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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1913
Page
3
A rabies scare prompts quarantines in Guthrie Oolitic East Oolitic and Williams after rabid dogs bite and many animals die. A single man is reported bitten and officials confirm rabies cases from state lab results and veterinary investigations. Local health officials, including Crawfordsville and Indianapolis researchers, discuss brain examinations confirming rabies and prompt Pasteur treatise recommendations.
Two incidents near the post office district detail purses snatched by a likely trio of youths. Miss Alma Quackenbush and Miss Bertha Hickman report losses of about one dollar each, with suspects described as three men and a lone thief wearing a brown cap. Police acted within minutes but failed to catch the culprits.
Officials inspect the new Blooming-ton Southern spur eight miles from Witness Central main line to Bloomington quarry district. President Markham and others visited, with plans to open the road for stone traffic and possible further extensions toward Oolitic Bedford French Lick and Evansville. The Chicago return followed.
Burglars entered Bud Trister’s east city home between Monday and Thursday, breaking in through a rear window and stealing a lightly worn light brown suit with a blue raised figure. The coat and trousers were taken, along with O O FL and Red Men pins attached to the coat, while the vest was left behind.
Funeral services for Mrs Elgin Bruce aged 28 were held Saturday morning at 10 o clock from the home conducted by Rev Owen. Burial followed at Green Hill. Mrs Bruce died Thursday afternoon at City M Hospital after a typhoid attack. The family had just moved into a new cottage three days earlier.
Funeral held Sunday at the Methodist church for Ovid Cole who died in Jamestown North Dakota at age 22. He left Bedford as a youth and later worked as a hotel cook in the Southwest before settling in Jamestown. Survived by wife Ruth Royal and two daughters Margaret Annetta and Virginia Mae, plus his parents two brothers and two sisters. Interment at Green Hill.
J C Fishback a Mo homer repairer sustained a left wrist arterial cut when a hammer steel pierced his wrist Friday. A fellow worker applied pressure with a thumb and another tied a handkerchief. blood flow ceased before Dr A J McDonald treated him. The wound is not serious and clotting had halted the bleeding.
The Seymour Republican reports an attempted wreck of the B and O South Western passenger No. 7 near Shale Hill in Jackson County. A crosstie and boulder were placed on the track. the engineer halted the train with emergency braking and no suspects were found as investigators plan to continue searching for guilty parties.
A change of venue was granted Friday in the Clark versus Yeske damages case over the killing of a horse. The proceeding will be heard in Justice John W. Owens' court and concerns Lincoln Avenue incident where Clark's horse was killed in an accident.
A parade crew on car No 2 led by C. C. Chenvy rant arrived in town to display banners and lithographs for excursions on circus day. The unit includes 15 men and handles railroad excursion advertising while car No 1’s work is reviewed and torn bills replaced.
John Monreal toured town with a large watermelon for Henry Crawford. He cultivates four acres of watermelons and four acres of cantaloupes. He reports selling 1000 baskets of cantaloupes at an average 80 cents, totaling 800 dollars, despite a poor fur season.
The many friends of Miss Nora Moore who lived on 17th street and moved to California a year ago report she has been critically ill for ten weeks with little hope of recovery. Miss Moore is a sister of Mrs. W O Scully of South K street.
The resignation of Dr J B Dun can from the local pension board, tendered last November, has been accepted. The candidate for the position is not yet announced.
John Caunehill endured a stretch of bad luck with his livestock. A valuable cow broke a leg and had to be shot, and a fine colt sustained a nail injury in the foot risking tetanus.
Richard Ratliff received a badly bruised face and serious eye injury after a premature blast at a new well near Illinois Central station in Unionville. He ducked as rock fragments struck his eye while assisting to blow out the rockwork. His hat flew 30 feet from him in the blast. His sight may be endangered.
Mrs James Harris of Kansas arrives to assist in caring for her mother Mrs James Colonge on K Street who is quite ill.
Homer K. Robbins files a $15,000 damage suit in Jackson circuit court against Tre Spa does Swain Lumber Co of Seymour claiming injury at age seven in 1899 when his left hand fingers were crushed while playing near machinery at the mill. He states the premises were open to the public and that the company failed to keep children away from the gear, alleging carelessness and seeking compensation.
Two young men traveling in a small runabout from Los Angeles to Ohio stopped in the city Thursday night. They described an eventful trip with little trouble and planned to resume their journey.
A handsome gavel carved from a 1850 Panama railroad tie was presented to the Elks lodge by Carl Carr. The mallet features tropical hardwood finish and Panamanian half dollars at each end, with the tie linked to the first continental railroad and its tragic history. The gift was given to J. & Barclay for engraving before handing to the lodge.
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