of ana in 70,420 shown by a report which has just been by the Indiana bureau ot statis The in 19(i6 was 982,665, in I 1907 it was 1,003,'.45. The compiled this year by the bureau of statistics is to be the most complete ever produced in the It is said to far more nearly accurate than the report which was issued last and for | this reason com with last report are ikely to be it is believed | the increase in cl urch membership has been fully as if not than that by the comparison of the ures and the 1907 One of the features of this year's record is that part which the amount raised for missionary It is shown that the amount raised by all churches for missionary work is considerably in ss of the amount raised for missionary The amount raised for foreign work during the year was and the raised for home missionary work was average yearly salary of i of all denominations in 1907 i was 8599.39. | total number of Sabbath I schools id the state in 1907 was 6,160 the total number of pupils in such was 558,612 and the number of and teachers was 53,552. The amount of money contribution by the Sabbath schools during the year for all purposes was total value of church property in the state in 1907 was interesting facts are when the figures in the report are For example the church membership represents practically 40 per cent of the population of the based on the census of 1900. It is conceded that figures showing the regular attendants at church services would be much that Another noticable fact is that the membership of the Sabbath schools is not much more than one-half of the membership of the This however is high above the average when the churches and Sabbath schools are taken into The number of children that are being educated in the church schools is proportionately very This is largely accounted it is by the high efficiency of the public schools system of the is Passing Bedford BUILDING Gives ior a Site and IS LIME COAL M. Cut in iime o Shop Mean Big in Wages o Washington was posted at the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern shops this afternoon that beginning tomorrow all the excepting the round will be cut to forty hours time a The notice provides that all these apartments shall work eight hours a excepting Saturday when there shall be no work excepting in round The cause of the cut in time is attributed to the slack business on the The cut will mean a big in the wages of the shop of is here to spend Sunday with his ford to the Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis Star Bedford is not included in the public building as it is now to go through according to the gets nine but Congressman Chaney probably thinks it is more to his interest to give the appropriation in his district to The news from Washington is that is to get for a building and while which has had a site waiting for a building since before Chaney went to is passed In addition to the site there was several years ago an appropriation for the building at but it was not and yet so far as Mr. Chaney seems disposed to let this session go with the pork barrel without securing the additional 320,000 necessary for the the apparent of the supervising architect of the who is sore because not allowed to use brick instead of stone for the building that has not yet been built and the inaction of Congressman Chaney in the it begins to look as if Bedford is not to have a federal II Jll I 11 11 to Any in tlie State Was Struck Near Oakland Easter this price we can give you a suit that will be hard to no matter wgat the cost would in any other We show a large stock in a great variety of colors and The foremost makers of the United States contribute to Light Weight to cool evenings and mornings demand light weight You will find our stock extremely large and the assortment very in we are sure can please every no matter what his taste may Many of these coats are lined with silk and are splendid values at the price we drillers Thursday struck a flow of gas in a well four miles southeast of Oakland City that at present is considered as strong as any ever found in the When gas was struck the drill was forced high into the air and the derrick was almost The roar of the escaping gas can be heard a great A good flow of oil is also The wdl is the property of eastern capitalists who have been in this territory almost a the man of at home or we hot offer a better than to one of our Varsity not the styles we show for faddish though some of the older men like but the styles still a distinction and smartness not found in any other make of for Schaffner men and ought to see the the made Owen Home of Hart Schaffner Marx Notice is hereby given that the I partnership and law firm of Fletcher and Fields heretofore existing between Fred N. 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