Plan for Southern City Sewerage and School Ventilation Debate
City council weighs a southern sewer main along Union Street to Lithia Street, funding via street improvement assessments. Debate over old schoolhouse heating and toilets prompts a site visit. officials find initial complaints overstated and plan major renovations pending funds.
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Mill Street
Dong Buon Ades
Reed
Lithia Street
Main Street
Slain Street
Jackson Street
Milford
Harrison
Jesse Martin
Board of Health
Messrs
Fatal farmhouse fire kills infant as lamp explodes
A folding bed trapped a three year old in a fire started by a bumped bed and a broken kerosene lamp. The mother Mrs Fenasac died from burns while trying to free her child. Neighbors battled flames but the farmhouse burned to the ground and the husband returned to a smoldering ruin. A separate notice offers early hatchery cockerels for sale in Veedersburg.
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Tre
Fred Fenasac
Ne Fowler
Breau
Fenasac
Fowler
Auto Garage and Livery Planned in Williamsport
Doc Thornton, longtime Williamsport repairman, will move his HQ to Attica early next year and open a large automobile garage with an attached livery and a taxicab service. He leases Clawson Davis property on Perry Street as Mrs Clawson plans livery closure.
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Doc Thornton
Williamsport
Clawson & Davis
Thornton
Allica Automobile
Johan Ehs
Automobile Bus i
Will Clawson
Rusk
Waynetown
Attica
Fowler
Danville
Hardware Busi
Veedersburg
Rumored Death of Attica Character Happy Jack Ends in Clarification
Word spread through the county that John Kelly known as Happy Jack died after a fight with George Stucker of Shawnee township. Investigations showed he was hiding drunk after the brawl near Russell's saloon. Stucker was arrested and fined $35 in Mayor Reed's court for the incident.
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John Kelly
Attica
Happy Jack
George Stucker
Shawnee Township
Marshal Beamer
Lafayette
Stucker
Russell
Altho
Perlmen
Reed
Local Briefs Highlight Residents and Visitors
Local briefs report residents from Wheeling and Lafayette arriving or visiting Attica. Raymond Yoore plans to live here after taking a room with Mr. and Mrs. Van Tress. E. B. Anderson to reopen the Williamsport flouring mill early next year. Various residents and relatives travel from Decatur Canon City Bloomington and Riverside with several social visits and a three line note about renting a six room cottage on east Monroe street.
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Mirs
Raymond Yoore
Wheeling
W. Va
Mark van Tress
Pifih Street
Poston Brick Factory
Sterling Remely Co
Williameport
E. B Anderson
Terre Haute
A. J. Howerton
Ledger
3. W. Howerton
Canon City
Colorado
West
Elbert Lindsey
Lafayete
Dolly Irwin
Lafayette
Greenville
Miss
D. W. Steel
Decatur
Ind
Attica
C. E. Barnhart
Steel
Barnhart
Jack Edwards
Attica Telephone Co
Chicago Packers
Chicago
Leonard Steitnley
Indiana University
Bloomton
S. H. Arms
E. E. Orr
Mort E. Runner
Oxford
Roy Guy
Newtown
Isaac Jones
Simon LaBaw
W. F. Clark
Aylesworth
Danville
Frank Baird
Kuntry Club
Mesdames Isaiah
Ella Smith
Williamsport
Bettie Luppold
Pauline Hottenstein
Catherine Martin
Scribner’s Jewelry
Moe Hirsh
Isaac Rader
Pine Village
Mary Shultz
Riverside
Frank May
Independence
Mother's Club
Democrats Plan Banquet as Dotson Faces County Chair Move
Fountain county Democrats nominate Veedersburg mayor Tom Dotson as county chair in a bid to unite the party for 1912. A Dec 30 love feast in Nixon's hall will feature Gov. Marshall and Samuel Ralston with speakers and party leaders. Plans also target sheriff candidates, road supervisors, and a broader campaign slate amid GOP efforts to adjust nominating dates.
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Tom Dotson
Gov. Marshall and
Sam Ralston
Fountain County
Democrats
Veedersburg
Tom
Dotson
Hub
Samuel Ralston
Lebanon
Tom Marshall
Marshall
United States
D. H. Wallace
Charley Berry
Mr. Ralston
Remster
Dan Simms
Longley
Simms
van Buren
Thomas J. Dotson
van Buren Township
Warren County
Central Committee
Illness Halts Williams Trial in Sensational Case
The Williams trial paused as defense attorney Charles McCabe fell ill, postponing the case. The state presents strong evidence centered on the seventeen year old daughter’s testimony and her mother Emma McMasters corroborates her story. The Foxworthy murder trial nearby is moved to the 26th for its date.
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Joe Williams
Circuit Court
Charles McCabe
McCabe
Crawfordsville
St Yoom
Witners
Williams
Altho
Emma McMasters
Foxworthy
Prominent Warren County Farmer Dies From Fire
Henry B. Flesher a leading Warren County farmer died last Thursday night from burns suffered while standing before an open grate in his night clothes. He was about seventy eight, a Wabash College graduate and Civil War veteran. He leaves two daughters and a son. His wife had died years earlier.
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Henry B. Flesher
Warren County
Burns
Mr. Flesher
Wabash College
Williamsport
Veedersburg couple wed in morning ceremony
Veedersburg young folks Miss Katie Van Deventer and Samuel Glascock united in marriage Saturday at 11 in the home of the bride’s mother Mrs Blanche Van Deventer. Elder O W McGaughey performed the ceremony in front of the immediate family. The couple left for Indianapolis after the service.
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Katie van Deventer
Samuel Glascock
Blanche van Deventer
Veedersburg
O. W. McGaughey
Indianapolis
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Bondeel
John Jack
Stone Bluff
P. D
R. D
Gay Hardware and Implement
Ito
Fowler & Rusk
Auto-Garage
D. R. Thornton
Auto Livery
Claude Cartmill
Christina Stewart
Rainsville
Brunk
Bob Kerr
Dave Adkins
Bob
Will Willitts
Dan Young
Will
Frank Hull
Covington
Notias
John Stephenson
Warren Review
Ledger- Press
County Recorder
Will Demmary
Williamsport State Bank
Recorder
Dan Tague
Sheriff’s Office
George DeMotte
Lewis A. Hess
William Sport
A. Hickman
Warren
Anne
State
Farmer
Daisy Belle Miner
I. Edward Duffield
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