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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1919
Page
1
President Wilson and the Big Four, Lloyd George and Clemenceau and Orlando, pressed for speed while the League of Nations Commission moves the covenant to a drafting committee. Reparation and western frontier terms are under discussion as the pact is revised.
Paris reports General Mangin commander of the French army in Alsace Lorraine and Baden will be sent to Paris to head the Allied commission for Hungary. He is to deal with Bolshevik disturbances as the report states.
Washington dispatch reports order in Budapest remains stable and the foreign missions are unharmed though not allowed to leave the city. Belgrade’s status is cited as the source of the update.
London reports that peace delegates in Paris have reached a complete agreement on the amended covenant of the League of Nations according to a Central News dispatch.
Mrs. Louis Perkins of 17th and P streets is diagnosed with small pox by a local physician. Additional cases are said to exist citywide with some patients traveling around the city. The text notes arrests of several young men in a box car in the northwest part of the city Sunday on charges not fully specified.
Henry M Turley administrator of William Turley’s estate filed suit for 20000 against the B&O Ry alleging 1913 flood washed a big fill from the Rivervale bridge covering river bottom land with debris from inches to feet deep.
Prosecutor Lowes has ordered the removal of penny and punch board gambling devices from all Bedford city business houses. The machines were deemed a direct violation of law and many had been in use across the town.
Walter Crawford guided four bloodhounds from Heltonville to track thieves who robbed the Heltonville flouring mill last night. A later message says two dogs were sent from Martinsville toward Bridgeport, where meat was stolen. The four-dog team can handle several cases at once.
Stanley Dpd Allen of Bedford son of J D Allen married Pearl Souders daughter of Mr and Mrs William Souders south of the city in the office of There will be a box supper at the Squire Bailey Friday night March 18 1919 for the Needmore high school. The bride is a graduate of the high school and attended the university. Bloomington celebration noted.
Mrs. Thomas Hudson of the Rainbolt farm a few miles northeast of the city has developed a case of sleeping sickness. She slept from 10 o clock Wednesday forenoon and has not awakened. She recently recovered from influenza and mumps, but the physician does not foresee serious results.
Mrs Azuba Balsom aged 74 died Wednesday night at 8 at the home of her son in law James Shortt 1220 South Street of paralysis. She born August 31 1844 survived by ten children including Jo Mi Shortt Florence Ruks Wr Muchlenbein Pulaski Norman James Fond du Lac Charles Leonards Medford Chester A Shortt. The funeral was held Thursday at 7 pm from the home and the body shipped to Fond du Lac Wisconsin by the Monon train for burial Saturday.
Mrs Will Meglemre learned that her sister Miss Caroline Smith was critically ill with complications in Philadelphia after a recent operation for car trouble. Mrs Meglemre and Mr Meglemre left on the night train for the city to be with her.
Bedford auto owners who have failed to get their license tags for 1919 are warned by police that they will be cited. An incident where two untagged cars collided shows the enforcement in action and the need to display current registration.
The Mediation and Belt Conference wage groups reach a two year wage agreement with a substantial pay rise for tone cutters planermen and diamond lawyers. Signed for twenty four months with possible wage and hour changes April 1090, absorption of Bedford locals into Stone Club planermen noted.
Mrs Agnes Hyde learns her son Johns Hyde is in the Anderson pest house with smallpox after attending a Masonic Banquet. He was treated and later sent to detention. his wife remains healthy and they communicate by telephone. The outbreak is described as very prevalent with several more admissions noted. He hopes to return home soon.
The Presbyterian ladies held an all day meeting at the church on Wednesday to sew and plan for the Haster Bazaar in April. A noon dinner followed, with visiting family members joining the event, and the group celebrated a prayer meeting contest win as they anticipate a future men’s-hosted treat.
B B Crowe departed Wednesday for Nanatchie and Brewer Washington on a business trip. He plans a two week absence and will call on Seattle Washington during the interval.
Memorial services for Elmer Spoonmore, killed in France, will be held Sunday morning at the Methodist church in Springville. Spoonmore, born October 4 1895 in Trinity Springs, served in World War I with Company EL Dist Mingineers, died October 21 1918 after a land mine exploded near Verdun. he is interred at Souilly.
In Huron a WoC event aims to start Saturday at 2:30 PM in the Library Assembly room with scripture references. The brief covers safeguarding what we have and mentions staggered topics on prohibition, China’s view of American breweries, and a Mexican poem titled The Little Union.
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