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Newspaper
Attica Ledger Press
Location
Attica, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1911
Page
2
Williamsport voters approve licensed saloons in Washington township by a razor-thin eleven vote margin amid a heated campaign. Attica's wet status helps shape tussle, while Kent township rejects saloons by 27 of 118. Voting logistics and dry effort details noted as West Lebanon faces new license bid.
Q C De Selms announces plan to close entire stock of jewelry stationery camera supplies novel ties talking machines china and cut glass at auction starting December 5. He will retire from retail jewelry trade but keep watch repair and optical work and wind down De Selms Watch School. Lease ends next September. may move upstairs to fit new setup.
Miss Iva LeClaire, Attica born, active in Los Angeles politics as president of the Women Wage-Earners' Alexander club and a campaign speaker for Mayor Alexander. Thomas F. Rice, Attican, organises real estate and banking interests in Long Beach as a city council candidate. About a hundred parents attend a Mothers' club meeting with talks on childrearing and community topics, featuring local figures and musical numbers.
Miss Ivy High of this city won a suit to quiet title to a MM acre Warren county farm against Memie Sheridan and her husband. The Tippecanoe Circuit Court jury returned a verdict for High after an all Saturday delay. Sheehan plans a rehearing and a new trial is likely.
James Whitcomb Riley declares no more writing as a paralytic stroke grips his right hand. He says the public will have to do without a Christmas poem. Vera Anglemyer and Ruby Wright of Kingman attended the K of I dance here Wednesday night.
Burglars broke a rear window at H W Briggs and Roy Zentmyre homes between Thursday night and Friday. They stole three men’s suits, a silk waist, dresses, gowns, gowns, two pairs of glasses, seven silver spoons, and other items totaling a large clothing and accessory haul with rewards offered totaling 35 dollars for recovery.
Scott Ratcliff of Kingman suffers a dislocated shoulder from a Saturday fall and will be out of work for weeks. Rev. W. B. McMillan arrives from Bellingham to winter with relatives in Attica for health reasons. A millinery shop is being prepared at Lippold rooms by Mrs. C. H. Byers. Elmer Hatton resigns to take a night clerk job at Mudlavia. W. A. Moon sells half of Wingate hardware to Clarence Hatton who plans to move to Newtown by March 1. Miss Cleo Sherer announces her marriage to J. J. Harring in October. Presbyterian Christmas market scheduled for Dec 8–9. Rev. W. B. Morgan to deliver weekly high school talks on character. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Milligan host turkey dinner with relatives. Local ads note Brady magazine offers. Mrs. M. Strader returns from Culver hospital after appendectomy. G. L. McConnell promotes a Stone Bluff farm bargain. Abe Baum provides Arcade theater music. his moving picture show is in Georgetown. J W Snyder and family share Thanksgiving with friends in Lafayette.
Will Layton of this city was sentenced by Judge Schoonover to an indeterminate one to eight years in the Jeffersonville re formatory after pleading guilty to stealing poultry from Willis Carter. Layton had prior troubles and broke promises to the court, prompting a longer sentence. He was sent to the reform school to serve his time.
The annual Forty Hours devotion to the Blessed Sacrament will be held next week. It begins Sunday with high mass at 10:30 and runs through Tuesday night. Masses are Monday and Tuesday at 7:00 and 7:30 a.m. and a high mass at 2:40 p.m. Confessions will be available all four days. Rev. Oberholta assisted by Fr. Cletus of Lafayette, Fr. Hordeman of Frankfurt, and Fr. Steger of Coxinpten.
Cyrus Biddle longtime Shawnee Mound farmer died at 10 45 pm Tuesday at his West Lafayette home after a illness. He was born November 12 and is survived by three sons and one daughter. Funeral from Shawnee Mound Methodist church at 150 pm on Thanksgiving day, interment Wheeler cemetery.
J. W. Rhode administrator for Alfred Gamble of Winthrop plans to sue National Oil and Lighting Co. for 10000 dollars claiming a careless employee mixed coal oil and gasoline, causing a deadly explosion and house fire that killed Gamble and his grandson. Miss Etta Gamble may also file a claim.
Capt. Jack Crawford drew crowds at Mudlavia with anecdotes of his famed acquaintances from presidents to milliners. He recited poetry and performed stunts to prove his grandfather’s skin, while the Presbyterian church hosts its annual Christmas market to fund the aid society.
Rev. C. E. Ward of the Pine Village circuit was injured when a car, refusing to slow, struck his buggy near Hague place. Mrs Ward suffered chest pain from the impact, though the preacher had only bruises. The driver fled, an other auto stopped to aid the Burdened pair on their way home.
Grover Smith, driving for the Peed livery business, was thrown from a buggy after the double trees broke on a hill east of Stone Bluff. A trunk pinned him, breaking his right leg and nose. Doctors Hickson and Stanfield treated the fracture, and Smith was transported from Mellor after the crash. Invitations arrive for the December 27 wedding of Dr Arthur Mitten of Chicago and Miss Gertrude Lemor of Milwaukee. Craig Landon, recently returned from Indianapolis, plans to resume work at Ayers dry goods in Attica.
A city alderman faces a breach of promise suit filed by a schoolteacher named Katherine Foppen. The case, set for a special jury trial Dec 4 at the Attica Opera House, draws social attention as local figures appear as counsel and witnesses. Proceeds will fund Presbyterian church activities.
The Methodist church choir presents its annual Thanksgiving song service in the church auditorium Sunday at 7 00 p m. The evening features a varied program including hymns and selections by various soloists and groups.
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