Local Notes and Pledges From Town and Nearby
A roundup of brief items from North I street to East 19th street includes Henry Clark's illness at home and numerous visits. Many residents like Albert Beeman George Kern and Miss Achsah Bennett are noted in town for business, visits, and family ties.
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Winton Hanner
West 19Th Street
Prof. Boyer
Boyer
Frank Rowe
W. A. Mitchell
Estella Huffines
Bessie Smith
Trevail Hoppingarner
Susie Huffines
J. A. Rowe
Matthew Hanner
Houffines
George Smith
Ernest Shultz
Rachel
Henry Campbell
Frank
Robert Campbell
Don
M. G. Cole
Alvin
Leslie
Roger
Alice. Campbell
Robert Gyger
A. Ashcraft
Aerie
Amy Douthitt
Pearl Runnels
Local residents and visitors in the city scene
Miss Louise Wood of Mitchell visits the city as Grant Sears and I. B. Ades return from business in St Louis. Several locals move or visit, including births, marriages, and upcoming projects. Verbatim names include Louise Wood Sears Ades Brown Taylor Crawford Henshaw Bullitt Cooper Zollman Ragsdale Elliston Strout and more. A marriage license issued to Vernon Worman and Cora Sease. A junk dealer buys old hotel iron for 2000 dollars.
Local residents, visitors flock as town gears for street fair
Warner Day repainting storefronts. Will Garrison sets up a fair booth. Thomas Neal of Ned Cross visits on business. Many locals and guests arrive or depart, with painting, moving, and home projects underway. James Wilder and others enhance storefronts and residences. A big booth and a life-sized painting add to preparations.
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Warner & Day
Will Garrison
Thomas Neal
Ned Cross
Charley Burton
Life Pearson
Charley
Local News a Drier, People Visit Bedford Area
Mt Olive resident A D Henshaw visits Bedford while Irving Pettiford returns from Terre Haute. Beulah Spurgeon suffers whooping cough. Tunnelton visitors and Harrodsburg business trips noted. Birth of a son to Will H McDaniel. Local tradesmen upgrade stores and a floor laid at Messick Dodd drugstore. Charities, travel, and illness updates from Bedford area with multiple streets and neighboring towns.
Death of David L Fish prompts thanks from family
The Crawfordsville dispatch reports Warner Swearengen, a Monon freight rider from Bloomington, fell under a moving freight car at Market street crossing losing both legs. It notes another local death, James Murphy, killed at the same crossing in a recent incident. The message thanks friends for kindness and floral offerings to the family.
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David L. Fish
Crawfordsville
Warner Swearengen
Monon
Bloomington
Market Street
James Murphy
New Presbyterian Church to be Dedicated with Ceremonies
Bedford townspeople prepare for the August 18 dedication of a new Presbyterian church replacing the 1868 structure. Dr. R V Hunter of Indianapolis will preach, the building carries no debt, and Mrs Kalwoski of Chicago will serve as organist as the congregation embraces a larger, purpose driven worship life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Presbyterian Church
Palestine
Bedford
Christ
R. V. Hunter
Seventh Street Presbyterian Church
Indianapolis
J. H. Kalwoski
Chicago
Bedford City Police Court Report Shows Fines and Local Offenses
The Bedford police court reports bills for Sunday and Monday including Bill Bryant fined ten dollars for plain drunkenness and jailed. Five Spice Valley youths pleaded guilty for destroying Beasley watermelons with fines and costs tabled. Several other local moves include Will Day passing navy entrance exam and weather signal display plans for rural free delivery wagons to inform farmers along routes.
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Spice Valley
Stephenson
D. W. Beasley
Riley Beasley
Herb Conley
Joe Nugent
Harve Nugent
Roy Beasley
Post Office Department
Weather Bureau
Local notes from town and region
Clint McCurdy of Williams visited town on Thursday. Policeman William Teaford is gravely ill with typhoid at his mother's Georgetown Indiana home near New Albany. Editor W. S. Bradfute and son Blaine of Bloomington, camping near Tuuzelton, were in town Monday morning. About a dozen bridge workers from the Bedford Branch area overhauled trestles along the B. & O. S W for several days. Sam Simpson of Millersburg was in the city Saturday morning. While riding in a buggy the wheel came off and he walked back half a mile to retrieve the nut.
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William Teaford
Georgetown
Ind
New Albany
W. S. Bradfute
Blaine
Bloomington
Tuuzelton
Bedford Branch
Sam Simpson
Millersburg
Wm. Ross
Westport
Wm. Ross, Jr
Leg Injury From River Drive Accident
John Krenke and Char lie Metz were returning from fishing when their buggy nearly collided with a farmer’s buggy at 16th and H streets. Metz leaped clear and struck his mouth on the wheel, suffering oblique fractures of both leg bones above the ankle and three teeth loosened. Metz will be laid up for a long time. the farmer's name was not learned. The Krenke buggy tipped and the horse was thrown but damage was minor.
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John Krenke
Charlie Metz
16Th
H Streets
Metz
Krenke
Railroading near Mill Creek a dangerous night ride
Sam Steward recalls a January night in 1874 when he joined a freight crew bound for the east. In a rainstorm the train slid down Mill Creek hill near Mitchell, the engineer asleep with a bottle aboard, and Steward wrestled water and traction to reach River Vale and Tunnelton after the perilous run.
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Mitchell
Vincennes
George King
John McBride
Sim Stevens
Union Depot
Hank Bough
King
Jonas
Mill Creek
Kansas
Mill Creek Bridge
River Vale
Tunnelton
Seymour
Maurice Thompson
Alice
Vinncennes
Sam Steward
Conductor’s Journal
Town Notes and Visits Across Monroe County
Erie Frank Maher and Heltonville George Carson in town Thursday. Miss Fannie Gillstrap visiting Miss Addie Allen. Louise and Grace Wood attend show. Re Stipp 46 foot well found water. Notaries and pensions updated. Watermelon shipments rise along Indianapolis Vincennes line. Frank Purcell pleads not guilty to wife murder. Social gathering with Prof. Boyer’s orchestra and local families. Multiple residents travel or visit relatives. peanut trains in service.
Wilson's Bargain Store Summer Goods Sale
Reduced prices dominate at Wilson's Bargain Store with discounts on all summer goods and a rebate check offered with every purchase. Local shoppers are invited to save on seasonal items and apparel while supplies last.
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Wilson’s
West Baden hotel plans by Albright eye March opening
The West Baden Springs Company approves Moorish five story hotel designs by Harrison Albright of Charleston West Virginia. Plans show a $1 000 000 fireproof structure with a 200 foot glass dome and a 600 guest chamber interior featuring exterior balconies leading to an atrium. Ground will be prepared to have the hotel open by March first, with extensive grounds and a 300 by 600 foot footprint.
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West Baden Springs Company
Harrison Albright
Charleston
W. Va
West Baden
America
Chicago
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