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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1908
Page
4
A fragment from an old advertisement shows remedies for inflamed and sore nipples, chapped corns, and other skin irritations. It lists topical applications and sounds like a medical patent medicine pitch.
Nashington April 11 Roosevelt selects five distinguished Democrats for a White House conference May 10 including Bryan Hill Carnegie Cleveland and Hiteheil. The article notes diverse backgrounds among the quintet and hints at potential presidential ambitions and differing ideological stances.
Winifred Wilson Whitney Treat, daughter of Rev and Mrs Wilsom Whitney of North M street, died Saturday morning after years of tuberculosis and a lingering illness. She trained at the Baptist Training School for missionaries in Chicago and, despite frail health, married Harry Treat three years ago to pursue missionary work. The couple traveled to New Mexico, New York, and Paine Mountain Oklahoma seeking climate to aid her recovery, but a relapse followed a severe winter in the East and she passed away after arriving home Wednesday evening with her husband at her side.
The obituary notes the death of a 34 year old, energetic and conscientious woman known for cheerfulness and selflessness. A Baptist, she engaged in church work and remained devoted despite illness. Survived by husband Rev Harry Treat of Battle Mountain Oklahoma, a baby daughter Alice Winifred, and her parents Rev Wilson H Whitney and Mrs Adelaide Whitney Howell, plus a sister and brother.
Kansas wheat scare 1907 caused 20 million bushels loss. S J Hunter of Kansas State University cites a tiny parasite that can sting and kill the green bug. He aims to release parasites in early spring with farmers funding the effort after legislatures rejected a $5,000 appropriation. If successful, a billion parasites could wipe out twenty times as many green bugs, saving crops across Kansas and neighboring states.
James M. Crooke, once Bedford Journal printer and editor at Mitchell Commercial, now in Union Springs Alabama for two years, seeks the Bullock county postmaster vacancy. He is the only Republican voter in the county and allies Col V V Williams and Bedford Republicans will back him with credentials. Crooke has many Bedford and Mitchell friends hopeful for his appointment.
Will Jenson son of John Jenson of Fairplay township died after buying Paris green and taking poison on the way home. The 32 year old man, epileptic, died Monday night after retiring to his room. Funeral held at his home Wednesday afternoon with interment in Bloomfield cemetery.
In a heated dispute the Second district Democrats accuse Cy Davis of pressuring to set aside Lawrence county delegates for a district primary. Editorials from Bedford Democrat Lin ton Call and Owen Democrat are cited as lampoons, with Davis’ backers arguing for a people’s primary while rivals push to block his nomination.
On the Bedford Belt anniversary, a train of cars led by engine 30 crashed through a 60 foot trestle near the Standard quarry. Five men Charles Ogden Warren Lermond John Sharum John Materson and Ed Bivins were killed, while George Meinzer James Davis and Henry Devault were seriously wounded. Inexperience in lining up the bents caused the disaster in Lawrence county.
William Cook, a United States Cement Plant employee, was struck in the cheek by a falling timber from carpenters working above him in the coal house. He was warned just in time and suffered an ugly facial wound.
J. C. Johnson the alleged book agent charged in an affidavit with defrauding Mrs. Effie Prow by passing a ten dollar worthless check is under arrest in Nashville Tennessee awaiting Sheriff Box. He had been in Bedford the week of February 17 and gave the check drawn on the German Bank of Louisville. A warrant had been sworn for him and a requisition sent from Bedford. Johnson was marked for return here for trial and is also wanted by a Cincinnati Book Concern for irregularities while in their employ.
A massive blaze swept Chelsea and parts of Boston, killing many, injuring hundreds, leaving about 30,000 homeless and causing up to 15 million dollars in damage. Militia and United States Marines occupied streets, guarding bridges and suppressing looting as shelters opened and relief operations mobilized.
Mrs. Albert Smith of Politic and Miss Grace Farmer escaped a deadly runaway Sunday afternoon. While trying to turn a skittish three year old horse at a hillside watering trough, Mrs. Smith was knocked down as the buggy ran over her, suffering a badly bruised hip and facial lacerations but not life threatening.
Roger Evans son of Mr and Mrs W A Evans Fifteenth and K streets underwent abdominal surgery Monday morning at City Hospital for appendicitis. Relapse after three weeks illness prompted doctors to perform the operation at 10 o clock with Dr Short Dr Freeland and Dr Emery among the physicians present and other doctors attending at the family's request.
Palm Sunday services at the First Methodist church drew a large crowd for an address by Dr. Randolph Smith. The day included sixty five accessions, with forty five from the Sabbath school and twenty five adults from the congregation, plus several baptisms. The programs were well attended and considered profitable for the church.
Residents of Tunnelton sue the B and O railroad in Lawrence circuit court for 13000 alleging the November 18 1907 fire that devastated the town was caused by sparks from the defendant locomotive and that spark arresters were lacking. Plaintiffs include Homer Ingle Trustees of the Christian Church Tunnelton Lodge Knights of Pythias heirs of Hiram Guthrie deceased and John Simpson.
Charles W. Ellsberry, a popular Monon passenger conductor, bought a gasoline launch from the Detroit Boat Company. The craft is eighteen feet long, four feet six inches wide, with a three horsepower engine, carrying ten passengers and drawing fourteen inches of water. Ellsberry aims to become a skilled river navigator. Mrs. Malinda Kern, 76, died near Williams Sunday morning from organic heart trouble. Her funeral and interment were at Old Union church today at 2 PM.
Governor Hanly of Indiana, a leading temperance advocate, is credited by the Anti-Saloon League with boosting local option results in Illinois. A tour of the state yielded votes in 600 of 1,200 townships and 1,500 saloons closed, with Hanly speaking in cities like Rock Island, Champaign, and Galesburg en route from Pennsylvania.
Lawrence County board awarded the one mile Tunnelton pike repair to John Burns for 1540 dollars after floods washed out the road. Other bids were D B Guthrie 1600 and W H Reid 1710.
Governor Hanly toured multiple Pennsylvania towns at the urging of S. E. Nicholson, Anti-Saloon League leader, and received over 100 letters praising his Prohibition stance. A voter hailed his speech as reflecting Indiana's sentiments while a physician predicted it would carry Indiana beyond tariff efforts.
Dr W Hutson Ford of Washington donates a forty pound cannon ball fired from Fort Sumter on April 12 1861 marking the opening of the Civil War. Ford recounts Maj Anderson’s shots at the floating battery near Sullivan's Island and his own journey with the artifact to Charleston Aiken St Louis and finally Washington.
Train No 8 struck four calves near Yockey Saturday afternoon killing two and badly wounding one that a passenger had to shoot. A calf lost its head and another had all four legs broken. Marriage licenses issued for James A. Adamson and Sarah H. Craig Fayetteville and George R. Deckard and Emma F. Clark Monroe and Lawrence counties. April weather forecast from Hicks predicts storms and blustery conditions. A. W. Vogeler mails note to George O. Iseminger, linking a Nebraska judge to a former pupil. David A. Sutherland sues Bertha Sutherland in Bartholomew Circuit Court over alleged clandestine meetings and buggy rides.
A bill proposes ten dollars a month for widows of soldiers meeting service thresholds in Indian wars Mexican war or Civil War. The widow would not need to prove her husband died of injuries in service under the plan.
Notice to addressee names Adams Cox Gainey Lawrence Hawkins William Johnson Mima Miner Nickless Milley among ladies and Neiderberger Philipps Turley Sears Simpson Elmer among gentlemen. Persons calling for above letters please say advertised. 8 L. Keacu P. M.
A bird dog waited for Roy Smithson an 18 year old inmate at Marion County Jail for two days. During visitor day the dog entered the jail and found the boy in his third floor cell. Smithson was released on a suspended sentence.
Lewis Hartzell a 36 year old baker of Muncie died of spinal meningitis four years to the day after he declared his dead mother would return in four years to take him. He told attendants her spirit appeared and spared him for his children, and fulfilled the prophecy with his death. He leaves a family. funeral was held Sunday.
The Central Passenger Association in Chicago announced a tentative plan to grant a one half cent fare, or fare and a half to conventions with over 1,000 attendees, including the republican national convention and more than a hundred other gatherings this summer, subject to traffic official approval.
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