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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1906
Page
4
Dr Gillespie offers treatment for chronic diseases including brain heart lungs throat eye stomach liver kidneys and diabetes with a written guarantee. New method applies medicine directly to diseased parts and distant treatment is possible with examination guidance. Contact W R Mayo M D or W B Gillespie in Indianapolis Indiana.
Louisville hosts Home Coming Week June 13 through June 17 welcoming about one hundred thousand Kentuckians. Festivities include receptions Foster and Daniel Boone Day events with a Foster statue unveiling, Great Kentucky Day barbecues and a Sunday pulpit fill by former Kentuckians. Henry Watterson delivers welcome address with David R. Francis responding.
Monarch Stone company of Bloomington dominated by Methodist preachers elected new officers Friday night. Officers chosen include President Dr J H Doddridge Vice President Dr L F Dimmitt Secretary Carl Breeden Treasurer and general manager W T Breeden Directors Dr Doddridge Dr Dimmitt L T Bower J H Newman T J Louden W T Breeden and Carl Breeden Supt Sewall Avery.
Citizens complain the city takes no action as a dead cat lies in the gutter at J and Fifteenth streets for two days. The street commissioner could stop the garbage wagon there for public health. Also: Jasper N. Solliday of Salem jailed on twenty three indictments for illegal alcohol sales. Henry Streaker, William Stanley, and George Golden arrested on similar charges. Solliday says he acts under a five-gallon law and will challenge the prosecution.
The court held that a $6,000 claim of illegally paid fees to former Perry County Auditor Martin F. Casper, settled for $1,425 with county commissioners, does not bar taxpayers from suing to recover remaining sums. The judgment releasing Casper was reversed and the case remanded for trial.
The State Board of Health bulletin reports 236 deaths from consumption in December in Indiana, including 63 married women and 128 children under 12 left motherless. Total state deaths reached 2,657 with varied causes and city, county death rates noted. There were five murders, 118 accidental deaths, and 34 suicides by carbolic acid among men and women.
State factory inspector Mc Abee files annual report with the governor showing 1905 employment in Indiana factories and shops at 190,438, including 31,436 women and girls up from the previous year. The gain is attributed to two large male-only factories closing. The report notes health and moral protection concerns and requests limits on hours for cash girls and messenger boys, plus a ban on under 14-year-olds in certain jobs. Forty five boys aged 14 to 16 were injured. overall accidents declined due to active factory inspection.
The state appeals from Marion criminal court in the William H. Lowry cigarette case to Indiana Supreme Court. The issue is whether cigarettes sent into Indiana from another state fall under interstate commerce or state police laws. Judge Leathers ruled Lowry could not be held as the cigarettes were brought from another state.
Bedford and Bloomfield trains face ridicule over slow service. George Mathes, Monon track foreman, rode to Owensburg tunnel, stopped 15 miles east to buy tobacco, and the Bloomfield train pulled away. He later walked back, hoping to overtake the train, while passengers laughed at the mishap.
A new burglar alarm completed Tuesday at the Martin County Bank is now in full operation. The device is described as the finest made with reliable mechanism ensuring it never fails to function. J. R. Pope, a local owner of the patent, says he is satisfied with its performance and the added precautions will deter burglary at the bank.
Sheriff Hough rushes to Arthur Young residence after a tel ephone alert. A mob of eight armed Italian laborers working for the Indianapolis Southern Railroad surrounded the house demanding food. The sheriff and deputies arrived after a horseback dash to find the group besieging the home. eight arrests followed with no bloodshed.
An educated Shetland pony owned by John Trailer of Princeton escaped Tuesday night and swallowed a gallon jar of yeast used for bread making. Trailer hitched the animal to a wagon and started a drive. the pony swelled and suffocated before reaching home.
A revolver shot near the cemetery and a physician hastily driving toward the scene prompted fears of tragedy. Sheriff Box investigated and found boys in an old stable fired the shot while the doctor rushed to treat a patient nearby with heart trouble.
Lands and town and city lots in Lawrence County Indiana remain delinquent for 1900 and prior years with taxes for 1905, to be sold at the Bedford courthouse on the second Monday in February. Governor J Frank Hanly spoke at the Indiana Reformatory in Jeffersonville on Carnival Day, urging self control and duty, with inmates attentive and moved.
Government tests at St Louis show Indiana coal as the nation’s top steam coal spurring interest from manufacturers nationwide. The Indiana Harbor site is chosen by American Steel Company. freight logistics to Lake Michigan are noted as manageable. Senator Hemenway seeks Interior Department guidance on continuing coal testing and outcomes. J E Scheller learns his mother is dying in Green Bay. Dr John R Pearson to attend four month surgical course in Indianapolis then return to Bedford.
State of Indiana and Lawrence County certify a true statement of delinquent land, city and town lots as returned by Curtis E. [official signature and details unreadable] transferred to proper authority for collection.
Fragmentary daily timetable text shows times such as 6 a.m. 1:30 p.m. 12:50 p.m. 4:25 p.m. 4:50. Mentions weekdays with unclear context.
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