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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1919
Page
4
Local newspaper page shows staff listings for Otis and Brooks with editors and department heads. Advertising rates are listed for one to twelve insertions, with charges per inch and weekly display options. Contact numbers 264 and 887 appear for the managing editor and city editor respectively.
Ida Lewis reports on local movements as Charley Owens visits Bedford and families travel to Tunnelton Bloomington and Guthrie. Visitors include Miss Bernice Watson visiting Tunnelton, Floe Stewart to Clear Creek Bloomington, and Roberta Madeline Stewart visiting relatives.
Bedford Iron & Metal Co offers highest market prices for all grades of junk and old automobiles. Call 361 to have their wagon or trucks pick up your waste material from S16 East 16th Street.
Two black vagrants were taken from a Monon train Tuesday night and jailed. They were brought before the police court this morning and given a chance to leave town.
Mrs. David W. McNabb and her husband, after a stay in San Antonio, Texas, returned home Sunday night to be with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Brown. Mr. McNabb has received orders to the Mexican border. Mr. and Mrs. Will Thorne and Mrs. Louisa Thorne came back from Mitchell to reside here. Mr. Thorne will work at the Thorne meat market on O Street.
Fragments show a sale event at Branch Dry Goods House 1816 featuring a remnant sale from The Big Mill. Details are sparse but indicate a local shopping event in progress.
Indianapolis aug 18. Prosecutor Claris Adams plans to mail question naries to city grocers asking July 15 to Aug 15 wholesale and retail food price data. The probe targets profiteering and may feature testimonies from chain store managers and warehouse operators while grand jury witnesses prepare to testify next week.
Resolutions urging a special session of the Indiana Legislature to consider ratification of the federal amendment are being circulated for signatures. The statements are led by Mrs Frances Chirk district chairman of the Women's Franchise league and distributed countywide by Mrs Stewart, Mrs Roth, and other local leaders. The Richmond league president Mrs Marlow also supports sending resolutions to Governor Gaetrich.
The body of A O W Truitt arrived in Noblesville from East Liverpool Ohio where he died suddenly of apoplexy. He was a traveling salesman for the Capital Furniture Company and had 46 years in the drug business in Noblesville. He is survived by his widow and son Dr Frank Truitt and was brother to R S Truitt president of Noblesville Trust Company. Funeral held Saturday afternoon.
Indianapolis on August 18 hears public accountant YW Coitiela warn 30 percent business failures stem from missing data on profit and loss and 50 percent of US merchants lack current financial status. He urges closer attention to financial statements at the Indianapolis Association of Credit Men meeting.
Through the generosity of Mrs William Dudley Fowlke a history and art appreciation course has been established at Earlham College with Mrs Arthur M Charles as instructor The plan is to create a department of art as the beginning of the enterprise President PD M Edwards announced Mrs Charles is currently in Chicago.
Anderson August 18. Rose Etchison files for divorce from Edis Etchison claiming he spanked her with a stove shaker and fled the suit after alleging domestic abuse actions earlier in the case.
Reports from Omsk say Siberian forces killed 200 Bolsheviks and Magyars who escaped Krasnoyarsk camps while 60 were captured. Czech reports allege a planned prison camp attack was thwarted. In London Antibolshevik forces seized Kherson Volohivat and Cherkasy on the Dniester. Paris notes an eastward offensive to join Gen. Konikine’s army.
Indianapolis August 20 Rioting continues in Hammond and State troops may be used to quell strike disorders. Adjutant General H B Smith denies reports that mobilization plans have halted. Also, cities and towns in southern Indiana invited to file claims for the proposed Indiana farm colony for the feeble minded. Commission members listed.
Washington reports claim four railroad union leaders plan a national strike if demands for a thousand million dollars in new wages are not met. They seek government takeover of railroads and other industries, backed by a $10 million propaganda fund and organized labor drives.
Gen Pershing cables the War Department urging that American soldiers buried abroad be left where they fell. He argues graves near the last battle site remind allies of liberty and the nation’s ideals and should not be moved without relatives consent after full understanding of the reasons.
Prosecutor Stevens summoned nearly all local grocers to testify in a closed session probe into high living costs. Evidence reportedly showed profiteering with farmers’ apples bought at about five cents to ten cents a bushel and sold at ten cents per pound or four dollars eighty cents per bushel.
Miss Mabel Herman of Indianapolis and her companion filed suits for damages after a motorcycle with sidecar collided with Frank Hare in Noblesville. Herman seeks $6,000 and the other plaintiff, Unversanca, seeks $85,000 for personal injuries and property losses from the crash two miles east of the city.
A sympathy walkout by stage hands and musicians closed nearly all theaters in Chicago on August 21, sparing only vaudeville burlesque and movie houses. Box offices halted ticket sales and thousands were turned away as producers faced demands for recognition from actors' unions. Edward N. Nockels of the Chicago Federation of Labor linked the strike to the Actors' Equity Association.
In Goshen Aug 204 Mamie Atkins Martha Vreiner and Bert Knepper were arrested at the Atkins home on intoxication charges. Twenty seven empty lemon essence bottles were found. Prosecutors threaten arrest of the grocer who sold large amounts of flavoring extract to Mrs Atkins for use as liquor.
Franklin August 20 The resignation of Frederick Humbert Hodge professor of mathematics and head of the department has been received by President Charles F Goodell of Franklin College. Hodge has served nine years on the Franklin faculty and will become an instructor of mathematics at Purdue University.
About 300 former residents from Jackson Jennings and Scot counties gathered at Brookside Park for the tricounty reunion. It marked the first gathering in two years after wartime suspensions, resuming the annual event.
A bill to implement peace terms was presented in Weimar with imperial council approval. It aims to control commerce finance and industry and to require information on wages materials and company records. It also grants power to fix prices review labor conditions and supervise industrial efficiency.
John B. Sachs aged 87 died at his daughter Mrs. Schuyler Coffey’s home in Bloomington after five decades in Indianapolis. The body will be moved to Crown Hill cemetery in Indianapolis for burial.
Isaac Math aged seventy six died suddenly of apoplexy in a hovey six miles south of Bloomington on August 20. He is survived by his widow two sons and one daughter.
Aug. 20 report from Columbus states three barns owned by farmer Harry Bradley were destroyed by an undetermined fire. One horse perished and total loss is about 10000 dollars.
Washington August 20 banner wheat yield reported by Michael Madden former surveyor who harvested 614 bushels from a 24 acre tract yielding about 254 bushels per acre in Daviess county this season.
Springville residents hosted relatives and friends from Bedford Indianapolis Bloomington and Fayetteville. Guests included Miss Blanche Horaday Mrs. Anne Hert and Mr and Mrs Crawford Johnson. An Anti TB meeting at the Christian church was well attended with Rev Toole of Bedford speaking. Ellis Spoonmore and his daughters visited William Spoonmore in Fayetteville.
J L Crawford and wife attend church in Tunnelton. Margaret Flinn is ill. E E Rosenbaum and wife visited Jacob Mathis. Emery Peed and family visited his father W Peed. Basket meeting at Trini and farmers picnic at Helmville reported. Vern Worthington on furlough visits. Oscar Thomas went to Elnora to be with Mrs. Starr who is ill. Many relatives and neighbors visited and traveled to Seymour and Danville areas.
Sunday August 24 the final basket meeting and home cones at the Christian church Pinkook led by Rev Brock of Borden. Forenoon services 9 Gua rausie and short talks in the afternoon. All invited to bring filled baskets and enjoy with old friends and new.
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