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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1912
Page
2
Surveyor William Duncan. Coroner George L. Gibbons. Commissioner 1st District William H. Skerd. Officials listed for city duties in the current slate.
Mr and Mrs Cloud Buchanan have returned home after visiting the grandmother of the wife in Martinsville. The brief item notes their travel and family visit without additional details.
An event titled Old Fashioned Attraction is billed for this city on September 11, featuring local vendors, demonstrations, and music aimed at family audiences this season. Organizers invite residents to attend and enjoy a nostalgic community gathering.
The Frank A. Robbins All Feature Show bills itself as a good old fashioned one ring act. It promises every act is a feature and has press notices backing the claim for the city’s Wednesday performance.
A gang identified as Louisville pickpockets operated at the 101 Ranch Show grounds Tuesday, stealing from at least a dozen visitors. Victims included James Sargent who lost about $60 and Gib Smith $45, with others like ex-policeman Jesse Banks reporting $15. Police recovered a pocketbook from a boy who claimed to find it, while arrests were not made. The episode sparked concern but officials noted no collusion with show staff and praised overall orderly conduct.
Policeman Henry McBride, recently ill at his West Street home, walked downtown on Wednesday and planned to resume duty but waited another day. His right eye suffered neuritis like pain, raising fears of possible eye loss, though danger is now believed past.
Nancy Sallee sues Young er B. Sallee in Lawrence circuit court for divorce after ten plus years of marriage. She cites cruel inhuman treatment including choking and hair pulling and says he failed to provide. She seeks custody of daughter Lela and an absolute divorce.
The 509 510 and 511 Mikado freight locomotives have arrived at Lafayette and will be in service soon. Experts from American Locomotive works supervise the hookup as the trio joins thirteen more engines to be delivered this week. Each engine features a 66 foot wheel base and weighs 142 tons without the tank.
At 16th and J streets Tuesday night red Hatfield struck a bicycle with his car after the rider rolled from the curb. The boy, from Medora, dodged another wheel and fell. Hatfield towed the bike to a shop and will pay for repairs.
Postmaster General Hitchcock outlines a Sunday mail plan allowing hotel and newspaper items to be delivered as transient matter. Lock boxes remain accessible with no street deliveries, while Sunday mail is sorted for quick delivery after midnight and office dispatch. Minority Leader Mann supports a practical reading, stressing no intent to hinder business.
A well dressed man borrowed a hammer Tuesday night at a South Side soft drink shop and left with a package. In the morning a back yard resident found a shattered one dollar bank and alerted police. No burglary reports were filed.
Nora Dobbins, wife of Willian Dobbins, sues UCo & L railway in Lawrence circuit court seeking 10000 dollars for injuries from a train wreck at Sand Pit on June 8. She weighs 225 pounds, suffered head and back injuries, mental distress, nervousness, and weight loss, and says she could no longer perform homemaking tasks.
Rufus Root filed in Lawrence Circuit Court for $5,000 damages claiming a 40 pound drill dropped on his left hand while operating a Ward well channeling machine under supervisor Phil Haverly. He alleges permanent injury including a mashed hand finger cut and broken.
Fred Andrews of Milwaukee bought 38 acres of Samuel Anderson’s Victor area farm to develop a large stone quarry and mill. Will Rogers aided core drilling and samples showed fine stone quality. A big unit is planned for next spring between the Monroe and Bloomington Southern tracks.
The policy states no mail delivery to the general public on Sunday to allow letter carriers and postal clerks a reasonable respite from labor. Only essential work for distribution and transmission may continue to avoid serious countrywide business disruption.
Special campaign rate offers the Weekly Mail to any address until after the election for 25 cents paid in advance. The item notes visitors from Oolitic and Bedford, and plans of Mrs Stephen Smith from Martinsville to spend a week, with travels to Boynton Oklahoma and New Orleans Alabama.
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