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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1915
Page
5
Nearly 1,900 Civil War veterans and their spouses were enrolled at the State Soldiers Home yesterday, bursting all prior registration records. The Lafayette Courier notes 1,430 members exist, with over 600 women among the new enrollees and challenges in feeding the crowd.
Peterina Dominguez, known as the corn king of Mexico, spoke at a Missouri Grain Dealers Association convention and outlined his method to lift corn yields from 25 to potentially 240 bushels per acre. He urged scientific farming, seed selection, soil moisture retention, and irrigation as keys to ending peon unrest and boosting national prosperity.
Indianapolis January 12 Representative William Haber mel of Corydon introduced a bill to classify druggists who sell liquor by the quarter as saloon vendors. It would require a $1000 license, force red poison labeling, and restrict sales to physician prescribed longhand orders kept on file. The measure would repeal the current allowance for druggists to sell quarts.
The BK. & O. SAW. branch curtails the section force between this city and Rivervale leaving Albert Lemmer as foreman with all track work to oversee to Rivervale. Bob Wicker of Bedford, famed in local baseball circles, is engaged to manage the Spokane, Washington team for the 1915 season. Embree and Darnell, gravel road viewers, visited the city with reports. Pension agent Samuel Simpson secured a $12 monthly pension for Mrs. Eliza Rine.
The article urges Indiana farmers to share distinct seed strains with the Soils and Crops Department at the Agricultural Experiment Station in Lafayette. It notes farmers now value pure seeds well adapted to local conditions and compares state efforts to cooperative programs in Sweden and Canada. C. C. Cromer urges growers to submit samples for germination and purity testing to guide recommendations.
In Indianapolis on January 22 the Spanish War Veterans proposed a bill to move Memorial Day from May 30 to the first Sunday in June to honor the sabbath. J W Fesler, past G A R commander, said the matter should be considered by their encampments at Marion and Washington before legislative introduction. The group may introduce the bill independently.
Mrs. D. M. Brown expresses heartfelt thanks to neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy during her husband’s illness and death. Ned lam out of Normiany returned home Friday after. Woodson a Station, sit with family.
Announcement records the marriage of Mr. Wendell Phillics of Bloomfield to Miss Aldah Quackenbush. The note marks their wedding event in the local community directory.
A quiet home wedding occurred Friday at six o'clock on West Ninth when Wendell Philips of Bloomfield married Aidah Il Quackenbush of aes at Eva Litton's 1612 Ninth Street home. Frank Tei officiated. Only a few friends attended. The groom works as a concrete construction worker. The couple will reside at their home they were married in.
W. Rosu ic, president of the Monon railroad, was the guest at a Lafayette banquet arranged by Sam Murdock. The event drew leading local business figures amid layoffs of 600 shop workers, signaling strain on the area's industry and finances.
A fire at 17th and Dunn streets yesterday afternoon burned down a small cottage owned by Homer Brannaman. The fire truck stalled in snow, delaying response. no water supply in the area left firefighters with no salvage. Loss estimated at $1,000 with no insurance.
Sheriff Walter Jones brings John Stewart to Bloomington from Jeffersonville after the November poolroom killing of Joan Ridley. Stewart’s trial is scheduled for February 5 before Judge R. W. Miers. Stewart is held in Jeffersonville Reformatory for safekeeping amid alleged escape plot concerns.
FAUT Mr and Mrs Wat Pearson received a box of grapefruit and oranges from Dr J R Pearson and wife in Miami Florida. Dock Hunnicutt from Norman Station and Sanford Hill from Williams were in the city Friday. Mrs Leonard Woody near the city is improving. A son named John Martin Lang Lang was born Friday to Mr and Mrs Arlen Lang of Hyland Park.
Bedford High School defeated Washington 41 to 10 in a rough Friday night game at the local gym. Emery could not play, substitutes filled in, and Ralph Wible left briefly after a knockout but returned. The Bedford second team fell 24 to 10 to Smithville in the curtain raiser.
Nearly 100 automobile concerns and twice as many accessory manufacturers exhibit at the Chicago show held at the Coliseum and First Regiment armory. The event, largely sourced from New York, runs a week with dealers planning conventions and hotels ready for expected crowds as lighter 1915 designs adopt streamlined aeronautic lines.
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