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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1905
Page
3
A roundup of residents visiting Orleans, Oolitic, and nearby areas, with many moving in or leaving towns. Notes include Davis and Blackburn travels, Benza family in Oolitic, Griffith McKinney ill in Terre Haute, bass family illness, and various relocations on West 12th to 17th streets plus a Maryland laundry inquiry and a March weather remark.
The inain child of Mr and Mrs George Mathes died Monday and was buried at the Ikerd graveyard east of wh. Mrs W. D Lewis died Wednesday night at Mountain Spring Martin county aged 46. burial Friday at 280 at Modral Chapel. The Guthries of Chateau Mont. mourn their baby buried here. funeral Tuesday 1:30 at Green Hill. Walter Wright builds an addition on South O street. Oscar Fidler recovering from kicking injury. George Carter joins Leigh Bliston’s meat market. Marriage licenses issued to Yaskie Conner and Hunter Ramsey. Locals visit Bedford and Stinesville. Mattox preaches Rock Spring Church. Mrs Serelda Reath breaks hip, then leg. Osie and Bertha Crawford en route to State Normal at Terre Haute. Charlie Bringhans to Sedalia Mo. to join Western Association. Seeds offered by H. He PitMan. Parker Levy promoted to clerk in Radley’s office. Guthries return home after funeral for four-month-old baby from Chateau.
Advertises Marsh Manufacturing Co selling a aluminum card case engraved with your name plus 100 calling or business cards. Sample case and 100 cards postpaid for 40c, retail price 75c. Instructions to send 40c to Chicago address.
Advertises a department store corset sale featuring famous brands from 59 cents girdles to Redfern full form corsets at five dollars. Includes W. B. corsets in popular forms priced from one to two dollars for various figures.
Mrs L A Keithley recovers after illness. Chastine moves into Frank Smiths property on West 14th street. Mrs Trueblood of Highland Park improves after sickness. George and James Hitcher visited Heltonville. Mrs Bratten moves in with Miss Ella Torphy on South G street. Brock Horne finish painting S T Zoiman residence at 12th and P streets. John Mercier and sons go fishing at White River. Chick en Ordinance in effect may cause trouble. Mrs Retta Todd returns home near Lesville.
The Overland Limited to California departs Union Passenger Station Chicago at 605 P.M. daily and arrives San Francisco on the third day in time for dinner. Route via Chicago Milwaukee St Paul, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Line. Ticket agents sell via this route. Descriptive California book available for six cents postage. F A Miller or W S Howell contact details provided.
Birth announcements list a son born Monday to Lester Ches nut and wife and a Tuesday birth for Mr. and Mrs John Tyre on South L street. A Saturday birth gives an 11 pound son to Mr. and Mrs Charles Gresham on South M street. J M Sellers plans a front addition at his 26th street residence. Henry Tresslar of Louisville Training School visits family at 15th and Lincoln. Reliance Stone Co of Bloomington, formed by locals, contracts quarry gear and plans to open a local quarry near Stinesville. Jan L Jennings of Gosport arrives to oversee Monon section progress from Bedford to Horseshoe and will relocate family. T J Hunter, Norman Station citizen, notes this March may be exceptional. Mrs Hannah Wanters dies at Clearspring in Jackson County. widow of Captain Taxwell Wanters, veteran of the Fiftieth Indiana Regiment, long-time Clearspring resident.
The first case State vs Emma Reid on fornication ended with acquittal. A related charge against William Mann was dismissed. A second hearing on two counts, carrying concealed weapons and assault with intent to kill, proceeded against Mann.
The B and O S and W line announces an excursion to Cincinnati on Sunday April 9 with a Bedford fare of 125. Patrick McMahon has sold Elizabethown property and bought in Stonington, moving his family and goods Thursday. Expressions of gratitude are offered for kindness during Henry Paugh illness and death. The new McMillan and Son stone mill at Crown stone quarry south of Bloomington now runs six gangs with more to be added. Baldwin Locomotive Works reports March output of 226 engines, a monthly record, with 14 50 on the payroll. Mrs William Stephens returns to Danville Illinois after two weeks with the Johnson family. Dr Stephens has just returned from New Orleans.
Prohibitionists of Lawrence county call a 2 p m meeting at Bedford Court House on Wednesday April 12 for reorganizing the County Committee. T J Shrode of New Albany will address the people at 7 30 in the interests of the Prohibition Alliance. Everyone invited. By order of Committee.
Harry Griffy and wife left for Indianapolis after visiting Judge and Mrs. Giles in Bedford. Mae Hitchcock, staying with Lydia Hitchcock, also returned to Indianapolis to attend college. News notes suggest Bedford may see one or two new fire related buildings this summer. The Box corner remains a valuable vacant tract, with Jacob Wallheiser owning adjacent land.
Mitchell Indiana April 4 public schools will close this week. Commencement exercises next Tuesday evening with President Parsons of the State Normal addressing the class. The nine eleven graduates finish early due to deficits from new buildings and staff growth.
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