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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1907
Page
3
Reports of residents visiting relatives in Lafayette Medora and Oklahoma City updates about teaching jobs and local travel. A Monon berry train to Chicago speeds market produce while a Kansas law dispute criticizes liquor policy. The piece finishes with a comment on the Haywood case and the use of law as shield and sword.
Effie York, an employee at Mrs Het tie Dorsey s restaurant, was caught Tuesday night stealing several cans of fruit after a watch was set for missing goods. She pleaded guilty to petit larceny in Justice Owens Court and was bound over to Circuit Court in 100 dollars. If she fails bail she goes to jail.
The Lawrence Circuit Court ended years of tax trouble in Mitchell by injunction in the case William M. Munson Jr. vs. Curtis Ray, Treasurer of Lawrence County. The judge barred collecting more than 50 cents per 100 assessed value and 25 cents per poll for town purposes in 1906, collected in 1907. The levy had exceeded 1 dollar per 100, illustrating deficits from years of no levy by the Town Board.
City council held regular session Tuesday re electing E McCormick to a three year term on the School Board. Vitrified brick roadway and stone walks approved for M Street. An alley opening through Mathes Addition ordered despite an active remonstrance by Mrs Laura Caress and Mrs Elizabeth Mathes. Palmer to appeal to Circuit Court.
Mr and Mrs W J Knox of Martinsville report a letter from their daughter Mrs Harlan Perrill formerly Lottie Knox who taught in the city schools and sister to Arda Knox principal of the High School. She writes from Yokohama May 10 describing sea voyage uneventful except for a night of seasickness. She details sightseeing in Osaka and a ride in a jinrikisha and observes a Japanese funeral procession with interest. Master Knox enjoyed the voyage.
The Bedford Handle Company is incorporated with a capital of 10000 dollars. Directors include George M. Dodd Boone Leonard James W. Douthitt William Butler Walter Newland and William F. Brooks. It buys a site west of the Monon tracks, contracts a 40 by 80 foot main building, and hires Jonce Coleman to begin immediately. A 50 horsepower Atlas engine and boilers will power machines for making brush handles from sugar and beech timber to ship nationwide. Employment will reach 25 to 80 men.
At the Western Indiana stockholders meeting in Chicago the board voted to drop plans for a suburban station now and wait for a future general station costing at least 20 million dollars. Directors elected were W H Lyford F A Delano M C Hays W C Johnson W H McDoel and E P Ripley representing several railroads.
The Indiana Constitution allows any voter of good character to practice law without examination, sparking a landmark case. Miss Leach of Greene County challenged the voter requirement, and the Supreme Court ruled that the provision did not expressly exclude women, granting admission to the bar.
Indiana will send 11 671 61 dollars in back pay to members of the One Hundred Sixty first Infantry and Companies A and B Colored Infantry who served in the Spanish American War. Gen. Oran Perry says checks will be mailed in two to three weeks after vouchers return. Average payment about nine dollars per man with prior government funds returned after 25 percent commissions were charged. Bedford men among those to receive portions.
The Knights of Pythias Palestine Lodge 197 Bedford plan Decoration Day on Sunday June 9 1907 meeting at Castle Hall at 1 PM. Elks Band leads procession to Court House Park for Judge James B Wilson Bloomington to speak then to cemeteries to decorate graves of deceased members. Other lodges and Uniform Bank Companies invited. Company 85 urged in full dress uniform. Flowers from relatives and friends requested by 1 PM Sunday. Public invited. By Order of Committee.
Ernest McFadden of the 74th coast artillery at Fort Screven reports a bottle tossed by Miss Nellie Castella into White river four months ago has drifted to Tibee island coast near the fort. The bottle carried an address and cork, survived a Mississippi Gulf voyage, and was found by a Hoosier local. McFadden, son of James McFadden of Marshal township, recently arrived at Fort Screven from another Atlantic station.
The large automobile of the P. M. & B. stone company was crippled on North I street Tuesday morning while driven by Net Joyner. A rod forming part of the steering broke and the two front wheels turned inward. The machine was not moving fast and was stopped quickly with no serious damage. at high speed it could have been wrecked.
Train No. 9 on the Monon brought a colony of nineteen Italians to Monon. They remained at the Monon station for hours then were taken to Cement, the village near the United States Cement Plant. Two or three robust Italian women with babes accompanied them. More are believed to follow.
The President of Kee Mar College in Hagerstown Maryland notified Mrs. John H Underwood on Wednesday that her daughter Hazel Dillon won a scholarship in a contest with seven participants.
Dr. L. G. Boyd of Tunnelton visited the city on Wednesday and purchased an automobile from the Postal Auto and Engine Company.
Sunday night a Premier car driven by Pete Williams slipped on the Harrodsburg hill near Salt Creek, forcing Williams to twist the wheel and strike an embankment. Williams and three companions escaped serious injury though Williams and Farmer suffered bruises. The wreck highlighted the hill’s danger amid prior crashes.
Postmaster Keach announces salary raises for Bedford postoffice staff. Letter carriers Dunihue Fletcher and Glover go from 850 to 900 dollars annually starting July 1. Trueblood rises from 600 to 800 effective October 1. Clerk Walter Pitman gains 1000 from 900 after July 1. Clerk Rayburn to 900 from 800 starting July 1. Clerk Opal Armstrong 700 to 800 beginning November 16.
The dramatic rise in building materials and labor costs prompts Treasury officials to reopen bids for public buildings funded in the last bill. Prices astonish and threaten to halt federal construction. Secretary Cortelyou will decide, amid congressional unease, whether to push projects now or wait for lower costs.
New Haven Conn June 5 At a mass meeting of Yale students James Carlton Thornton 1908 of Bedford Ind was elected president and manager of the Baseball Association Perrin of Indianapolis was elected secretary and assistant manager of the crew Thornton and Perrin are two of the most popular class members in Yale's 1908 cohort
In Chicago a wave of six wage struggles ties up almost 900 workers and stalls a Montgomery Ward & Co plant. A broad door and cement dispute triggers multiple small strikes across Illinois projects as unions clash over who may perform tasks, with police protection sought at times.
Andrew J. Grubbs was assessed a fine of 1 dollar with costs totaling 9 dollars by Justice Owens for failure to pay dog tax. The sentence was stayed.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Etchison late of Lawrence County Indiana deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. Alfred Chapman Administrator. H. P. Pearson Attorney.
Marriage license appears in the record alongside a note about Boldt glass factory in Marion, which was entirely destroyed by fire.
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