Logansport Weekly Reporter (Newspaper) - May 27, 1910, Logansport, Indiana 1 Logansport SemiWeekly Reporter VOLUME 43 NUMBER 16 LOGANSPORT SEMIWEEKLY REPORTER FRIDAY MAY 27 1910 ANNUM DELEGATES DID NOT FINISH UN TIL IN THE EVENING CONTESTS WERE MANY Eel Township Convention Was Held in the Evening and a Full Full Ticket in the Field DEMOCRATIC TICKET C Fitzer Prosecuting Michael L Fansler Clerk Charles 0 Brown Auditor John E Wallace Treasurer Marvin M Minnick Sheriff Warren J Butler Recorder Harry E Burkit Surveyor Charles R Lybrook Assessor W Harvey Coroner Dr A L Palmer First District Frank Davis Second District Julius Lienemann COUNTY COUNCIL District Daniel Barrett Second District John M Girton Third District W C Thomas Fourth P Erbaugh At Large Daniel Dr Z U Loop Herman Martin Front Dully Well tho county convention is now history It was held yesterday in the hall was one of the longest drawn out conventions mat has ever hold by any political party in With the exception nt sheriff prosecutor surveyor coroner and commissioner the First district there were exciting contests How ever only one ballot was necessary to the auditor race because there were only two E Wallace and Elliott Wallace won by 312to lyn Minnick defeated and for treasurer The final vote Stood 71 Julius was for com missioner of tho Second district Jo seph withdrew after the ballot Following is the vote 157 251 Uhl IIS 101 Ulil Harry E ot Washington township was nominated for county recorder Beck withdrew after the third ballot Following is the result 10J Stanley 181 Bur kit 179 137 Stanley 1S7 Mt 7S Stanley lJ 217 210 Burkit 10 There our candidates for county assessor Burgman withdrew after tho second ballot Hildebraudt dropped out after the third and the light was then between John Harvey Following is the and M A Little voto by ballot 104 Little ISO 170 OS Little 13C 151 1UIOd 145 Little 185 140 Little The Eel township convention was EPIDEMIC IS NOW AT ITS HEIGHT SAY PHYSICIANS TEN NEW CASES TODAY The Disease Will Be Exterminated Now Since School is Cases of Other Contagious Disease From Charles Miller city health reports that so far this month there has been just 100 casts of measles reported and out of the hun dred sixtyone patients have recover ed According to tho physicians the epidemic oC measles is nearly over in two weeks the city will be al most free from the disease Tho fact that schools were dismissed today for the summer will practically check the and it will he exterminated in a short time The epidemic started last month when thirty cases were re ported and every day this month new cases have been reported It mostly attacks families children have never had the measles all the children in the family con tract tho disease A of older wen attacked this spring but so far no fatalities been re ported Now cases wore reported to authorities this morning as and Catherine Toledo street Theo lore Irene and Mre C Fry Seventeenth street Robert Roach 1402 Spear street Kuhns i street Helen Mills THREE TABLEAUX IN A S G GS CAREER Market street and A Twelfth street The following have rc Baby 1G5 street Hoffman M Michigan avenue 70S street Frank FUby 212 College street Helen Niblick 1G14Douglass street Addle ICO Wright street and J Nelson trees Five cases 01 this month but they were an n one family and two ofthe patients lavo recovered There were two cases jf diphtheria also reported but Felix lair of West Market street one of the has recovered ANCIENT MEDAL IS FOUND Curio Picked Up in Missouri is Ante Bellim Day Reminder Jefferson City Charles J Gruber a local mail carrier picked up lie supposed viis an old the find had been to many ilr Umber undo tho discovery while it was ut i coin yut it was a curiosity and i reminder of antebellum days in St Louis Tho piece seems to be a medal and vas evidently once property of gallery in it Louis It is about the of au Id copper piece but is cvi of brass he center piece of the face is m lc grasping three darts hold last night with George W Pal mer as presiding officer James Reid E B Greves and V i Hanawalt were acclamation for justices of the peace Janies Fml and Henry Flanagan were like wise constables J P Harry Ward and Taylor were members o the township advisory FAREWELL RECEPTION Tuo graduates of the Washington school wore given a farewell reception yesterday afternoon by the pupils of ihe school Prof A W Gamble deliv ered an address to th students and Miss principal of the school presented the diplomas Mrs E H had charge of die program with the worus Gallery Fitzgibbons In the center of tho reverse side is the following Xo Fourth street St Louis Mo and around the border the words and figures Over D Grocery Store 1S50 This curious piece was picked up by Mr Grober iti the southern suburbs of the city an old road bad lately been cut up with heavy rains Evidently it had been buried tor a great many yeare Its history is unknown Here LOCATION DECIDED The announcement that tho now Valley traction station will be on the Kreuzberger lot was ratified yester day by General Manager C D Kra mons of the traction who asked the board of works for a fran chise permitting the company to lay tracks into the building on the lot Preparation Yesterday she had only one thought Twas having the gown to fit like it ought For one who has learned as much as she be perfectly dressed for all to sec Graduation Today is the climax of her life She is ready to lighten the worlds hard strife Armed with flowers and wisdom she Starle out to uplift humanity Renunciation that is different sirs A disillusionment often With gingham apron well shielded sue Is found preparing sonic tea FURNISHED CIGARS TUCKER CASE DISCHARGED FROM COURT BY JUDGE John chief of the fire de and the firemen of the city desire to thank E E Pittman for the which were presented to the for tehir work in fighting the lire in Pit mans born Tuesday morn ing Mr lefta box of cigars ai each engine house SON WAS VERY UNRULY Had Father Arrested for Whipping POWELL RESIGNS Fred W Powell cleric in the First National bank han resigned his posi first of mouth wili Him Last Going to go the plumbing fitting Leave His Fathers T FTOm Dally John Tucker of Fourteenth street and Indiana avenue who was arrested last night on the charge of assault and battery when he gave his son ging was dismissed from the city ci urt this morning by Judge S G Gif ford The filed by his son Leonard Tucker who received the whipping and the court held that aslong is a and disobeys him Tucker has a right to correct him with The trouble in the arose yesterday evening at supper when young Tucker announced his in tention oC leaving his fathers home to beard elsewhere His father said that do nothing of the kind and when started to pack his clothes his father gave hint a severe trouncing The younger Tucker then filed charges of assault and battery father This morning tho senior Tucker told the court that his son was in the hab it of staying out late at nights and his money in a useless and needed correcting Words advice had no effect upon the boy and he thought that as a parent it was his duty to make his son mind him The court agreed with Tucker in the matter and decided that his son should be made to mind as long as he was a minor if his father had to use in doing so STUDENTS BURNED BOOKS A number of Lincoln school stu dents burned their books yesterday el The successor in the It has not yet been named IT WAS PLAINLY VISIBLE HIGH IN THE HEAVENS IT WAS A GREAT SIGHT Who Have Not Yet Seen the Sky Would Better Do So Now Because It is Going Fast Dally Tho was plainly visible last It appeared high in the Mil THE WERE RENOMINATED AT THE CONVENTIONS TODAY KISTLER WAS UNOPPOSED Rentschler Won on tho First Bailot are in Accord With Plat Kern From In the joint senatorial convention which was hold in the court house at 1 oclock this afternoon Frank M Kistler of this city was renominated ns senator from Cass and Pulaski counties and in the joint representa tive convention which was held at the same place at 2 p m George W Kentschler Fulton county was re for representative of Cass and Fulton counties Kistler had no opposition and was renominated by acclamation Rentschler was opposed by Daniel Gillespie irid Harry M Gardner of this city contest was decided upon the first ballot Rent schler getting 12 Gardner 28 and Gil lespie 8 Fulton county voted solid for Rentschler twentyfour votes and he received eighteen votes from Cass county just two more than enough to nominate Kistler iu a speech made BAKERS STILL WAITING The Indiana bakers who appeared Tuesday before the Indiana board oC health iu Indianapolis in an effort to have the order rescinded which re quires the bakers to wrap each loaf of bread received no satisfaction from the board The bakers were heard but the board gave no decision ITALIANS QUIT A gang of 100 Italians working on tho east end of the Panhandle with tho construction gang resigned be cause they did not get a raise ot six company They went back to Chicago and another gang was sent to take their places LOCAL CLUB MEMBERS TO AT TEND THE FEDERATION MEETING HELD SATURDAY Literary Clubs of Eleventh Will Pro gram and Picnic Have Been Arranged after the nomination and had a very well defined tail U he had been accused said that of votin p ese Mrs Flora T Neff Mrs Jessie Mrs Edith Graham and a number of other local club wo go to Boyd park at I against John W Keru two years morning to attend tbe annual meet p m almost everyone on the streets He did not deny it but stated that i was gazing skyward The tail stretched out in almost a straight line slightly above the aerial wanderer At times this tail was very plain and at others it faded away to reappear a few moments later brighter than The stories to the that the when placed in nomination his iu of the Eleventh district federation were to vote for jot literary clubs An pro He carried out those instructions and gram has been arranged for tne said that now that he had been to vote for John W Kern he meeting and ladies from Marion Wst bash Roanoke will do so George W Rentschler in speech stated that he is in tell accord comet had lost its tail were clearly rej with the Democratic state platform The tail was there all right he will if elected vote tor what puzzles is where did John W Kern for United States sen keep this tail on nights the 141ator Reutschler was lustily cheered Peru and this city will be in attend a brief wili be opened in the afternoon by Sirs Alice Dunlap of Peru president the federation and after the minutes of last years meet ing are read by Mrs John F Lau rence of Peru secretary of the leder pendage was not to be seen when he finished mers are as greatly puzzled as Logans port people unable to tell the corner of Thirteenth and i When they first saw the comet tail less they thought that it had lost it when the earth bumped into the afore Broadway at the close A large bonfire was built and coal oil was added to the lire to burn the said tail but now it bobs up serenely books with a tail DOG SCENTS LIGHTNING lation an address will be delivered by Miss Marcia Hoagland 1s Miss Hoagland is prominent in Flees Ahead of Bolt that Kills Eight tiie Indianapolis literary circles and Cows in His Herd Oxford Pa May dog that has had wide experience in club among the women A picnic will be WANT FIREMEN can scent lightning is the beld in and after supper proudest possession of Howard Griffith meetinS be This is I Where did the comet keep that tail 7 Lower Oxford township and first ear lhat tnc tocal Perhaps Pete who owns the i of the dogs peculiar gift We been interested in the Eleventh darned thing may beable to tell No j is the consolation which Griffith i and wor one else iu Logansport seems to know for loss cows which to attend The Panhandle is again calling those wno have not yet seen and killed this afternoon firemen as they are hard TO get Durj comet would better get out tonight it is thought that a special meeting of ling this month firemen have and see it will not be vis he council will be held Friday and only twenty could he ible very many more nights THREE FINED Harold and Benson of Walton and Joe Doe of Kokomo wrested yesterday by Constable Flanagan on the charge of creating a disturbance ou a Valley traction car ing to pass an ordinance permitting the company to place the tracks into the lot COUNTRY CLUB OPENING The official date for the opening of tho Country lias been set as June 3 when a banquet and social session hired The claim they arc j overworked on account of the poor coal used by tho company CALL REV DOUGLASS Tho members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church in a meet ing last I was mounted on the very smallest night decided to issue a call to Rev mule in the world said of Franklin O who ambassador to Spain giving pied of the church last Suu an account ot his entrance into Maday The dog is a collie tbat has been Mrs president of the fed was in the city some time DIPLOMAS WILL BE AWARDED TO CLAW or SCHOOL DAYS ARE OVER Prof C Will Many Will Enter College or School The annual high school graduation exercises wU Itako place evening at 8 oclock in the Nelson theatre when thj class of fiftysix students their diplomas and will ea ter upon a new Hie In the morning The principal address this evening will be made by Fret Ira C Howarth of Chicago university artb will speak upon higher education and give the graduates much advice One kind of the students who expect to enter college next fall nnd with their education and tie other to those of the class who outer upon the business world There much that can Jje said to the young boys and girls who expect to attend college and they will profit by the iCd vice of Professor Howarth who has seen college iffe every stand joint A large of the present class will go to the various next fall while some of the g iris will tike up teaching Some of those who finished school last Christmas have at tended the state normal school at Terre Haute and have them selves to become teachers oth ers will attend schools this summer in order to be better posted in the art ot teaching Many o f the boys in the class will start to and will hre ter earn their own Prof A H Douglass of the city schools the U to the will for ward when his or Ker name Is to order that at the graduation will be i McMillens orchestra The are Leslie Allman Claude Heal Flor ence Bell Ralph Bertha man Helen Cash ter Dally Margaret Fettig Carl Gib son Feme Origin Donald Harrell Jessie Heckard Ruth Hiram Hildebrandt Ruth Justice Net tie Flora Leach Mabel Malone John Hemley Merle Scott Ruth Marshall Martin Inez Martin Catherine Mo Hale Howard Neff Mabel Ida Parser Patterson Wilbur Ned Heed Ruth Reynolds LeonA Schloss Grace Janet Mary Stayer Sadie Wll 11am VOBS Alma Edna Wil son Harry Tund Yund Fisher Hetea FlUer Frank Grace Powell and MANY The St Joseph hall evening when the class presented The Dead WiU ness and the play was ex All the parta were well act ed and the boys deserve much credit for their work The play will be pre sented again this evening in the for the benefit of those who did not see it last evening The graduation exercises also took place last evening and after the program was rendered Rev Father Kroeger presented the di to the following graduates Leo George Wennes Oscar Fries Florence Kotlier mel Carl Wecht William Fromeyer Carl Kircher Coletta and Genevieve Gernatt PLAY CALLED OFF i trained to watch the cows and bring May 14 The affidavit against be held C H Stuart chairman three men was filed by Conductor i oC the entertainment committee is Berry who was forced to put the men sending out invitations for the open off the car at Seventeenth street when The will be held at 7 They were each oclock in the evening followed by he social session and dance they became noisy Cued Ah replied King Henry IV BOARD OF REVIEW How amusing to see the biggest Judge Lairy yesterday appointed the ladies of several them in at It is his custom to them to attend the meet remain with them all day This aft nine of the cows gathered un der a in the field and The dog was with them when the family heard him give a strange and start down the lane as fast as he could ran A few afterward a bolt of lightning struck the tree killing eight oC the nine cows and knocking the other one The dog crawled under the barn and refused to come out for some Walter Osmer and A J Sharts as Everyone is at a loss to explain I was your of tte county board of re the strange premonition which nn on the smallest mule retorted view r saved the animals Tire BALL GAME SUNDAY The league base ball team of this city will play a practice game Sunday The members of the of For Old the high school play have again changed have decided not to present it again It an yesterday that the would be given evening but at the meeting held last evening several of the players said that they could not be here and it was decided to drop the play entirely GAS EXPLODED Gas which in the the New Castle AllStars Manager o a stove in the home of Ert Fleming has been lining up his er Pleasant Hill and Hanna warriors against the scrubs all exploded last night and shook tho whole neighborhood The gas raage was torn to and tie the new ball park against and they will be in good shape by Sunday to go up against the Xew Cas tle aggregation Al Scheer a new was badly dismantled No paw player is the latest the stove wben the oc tion to the squad
