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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1908
Page
3
Doors open at 8 30 o clock and two week sale offers bargain prices on clothing yard goods and linens with extra staff and large merchandise. Yellow Ticket shoppers can buy limited yard amounts at set prices including Calicos ginghams and cambrics plus mill ends and curtain nets. Penny worth goods are warranted and returns issued if dissatisfied with purchases.
An explanation announces a sale of short lengths and odd pieces bought direct from factories by weight. Goods are good merchandise but consist of loom overages and remnants offered at underpriced rates.
An old advertisement lists 25c items for 50c lawn dressing specials. The fragment mentions Sac and 3 oD ques, indicating a local sale item cluster and promotional pricing.
Mill End lists gloves with notable prices. Long black and white silk gloves at 1.75 dollars, silk gloves in white black tan slate at 98 cents, second silk at 39 cents, Lisle gloves in white black tan slate at 25 cents.
Mill end sale lists Petticoats at Simon silk price of 3.98 after 6.00. Heatherbloom petticoats drop from 2.50 to 1.75. Imitation Heatherbloom petticoats priced at 0.98 from 1.50.
Listing shows gingham fabrics by the yard with price cuts. Apron ginghams 4c per yd. Mill Ends of 15c ginghams 9c. Mill Ends of 16c ginghams 6c. Bulk sale emphasis on low prices for remnants.
Dress skirts are discounted at Mill End with several tiers. Silk banded woolen skirts reduced to 5.98 from 10. Panama skirts drop from 7.50 to 4.98. Five dollar skirts now 3.98 and four dollar skirts 2.98. A few remaining items close out at 1.98 from 4.00.
Local store features jackets at reduced prices with Black broadcloth at 3.49, novelty jackets at 1.98, and Tan Covert jackets offered at 1.98, all during the Mill End Sale while supply lasts.
Wool dress goods priced at less than half wholesale, advertised as mill ends. Includes limited stock on assorted patterns and weights for bulk buyers and retail customers.
25 cent white lisle hose selling at 15 cents. Affordably priced stockings offered in a bulk sale context with reduced unit cost.
Mill End prices list 39c per yard for 65c half bleached table linen sold in 2 34 yard lengths.
Prices for purses and handbags set at mill end sales with 10 cent embroidered handkerchiefs included as a sample offer.
An old advertisement lists 15c for children’s lisle lace hose and 25c parasols, ladies white parasols at $2.25, and a note to see Black Lawn Waists for related items.
Ladies underwear sale at Mill End offers unions 25c reduced to 19c and 50c union suits cut to 39c plus 15c vests for recreation use.
Notice from Auerbachs department store in Chicago and Bedford Indiana announcing a sale. Proprietor C. Auerbach states no rebate stamps will be offered at the sale.
Dewey Ashe nine year old son of Mr and Mrs Charles Ashe died at 11 o clock Wednesday night from peritonitis after a fall from a trapeze in a barn near their home south of the city. Autopsy found the injury to the liver and bowels as the cause. Funeral services will be held Friday at 8 am at the residence conducted by Elder John Williams. Remains to be interred at Liberty church near Norman Station.
Indiana Bureau of Statistics reports sheep deaths surged to 57,905 this year, up from 53,972 in 1907. Officials attribute the increase to dog predations and disease, accounting for 3,933 more sheep lost than the previous year.
Indiana farmers now own 673,572 sheep up from 735,094 last year despite more losses from dogs and disease. Total wool clipped reached 3,829,015 pounds with a 3,918,176 pound wool proceeding. Steuben leads in wool production, while Lagrange and Noble rank high for sheep on hand and sold. Disease and dog attacks hit Montgomery hardest.
A scarce apple crop across Kentucky Indiana and Ohio prompts fear of reduced brandy production this fall and winter. The note cites a dearth of apples as the cause and points to broader implications for regional distillers.
Louisville based company says farmers report virtually no apples this year. Distillers rely on inferior apple classes for brandy, with last year’s surplus nearly gone. Current market price runs from 1 to 1.25 dollars per gallon in bond, plus 1.10 dollar government tax.
At Montreal on Sunday Bob Wicker pitched Jersey City to an 8 to 1 victory. He allowed 7 hits 1 base on balls and 1 wild pitch striking out 10 and going 1 for 3 at the plate. Horace Armstrong visiting west of the city collapsed fainting after calling on Dr E E Mitchell for medicine. He recovered and returned home.
Odon Indiana announces Old Settlers Picnic events on August 12th 13th 14th and 15th with H V Merrill as secretary and Dean N Inman as president coordinated by local organizers with details for participants and schedule options.
Reports from Mary Stubbs Moore, Indiana Bureau of Statistics, show tobacco yield will drop from 1907 levels. Total 1908 acreage 12,736 versus 13,441 in 1907, with counties like Warrick, Spencer, and Switzerland leading in planted acres. Peas acreage rose from 24,899 to 27,546 as canning factories spur diversification.
Bedford Indiana social note confirms marriage plans between Hattie Weinberg and Allie Friedman of Bedford with ceremony set August 9 1908 at Bnai Jacob Schul Louisville. Reception at 128 East Market Street Bedford to be followed by residence in Bedford Indiana.
Indiana is reclassified among commercial apple states indicating a shift in regional economic standings. The new designation places Indiana ahead of lower tier markets and reflects updated trade patterns and production metrics.
In Pike county Pennsylvania a snake was killed by bees after Michael Deegan of Tafton reported missing several chickens. The curious incident involved a beehive sting leading to the snake's death near Deegan's coop.
A farmer finds a dead chick near the hen yard and two large black snakes in mortal combat. Bees swarm the combatants, stinging both snakes. One snake escapes, the other dies from stings. another snake is later found killed. Nearby note lists a separate sale of an eight room house and merchandise business managed by W. E. Huff on South Washington Ave.
The State Board of Health reports May births at 4,446 and deaths at 2,694. Birth rate 19.4 per 1000, death rate 11.4. Of births 2,345 were males and 2,101 females. white births include 2,304 males and 2,061 females with 41 colored boys and 40 colored girls. White children total 4,865. colored 81. Lawrence County births totaled 25 for the month.
Horatio Harriman will retire Friday night after four years as Deputy County Auditor and join Bedford National Bank as Assistant Cashier and Chief Bookkeeper. He will succeed Jesse B. Burton, who resigned to join the McMillan Stone Company.
In Lawrence Circuit Court Thomas Ribble sues Nina Ribble for divorce alleging marriage on December 17 1906 and separation on March 14 1908. He claims cruel and inhuman treatment including verbal abuse, infidelity, and a violent temper. Frank M. Vance acts as Ribble’s attorney.
John B. Simmering of Columbia Local 174 machinists in Washington declares labor cannot be steered to Bryan by Gompers. He urges Theodore Roosevelt as labor’s friend and supports Taft, saying workers will back Taft as Roosevelt’s chosen candidate.
James Ragland was fined 200 and sentenced to 60 days in jail after a jury trial for operating a temperance drink resort and selling intoxicating liquors. He appealed to the Circuit Court and posted 500 bond signed by six Mitchell residents.
All goods from the show windows and all remaining loom ends will be on sale for less. The notice promises discounts across inventory as terms of the sale event.
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