Tragic Death Of Richard Gyger In Spain May 31 1919
Captain W C Asserson U S Navy recounts the death of Richard Nathaniel Gyger chief petty officer and motor expert at Gibraltar Base Nine. A car owned by Colonel Wilder of the Royal Engineers crashed in a ditch killing Gyger while others survived. Funeral with full military honors held at Royal Naval Hospital Chapel Gibraltar. messages of condolence from U S and British officers accompany the letter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.C. Asserson
U. S. Navy
Richard N. Gyger
Spain
United States
U. S. Naval Base Nine
Tune
1919
Ida A. Gyger
Lincoln Avenue
Bedford
Indiana
Richard N. Gypeer
United States Navy
Gibraltar
Colonel Wilder
Royal Engineers
Wilder
Richard
Naval Board of
Thompson
Royal Naval Hospital
U. S. Naval
Feverend H. Dalzell
Tom
Madam
Naval
Richard Nathaniel Gyger
Portugal
Rev. Quincy Short Dies at Springville Pioneer Christian Preacher
The Rev Quincy Short a long time Springville resident and Christian church preacher died at his home in Springville shortly after six this morning. Born November 12 1853 in Spring Creek valley Perry Township he graduated from Indiana University in 1878 and was ordained in 1874. He served Popcorn and many Lawrence and Monroe counties congregations and helped organize a union meeting of Lawrence and Monroe church representatives. He was married in 1875 to Alice Dye and had five children and nine grandchildren. Funeral services were held Sunday at the Springville church followed by burial in Springville Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy Short
Pioneer Christian Church
Springville
Spring Creek Valley
Perry Township
Doddridge Short
Lawrence County
Indiana University
Popcorn
Lawrence
Monroe
Joseph Armstrong
Pop Corn
Alice Dye
Kin
Albert Short
Priam
Nellie Bridwell
Avoca
To Tirey
Indianapolis
Justices of the Peace Sought for Fast Divorces
Mitchell Tribune notes demand to empower justices of the peace to grant divorces. Circuit courts have two to three months of vacation each year, delaying dissolutions. couples wed in May may not obtain divorce until September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justices of the Peace
Circuit Courts
Mitchell Tribune
Buffalo caught on trot line near pumping station
Otto Inman, fishing near the pumping station, hooked a twenty one and a half pound buffalo fish Thursday night. Harry McMahan of Indianapolis is visiting relatives in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Inman
Harry McMahan
Indianapolis
Girl Charged With Incorrigibility Appears in Juvenile Court
Fourteen year old Anna Jenkins faced a juvenile court hearing on incorigibility Friday before Judge Boruff. She was released for one week and placed in the custody of her brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Jenkins
Boruff
Carmichael and Denny Wed in Fayetteville Ceremony
John W. Carmichael and Miss Bessie Denny of Fayetteville were married this morning at 10 by Justice J L Smith in his office on the east side of the public square. The couple, from prominent local families, will reside on a farm near Fayetteville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Carmichael
Bessie Denny
Fayetteville
Justice J. L. Smith
Bedford band Rainmakers celebrated for Thursday concert
Director Frank Reed of the Bedford band receives praise for a rainmaking concert that brought fine rain to the area. The event prompted a joke about farmers contributing to band support while noting no rain fell in Bloomington Mitchell or Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Reed
Bedford Band
Bloomington
Mitchell
Orleans
Guthrie Township Board of Review Visits Property
The Lawrence County Board of Review went to Guthrie Township today to view property owners say was assessed too high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Review
Lawrence County
Guthrie Township
Pretty wedding unites Jesse Corbin and Pearl Fish
The wedding of Mr Jesse Corbin and Miss Pearl Fish took place at 2 30 PM Saturday at the First Methodist parsonage with Rev Toole officiating The couple left for a short trip to French Lick and will reside on North N street after returning The ceremony also noted the attendance of Dr and Mrs R B Short and marks a social highlight in Indianapolis society
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Corbin
Miss Pearl Fish
Toole
R. B. Short
French Lick
Legislature Orchestrates Reform Amid Voters Rebuff
Washington Indiana Terald notes grim humor in Ohio where the legislature trumped a 140000 female suffrage majority by backing Susan B Anthony amendment. The piece argues legislatures and congress are driven by propagandist hysteria and lobbies over the will of the people, citing Indiana’s recent constitutional convention vote and court restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Congress
Indiana
Supreme. Court
Washington, Ind
Tey doing well after operation in Indianapolis hospital
Late news from Prof. R. N. Tirey of Washington formerly of Mitchel states he is doing well after surgery for a ten year illness. His wife Mrs Tirey and son Robert were with him and were later called to Springville by the sudden death of her father Rev Quincey Short.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. N. Tirey
Washington
Mitchel
Methodist
Indianapolis
Roach Family Visit Notes In Cale Area
Mrs. L. B. Roach traveled to Cale Friday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Roach. Her son Donovan, who had been visiting there for several days, plans to return home with her Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. B. Roach
Cale
Wm. Roach
Donovan
Silas Johnson Dies After Stroke at Campbellsburg
Silas Johnson aged 69 died at his home in Campbellsburg following a stroke of paralysis. He suffered a second stroke Friday afternoon after a February illness. Born east of Bedford on the old Johnson Homestead, he was well known locally. Survived by wife, three brothers John M. Johnson Elmer Johnson Fletcher Johnson and four sisters Mrs J W Heppingarner Miss Lillie Johnson Mrs Joel Morrow and Mrs John Selby. Funeral held Sunday at 3 at Crawford Cemetery five miles east of the city.
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Silas Johnson
Campbellsburg
Mr. Johnson
Bedford
Johnson
John = M. Johnson
Elmer Johnson
Fletcher Johnson
Sour
Lillie Johnson
Joel Morrow
Heltonvile
John Selby
Pasadena
Calif
Little Crawford
Quietly Married Hazel Briscoe and Wilbur Owens
Miss Hazel M Briscoe daughter of Mr and Mrs George Briscoe and Mr Wilbur C Owens were quietly married Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock by Father Garrity at the rectory in the presence of relatives and intimate friends They will honeymoon in Louisville and other points before making this city their home Raymond Stipp pled not guilty in Mayor Allens court to wife desertion and his preliminary trial is set for Thursday at 2 PM
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazel. M. Briscoe
George Briscoe
Garrity
Louisville
Raymond Stipp
Allen
Local names tied in Bedford Vincennes Mitchell notes
Harry Edwin Smith of Vincennes wed Georgia May Alexander of Mitchell while Wilbur C. Owens of Bedford and Hazel M. Briscoe of Bedford are mentioned alongside. Mrs. Doyle Dilley visited Indianapolis to help prepare her children Mary and Charles for a summer visit to grandparents near Warren Arkansas. Mabel Pilley, former local resident now English teacher in Hammond, accompanied them. Dilley returned to Indianapolis for work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Edwin Smith
Vincennes
Georgia May Alexander
Mitchell
Wilbur C. Owens
Bedford
Hazel M. Briscoe
Doyle Dilley
Indianapolis
Mary
Charles
Charles DiNey
Warren
Arkansas
Mabel Pilley
Hammond
Indianapolis wedding guest returns home after family visit
Mrs. J. T. Freeland attended her sister Martha Johnsons wedding and stayed for a house party at Mrs. H. L. Cushwas home in Indianapolis before returning home Friday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.T. Freeland
Indianapolis
Martha Johnson
H. L. Cushwa
Memorial tribute in Howitzer edition from Neuhausel
The May 31 memorial issue of The Howitzer printed at Neuhausel Germany by the 5th U S Field Artillery honors departed Co F members, Dewey Gresham and Scott W Harvey, with a tribute recalling Harvey’s Argonne sacrifice and their wartime service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott Harvey
Co. F
Bat B
F. A
Ar‘gome
Argonne Forest
Scott W. Harvey
Divorce Suit Alleges Adultery Claims In Lawrence Court
Lillie Elkins through attorney Robert L. Mellen filed for divorce from James Elkins in Lawrence circuit court. The defendant is accused of unjustly accusing the plaintiff of adultery and of being intimate with other men, while allegedly failing to provide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert D. Padgett
Robert Mellen
Lawrence
Pearl A. Padgett
Lillie Elkins
Robert L. Mellen
James Elkins
Large 36-pound catfish yields 2.5-pound better catch
Vincennes fish dealer A Sanders bought a 36 pound catfish from Knox county farmer W A Daron. In city market he dressed it and found a 2.5 pound smaller catfish inside along with a four inch minnow. Meanwhile Mr and Mrs William Miller plan to move July 1 to Fresno California to join their nurse daughter Osa Miller and two married daughters on ranches near Fresno. Mrs Augusta Szczepansky has traveled to Columbus Ohio due to illness of her niece Bertha Reams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Sanders
Vincennes
W. A. Daron
Knox County
Washington Herald
William Miller
Fresno
California
Osa Miller
Augusta Szczepansky
Columbus
Ohio
Bertha Reams
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Richard Coige Gyger
Bedford Sailor
Royal Naval Hospi
Tal
Dr. Barrett
Algeciras
H. H. Thompson
W. C. Asserson
General Staff Office
Navy
H. M. Dockyard
L. S. Ives
US. S. Naval Port Office
Heathcoate S. Grant
Lady Grant
A. J. Ferrary
Cook
Justice Smith
John W
Denny
Miss Pear
Second Presbyterian Church
Odell
Henry P. Pearson
Frank. Eshelman
Marion
Charming
Dorothy Perkins
Columbia Club
Cushwa
Myr
Eshelman
Houston
Aund
Marian
Fish
Rvirst
M. E. Parsonage
Campbells
Burg
Crawford
Hazel M. Bris
Howitzer
Neuhausel
Germany
Tions
Lillie
Elkins
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