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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1913
Page
4
The Bedford Weekly lists Otis and Brooks as proprietors with editors Thomas J. Brooks and Fred B. Otis. Managing editor Bert C. Wicker and news editor Mrs. Harry Askew handle operations. Curt Jocelyn serves as society editor and phone lines are provided for staff.
Subscription rates listed for county and outside county. Advertising rates shown for legal and display ads. First insertion priced per square, subsequent insertions discounted. Local reading master advertising charged per line.
Officials announce Aide Cihd Ro Guthrie as a candidate for mayor of Bedford and Pant Inc. McCoy as a candidate in the Republican primary. The notices are authorized by the Republican Party committee.
Jean authorizes Ale xe Potter to announce candidacy for the Bedford City of Chetko post in the Republican Primary Election.
Authorized notice declares Jasvpi er P e Wyman as a candidate for Third Ward Councilman following the Republican Primary decision. The filing reflects party designation and local electoral process as announced to voters.
Dr. R B Short loses uninsured office in Qolitic fire while his insured barn on the farm survives a separate blaze. The barn fire causes minor loss but meadow damage. Luther Lucas of Lexington Illinois returns home with sister-in-law Mrs A St Lucas. Mrs Chas Smith visits New Philadelphia and Edith Moore visits Lollie Driscol for the Stone City ball event.
A packed court room set March 15 as the Republican primary date. Dr John R Pearson was chosen City Chairman at a meeting led by former chairman W McCormick. Mitchell Guthrie became permanent secretary and Henry Martin treasurer as ward representatives formed the City Republican Campaign Committee.
L B Menaugh of North Street suffered a severe crush injury to his left hand while operating a planet at the Furst Kerber mill Friday afternoon. The hand was caught between the cross head and the stone tearing flesh from the palm.
James Tyler, charged with murder of the McQuaid brothers in Jennings county on October 7 1912, may be postponed from Jennings circuit court. The March term opens Monday with Tyler in Indianapolis jail possibly brought in early. continuance may be requested by both sides.
Mrs Louisa E Elkins aged 59 years 1 month 24 days died at her home in Heitonville Thursday evening of pneumonia. She was daughter of Abner and wife of Pneumonics. Funeral services were held Saturday from her residence and burial followed at Leatherwood Cemetery with relatives Claud Keithley Roscoe Rose and Mrs James Hutt noted as kin.
An elderly man from Linton was struck by Southeastern train No. 1 Saturday morning while walking along the tracks. He was dragged two car lengths before the train could stop. the wheels did not pass over him. He remained alive at noon but fatally injured.
The candidate announces for mayor subject to the Republican primary on March 15. McCoy has practiced veterinary surgery in the city for nearly five years and is well known among voters. He has long been a Republican and asks for broad voter support.
Mrs. James Rae and Miss May Lu King, who attended the spring millinery openings in Chicago, have returned home.
The piece argues the noon Washington shift signals an epoch change, not a permanent party collapse. It notes rising extremism, the Socialist gains in 1912, and the potential for a Republican revival under leaders like Root, Lodge, Mann, and Guernsey, with Cleveland’s era cited as precedent.
Mitchell Guthrie is announced as a Bedford mayoral candidate subject to the Republican Primary. A Bedford native and active young Republican, he is praised as having energy and business qualifications for a thorough, creditable city administration if nominated and elected.
The Bloomington health order against unmuzzled dogs reports 92 dogs killed by city actions since enforcement. Police shot 83 dogs, the street commissioner killed several, with poison from unknown sources and distemper adding to losses.
A Bloomfield correspondent relays a 19th century cure using elecampane root boiled in sweet milk and given to dogs after mad dog exposure. The writer claims multiple past cases where treated dogs did not go mad, noting the plant grows in Greene County around Milford Davis farm between Owensburg and Hobbleville.
Rooks Goodall a Matthews mill quarryman narrowly escaped serious harm Tuesday night after tumbling 29 feet from a bluff along a cliff edge. He suffered leg injuries from the fall, marking a repeat accident after a previous slip weeks earlier.
In Indianapolis on February 28 the House strengthened and sent the garnishee bill to third reading by a nine vote margin. The measure to legalize sheriff collection of in and out fees was approved, with the House in session to dispatch a few minor measures. The Senate Democrats agreed on a one day registration law with reduced officer pay. Governor Ralston signed the single inheritance tax bill expected to raise 400,600 to 500,000 annually. The Keegan anticocaine bill passed the Senate without dissent, with adjustments for medical and dental practitioners. The Senate also backed nine hour and fifty hour work rules for women and road-material extraction from navigable streams. The House moved a minimum wage bill for women, and the Miller racing commission bill. the Senate later struck jail terms for visiting houses of ill fame and raised the age of consent to 18. The Ensle measures extending county school superintendent terms were approved, and a centennial appropriation bill for New Albany was advanced. A Cravens resolution sought Senate notification on conferees for the regular appropriation bill, with Senate amendments including salary increases.
Wil Rariden the Boston National League catcher leaves for Athens Ga for a month of NL team practice. Mrs Rariden stays in the city until April 1 then joins him in New York for the season opener against the Yankees.
The article argues that presidents surrounded by ambitious allies in their cabinets face difficulty and blame when those aides gain influence. It cites Adams, Garfield, Harrison, Polk, Lincoln, and Bryan to illustrate how powerful advisers shape policy, morale, and electoral outcomes, with Wilson and Bryan highlighted as key figures in 1916 Globe Democrat.
Mrs. Margret Kindred from Norman Station visits daughter Mrs. Harry Wilson and Mrs. Eeverett Asbell on North H street. Miss Ethel Duncan and Miss Mary Duncan travel Friday night to Campbellsburg Indiana to spend weekend with grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Robertson.
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