$20,000 MONON PALACE CAR BURNED SUNDAY
Supt J B Sucese rode down to French Lick Sunday evening leaving his private palace car on a switch near the SouthernIndiana crossing. A colored porter built a fire in the heater and locked the car, later firemen found the car engulfed. The car, lavishly appointed and valued at $25,000 with $1,000 silver service, was a total loss. Insurance was expected to cover the damage. It was rumored the car lay near dynamite when the fire started.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Sucese
Indiana
French Lick
Linton
Lew Utterback
13Th Street
S. I
18Th
K Streets
Monon
Forecasting Weather a Year Ahead At Chicago Station
Prof. Frank H. Bigelow at the University of Chicago proposes long range weather forecasts by linking sun spot activity to future temperatures. He notes a year of lead time from solar changes to weather shifts and says accuracy will improve with more years of data and study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
United States
Frank H. Bigelow
Cox
Chicago
Weath
University of Chicago
Bigelow
Middle West
James E. Armstrong
Englewood High School
Meteorology Book Promises Broad Scientific Impact
A new meteorology book may influence astronomy and origin theories of the universe. It could benefit American agriculture and commerce. Professor Sigelow is regarded as the leading U S meteorologist and heads the division of records for the Weather Bureau in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pof. Sigelow
Division of Records
The
United States Weather Bureau
Washington
State gets continuance in Callahan murder case
The State vs Alva Callahan charged with first degree murder for the Walters killing at Dark Hollow in September was postponed at Paoli after debate and a partial indictment strike. Trial set for February 18. Callahan, joined by brothers Prof J M Callahan and Prof F M Callahan, seeks self defense and urges acquittal, remaining jailed as the charge is unbailable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alva Callahan
John R. Walters
Dark Hollow
Paoli
Buskirk
Callahan
Walters
Shanty Boats Ordered From Flooded Cincinnati Shore
Constable Bute of Squire Bloom's Court served 48 dispossess notices to shanty boat tenants near the Cincinnati Southern Railroad bridge. He used a skiff and rubber boots to reach floating homes washed from their foundations. The notices warn tenants they cannot return to squat on that land, now desired by the Pittsburg Coal Company. Most accept the order after brief demur, ending a long-lived but unique city lifeway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bute
Squire Bloom
Cincinnati Southern Railroad
the Enquirer
Pittsburg Coal Company
Cackeys of Wealth Free Synagogue Movement Launched
Rabbi Stephen S Wise opened a campaign in the Hudson Theater for a free synagogue in New York. He said ministers serve as lackeys of the wealthy and that the faiths are controlled by rich interests. He urged reaching Jews even if Sabbath forms are sacrificed to preserve the substance of the message.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson Theater
Stephen S Wise
Portland
Ore
New York
Wise
Police Court Cases Show Tax and Prostitution Offense
The State v Lentz moves between justices in a dog tax case set for trial. Harrison Allen, a young cab driver, was fined 25 dollars plus 10 dollars costs and jailed 10 days by Mayor Fillion for associating with lewd women. He sought to pay 35 dollars to avoid jail, but the mayor refused. Allen remains in jail and future arrests of cab drivers are anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison Allen
Fillion
Harrison
Purdue Research Work in Behalf of Farmers
The Indiana Experiment Station at Purdue plans expanded extension work for farmers this spring aided by an increased appropriation. Field visits to creameries and dairies will lecture and suggest improvements. Seed corn specials and crop soil work aim to raise corn stand from 70 to 90 percent, boosting statewide production and value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Experiment Station
Purdue
Arthur Goss
Agricultural Department
School of Agriculture and Experiment Station
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Jines and On the Wabash
George S. Christie
Indiana
Installation Night Shines for Violet Camp No 4056 in Fayetteville
Royal Neighbors of Violet Camp No 4056 held its annual Installation meeting at Fayetteville hall on Thursday January 24 with about seventy five attendees and guests. Officers installed for the year included Oracle Minnie Voris Vice Oracle Rosa Boyd Chancellor Nannie Jones Recorder Goldie Smith Receiver Sarah Veatch Marshal Lula Tatum Inner Sentinel Bettie Potter Outer Sentinel Grace Kern Manager Carrie Moore. A bountiful supper followed and the gathered group enjoyed music and a cordial evening. J Headley Sons Stone Co of Stinesville filed incorporation papers with capitalization of 160000 and directors A T Hoadley B G Hoadley John Hoadley. Langs wife returned from Evansville preparing to move to the city occupying Tovey cottage on South I street formerly vacated by H E Monical who moved to Williams. Fort Ritner plans to become a cement town as stone is quarried north of the depot, shipped to Lehigh near Brownstown for crushing and return to Mitchell aiding cement production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Violet Camp No. 4056
Fayetteville Hall
Oracle
Minnie Voris
Rosa Boyd
Nannie Jones
Goldie Smith
Sarah Veatch
Lula Tatum
Inner Sentinel
Bettie Potter
Grace Kern
Carrie Moore
Show Stranded The Johnny Wise Company at the Opera House
The Bloomington Telegraph harshly reviews the Johnny Wise company at the Opera House calling them a second or gold brick troupe. The show is blasted as rotten though the bull dog act and a disputed aged actress attract mild notice. Manager Faris is blamed for theft and flight to Louisville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny Wise
Opera House
Bloomington
The
Fair Sex
Roosevelt
Faris
Louisville Express
Johnny
Louisville
Stranded troupe aided by Bloomington relief effort
A traveling company left stranded after racking up debts and a late Monon train departure. Manager Finney formed a relief committee with New man Cravens Buskirk and the Telephone editor to aid the women and men, paying hotel bills and rail fare, sending some to Indianapolis Louisville and others home. The act sparked sympathy and a sense of duty among local sponsors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny Wise
Julius Ceasar
C. W. Finney
J. W. Gentry
J. D. Newman
Gentry
Oscar Cravens
George Buskirk
The
Telephone
Mr. Finney
Bundy
Martinsville
Bloomington
Indianapolis
Louisville
Pleads Not Guilty In Bloomington Murder Case
Joseph Fulkerson, who weeks ago shot and killed Gorman Lentz and wounded Tillman Lentz in a chicken theft quarrel, was arraigned before Judge Wilson and pleaded not guilty to first degree murder, claiming self defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Fulkerson
Gorman Lentz
Tillman Lentz
Wilson
Bloomington
W I Jordan Lumber Buys Oak Poplar and Walnut Logs
The W I Jordan Lumber Company offers best cash prices for White Oak Poplar and Black Walnut logs. They buy in woods or deliver to the mill yard and pay top cash within 15 miles of Bedford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. I. Jordan Lumber Company
Bedford
Cut Out For a Farmer Joke in Seymour Exam
A Seymour Democrat item recalls a humorous student answer during a school exam. Asked to differentiate fertile from sterile land, the pupil quipped that sterile land is not fertile, and fertile land is not sterile, but fertilizer can make sterile land fertile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
Seymour Democrat
Correction of False Pretense Act Bill Proposed
Senator Pearson drafted a correction to restore the missing phrase any false pretense in the false pretense statute. The act would allow prosecutions for fraud not limited to writing. The bill seeks suspension of rules to pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearson
Codifying Commission
Former Bedford Boy Drowned While Skating in Chicago
Eugene Cissna 18, formerly of Bedford, drowned after skating onto an open pond on Winneconna avenue near Seventy-eighth street. Police officer Walter Briggs and two companions attempted rescue as thin ice failed, and Cissna died after being pulled from the water. He lived at 680 West Seventy-ninth street, son of George Cissna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Eugene Cissna
Bedford
Winneconna Avenue
Seventy-eighth Street
Walter Briggs
Englewood
Cissna
West Seventy-ninth Street
Charles Santer
William Short
Kriggs
East 17Th Street
Old East Side
George Cissna
Good Done by Flood in Indiana Bottom Lands
Southern Indiana has endured heavy flooding with widespread damage to crops but reports a beneficial sediment layer on corn bottom lands. After floodwaters recede, soil deposits improve future corn yields, while wheat in flood-prone areas suffers. recent high water has damaged some acres in lowlands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Burned 10 Death Girl's Sad Fate
Miss Lela Todd of Salt Creek township Monroe county burned to death Monday while warming by a stove. Her dress caught fire, she crept under a bed in terror, and died at 3 PM after heroic attempts by her parents to save her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lela Todd
Clellan B. Todd
Salt Creek Township
Monroe County
Mrs. Todd
Miss Todd
Sam's rapid rise from laborer to baseball slugger
A Philadelphia recruiter offered $5 to entice Sam away from his ladder job and into baseball. Sam’s eager bat helped Danville defeat Indianapolis. The Indianapolis club signed him for $150 a month, and in his first game at Philadelphia he hit back to back home runs. He later played for Detroit and Philadelphia, building a reputation as a perennial slugger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Thompson
Detroit
Danville
Ind
Indianapolis
Thompson
Sam
Philadelphia
SNEEDER SNEEDS SAYS SEYMOUR FAMILY NEWS
Multiple deaths are reported from Seymour and nearby areas. Henry Sneeder and Dora Smith Sneeder of Bedford and Higgins families are noted. Annie Higgins of Oolitic dies at 23, leaving three children. Funeral details, burial places, and community reaction are described.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Sneeder
Seymour
Box Of Perfectos From Col. Sucese To Bedford Firemen
Bedford firemen received a box of fine 15 cent cigars at the station as a surprise gift from Superintendent Sucese of the Monon railway. The gesture thanked them for efforts to save his private car from a fire last Sunday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
Sucese
The
Monon
The Good Fellow and Political Spending
A Washington Democrat editorial critiques the notion of the “good fellow” in politics. It recounts a county treasurer in Evansville who caused a $65,000 shortfall, later repaid with help from friends, and notes a auditor named Dave Sherrick who repaid but still faced imprisonment. The piece condemns lavish campaign spending from church festivals to saloon entertainments as reckless, urging voters to choose candidates who spend the least to win, to avoid graft and ensure safe governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Dave Sherrick
Washington Democrat
Sheriffs Sale of Real Estate in Lawrence County Indiana
The sheriff offers for sale at public auction on February 23, 1907 at the Bedford courthouse door the rents and profits of Lot 15 Elams Addition Limestone now Oolitic for up to seven years to satisfy a $266.05 judgment. If rents insufficient the fee simple of the property may be sold subject to a mortgage in favor of Union Savings and Loan Association. The sale is exempt from valuation and appraisement laws. THOMAS W. BOX Sheriff. ALEXANDER and HARRIS Attorneys for plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Circuit Court
Indiana
Hattie Neavins
James Neavins
Bedford
Elam
Limestone
Oolitic
Union National Savings and Loan Association of Indianapolis
Circuit Court
Lawrence County
Union National Savings and Loan Association
Thomas J Bridwell
Wesley Bridwell
Notice to Katy Palmer Non-Resident in Indiana
In Lawrence Circuit Court February Term 1907 Citizens Trust Company of Bedford files complaint to quiet title in real estate in Lawrence County Indiana. Defendant Katy Palmer must appear by February third Monday 1907 at Bedford Court House to answer. otherwise judgment will be entered in her absence. Seal and date present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of County Commissioners
County Board of Health
Commissioners Room
Lawrence Circuit Court
William A. Johnston
Lawrence County
Indiana
William E. Clark
Lawrence
State of
Jora E. Carson
William F. Brooks
Adior
B. Lowe
Clifford A. Diefendorf
Jate
Thomas L. Kimbrel
A.P. Pearson
William H. Burton
Joseph Kurtzeman
Robert M. Parks
Court House
Bedford
Boone Leonard
Brooks & Brooke, Attys
Citizens Trust Company of
Srdewar
Sheriff Sale of Silverville Real Estate in Lawrence County
1907 sheriff sale to take place between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the south door of the courthouse in Bedford to auction rents and profits from the described Silverville parcels including parts of lots 15 16 17 18 31 32 in block two. If proceeds fail to cover decree costs, fee simple title may be sold as needed. Sale proceeds exempt from valuation or appraisement laws. Brooks and Brooks represent the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
Bedford
Silverville
Thomas W. Box
Lawrence County
Brooks & Brooks, Attys
Also Mentioned on This Page
Titik Bedford Mail
Fred B. Otis
Editors
Thomas J
Rooks
la & Brooks, Proprietor
Republican
Tose
Perline
Teleph
New Home Central Union
Ines
Monon Palace
Monon Station
Supt. Sucese
Cincinnati
Royal
Fayetteville
J. Headley & Sons Stone Company
Stinesville
Secretary of State
A. T. Hoadley
B. G. Hoadley
John Hoadley
Mr. Lang
Westerday
Tovey Cottage
South I Street
H. E. Monical
Williams
Fort Ritner
Lehigh
Brownstown
Mitchell
Kemps
House Committee On Agriculture
Ratliffe
Ohio River
Lawrenceburg
American Federation of Labor
Indiana House
Kleckner
Cass County
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway
Lehigh Portland Cement Company
Lawrencebury
David LaForce
West 15Th Street
John Allen
Heltonville
Charlie Todd
Hubert Martin
Clarence Crawford
Pinhook
Richard Bright
Otis Dowling
Cleo Williams
J. W. Hall
Orleans
Walter Etler
John Todd
Irene Hadley
Sullivan
S. N. Whitted
East 18Th Street
John W. Harvey
North M Street
Mort Corbin
West 17Th Street
Ruby Crawford
Lillie Weaver
South H Street
Louisa Disque
George M. Spray
South E Street
James Drake
Bertha
C. E. Crawford
Guthrie Township
Eva Stimson
Norman Station
Homer Ragsdale
W. H. Cosner
George Beddoe
Rutherford
N. J
Elmwood
John Martin
Indiana Reformatory
Daviess County
Frank Sum
Knights of Columbus
National Treasury
Water Street
New Albany
New Orleans
Wisconsin
Senate
E. E. Moore
Fayette County
Humane Societies
Bingham
James Norwood
Ohio
Norwood
Criminal Court
Martin County
Kurtz
Zelma
Oliver Lindley
Orange County
Lindley
Reformatory
Hays
Worthington
Greene County
Indiana University
Mack
Purdue University
Fassett A. Cotton
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
George Todd
Marshall Henderson
Trinity
W. H. Martin
Bert Batman
Ethel Martin
B. & O. Southwestern Railway
Democrat
Sneeder
Higgins
Annie Higgins
Patton Hill Cemetery
Clampitt
Willie Clampitt
Enoch Clampitt
Liberty
Rev. Freeman
New Light Church
Seattle
Elliott
Louise
Georgia
Mrs.Elliott
Duncan
L Street
Box of Perfectos
Col. Sucese
Sheriffs
Lawrence Co
Alexander & Harris
Plaintff
Dence
Sheriff’s Sale
Sheriffs Sale of
James H. Thomasson
Jesse Johnson
James R. Thomassor
Attorneys-At-Law
Bedford National Bank
E. S. Ferguson
Undertakers
East Side Square
Bedford, Ind
Brooks & Brooks
J. W. Trainor
East Side
Edford
Alli
C. H. Emery
Sye
Rar
W. 18Th Street
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