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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1913
Page
4
Otis and Brooks announces staff roles with Suomas J Brooks as editor Fred Db Otis as managing editor Bert C Wicker as news editor and circulation manager Harry Askew as society editor Curt Jocelyn as society editor and contact number 269 and 887.
The Friday February 28 1913 issue lists subscription costs of 1.25 dollars per year within the county and higher rates outside. Advertising rates cover display ads with tiered per inch charges, including special terms for multiple insertions and notices.
Judge Swails, presiding over the January term, concluded the busy session Saturday after a week of little jury activity. He commended jurors on their hard work as most business was termed and the docket largely cleared despite a slow period.
Mitchell business men form the Mitchell Credit Rating Association to reduce losses this winter. The plan, not a blacklist, will rate customers like merchants in commercial reports. Prompt payers receive good ratings, while those who carry balances or default risk poorer ratings after payday.
A Bryantsville resident said a franchise request may come soon for a new telephone line to this city. Some subscribers report trouble with the local company and delays in service while Bryantsville must deal with Mitchell and Williams for all business.
Otis Wemer appeared in Lawrence circuit court and pleaded guilty to using a handcar without permission. He was fined $10 and costs by Judge Swails and given a fifty day jail sentence, suspended on condition of future good behavior.
Gov. Ralston expresses anger over Senate caucus delay on the Public Utilities Commission measure and moves to have the bill debated on the floor. He says the bill is vital, needs openness, and will issue a message outlining reasons for taking it out of caucus.
John W. Staggs of Oolitic pled guilty to illegal sale of liquor in an old indictment. He was fined 50 dollars plus costs by Judge Swails. The charge stemmed from an indictment returned earlier.
Chief of Police Woodruff was notified Saturday to alert officers after thieves rifled two Campbellsburg stores and three Saltillo stores. A black horse reported stolen at Campbellsburg was replaced by a gray horse likely taken elsewhere, indicating multiple thefts.
Guy Goens a nineteen year old man was found guilty by a jury and Saturday sentenced to the Indiana Reformatory for two to fourteen years. He shot Marshal Wes Walker during an attempted arrest after causing trouble at a Mitchell church Christmas event. his home is listed as Missouri.
The Stone City Bank prepares a countywide corn raising contest for boys. Details to be announced later. Boys will receive a fine grade of corn to plant and judges will determine the best crop.
Twenty four senior class members attended a Friday evening gathering at the home of Misses Nellie and Alice Ray on West 14th Street. Red and white decor carried the school colors. Carnations adorned the parlors as guests played a peanut hunt and listened to music. Refreshments of brick ice cream and cake were served.
A. Thomas Hawkins and Ada Ethel Evans of Oolitic were married in the county clerk’s office Saturday by Mayor Fields.
Albert Marcus, a former Lafayette boy riding Monon train No. 3 from Chicago to Lafayette, spotted two men hanging from the vestibule handles. He alerted conductor Charles Moore, who dragged them back inside the moving coach before they could fall. The exhausted men had ridden outside for nearly twenty minutes and believed the crew would stop the doors.
Otis Fisher, a former Loogootee resident living in Muncie, was shot and seriously wounded in a drugstore by Doris Underwood a Hartford City public school teacher. Fisher’s father Joseph ran a Loogootee boarding house. the family moved to Muncie four years ago. Fisher denies Underwood’s claim that she acted to avenge a younger sister.
Bloomington officials secured a 5 000 damage ruling after the appellate court refused to transfer the case to the Supreme Court. Mrs Woodsworth sued after a fall at Seventh Street crossing of the Monon rail line, the city paying the judgment and then suing the railroad for reimbursement.
John Henning aged 50 died Thursday night at his home two miles east of Harrodsburg after several weeks illness. He leaves a widow and many children, plus a brother and sister. Funeral services were at 2 PM Friday with interment at Mt. Ebal.
Dr. Carrol Ray longtime Nevada physician prepares to establish practice in Oolitic. He is brother of Mrs. Robert Younger of Leatherwood vicinity and son of Jonathan Ray formerly of this county.
The Muncie Press denounces female crime linked to the suffrage movement, arguing that some women criminals imitate male criminals and engage in dynamitings and mob activity to disguise their motives as advocacy for women’s rights.
Mrs J W Beard reports steady improvement after going to Albuquerque New Mexico last fall for her health and says she has not been sick since arriving Ira George began building a bungalow at 15th and 6th streets for his own use and will add a rear house for rental purposes
Medora Shale Brick Company sends a brick via parcel post to be used in building a brick house at the Coliseum Chicago for the Clay Products Exposition February 26 to March 8. Twenty five thousand bricks will be mailed from all plants to showcase Parcel Post merits and the house will be given away after the fair.
The Supreme Court expands Sherman Act interpretation guiding DOJ to dissolve monopolies. As the Taft administration nears end, eighty-one prosecutions of restraints of trade have been brought, with notable victories including Standard Oil and the St. Louis Railway Terminal. The period sees a mail delivery brick house experiment by Medora Shale Brick Co. to illustrate a new construction method.
Seymour B and O railway crew rerailed an engine in Mitchell yards Thursday night and returned to Seymour Friday afternoon. No damage occurred when the engine left the track.
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