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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1907
Page
2
A quiet blanket remonstrance circulates against liquor licenses in Lawrence county. Signers doubt enough may be gathered to block licenses. Many question if total prohibition works, noting liquor is often sold despite laws. Some prefer closing worst saloons but fear bootlegging follows outlawing all licensed venues.
Representative Chaney argues for Indiana limestone in the Bedford building project calling it superior durable and cost effective at under 9000. He rejects foreign materials and urges postponement if the best local stone cannot be used. Bloomington site talks stall as Treasury officials hold property talks.
Navy departments plan the gradual transfer of the entire sixteen ship Atlantic fleet to Pacific waters over the next fifteen to sixteen months. Official moves aim to safeguard Chinese integrity while avoiding an unfriendly act toward Japan. Coal shipments will increase and Pacific dockyards expanded as ships are overhauled.
Policy indicates a reversal of the long favored Pacific posture as the Navy plans to recover battle ships from the Philippines. Officials acknowledge past errors in deploying battleships and foresee extensive adjustments to fleet distribution across oceans. Changes follow a broader reassessment of international relations and potential war theaters.
Preparations for construction on the Chicago division have started after prior reports of delays. Workmen are being assembled and negotiations for a 2.5 million loan to cover debts and lay 40 miles of track are concluded. Three million dollars of Chicago Southern note payments are held at Girard Trust. A 90 day limit is set to complete the division, with freight service to Chicago in that timeframe.
Sheriff Irwin Cox with two deputies leaves Colum to pursue reports of a whitecapping incident in Bartholomew County. William Thomas Vanest, a South Bethany blacksmith, was whipped by eight men, three believed to be his brothers in law. Investigators seek to verify claims that Monroe County men traveled by train to Bloomingon Helmsburg and Nashville, then returned early Sunday. Vanest improves from a nervous shock after illness.
Compiled from weather bureau records, this data shows July conditions over 36 years including normal temp 76, warmest 82 in 1901, coldest 72 in 1891. It notes highs 106 on July 22 1901, lows 48 on July 1 1885, average precipitation 4.10 inches and greatest 13.12 inches in 1875 with 10.0+ days of measurable rain.
Abner Dobbins walking near the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern tracks at North Vernon found a brake rod jammed into a switch frog. He removed it just before a freight train passed, the rod having been dropped earlier. Had it remained, a serious wreck could have occurred.
William Ross who was accidentally killed at the Monon yards in Bloomington Friday night and whose funeral was held Sunday at Bartlettsville carried a life insurance policy for 1300 in the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
The state board of health issues a circular on sunstroke prevention and treatment. Two sunstroke deaths in Indiana the week of June 1. Advice includes avoiding heat, drinking water, temperance, eating lightly, and protecting workers from sun exposure. If symptoms arise call a physician and use cooling measures while awaiting help.
Public notices reveal E H Harriman orders full details of railroad accidents on Union Pacific Southern Pacific and Oregon lines be released to press. Outsiders may attend board hearings and comment on findings. Also reported are open hearth steel rails on the horizon and the death of Andrew J Rhodes Paoli leader and ex county treasurer.
Sunday forenoon the Planermen defeated the Stone Cutters 17 to 4 in an exciting baseball game. The Stone Cutters were led by 50-year-old Jacob Bowers who delivered well. Bedford topped Brownstown 9 to 7 at Washington Park in the Sunday afternoon matchup witnessed by a large crowd. Leig yielded 12 hits, the most this season, and Bedford had 7 hits off McElfresh. Bun threw from deep center to nip Smith at first, forming the feature of the game.
Hunters prepare for the season as the open period for squirrels runs until November 1 and woodcock hunting begins. The license process mirrors marriage in requiring a signed blank form, endorsements from officials, and payment of a one dollar fee to the county clerk. Licenses may be mailed with postage or picked up in person, with penalties up to 25 dollars fine and over 50 dollars in costs for violations.
John Beard Jr aged 25 drowned Sunday evening at eight while swimming with friends near the old fair grounds reservoir in Bloomington owned by the Monon railroad. He fell from a springboard into sixteen feet of water, efforts to revive him failed. Beard recently moved from Greensburg and left a wife and sister. Funeral services were held Tuesday in Greensburg with interment there.
Belief that the Georgian Legislature under Prohibitionists will pass a ban leads two large potteries, whose output served the liquor trade, to close. Since sessions began, orders for over 35,090 jugs are canceled and a wood working firm with $20,000 in bar fixtures orders has been canceled by telegram today.
In Guthrie the Children’s Day program on June 30 at 7 30 p m drew a packed house and praise for Mrs Pink Younger and assistants. The performance featured songs, declarations and dialogues promoting Missionary work with an offering near six dollars. The event was orderly, reverent, and considered a most successful village entertainment. Letters for the week ending June 29 1907 list names of ladies and gentlemen requesting advertised letters.
Miss Ethel Jones of Terre Haute sues the Big Four Railway for 100000 damages over injuries from a powder car explosion at Sandford in January. She recently left the hospital, one eye sight lost and disfigured by glass. Only seven damage suits have been filed despite thirty injured and fifteen dead. The report also notes heavy Chicago mail order advertising in the county and contrasts home merchant advertising versus out of town firms. Mrs. Edward Morrison visited Mitchell and stayed with Rev. and Mrs. Porter after attending a reception at their home.
In 1907 Walsh gains control of railroad properties despite bank seizures. After months of negotiations and threats, clearance house withdrawals allow Walsh to push expansion including a 174 mile Terre Haute to Chicago link. Construction crews start near Chicago and Terre Haute as trial looms, while a 68 mile south segment nears completion.
Indiana inspectors led by John Owens report widespread use of preservative methods such as Freeze em Preserva and similar techniques in Tipton Elwood Attica Williamsburg Covington Veedersburg Williamsport and Lafayette. Twelve to fifteen prosecutions occurred with first offense fines of ten dollars plus costs. Inspectors tested forty eight milk samples at Mulberry Ballard station finding thirty eight percent under butter fat requirements.
A party from Bedford will come to the city after spending several days at the Big Eel club house on White River. The group includes Misses Lillie Miles Genevieve Isemin ger Mabel Highland and Messrs W L Miles Will Walls and Mr and Mrs H S Badgett.
Well known in stock circles for prolific breeding and profitable feeding. We have for sale several brood sows and gilts bred for September farrow, males ready for service, and weanling pigs. Pedigree provided with all stock. Call and inspect stock. Correspondence solicited.
A certified copy of a decree from the Circuit Court of Lawrence County directs the sale of property in the Union National Savings and Loan Association case against Mattie J. Cuyse and others. The sale will settle 615.98 dollars plus interest and costs, offered to the highest bidder at public auction.
State of Indiana Lawrence Circuit Court May Term Complaint No 6057 by attorneys C W Nichols and J J M LaFollette against John Hert who is not a resident of Indiana. He must appear on the first day of the September term 1907 at Bedford Court House to answer or demur or the complaint will be heard in his absence. Seal of Clerk Boone Leonard.
Between ten oclock a m and 460 oclock p m on the day at the south door of the court house in Bedford the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years of Lot 45 in Lincoln Park addition to Oolitic. If not enough to pay decree interest and costs the fee simple of the real estate will be offered at public auction. THOMAS W BOX Sheriff Lawrence County Brooks Brooks Attorneys. $10.
Carrie Parrott versus John G. Parrott and others seeks response by the first day of the next Term of the Lawrence Circuit Court to be held September 1907 at Bedford Court House in Bedford County Indiana.
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