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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1902
Page
3
Local briefs note Mitchell residents Ray Mead and Menlo Moore visiting the city Tuesday evening, Gertrude Fuquay and Hon. T. M. Sears in town, and Mrs. Garvey visiting Indianapolis. An Orleans Herald item reports Elnora opening a bank with P. Durham as president, plus a focus on crops and a hung jury in a $10,000 damage case.
Sunday visits in West Baden and Elnora. St Louis guest in Bedford. Local roof work on South H street. S B Lowe to lecture at Fairview church Sunday. Campbellsburg visit to J C McKinney family. Capt D B Vance from Browns town in city. Mrs Henry Reath and Mrs Thomas Whitted visit St Louis to see daughter. Income tiers listed by wages. Marriage licenses issued to four couples. Mrs L Johnson buried at Beech Grove Cem. Jack Hudson elected Lafayette Councilman. Track trial at Bloomington for Southern Indiana meet. Monon moves water tower for better freight/passenger flow. Bedford girls to recital at College Avenue M E church. Messick represents Bedford in concert. Bloomington Telephone.
Miss Mary Quill visits Campbellburg. Oliver Hert and Ida Inman obtain a marriage license. Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Sisco plan to move to Canudo North Dakota. Circus wind disruption at Toulouse and Bedford. tent stakes reinforced. Missing horse and buggy found near Bartlettsville after night theft. North end county youths suspected.
For the convenience of many, the fine imported black Percheron team has been relocated to the Fair Grounds with a reduced fee of 15 dollars through July 1. Wilhelm and Jumbo Jr will finish the season at the Fair Grounds in the new barns. George W. McDaniel of Bedford arrives from Pensacola leading a syndicate that has bought 25,000 acres in Alabama and Florida to build a modern town and railroad, with Pensacola as a terminal. He also sells 500,000 dollars in bonds to finance the Midland cement works at Bedford, with ground to be broken soon.
After John R. Walsh reorganized the Southern Indiana railroad for passenger service he created the Southern Indiana Express Company to ship express matter. Competing firms boycotted, prompting a new law deeming refusal to accept Walsh’s packages a misdemeanor. Judge Buskirk at Brownstown upheld the law and fined five hundred dollars in four cases against the old carriers for discrimination.
Harry Woods of Mitchell visits the city while Mrs. Wires and Mrs. Culmer recover and travel plans move through Noblesville Ladoga Worthington Spencer and Bloomington next week. The Speer administrator suit against P M B Stone Co for Teague’s death awaits trial next Tuesday in the Lawrence Circuit Court with a struck jury of twelve selected from a long list. Cut worms damage corn clover meadows and gardens prompting farmers to wait before planting again.
The program for the First Annual Commencement at Trinity Church Shanswick Township on May 24, 1902 lists music by Goldie Cox Julia Dodd Plum Scoggan and Mary Day, a class address by Captain J. D. Alexander, diploma awards, and a faculty of teachers headed by E A Johnson. Admission is 10 cents.
Police cornered Alex Robinson, a coffee colored janitor, after a pursuit through the New Deckard area. Shots were fired by Officers Payne and Byers and a showman, wounding Robinson and a bystander. A white woman named Dean resisted Payne before arrest. Robinson and Dean await police court.
Daisy Nickless of Red Cross visits cousin Miss Lulu Barbey. A marriage license issued to Stephen Hackney and Mary Eagen. Civil War veterans and widows receive pension checks. Bloomington reports storm damage with shattered windows but little else. Terre Haute hosts first Southern Indiana excursion to Bedford on June 1, with no stops beyond Elnora to visit Indiana stone quarries. An excursion enters Terre Haute on June 15 for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen event at the fair grounds.
The Avenue Hotel suffered a small blaze Thursday after 2 pm with fire starting in an attic room. Firefighters managed two hose lines, vented interior rooms, and cooled the roof to prevent a larger fire. Hotel residents, mainly hotel staff, lost personal clothing though the building suffered about 31,200 in damage and is insured.
An ad promises immediate relief and a potential permanent cure for hemorrhoids using Humphreys Witch Hazel Oil. Sample mailed free. three sizes priced at 25c, 50c, and $1.00. Sold by druggists or prepaid on receipt. Also notes union stone cutter disputes over convict-made stone from Alabama and North Carolina quarries and a stalled White River bridge project in Indianapolis.
The Indiana Appellate Court reversed a jury verdict awarding Thomas 8900 after a stone slab fell on him at Hoosier Quarry. The court held an employee must spot obvious dangers with ordinary care and that employers are not liable for ordinary risks known to or observable by workers. Thomas died after the trial.
Judge Martin dismissed the Piit Jury until next Monday. The State vs Grant Sears for surety of the peace was dismissed. John W. Adamson appointed Guardian of Rebecca J. Sears. State vs Taylor continued due to missing witnesses. Rose Sears granted divorce from Ulysses Sears with custody of the children. Geo W McFall vs Jacob H Miller resulted in defendant's judgment. Gravel road election in Marion township set aside and remanded. new vote to occur on separate roads next June. Dunlap Wakefield visits, Earl Chambers improves from rheumatism. Petition to nominate C B Davis for State Senator discussed, Davis unlikely to decline. Linton Call.
Ora Clark was fined 1 and costs total 950 for drunkenness and jailed. Robert Cloverdale, an old offender, paid 5 and costs total 13.50 for drunkenness. James Baird paid 1 and costs total 9.50 for plain drunkenness and jailed. Jack Harris, a hotel porter, fined 15 with costs 28.50 for assault and battery after a row with a merchant. He paid by check in court and turned it over to an officer. Bertha Ennis Quackenbush, 24, daughter of Ebenezer Quackenbush, died near Fayetteville and is to be buried at New Union this afternoon. The Bedford paper to be sold privately June 13 by Ella Johnson, administratrix. Plant inventoried about 2500, business appraised at 4500. Harry Thomas of Bell Telephone spent Thursday on line south of Orleans. Tuesday storm toppled trees. Bell lines to Bloomington damaged. Fireweather: Lulu Barbey’s ninth birthday party held at 8th and 6th streets with many attendees. mischief and games and gifts noted. Severe hailstorm in Monroe county causing window and greenhouse damage. tomatoes and wheat affected. no hail south of Second Street. Bloomington World report.
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