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Newspaper

Bedford Weekly Mail

Location

Bedford, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Dec 20, 1901

Page

3

Local Lafayette News Briefs and Minor Updates

Farmers organize to repel hunters from Lafayette. The Fry sale at Springville postponed to Wednesday due to blizzard. Mrs. Sarah Reedy funeral held, burial at Beech Grove. Annual Indiana Illinois university debate set for January 31 in Bloomington. Reed Bass examined for Monon main line job. Joe Campbell fills Monon Freight Office vacancy. Lawrence Lee travels to Spring Garden Florida for four months. H H Walls offers farm loans in Southern Indiana. Joseph Jones visits Montreal for holidays. first return in years.

Local notes and town items from Bloomington area

Mrs S A W Brown remains seriously ill at her son F W Brown’s home on North I street. Miss Bessie Worrell of Bloomington to spend Christmas with Misses Lydia and Clyde Guthrie. Beveridge post office opens in Brown County four miles north of Nashville. Elijah Embree and wife visit Mrs Johnson in the country. John and Clarence Webb leave Hast politic bridge work for Indian Springs for Christmas. Lottie Peacock from Urbana here for Lucy Rider Meyer Deaconess Work Training School in Chicago. John H Edwards of the 113th Coast Artillery arrives from Fort McHenry on furlough to visit his brother in Korea. Mrs Ed Orrill plans Christmas visit to her mother and sisters. She is with husband at Deadwood, South Dakota. George W Walker returns from Bedford with fresco contract for a large new business building. Many B and O S W workers go to Oklahoma for winter work with high wages. Engineers about $200 monthly, firemen $125. Charlie Dodd and Ira Correll show carved medallions at Hamer Day’s with Christ heads and rose motifs.

Coal train wreck near Reed's Station derails seven cars

Saturday night a coal train on the B and B derailed seven cars near Reed's Station after the track spread. The wrecking crew quit that night and work resumed next morning. no injuries reported.

Reed’s Station

Local notices recap from Bedford era social and transit items

Various short items from Bedford area: ill children and family concerns, shop tasks and personnel at Racket Store, Lawrence and city visitors, lectures scheduled for Dec 22, trains of the Bedford Branch update, wages talks for Monon rail workers, home-building near the fairground, health updates on Mrs Brubaker and Miss Scoggan, skating accident involving Brinton A. Smith, local officials improving G street, Christmas travel plans for William Richey and Mrs Hamilton, concert attendance by Maude Deckard, Smith College student Louise Thornton visiting, probate action for Marion Lutes with $7,000 bond, Yellowstone boiler tragedy note.

Local Notes Births And City Visit Highlights

Births noted for a daughter to Mr and Mrs Ed Daggy and a son for Mr and Mrs James Rodler. Mitchell visitors include Gus Bass and son Roy and Miss Anna Heitger. Local moves see Ogilf? residents, sales staff changes, a gasoline engine shipment, and a new stenographer for H P Radley. Marriage licenses issued and public notices of pensions and civic events.

Ed. Daggy James Rodler Gus Bass Son Roy Mitchell

Mother of Mrs. Charles Watkins Returns Home

The mother of Mrs. Charles Watkins, who had traveled here due to her daughter’s serious illness, has departed for her home near Georgia.

Charles Watkins Georgia

Mrs. Adolphus Ikerd Dies of Asthma Near Shawswick

Mrs Adolphus Ikerd of near Shawswick died at 5 am Friday from asthma. The funeral was held Saturday at 11 am at the residence with burial in the Ikerd graveyard.

Adolphus Ikerd Shawswick Ikerd

Madison township votes to build rock roads in Indiana

Bedford area weather notes show temperatures dipping Sunday and Monday. Orange county grit stone industry noted as world scale. Madison township approves construction of twelve and a half miles of nine foot wide rock roads centering in Odon at up to 2325 dollars per mile. Burtons and McHenry Owen win 3500 dollar verdict against B&O railroad for a wrecked section man. Coal land sale near Jasmineville to Terre Haute capitalists nets large profit for F M Dugger. Coal shortages impact railroads with confiscation of coal and limited freight cars in Indianapolis and Belt Line engines burning slack.

Washington, Ind Madison Township Odon F. M. Dugger Jasonville Philbert Fry Terre Haute Indianapolis News

Bridge Arch Rebuilt as Track Workers Extend Lines

A gang of Monon bridge builders work on the north side of the arch over Brock creek where stone has crumbled and the arch failed. Another crew of about forty men extends and alters switch tracks west of the depot with the main switch reaching near the pumping station at the cut.

Monon Brock Creek Salem Leader

Heavier Locomotives and Cars Strain Railroads

Introduction of heavy locomotives and 100000 pounds capacity freight cars tests country railbeds. Engineers of these engines and cars say no rail joint withstands the strain and tracks will become rough quickly. Maintenance of way engineers protest heavier equipment.

Death of Miss Hannah Campbell in Paoli County

Miss Hannah Campbell died in Paoli Indiana aged ninety three she may be the county s oldest woman. Born in Kentucky in 1808 she moved to Bedford in youth and lived there for many years with her sister Betsy before moving to Orange County after Betsy s death.

Hannah Campbell Paoli Ind Kentucky Miss Campbell Bedford Betsy West Bedford Orange County

Dress and Shirt Waist Factory to Open in New Opera House

The new dress and shirt waist factory will begin full operation in the first week of the year in the opera house building. A Cincinnati cutter and fitter will supervise local staff, with a diverse line of wool dress goods silks and trimmings. Garments range from simple skirts and waists to elaborate styles, and bargain buys allow discount benefits for customers calling within ten days. Dexter C. Buell and a Monon railroad car lecture series conclude with a Chicago round house stay then Indianapolis and Bloomington, New Albany itineraries for employee instruction.

Opera House Cincinnati Dexter C. Buell Monon Lafayette Monon Road Buell Chicago Monon Round House 49Th Street Indianapolis Bloomington New Albany

Court Notes Record Fraught with Local Trials and Verdicts

In Circuit Court Henry Heard v B and O was continued on compromise. Epsie George v Wagoner and Inman paused for absent witnesses. Allen Ferguson v Fountain tried for $500 services. Ferguson lived with Fountain in youth. Evans v Bedford Quarries went to jury, verdict $250 for Evans. Evans killed by falling stone at a mill. Monon interlocking switch dispute argued by Trissal and Fields. John H Stewart v State guilty of assault with intent to rape. sentenced to Michigan City prison. Burns v Tanksley set, delay due to witness then verdict for plaintiff $7.90. Ray v Martin & Norman damage suit over mistaken drug shipment. damages sought $20,000. Salem Wray v Martin and Norman ends when plaintiff discontinues after long evidence. Fifty witnesses attended Norman Station. costs will fall on plaintiff.

Allen E. Ferguson Stephen Fountain Martin Ferguson Fountain Crooke & Crooke Brooks & Brooks and McHenry Owen Francis Evans Bedford Quarries Co Evans F. M Trissal Southern Indiana Ry E. C G. Fields The Monon Indiana John H. Stewart Zaring Crooke Stewart Michigan City John G. Burns Howard Tanksley Ray Martin & Norman Norman Station Salem Wray Norman Jackson County

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