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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1919
Page
1
Two drafts to modify the League of Nations covenant aimed at avoiding Monroe Doctrine surrender claims were submitted to President Wilson Col House and Lord Cecil but rejected. Authorities feared acceptance could invite charges the league meddles in domestic policy.
A new report from international news service says Spartacists plan a wider revolt across Germany and Austria with Russian Bolsheviks to aid. The movement aims to reach Vienna and other Austrian cities as Russians march toward the German border.
Geneva March 20. French occupying troops have taken control of Mannheim Karlsruhe and other towns in Baden amid disturbed conditions in the area.
London reports Mitau, an important city in Russian Courland, has fallen to Letts. The item notes a wartime capture and includes a brief human-interest detail about Miss Sibyl Fultz of Bloomington visiting her grandmother near Fayettesville and returning home. A Florida update mentions Siegel Ferguson of West Palm Beach visiting his ailing mother and one influenza death in his county.
Police in Bedford arrested Ed Turpin Thursday at 10 40 after a pursuit from Washington Indiana where he was captured Wednesday noon. He had broken a jail door Monday evening, fled toward Red Cross, and was stopped when trained officers spotted his description on trains. Turpin gave false names, argued with officers, and faces a preliminary trial Friday at 2 before Mayor Anen.
White River reached twenty five feet three inches as it rose about two and a half inches per hour at three o clock Thursday. In Fayetteville North Carolina on March 19 the body of Sergeant Walter Fleming of Providence Rhode Island and 267 Aero Squadron who drowned January 7 when their plane fell into the Cape Fear River was found today. Lieutenant Hi Pope of Bedford Indiana remains missing.
Vandalia surveyors and engineers conducted a second survey near the junction in Gosport, tracing a line northwest toward the James W. Gray farm. Residents remain uncertain about the purpose and destination of the proposed road project.
Noble E. Fidler wed Nancy E. Marley and Noble Ball married Ava Con nerly as two marriage licenses were issued today.
Former Bedford man Robert G Morey died Wednesday morning at his sister’s home near Paris Indiana after a lingering kidney illness. He was 53, born in Jennings County and lived in this city for about twenty years working in local quarries and at the Furst Kerber No 2 quarry, later foreman at Buick in Flint Michigan. He leaves wife, son Hilbert serving in Archangel Russia, and daughter Hazel in Flint. Funeral at sister’s home with burial in the family plat near Paris.
Six Cortland high school girls Marie Weekly Catherine Carnine Della Tinder Mary Bennett Grace Bennett Mildred Bottoff were lured to White River near the Bell Tor bridge by turbulent water. A plank spanned a ditch but collapsed as all moved together, sending them into five feet of water. Local youths Kenneth Harold William Able Ray Walker and John Frank rescued them and transported them to Cortland.
A letter to the Mail announces Mrs. M. C. Ikerd died March 8 1919 in Los Angeles after a lingering illness at age 77. She is buried in Hollywood beside her son Dr. Charles E. Ikerd.
Floods in Indiana claim one life as seven year old Thomas Harris drowns near Crawfordsville when a creek bank collapses. Indianapolis reports high waters cresting with little damage expected outside wheat lands. rivers White, Wabash, and Ohio may rise but no heavy damage feared. Hancock County Farmers Association outlines 1919 program focusing on soil, lime and non phosphate demonstrations and livestock improvement to boost production and marketing.
John Wiringan and his family were injured when their car was hit head on by another vehicle and a motorcycle struck from behind on Lake George road. Marvin Campbell and Charles Shindle of East Chicago claimed the other car’s driver was at fault. Tom Urack of Gary fell into the lake. Government ownership of mines and a six hour day with higher wages were urged by Frank J. Hayes to the United Mine Workers policy session in Indianapolis.
Heavy rain pushes Elkhart river and Lieckrim creek to flood stage flooding lowlands. The Pike steel bridge wall washout renders the structure unsafe. Rogers Band park, bought for 85000 by Goshen city, is submerged. River recedes as election case files in Madison county and recounts favor Kimberlin over Ellis. White river floods bottom lands. rains boost wheat prospects with little damage reported in Winchester area.
John S. Mueller, aged eighteen, was sentenced to two to fourteen years at the Jeffersonville reformatory by Judge Craig in the circuit court after pleading guilty to burglary. He had been in jail for two months. Webber Walker is suffering with influenza.
The St Patrick day social and welcoming party for Rey Andres the new pastor of the First Presbyterian church and his family was held in the church recreation room. The room was trimmed in green with ferns and festoons. Twenty girls in white frocks with green accents participated in Irish games. An Irish sketch was presented by Miss Abbie Joyner Gilbert Baker Currie John McMillan and Caroline McLeod. Sandwiches doughnuts and coffee were served.
The Westminster Guild met with Mrs. Robert Slight for an evening at Cumberland Flat. Sixteen members and four visitors attended. Mrs. Oliver Henderson spoke on The Future Woman and Mrs. Clifford Spear discussed The Bill in Legislature Concerning Child Welfare. A brief business session preceded a social hour and lunch with pistachio and white brick ice cream cake, divinity candy, and coffee.
Committees of the Bedford Chamber of Commerce labor diligently to schedule the first postwar banquet after the closed season. The date will be set next week with men entering the festivities ready for a boyhood test as they exchange experiences from the past 18 months and plan concerted action for Bedford’s recovery.
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