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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1900
Page
3
Bedford social and business rounds list numerous residents with illnesses and recoveries including pneumonia cases Mrs. Hart and a Sproull child. Visits and travel appear for Prof Jackson Felix Miller Dr Sailust Danville and others. Marriage licenses issued to four couples and S of V reports an initiation as G A R delegates planned for Columbus encampment.
Local notes record visits from C Vance and Claude Lilklandt from Washington, a Bloomington Elks meeting, and a string of residents traveling to Seymour Vincennes and Cincinnati. Market changes include Oliver Kiott purchasing Steve Hodge meat market and Ww H Gillette receiving new machinery. Public business covers street crossings, a wage suit, and a K P district meeting.
Miss Winnie Sears visited Mt Olive on Tuesday or noon. Mrs J D Alexander is ill with malignant sore throat. Miss Belle Horsey has been very ill for some time. J E B Vanhook of W Lancaster Ky came Monday to visit cousin Mrs J S Peck. Mrs Matilda Bean went to Kurtz on Tuesday and will stay weeks visiting relatives before returning to her son in this city.
Charley Reid has had his house on North I street repainted. Hon. S. B. Lowe has returned from a business trip to Indianapolis. Robert Colvin will be head butcher for O Notts meat market on J street. The Lawrence County Medical Society were entertained at dinner at the new Deckard. H. C. Bell and son E. J. Bell of Portland Connecticut are in the city looking up the business outlook.
J. D. Bright, a well known Bloomington cabman, was in the city Sunday night. Mrs. William Bogg, guest in the city, returned to Bloomfield on Thursday. Mrs. A. Raymond of Iowa Falls, guest in the city, left for Bloomington Thursday. John Turpin, Mitchell carpenter, was in town Thursday en route to Dark Hollow to inspect a building contract.
Mrs. James K Owens returned from a visit with relatives at Bloomington. Dr. J D Ketcham of Tunnelton was in town Thursday en route to Bloomington. C L Baker of the South Side Racket store returns to business after several days of neuralgia at home. The Tennessee Board of Pension Examiners grants $100 yearly pensions to eighty five ex Confederate soldiers.
Circuit Court notes recount multiple trials and verdicts. Peyton Heirs versus Southern Indiana Railroad postponed to next term. Shube Burton and Bud Keane convicted of gaming, fined $10 each plus costs. Mattie Brannan seeks divorce from Noah Brannan with sentence history noted. Ula Hast and others face riot charges in Mitchell with jury trial. Sophia Miller sues Western Union Telegraph for delayed delivery. Maddux v Telegraph also cited. Robbery and petty larceny defendants pleaded guilty and released pending settlement. Jesse Young convicted of incest. sentenced to Michigan City penitentiary, judge laments lack of death penalty. Buff and Blue Stone Company sues Liz Litz and Col Dickason over land in Monroe County. William Barley sues Southern Indiana Railway for $7,000 damages in Daviess County.
Details from a wreck near Enora and Linton last fall describe Bailey and several workmen injured when a hand car on a work train was struck. Bailey suffered a dislocated shoulder and a broken left arm, claiming permanent injuries and seeking 7000 damages.
A son born to Mr and Mrs Wallace Owen south of town last Wednesday. Miss Genie Gaussin, student at Terre Haute, visiting parents here. Frank Sherwood received from Fred Kaempfer a golden eagle mount and a pair of quails in glass, exhibited at Sherwood's tobacco store in Spice Valley township.
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