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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1900
Page
3
Local news includes multiple illness reports with names such as Joe Fillion Kate Heitger and Ewing Shields. Other items mention births legal notices and community events at Campbellsburg Bedford and Indianapolis. The Bedford Democrat marks its 25th anniversary with praise and notes travel and military updates from Manila via letters home.
A notice asks the finder of a ten dollar bill taken from a young man at Citizens National Bank to return it to the rightful owner to avoid trouble. David Y. Johnson signs the appeal.
Miss Ida Beevers visits in the city while C. H. Strupe serves as Deputy County Treasurer in Bridwell’s absence. Frank Reynolds and Nancy Waggoner obtain a marriage license. Otis Neel recovers after a skull fracture at Owensburg tunnel. The Salem Bedford Stone Co. completes a new tramway at their North Bedford mill. Charles Guthrie returns to Bedford after a short visit. Rev. Carr assists in Oolitic M E church meetings. Measles spread in Mitchell area. The Loogootee natural gas winter experience shows cold weather effects. Various local residents and visitors noted including Prof. F. P. Smith and Miss Daisy Smith preparing for Germany voyage.
The Oolitic News outlines a broad program including a bank, a new depot, more citizens, a public hall, an opera house, incorporation, churches, residences, another stone mill, more business rooms, street grading, an extra mail delivery, sidewalks, street lights, a town pump, an afternoon train, a fire department, and police officers to be elected.
Miss Belle Horsey and Mrs. Sallie Quackenbush are reported sick at home. Alfred Bowen, Oliver Holmes, John Branaman, Robert Gasoway, and Frank Silagie were in town on business or visiting. Miss Fannie Parker travels to Indianapolis for millinery. Mrs Homer Crawford and Lela Fipps are ill with catarrhal pneumonia. Marie Campbell shows improvement from pneumonia. Credit and business notes mention debts due by Feb 1 1900 and Tom Whipple visiting Bedford to expand his hat trade.
W M Dossins & Co advertise Cotton and Wool Blankets and Good Warm Underwear. Miss Etta Lay returns to Burns City from a long visit. George Corps learns of his son’s death in Dugger. Doyle Dilley and Samuel Chastain go to Memphis for work at the Memphis Foundry. The Ryman fruit distillery at Clifty, Washington county, is to be sold by administra tors.
The Indiana dispatch notes 2,500 new smallpox cases in Greene County and surrounding mining towns including Linton Island City Clay City and Campbellsburg with quar antine and mail fumigation urged. Officials caution on accuracy and report rapid contagion in the region.
Ray of Troop K 11th Cavalry writes from Manila in the Philippine Islands detailing supply shortages, Filipino-Chinese trade dynamics, and soldiers paying high prices for chicken. He mentions a forthcoming hike and notes General Lawton's death and the colonel taking command after the general's death.
Bishop Chatard forwards 1899 diocesan report to Rome detailing 161 churches in Southern Indiana with 184 priests. 112388 Catholics and 14612 parochial-school children. Baptisms total 3184 with 225 adults. 1389 deaths incl 393 infants. Religious orders include 195 brothers and 1348 sisters run schools and hospitals.
A weekly update reports illnesses including H. J. Taylor with mumps and several sick family members. Death of Jas. Richardson after months of illness. Barn accident injures Uncle Wm. Simpson. A baby dies of pneumonia and a late Nelson Roberts sale is planned for March 8 1900. Oil field preparations begin as weather allows. Doctors visit Tunnelton. Margaret Ferguson remains critically ill.
Hog sales by Eli Woolery to D. M. Hughs and a mule sold by Frank Foster to G. W. Zollman for 65 dollars are noted. N. G. C. Plummer resigns from the Insane Hospital. U. G. Loutermilk moves near Sparksville. Plummer bruises his knee. Ira Sullivan lockers his corn crib with a 4Qc lock and finds leather hinges. Smallpox scare spreads. Dr Vernylis vaccinates Hinderliter family. Mrs Ollie Hinderlitter found shells from the Philippines. Doctors Freeland Johnson and M. W. Wilson consult on W. S. Plummer, a surgery proves too late. W. S. Plummer born August 16 1848 died January 24.
In 1900, a Bedford resident died from peritonitis. Funeral services were conducted at the Church of Christ by W. B. Chrisler, with burial in the new cemetery nearby.
One year ago God called Ralphiel Ash son of John and Mrs. Ash died January 31 1899 aged 29 years six months. The family mourns with wife father mother four sisters and four brothers. A funeral mood of faith and heaven awaits the departed. Workmen install extensive machinery in Belt Shops.
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