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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1902
Page
3
Local notes report visits by Mrs. James Myers and others in Elnora and Indianapolis. Marriage licenses issued to Elihu Parks and Laura F. McCoy and to Ed Gould with Nellie McMann. A new company bought the Salem fair grounds and plans a fair in September. Pension and business moves involve several area residents, with loans offered and shop relocations noted. An excursion to Terre Haute and a proposed electric plant sale are also mentioned.
The Faubion Cummings and McPike families plan their annual meeting on June 7 1902 at Enoch Faubions farm also known as Isaac Bonhams farm fourteen miles northeast of Heltonville. Good speakers will attend and all are invited. May 20 1902 H A Cummins Secretary.
Saturday in the city features Mr and Mrs Henry Wray of Heltonville visiting town. Riley Foddrill builds two three room cottages on H Street. The Monon resumes newsboys on through trains after a year. The Lowder mill near Springville sold for 850 dollars to John Rollinson of Lyons. Indications grow that Monon may be acquired by Louisville and Nashville and Southern jointly to gain Chicago access.
The Monon shipped 15 carloads of fine stock from Bloomfield via the B and O to Boston for European distribution. Local notes include obituaries for Mrs Phebe Voss near Springville aged 77 and Mrs Watty Owens aged 83 buried in Avoca, plus a Dubois County geologist evaluating a premier potters clay bed between Huntingburg and Holland.
The famous comic opera King Dodo by Gustavius Luders will be staged next week at the Stone City Opera House. Thirty performers and a fifteen strong chorus promise elaborate costumes and a high character production by Bedford Premier Band with directors Waterbury and Spain. The show closes the opera season as rehearsals continue nightly and the high school class holds commencement on June 3 and 4, after which the theater closes until September.
All Spanish American veterans are urged to meet at the G. A. R. Hall on Monday evening May 26 1902 at 7 30 to arrange Decoration Day exercises. All veterans are requested to attend and non residents are invited. By order of COMMITTEE. Swain formerly with Vandalia then Monon office at Suimedale resigns ill health. Green of Monon appointed to Limedale office. roads patched appointment arrangement.
A pretty wedding occurred at Mrs Frances Hon residence on South N street Wednesday evening. Prof Elmer A Johnson and Miss Ethel Hon married with Rev E Richard Edwards officiating. Miss May Martin as brides maid and Clyde Hon as grooms man attended. Out of town guests included Dr and Mrs A H Hon of Bloomington and Mr and Mrs Walter Johnson of Buddha.
Salem requests 175 seats for the school at the Oratorical and Musical Contest while Bloomington reserves 300 seats in the north end of the Men's Gymnasium for the event. Students face track conditions, illness, and costume delays as plans unfold.
A group protects their young fruit trees by covering them with mosquito bar netting. The barrier successfully keeps locusts away without harming tree growth.
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