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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1901
Page
3
The city hosts a Tuesday meeting to plan a Bedford hotel with a brick structure and stores on the street front. I. N. Glover chairs the organizing committee while architect C. A. Wallingford outlines sketches. The project expects strong returns and a Bedford-named landmark if a donor provides a site.
The Indiana polis Press closes after being bought by the News. Started in 1899 to challenge the News, it reportedly lost about 2500 weekly. The News gains circulation from 26000 to 54000 in 18 months as editors note a well established paper’s resilience against new rivals.
Lawrence County treasurer W. H. West warns that current year taxes are due now. A 10 percent penalty applies after the first Monday in May. taxpayers are urged to pay early to avoid crowds.
Wao. Reuter is building a cottage on North I street between 6th and 7th. Rube Johnson of North H street completes an addition to his house. Henry Quackenbush of North H street prepares to move to the country in about a week. Mrs. Bertha Schafer travels to Leipsic due to her father’s illness. Lou Allen’s thumb is bitten by a pig. Phil Clipp visits Black Hawk and praises the country. Harry Sheppard returns to Mitchell from the Dugan building job. Robert F. McKinley returns from St. Louis. Jas. Calonge freshens up his South El street home. Mrs. Mariah Goodwin visits Mitchell, then returns home. John Boyd returns home after visiting Leonard Boyd. Mrs. Peter Driscoll returns from Bryantsville after her brother-in-law William Embree’s funeral. Mack Chesnut and Alex Andrews visit Springville then return home. Will Embree and Dan Sherwood improve after pneumonia. F. O. Potter of Buddha passes through town toward Elwood for work. Stone cutters at Dugan Stone Works on North I street. Mr. and Mrs. Will Wesner travel from New Albany via Newberry. Charles H. Cooper of Tunnelton visits town. he sold his Vincennes property and moved to Tunnelton, April 8. may enter Bedford business.
The Board of Commissioners passes an order prohibiting the Auditor from drawing warrants during the session to facilitate transaction of business. The measure aims to keep meetings orderly and efficient.
Mitchell visitors and residents appear in town on Thursday and Wednesday. Names include Alex Stevens, Henry Clay, Will Compton, and Mrs. Tennie Marks repairing after illness. Others travel to Springville and Indiana polis for visits, treatments, or business. Rites for A. CO. Rush held in Green Hill after burial in Leipsic.
Mrs Isis Day has been sick at her home on South H street. Miss Nellie Moore accepted a position in Miss Mary Mc Laughlan's millinery store. Born to Mr and Mrs Albert Sears a son. Prank Will and George Rariden ill with catarrhal pneumonia. Ben Keller returned home from Southern Indiana yards near Williams. Mrs Elvira Turpin and two children travel from Wayne county Kentucky to Coxton. Mrs J M Winstandley returned to Indianapolis. Thirty one children to receive first Holy Communion at St Pauls Church High Mass. Mrs Robert Morris died at Fayetteville aged 70. funeral at Old Union. Mrs Lonnie Clark and daughter Nora return to Tunonelt from visiting Robert Clark. Dr Hiram Malott suffers from sarcoma. amputation not advised due to age. Suit filed at Bloomington against Caleb Cobb by J B Wilson for 6000 to recover bakery debt portion of Stephenson bankruptcy. Stephenson owed Cobb 16000. he paid 6000 in cattle before bankruptcy. claims must share equally.
Light rains at week end aided crops while delaying plowing and seeding. Cool spells slowed growth, wheat and rye improving. clover timothy oats green. Tobacco beds planted, potatoes and oats sown, peas and barley in some areas. Trees bloom plum apricot peach. gardens strong, livestock in good condition.
Mrs. Will Brown hosted a two hour bean party from 3 to 5 30 PM at the Brown home on West 18th Street. Decorations included smilax and hyacinths. Mrs. Judge Martin received a bouquet of carnations as prize. Refreshments of cake ice cream lemonade and candy were served despite unfavorable weather. Pearl Runnels and Alleyne Brown greeted guests at the door.
A veteran recalls the April 1865 parole of 3000 Union prisoners from Andersonville. They traveled to Thomasville and Baldwin Florida where a Confederate officer declared the war over and freedom near. The writer seeks survivors to contact John Acoam of Bedford, Louisiana.
In Rockledge Thomas T Thompson was fined one dollar plus costs by Judge Stephenson for intoxication and paid. In Judge Stephenson's Court the State versus Bruce Clark for assault with intent to kill Oscar Ketcham moved to a change of venue and will be heard in Judge Chrisler's Court Wednesday at 9 am. Clark has attorney Joseph Giles. The Climax stone mill will be rebuilt. Miss Chloe Helton of Heltonville and Miss Nellie Standiford of Tunnelltop visited the city Thursday. Noah Inman and Marguerite McFeely, both well known here, plan Cincinnati wedding next Wednesday. U S Treasury gold holdings exceed 500 million despite six million bought in gold bonds. Hed ford Produce Co offers thoroughly bred Plymouth Rock cockerels for sale with guaranteed quality. August Splitgerber recalls Belt wreck and near-miss at Peerless quarry a year ago Thursday.
At the Baptist church Friday evening April 19 admission ten cents. Chorus Swing Birdie Swing. Solo and Chorus My Grandma Marie Johnson and class. Recitation Florence Emery and Dorothy Thompson. Solo Morrison Johnson. Violin Solo James Avery. Solo and Chorus The Post Boy John Roberts and class. Solo Eddie Thornton. Recitation Anna Mary Dye. Chorus Waiting For a Bite. Welsh Song Gladys Roberts. German Song Tootsir Fuerst. Chorus Going to Meeting.
G W Dodson a prominent Mitchell resident died at his son in law W T Moore home Tuesday night after a long illness. He helped run Mitchell business ventures for decades starting in hotels and later the drug trade. A Marion township trustee and longtime Presbyterian deacon he supported the church and aiding the needy. He leaves a widow two married daughters Mrs W T Moore and Mrs Fannie Davis plus relatives. Funeral held in Mitchell Thursday.
Frank Teague, about 26, was crushed between two stone blocks while stripping under a ledge at the P M and B quarry around 11 PM Tuesday. He was brought to the city, taken home on East 18th Street, and seen by a physician. He recently moved to town with his wife to work at the quarry and is a son of James E. Teague.
Frank Teague, 26, died at home on East 18th Street after being crushed in the P M B quarry when a mass of stone slid from a ledge. Funeral at Fairview church conducted by Elder James Small with burial in Fairview cemetery. Paul Quill sick with measles. Indianapolis gossip says Indiana Democrats plan to send a solid delegation to the next National Convention to back David B Hill for President, influencing other states.
Attorney William Heffernan assisted guardian Patrick Grannan in selling Owen Clark farm of seventy acres west of Loogootee. Noah Mosier bought the land for 6342 on behalf of Loogootee citizens’ corporation, which will donate five acres to each of three glass factories to be located there. The group plans to plat fifty five acres for town lots after factories begin operation, expecting profits, with factories to receive free land and gas, funded by taxpayers drilling and piping costs.
The initial illustrated sermon series on The Pilgrim's Progress From This World To the Next will be given at First Baptist Church Sunday evening April 21. The title is From the Awakening To the Reception At the Wicked Gate. The sermons aim to reveal the allegory's great truths using painted illustrations.
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