Local notes chronicle visits and town news in Seymour area
J A Coppin returns from Seymour visit. Mrs Kate Heiger receives plants from Louisville. Gladys Pace ill in South Street. Thomas Forsythe visits Bloomington. Smallpox vaccination gains pace. Steve Fountain of Zelma in town. owns 1700 acres in Jackson county. Elder Quincy Short travels to Harrodsburg for Lindsey Johnson funeral. Charles F Stephenson to move to Borden for bookkeeper post. J A Coleman leaves for Cleveland to erect tramway for Columbus Stone Co. J B Dillman and Wm Buzzaird visit Bloomington on business. Browning family headed for Laurel Nebraska to settle. Garrison McFall sells fish. Fresh supply preferred. Light globe theft at Mitchell church mocked by Paoli Republican. Quarantine lifted. vaccination critics joke. Funeral in Harrodsburg for Lindsey Johnson. First Christian church services show growing interest. sermon titled The pressure of the Personal Pronoun. Mathers Stone Co raises 82 foot mast at quarry. yellow poplar, ten horses to move. 1500 foot switch ready for summer work.
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Mathers Stone Company
This
Lawrence
Indian Creek Township
Stone Company
Bloomington
Infant of Mr Nicholson Dies Monday Forenoon
The infant child of Mr and Mrs Ben Nicholson died Monday forenoon in a local residence. The family has requested privacy as they mourn this loss.
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Ben Nicholson
Bedford Hosts Southern Indiana Athletic Meet Friday
Bedford prepares for the Southern Indiana Athletic Meet to be held Friday in Bedford. Local residents and notable visitors include Mr. and Mrs. James Palmer of Elnora, real estate man Alex Marley of Indianapolis, and residents such as Harry Springer of Paoli. Vaccination sidelined 37 Bedford High School students a day, while local governance moves include a $200 license tax on billiard rooms in Gosport and a new Waterworks franchise in Bloomfield.
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Bedford
James Palmer
Elnora
City
Alex Marley
Indianapolis
B. B Marley
Gosport
Local Notebook Mentions Residents and Legal Notices
The Bloomington area notes several residents in town this week including John W. Simpson of Tunnel ton and Dan W. Sherwood of Bryantsville. Marriage licenses issued to Elmer Strange Oma Baker Walter Tincher Addie Cutsinger William Pender Maud Williams. Officials announce township assessors start in April with new pay scales. A bridge bid opening set for April 23 at Gosport. An Irish heritage feature praises Irish workers and soldiers in US history.
Local Notices From Browns Town and Bloomington Area
Births report a son for Dr. and Mrs. F E B Stipp and a daughter for Mr. and Mrs Daniel Moore in West 17th street. A Gum Sugar sale at Hav erly’s lists 19 pounds for $1.00. Seymour carpenters form a union, seeking entry into a national body. A letter notes Mrs Knobel’s death in Germany aged 88. Hegwood visits to arrange guardians for Jonah Rich heirs' pension. Dunn land addition may end local court fights. Red Harbison, an umbrella mender, arrives for St Patrick’s Day. plans to visit Indiana University after a week in Bloomington.
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Dunn
Bloomington
Bill
Red
Harbison
St. Patrick’s
Blue Birds
St. Louis
Stone City
Indiana University
Robbery attempt as Mrs Wires is attacked on West 15th
Tuesday around 9 pm Mrs Pete Wires faced two men who sprang from behind a maple tree on West 15th near Rev E R Edwards home and tried to seize her. She resisted and fled into the Edwards yard where others appeared and the men fled.
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Pete Wires
West 15Th Street
E. R. Edwards
Surprise birthday surprise at Bedford church
The First Christian church in Bedford held a secret session where the pastor was unaware of the plan. Twenty officers and wives surprised Pastor Edwards on his birthday with a gift of an oak roll top desk and a testimonial note from church societies. Light refreshments followed as he recovered from the moment. Also noted are Indiana wheat prospects with forecasts of a bountiful harvest nearing 40 million bushels and county acreage shifts.
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America
Indianapolis Journal
Bedford
First Christian Church
Newton Crooke
J. B. Duncan
Ollie E. Wires
J. W. Newland
Edwards
Indiana
Indianapolis News
Wheat
Vermillion
Wells
Grant
Bartholomew
Adams
Scott
Posey
Whitley
Sullivan
Laporte
Wabash
Warren
Bedford Court Sessions Parcel Docket of Damages and Decrees
In Bedford court proceedings Judge Wilson heard demurrers in the Fred McLin will case and pending matters for minor criminal trials. The Davis vs Martin County Bank suit was compromised. Emma Palmer vs Melvin Edington et al moved to trial on venue from Martin County. Albert Coleman, a former jail escapee, is at Campbell Missouri charged with larceny. Public bonds and bank suits from Lawrence and Lawrence County moved or were vented, with several verdicts for defendants and judgments entered in Skerd deed cases. The John Stewart suit against Indiana Bedford Stone Co. was moved to Monroe County after alleging a May 1902 accident. The Morgan estate suit against Consolidated Stone Co. was affirmed for $2,000 by the Supreme Court.
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Emma Palmer
Melvin Edington
Martin County
Wilson
Ogden & Inman
Washington
City
Palmer
Holdington
Daviess County
Nebraska
Brooks & Brooks
Padgett & Padgett
H. McCormick
Shoals
Lawrence County
Citizens National
Stone City Banks
Dibbie B. Fountain
Hon. S. Bowe
Stone City Bank
Citizen’s National Bank
Bloomington Telephone
John Stewart
Indiana-Bedford Stone Co
Duncan & Batman
Monroe County
Bedford
Stewart
John D. Morgan
Albert O. Cass
Consolidated Stone Company
Supreme Court
Albert
Cass
Bedford Roller Mill Property Sale Notice
Notice is given that on April 15, 1903 at 2 p.m. the Trustee will sell at public auction the Bedford Roller Mill and adjacent real estate. Terms: one third cash, six months, and twelve months with notes bearing 6 percent interest and mortgage security. purchaser to insure the property. The mill comprises a fifty barrel flouring mill and about two acres of ground located on both the C I L and Southern Indiana Railroads. Joseph R. Voris, Trustee.
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Bedford Reller
Sama
Southern Indiana
Jossph R. Voris
Low one way fares to California and western points
The Southern Indiana Ry offers very cheap one way rates to California and western destinations including North and South Dakota. For details contact the Ticket Agent or J. G. Ray, G. A.
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Indiana
California
South Dakota
J. G. Ray
G. A
Damages Set At Two Thousand In Bloomington Derrick Case
The derrick collapsed when a guy rope snapped, dropping a heavy stone and causing damage. Before the trial Cass's widow remarried. The case, tried in March 1991 at Bloomington before Special Judge Newton Crooke with a struck jury.
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Cass
Bloomington
Newton Crooke
Welding Anniversary Honors J A and Wife
Mr and Mrs J A Shoulty marked their twenty fifth wedding anniversary with a reception for many friends on Wednesday. Guests included Miss Mahan from the Deaconess Home Buffalo NY and Miss Corbin from the Emigrant Home New York City who spoke at the First M E church both morning and evening on Sunday March 22. The Treasury Department mailed ads today for public building sites at Bedford and Marion with publications in the Bedford Mail and Democrat and Marion Chronicle and News Tribune. Bids for both sites will be opened April 14.
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Bedford and
Marion
Office of the Supervising Architects
J. A. Shoulty
Treasury Department
Bedford
Bedford Mail and Democrat
Marion Chronicle and
News-Tribune
Washington Letter
Indianapolis
Partnership Dissolved as Alice Campbell Retires
The partnership between Marion G. Cole and Alice Campbell is dissolved by mutual consent. Alice Campbell retires and M G Cole will conduct future business, settle obligations, and collect accounts in Bedford Indiana dated March 19 1908.
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Marion G. Cole
Alice &. Campbell
Alice £. Campbell
M. G. Cole
Bedford, Ind
Bedford Merchants Form Agreement to Close at Six P.M.
Notice to all concerned reports Bedford merchants plan to close stores at six oclock daily except Saturday and Monday until a contract with the Cler Union expires. The signatories include W H & R C Cosner Hamer & Day I G Ades W A Webb Frank M Cosner and many others.
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Bedford
Cler Union
W. H
R. C. Cosner
Hamer & Day
I. G. Ades
W. A. Webb
Frank M. Cosner
Rick Haverty
Charles McCarrell
Gro
W. Hay
T.runnels
Bedford City Council approves plat and school building plans
City Engineer Houston wins approval for the Richardson Addition plat. Ordinances on hawkers and vehicles move to committee. School Board reports plans to build two new Bedford schools with costs of 117,000 and 14,000, funded by up to 30,000 in bonds, no tax levy. Public works and claims list routine payments to local firms and workers.
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Houston
Richardson Addition
Bedford
Indiana
East Bedford
Noxton
Jas
Calhan
Indiana to Shiloh for Monument Dedication Train Ride
Indiana Shiloh National Park Commission outlines route for Indiana regiments and batteries monument dedication at Shiloh Battlefield Park on April 6 and 7. Official train departs Indianapolis April 4 with notable attendees including Major General Lew Wallace and Governor Durbin. fare low with steamer ride to Pittsburg Landing and battlefield hotel quarters aboard the steamer.
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Coburn
Carahan
Indianapolis
Indiana
Longstreet and Gordon
Georgia
Buckner
Kentucky
Mississippi
Alabama
Danville
Tenn
Pittsburg Landing
Shiloh
Battlefield Park
W. W. A1i Onardson
Shilohi Battlefield
Pennyslvania
Man
4Th
Padu
Cah
Jounsesvelle
Perryville
Corinth
Miss
Pennsylvania Lines
W. W. Richardson
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