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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1900
Page
6
A historical dispatch describes economic decline tied to political movements in the countryside. It notes business failures, fruit and vine losses, and weakening markets as climate and planters face hardship. Report highlights changes in weather and farming progress including oats, potatoes, rye, and mire growth.
Maryland leaders from business law and finance, including William Keyser John E Cowen H A Parr and John A Hambleton head the gold Democrats who controlled the state four years ago and will back McKinley again They oppose the 16 to 1 plank and anti expansion resolves in the Kansas City platform The Baltimore Sun repudiates Bryan while Charles J Bonaparte says he will vote for McKinley and Roosevelt urging defeat of Bryan as a safeguard for American institutions credit and decency.
Telegraphic notes report Gen Diaz's reelection in Mexico while noting allied concerns. Other items include the late Vice President Hobart estate appraisal of 82044.44, unrest in India and China over the Boxers, U S troop movements to the Philippines and China, and various domestic political notes. Indiana figures and a local obituary are also listed, with details on a Mayfield bridge robbery and local court rulings.
Weather allows thrashing and harvesting progress across crops. Peas are being canned, wheat threshing continues with poor yields, timothy harvest starts, peaches ripen, and apples drop yet show promise. Pasture and stock conditions remain good.
Republican leaders from Saxon county press for Theodore Roosevelt to join the ticket and plan a state tour with his return home Sunday. The party, awaiting a fall campaign of oratory, vows to arrange major speeches and big-name speakers after September 1 to build momentum for the Indiana trip and statewide events.
Monon extra 210 stock train struck two tramping youths near New Albany, killing John Beckwith and severely injuring John Boyce. The boys from Indianapolis were sitting on the track awaiting a passenger train when struck. Beckwith must have his leg amputated, Boyce survived with injuries.
Advertisements tout Electric Bitters for complexion and nerves, Hall's Catarrh Cure with a money back clause, and Foley's Kidney Cure. Local society notes report weddings, visits, repairs, and a lampoon of a political figure. Readers are urged to attend sea shore excursions and to follow regional church lectures on Mohammedanism.
Washington Ind letters confirm Hon P R Wadsworth will attend the 27th Indiana reunion to be held five miles east of Bedford on August 16. He praises Union soldiers and expresses pride in his country and in his father’s service. He notes his past public stance in support of veterans.
Mr A Sanders writes from Cocoanut Grove Florida that there has been no epidemic of diarrhoea. He reports a severe attack cured by four doses of Chamberlains Ulic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and recommends it to others who call it the best medicine they ever used. Druggist Charles Holzhauer of Newark says it is safe and reliable for coughs colds or hoarseness and that Elliott's Drug Store sells it.
Advert shows Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for skin eruptions, fever sores, ulcers, boils, warts, cuts, burns, chilblains and more. Claims cure for piles and various pains. price 25 cents a box. sold by Messick and Dodd, druggists.
An advertisement extols Banner Salve as the quickest cure for sprains sores burns wounds and skin conditions with testimonial attribution to W C Elliott and F M Kern noting broad farm use a bold sales pitch without specific claims or medical endorsements.
Ajunz Flinn aged 17 drowned at a White river sand bar near Indian ford while mussel hunting. Halbert and Lawrence Sheeks retrieved the body with a boat and hook. Coroner held an inquest and the funeral was led by John W. Harris at the Carlton graveyard. Born last Saturday to Benjamin Harris and wife a daughter.
Mrs Will Culmer is recovering from a weeklong heart trouble. Isabelle Proctor and children from Harrodsburg visit Betty Holmes and relatives. Boone Rainbolt of Bloomfield visits Dr Cyrus Louder. Magpie Marsey visits Sam Louder at Jonesboro. Popcorn and Tinothicum chapel hold Sunday meetings. Margaret Short of Springville and Grace Dodd of Bedford visit J T Beard. Parker family and others gather at Marshall Faucett’s for ice cream and socializing. Ruth Armstrong visits Bloomfield friends. Lindsey Jackson and Kirkman brothers harvest fifty nine rats, a strong yield. Jessie Davis sore from a recent tooth extraction. Lizzie Blackburn celebrated birthday with relatives and friends, dinner under the trees and social time. Guests: Bart Moore family, Mrs Gideon Pafford, Mrs Jeanie George and baby, Mrs Sentney Adamson and family, Mrs Sarah Adams and son Reed Marsey and wife, J T.
Farmers in the area are Dusy cuttoy oats. Mrs. N iJ Kerb is improving. Prank Jones and family of Orlith visited a brother here. J.M Potter went to Bedford Tuesday. Faith here visits relatives at home. Mr. and Mrs. Doc Hackler spent Sunday with Hackler parents near Silverville. B. A Kern went to Bedford Saturday. Jas Vorhees of Maul Ridge passed en route to Bedford. Mrs Fulty went to Dark Hollow Tuesday afternoon. J. & Pace of Bedford were here Monday evening. Si Pierce and wife of Avoca visited Sunday evening. Perry Lynn spent Saturday night with a Maul Ridge friend. Daniel Jones and family went to Oolitic Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jordan went to Dark Hollow Tuesday. Theodore Fields of Odon is visiting relatives here. Jesse Kern went to Bedford Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Whitman of Bedford visited relatives near here Sunday. Mrs. Henry Lawrence of Oolitic spent Friday night with her parents at Maul Ridge. Mr and Mrs Opal Jackson were guests of Jacksons parents here Sunday. J. M. Potter and wife visited Trippleton relatives Sunday. Theo Craig and family of Bedford passed here Saturday en route to Silverville.
James Henderson and wife of Brownstown visiting R M Henderson and wife. Mrs Angeline and Eftie Holmes visited Misa Helle Wray. Miss Martha McHargue returned home for a brief visit. T J Holmes sold fruit at Bedford. N C Plummer spent last week at Bedford handling fruit. Misa Eva Nsham, 35, of the area, died by self inflicted gunshot near her grandmother’s barn after leaving home with a revolver and shotgun. Coroner Veasy summoned. note found but contents not released. Funeral set for tomorrow at Landing Spur Cemetery near Medora.
G C Smith accepts timekeeper role for Bedford and Williams gravel road and shows good pace this week. Residents from Normav Oolitic and Bedford join Fourth of July river celebration with a floating dining hall and large crowd. Notables include Frank Byers, Gert Byers, Henry Weir, Rainbolt, Ira Ferguson family, Rev Litvia Adamson visiting Burns City, and Troley salesmen. Local rail work by S L foreman George Perdieu noted amid hay harvest and oat crops on Fultz farm.
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