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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
5
Attorneys for both sides agree no valid election occurred for County Treasurer. The Board of Commissioners heard that Burton faces possible appeal to the Lawrence Circuit Court, which would require a full vote recount. If no appeal is filed, the commissioners will name the next County Treasurer.
Mrs. Morton Hunter and Mrs. Earl Hunter visit Heltonville today. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Doddsworth moved to Lexington after selling their Erie area farm. Mrs. John M. Duberry is recovered enough to go out. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Railsback plan a West 19th street bungalow with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Leahy nearby. Everett Renier of Williams and Clyde Bishop of Indianapolis visited their aunt Mrs. Beda Crawford who is ill on South H Street. Mr. Williams of Heltonville, previously ill, shows improvement.
The general store of W. E. Armstrong & Son in Springville was burglarized Tuesday night. Entry was gained via a rear warehouse window. a small amount of merchandise, two pairs of shoes two tie pins and two pocket knives and under thirty cents were stolen. Owens bloodhounds tracked a trail two and a half miles from the scene toward a Bedford Bloomfield station and a horse from Virgo Byers’ stable disappeared near Stump Hole bridge.
Elisha Johnson was found guilty of petit larceny in circuit court and punished with a $1 fine plus costs, 75 days in jail, and disfranchisement for five years. The theft involved a valuable gold watch taken from Ellis watch repair on J Street while the owner was away for a drink.
The second regular Matinee Musicale will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 30 in the Baptist church. The program features Hungarian Fantasia Tobani Berceuse Godard I Love Thee Grieg Shepherd Tale Shepherds All and Maidens Fair Nevius The Sunbeams Kiss Gaynor Impromptu Shubert The Asia Rubinstein Love Song Brahms Andante in F Beethoven Queignuneg Strauss Caecilie Cry of Rachel Salter Hongroise Kowalski and more. Mrs McWhirter Louise Rariden Mrs F P Ten Winkel Mrs F D Hatfield Mrs Pentzer Mrs C B McCormick Helen Martin Evalon Pitman program in charge of Mrs Matthews and Mrs Winstandley.
Mabel McDermed was Wednesday granted a divorce from Newton McDermed by Judge Oren O. Swails in the Lawrence Circuit Court.
Dr R H Williams will travel to Cincinnati this afternoon to attend the Ohio State Dental Society session. He plans to return home Friday.
City council orders refunding bonds for twenty thousand dollars to lower interest on the water works debt. The remaining twenty thousand will be paid from years of sinking fund cash. The plan follows a seven and a half percent rate on the old bonds and directs use of funds from the sinking fund to retire part of the issue.
Vernor Dakes of Terre Haute spent Sunday in this city. The visit underscores local ties and social activity in the region.
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