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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1915
Page
5
A birthday anniversary gathering was hosted at the home of Mrs James Newkirk. Relatives and friends joined the celebration with cake and warm wishes in attendance.
Officers elected include Berth Owens as President and Lilie Graham as Secretary Manager Addie Knight and Zora Askew join as members. The Dixon Parks friendship noted with a noon portrait and dinner among relatives. Temple of Dixon Park shines with growing flourishment as the anniversary year approaches.
North To street barber Bailey set up a joke with friend Karl Hill by filling a tobacco tin with powder. Bailey offered a pipe to Hill and triggered an exploded puff that burned Hill and Bailey and left both startled by the accidental blast.
The total rainfall for December 214 was 3.8 inches per County Agent C. J. Jones. Measurements taken daily at 8 am recorded a maximum daily precip of .76 inches on the 1th. Snow is included. 14 inches of fresh snow equals 1 inch of water. Normal Indiana rainfall is 40 to 41 inches annually.
Treasury advisers and lawmakers debate next steps to boost war revenues before March 4. Proposals include raising current war tax rates, extending the tax law, and reviving duties on sugar and wool. Some members favor Treasury notes or tariff changes to cover revenue gaps. Secretary McAdoo urges legislative action to increase government income.
Rev T A Goodwin argues Count John Lemanouski authored the 1818 Life of Bonaparte printed in Salem Indiana. He details Lemanouski Hotel lectures in the West and suggests printers Patrick and Booth in Salem produced the edition, with the political refugee hiding in America while the book circulated. Indianapolis Sept 5 T A Goodwin
Velward b Vernin of the Monon Railway testifies in a damage suit by Zier Boiler & Sheet Iron Co. against Monon and Missouri Pacific over alleged delay in shipping machinery to Tula Mexico. Three carloads were shipped two via El Paso and arrived safely. one via Laredo was held up. Cars were transferred to Missouri Pacific at St Louis. The case may not reach the jury before tomorrow.
Ben Harris, who fell from a wagon some time ago, initially believed no bones were broken but later found a fracture in the left arm. Dr. N J Mattox set the fracture. RE Shepherd of Bloomington promoted his bill boards posting efforts.
Virgil Beker of Williams owns in the city Friday. Mrs Lon Vineher ill at home on South G. Reed couple returned from Chicago. Barbara Tatum of Williams in city Friday shopping. Elza Jacksons daughter on N street ill. Cleo Brandon two year old on South G ill. Isaac D Adamson two miles west on Garvey road in city Friday. Mrs George Stoessel to join husband in Miami soon. Miss Bessie Moore ill in Indianapolis hospital improving. Jee Fisher back from French Lick. Mrs Charles Jones of Los Angeles visiting Ragsdales. Mrs N B Mattox ill with gallbladder inflammation slightly improved. Mrs Abbie Allen visiting brother Sam Scoggan and relatives. J N Deford en route to Yellowstone for sister’s illness. John W Wray and son from Bloomington visiting Wray family. Thomas McGuire evangelist stopping en route to Willow Valley for meetings. Mrs Lillie Aitchison en route home from Hed Cross to visit father John Thomason aged 75 with heart trouble. Mrs Milda Fisher visiting Bartlettsville to see Grandma Bartlett aged 80+. White river bass alert with new kind resembling lake bass.
Bedford High School announces seven additional games on its basketball schedule. The team will face opponents in upcoming contests, extending the season and testing depth for the squad.
The Bedford High School basketball team schedules seven more games this season and hopes to draw Thorntown and Lebanon to Bedford for a local floor matchup. Sectional play will be staged March 4 to 6 with 10 to 16 teams, leading to a state tournament March 12 and 18 in Bloomington. Bedford also sees a new industry, the Indiana Ground Limestone Company, near the Southeastern station east of Marley Drug Store, led by Ellsworth Wing of Oolitic, with cement foundations set and machinery being installed.
William C. Morrow of Lawrence County Indiana born April 4 1884 near the place grew to manhood married Nina Holmes December 25 1905. He and his wife joined First Baptist after embracing faith at Tabernacle, died December 30 1914 after nine days of suffering leaving a wife three children a mother two sisters and many friends in mourning.
The Morrow family expresses sincere thanks to friends for help during illness and death of their husband and father. Gratitude also extended to Mr Day the undertaker and the Baptist church pastor and church heir. Signed by Mrs William Morrow and family.
William Jackson of Paoli and his son John W. Jackson of Norman Station arrived in the city today. They are engaged in boring wells near Norman Station and were observed in town on business connected to their work.
Four men were arrested by Special Agent Scofield and assistant John A Hayes for stealing merchandise from Monon freight trains between South Hammond and Hammond. Hayes had pursued the thieves for weeks, and the capture may lead to trial under a new federal law targeting crimes in interstate commerce.
Miss Moran, guest of her sisters Mrs. O. M. Lemon and Miss Alice Morgan on West Fifteenth Street, has returned to Richmond where she teaches in the city schools. Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Garrett, guests of Mrs. Gauss in South I Street, have gone back to St. Joseph Missouri. Garrett remodeled the Gaussin flats into a modern space with double decked porches and extra rooms. Thomas McGuire, veteran Ma non conductor, and wife spent several days with Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Schafer. McGuire has been in charge of a mixed train in Quincy and has recently been off duty due to hot weather.
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