Local News Briefs Highlight Community Figures in Seymour
Mrs A H Bridwell visits Indianapolis. Red Cross member N G Guins visits. Mrs Frank Brooks visits Camphbellsburg relatives. Postmaster E C Butler of Erie attends to business. Several residents relocate or seek local offices. A driver and a clockmaker noted. Prominent candidates for township offices announced. Nat A Hill leaves for Mexico to assess Ubero Coffee Co. Otis Noel injured at Owensburg tunnel. doctors trepanned skull and inserted plate.
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Local notes from Seymour and county races
W C Young visits Seymour on business Monday. O P M Davis runs for County Councilmen. Mrs Geo Helmes ill at home on O Street West Bedford. Bert Underwood moves back from Indianapolis. Freddie Helmes improving after illness. Receipt of illustrated Telluride Journal from L C McShane. J R Pope visits Bloomington to assess taxables. Y’s host taffy pulling at Mrs O M Cosner’s Jan 16, bring sugar. Licenses issued to Koetter McKinney. Hutchison Bond. Covey Wilkison. Mathews Consalus. Tilghman Wallace to New York for Red Cross South Africa service. Revs Felix W DeMunbren and Franklin attend local duties. Jackson Bridges bound over for shooting Elmer Howell. Bill Howell pending. Driftwood church sermons. Rev Franklin to serve next year. Legal cases from Mitchell Everitt feud. 11 before Scott Circuit Court. Judge Chrisler receives a deer head and skin from son Stanley in Mississippi. T A Dickason buys 27 acres from Samuel Mitchell for 2750 in Crafton stone district. Charles H Dunihue announced as Sheriff candidate in Republican Primary.
Bedford man flags unpaid Bloomington building stock taxes
J. R. Pope of Bedford, visiting the city, told The World Courier that Bedford residents own Building Association stock in Bloomington firms and failed to list it. He says Assessor Morgan’s books show over 17 000 dollars of such property should be taxed in Lawrence county. He insists on enforcing the law to prevent evasion.
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Gone With a Handsomer Man
George Bean a coal shoveler reports his wife left on the 2 oclock S I train with their daughter and 70 dollars. He suspects another man enticed her and asks for the money after notifying Columbus police. no sign of the wife yet.
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Indiana
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Bean
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Underskirts On Sale In Varied Prices
Special advertising listing underskirts in multiple price points from 6.00 to 0.98 and 4.98 3.00 to 2.50 with several low sale prices. Includes references to other items at 2.48 and 1.25 and notes “special sale.”
Bedford City News In Brief Items from Many Hands
W. M. Dobbins & Co and Mortimer Crabb of Erie in town Wednesday. Basil Lee and wife to Saltillo Friday. Aaron D. Pless of Mitchell over Saturday forenoon. Henry Burton of Orleans in town on business. M. Z. Stannard of Jeffersonville in town Saturday. Geo. B. Ross of Pleasant Run in town Friday. Lentz couple visiting Toronto relatives. Stanley Chrisler reports a 120 lb deer kill near Edwards Mississippi. Grant Armstrong ex Justice of the Peace in town Friday. L. M. Cox and daughter Verna of Bedford visiting friends. Ella Russell returns from Bono. C A Knight sold barber shop. no barber in North Bedford. Judge Alexander to sit on Dennis Wray vs Bloomington case set ninth day. Hugh Bass’s houses damaged by fire insured with James Chesnut. claims settled Friday. James Stalcup drummer injured in freight car incident. North Bedford to build stone walks in spring. Wm A Ragsdale vs Wm Murphy et al suit. change of venue granted. tried before Judge Stephenson. J M Stone deputy sheriff brought George Troy to Bedford on warrant for desertion. trial next Saturday.
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Hamer and Day Form New Furniture and Undertaking Firm
Walter W. Day buys half interest in J. F. Hamer's furniture and undertaking business creating the firm Hamer & Day. Both men are licensed embalmer funeral directors and well known in the county, with Day formerly with Hodge & Day. They aim for a prosperous future in the city and surrounding area.
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Hamer & Day
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Hodge & Day
Local residents noted in city news and court action
Wm. Lamb of Bartlettsville and George Allen of Erie were in the city on business. Several residents are ill or recovering, with pneumonia and a stroke reported. A newborn at the Beecham home near Oolitic and a 10 pound girl born to M. O. Hert and wife are mentioned. Wm. McCain, charged with larceny, posted bond of 200 dollars. Theodore Heiger will work in Louisville with florists. The Salem Bedford Stone Co sues John Walsh of Montgomery marble.
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Local notices and community updates from Bedford and surrounding areas
An old established Bakery and Confectionery is for sale due to bad health. Samuel Simpson of Millerstown discusses his political race and Monon station traffic in 1899. Charles Lanz and Otis Fry plan a planing mill near the Monon round-house focusing on house patterns. Dan Guthrie pays a month’s wages to local workers. Lew Ferguson and Mrs. C A Rariden visit Erie for ailing sister Mrs. George Glover and daughter Antionette. James Shaner, 20, sentenced to prison for assaulting Eva Allen. Virgil Corbin’s 21st birthday surprise supper with friends. George B. Ross announces candidacy for County Commissioner Second District.
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Charleston
Ind
Otis Fry
Jeffersonville
Lew Ferguson
C. A. Rariden
Erie
George Glover
Miss Antionette
Washington, Ind
James Shaner
Eva Allen
George B. Ross
Mr. Ross
Smallpox Epidemic Spreads in Indiana County Areas
State health officials seek federal approval to disinfect mails in Clay and Washington counties amid a smallpox outbreak. Fifty cases reported in Lesterville. cases traced from Clay County into Owen Sullivan Daviess and Greene counties. Schools closed in Clay City. other public venues shut down. Officials warn of possible deaths and strict quarantines. Local outbreaks impact Indianapolis and nearby towns. timber mills resume around the region.
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Sweeney to Speak in Bedford on True Standard of Greatness
The Disciples' giant Mr. Sweeney will lecture in Bedford tonight on The True Standard Of Greatness. He has led Indiana civic religious and literary efforts, serving as Indiana Anti Liquor League president, Christian Sunday-school head, American Christian Missionary Society vice president, Butler University chancellor, and Indiana fisheries and game commissioner. He authored Under Two Flags and contributed to magazines.
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Turkey
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Raeburn in trouble after box car robbery near Seymour
Mitchell news reports Stanley Raeburn, arrested by Marshal Thickston and jailed in Brownstown after robbing a ride in a box car near Seymour. Father Charles Raeburn is noted for supporting him through prior scrapes. family casts him as enterprising yet troubled.
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Seymour
Marshal Thickston
Brownstown
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Charles Raeburn
Railroad Racket and Belt Shops Progress Highlight Indiana News
The Southern Indiana and Belt lines push major upgrades with new lights, depots, and water tanks. Crews haul 150 cars of cross ties, rebuild track inside city limits, and straighten tunnels from Mitchell to Willlow Valley as part of a multi million dollar overhaul.
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Kurtz
Freetown
Norman Station
Local Classified Listing Fragment from Heitger Block Ad
An irregular OCR snippet shows a Chicago classified entry near Dobbins Hardware, with a phone number 733 and partial pricing data such as 10.95 and 10.80. The text references opening and closing figures, a 65 percent figure, and mentions Fanuar and 1900 in garbled form, indicating a damaged advertisement block.
Berle Mabrey Works At Citizens National Bank
Berle Mabrey is employed at the Citizens National Bank handling daily banking tasks and customer service duties.
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