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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1915
Page
8
The Indianapolis market showed 7 000 hogs 740 cattle 250 calves and 140 sheep against 19 hogs. Week earlier 4 324 hogs 93 cattle 294 calves 187 sheep. Opened strong with 5 000 anticipated, then active at steady prices. Light hogs at 7.20, heavy hogs up to 6.90. Free market hogs began near 747 25 with some trading as low as 6 80. About 1000 hogs unsold.
Indy wholesale market notes list prices for apples peppers onions beans corn and other produce. Also covers poultry eggs butter and live stock across Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Kansas City and Toledo markets with prices for wheat oats corn and hay and wagon market figures. Strong entity mix includes Indianapolis Chicago Cincinnati Kansas City Toledo and labeled goods like Jonathan Baldwin cabbages strawberries rhubarb and turnips with varied unit sizes and per bushel or per dozen prices.
Notice to farmers advertising that Percheron stallion CANADIAN and two jacks KING and BLACK CHIEF will be at the barn five miles northeast of Bedford after April 1 ready for business any day except Sunday. The seller urges posting of bills per state law and warns against tearing down or mutilating advertisements, noting legal penalties and parental responsibility for children’s acts.
Lawrence County Indiana Treasurer invites sealed bids by 2:00 p.m. Saturday March 20 for seventy one hundred dollars in Shawswick Township Gravel Road Bonds. Twenty bonds at three hundred seventy dollars each issued to fund road construction. Bonds dated March 8 with semiannual interest at four per cent. Treasurer Earl G. Short reserves right to reject bids.
Come and see if J A Blankenship will not shoe your horses repair wagons and rubber tire your buggy all work for cash only. Work guaranteed Mast 1th Street Tatewd.
Indianapolis witnesses describe pressure to donate to a Democratic fund on election day while saloonkeepers faced closures and inspectors were urged to manipulate voting machines. Testimony links August Bakemeyer and Silton Redman to loans and votes amid broader irregularities in Vigo County.
A public sale on March 27 1915 will offer rents and profits for up to seven years from parcels in Lawrence County Indiana. If not enough, fee simple title will be sold to satisfy a decree for 4712 dollars plus interest and costs. Sheriff William H. Sitler and attorney Robert L. Mellen oversee the process.
Miss Ann Haywood daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Haywood Mineral and Hays Roach of this place were married at Bloomfield by Rev J A Spencer after an engagement formed when Miss Haywood nearly drowned crossing a creek on her way to school. Roach pulled her from the water and they will live on his farm nearby.
Washington reports Charles C. McChord elected chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission succeeding James S. Harlan. McChord, a Democrat from Kentucky, was appointed by Taft in 1910 and previously worked on railway legislation and state rate cases. In Huntington Indiana three year old Glen Bowers died after being crushed by a wagon wheel when he fell beneath the rear of a passing wagon driven by Charles Myers who stopped only after screams drew attention.
Sheriff William H. Sitler announces a public auction on March 22, 1915, at Bedford Court House to satisfy a decree for 289.87 plus costs. The sale covers a 361.5 acre tract in Southeast quarter section 17, township 5 north, range 2 east, with rents and profits for up to seven years if needed. If rents fail, full fee simple may be offered to satisfy the decree.
The Circuit Court of Lawrence County Indiana appoints James B. Wilson as administrator of the estate of Paul Short who is deceased in Lawrence County. The estate is to be settled as solvvent and administratrix is noted.
In the estate of Winepark Fields deceased in Lawrence Circuit Court April term 1915 administratrix Mary C Fields has filed final settlement and account. The court will examine on April 12 1915 heirs creditors and legatees must appear and show cause why approval should not be granted. Heirs must prove heirship. Brooks and Crooks attorneys. M19ws
Notice from the Lawrence County Indiana Board of Commissioners calls for sealed proposals for supplies for the County Poor Asylum for the quarter ending June 30 1915. Bids due by 1 o clock am Monday April 5 1915. Requisitions on file in Auditor's Office. Board may reject any or all bids. Ezra W Edwards Auditor Lawrence County Indiana. Miscible
Law suit filed by Hugh A. Wood against Ezekiel Dayton and Matilda Dayton and unknown heirs or assigns. Defendants believed non residents of Indiana. They must appear by May 1 1915 in Bedford to answer or demur, or default will be entered. Clerk Fred E. Jackson. Mi2w3
On March 2h 1915 at 9 a.m. sealed bids will be received for seven refunding bonds of Guthrie Township Lawrence County Indiana. Each $500 bond dated March 15 1915 and due July 1 of 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 bearing 4 percent interest. Bids must include a certified check for $50. Trustee Noble Malott.
A notice from Lawrence County Indiana announces the appointment of Ira J. George as administrator of the estate of James C. George, deceased, indicating the estate is believed solvent. Brooks & Brooks serve as attorneys for the administrator.
Petition filed with Lawrence County Indiana auditor seeks road upgrades in Shawswick Township by grading draining and paving with concrete on four routes. Public hearing set for April 6 1915 before the Board of Commissioners with thirty plus signers requesting ten year bonds to fund the work.
Decree issued in favor of Laura G C Anderson against Frances P Jackson Myrtle Jackson Ora Fender and others directs public sale to satisfy 822.32 plus interest and costs. Sale on Saturday March 27 1915 between 10 am and 4 pm at the northeast quarter of section eight township six north range one west, Bloomington and Bedford Pike Road center, Guthrie Pike Road center, containing eight acres more or less. Sheriff Boruff & Boruff attorneys.
State of Indiana executor of the estate of David M Brown deceased of Lawrence County seeks appointment and related probate action. The filing notes the late Brown resided in Lawrence County and the estate seeks legal appointment to manage affairs.
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