Local Notes and Events From Indiana Towns
Sunday visits and local greetings across Short Bedford and nearby areas. Marriage licenses issued for Julian and Cummings and Bruce and Williams. Band Banda Rossa to perform at Bloomington June 6. Meekin signs with Little Rock Baseball Club in Memphis. Ind. life insurance polices large with Melville Mix holding $215,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Julian
Nora Cummings
Carl Bruce
Nellie Williams
Jouett Meekin
Little Rock
Memphis
Indianapolis
Indiana
A. H. Nordyche
John C. Wright
Senator Fairbanks
Beveridge
Terre Haute
Richmond
Melville W. Mix
Mishawaka
Local notes from Seymour and surrounding towns
John Haase and John Hartman were in Seymour Sunday. Miss Stella Mosier visits home folks in Silverville. W. H. McDoel returns from the Host. Manon president. Marriage license issued to Francis Edwards and Mary Wilcut. Townsfolk discuss a peculiar display in Hay's window. Mrs. John Bennett and two children visit from Avoca. Albert Faris and family stay with the Allens of South M street. Snyder & Doman repapering in the Dinkelspiel building with Ed Trueblood at work. Charles G. Malott acts as B and O S W agent at Mitchell in the absence of the regular agent. Large catfish caught in White River and shown in town. Bert Wicker of Bedford visits, then travels to Cincinnati. Ruth West returns to Bedford from visit with Lola Owens. Rose Flinn, from Indian Springs, visits town en route to Tunnelton. hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Chas Allen. C G Pfathenham of Evansville intends to locate here. to join Bedford Premier Band as saxophonist. West Baden town votes June 12 on water works. Paoli Republican notes water abundance. W H McDoel returns from the east. plans to remain Monon president and run lines to balance interests of controlling factions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Flinn
Indian Springs
Tunnelton
Chas. Allen
South N Street
Flooded Alabama farmlands ruin crops along Muscatta and Mutton Creek
Farmers in the Muscatta tuck and Mutton Creek bottoms report severe losses from heavy rain. Wheat, clover, oats, and corn are badly damaged and water stands in low areas, with fields reportedly navigable by boat in places. Seymour Democrat.
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Muscattatuck
Mutton Creek
Seymour Democrat
Local Notices and Social Roundup From Orleans Herald
Community health reports list Marguerite Bowman and Everett Bowman with scarlet fever and illness. Stella Franklin returns from seven years in India. Bob Wicker to pitch for St. Louis in Cincinnati next Sunday. Bedford Fair set September 1 to 6 with purses around five thousand dollars. Police actions involve Jack Ballard seeking Jack Williams and Williams’ arrest by Policeman Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Wicker
Bedford
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Orleans Herald
Jack Ballard
French Lick
Jack Williams
Johnson
Williams
North Bedford
Ballard
Monon
Jefferson praised but parties diverge in Jeffersonian echoes
The Paoli Republican notes Thomas Jefferson as a founder figure while the Bryanites and Re-organizers claim to follow him in opposing directions. It argues Jefferson would disown modern factions, highlighting his beliefs in money policy expansion and protective tariffs, and suggests true followers vote Republican.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Party
Jefferson
Paoli
Reunion of Co D 27th Indiana at Shawswick July 4 1902
The annual Co D 27th Indiana reunion will be held at Shawswick on July 4 1902 with speakers Hon J B Wilson of Bloomington and Hon Major James Jamason of Indianapolis among others. Heltonville Bartlettsville and Pinhook join in. Music will be provided by Bott Sunday schools and local singers. A full program is announced for next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co. D
27Th Indiana Regiment
Shaws
J. B. Wilson
Bloomington
James Jamason
Indianapolis
Heltonville
Bartlettsville
Bott
Pinhook
Shawswick
Bedford Merchants
Local notes on residents and new quarry near Clear Creek
Charles Pace and wife reside at East 16th Street. A. T. Wiles and family visit daughter Mrs. Walter W. Day in Maroon. Amy Mathes returns from Harrodsburg to her grandmother Mrs. J. W. Mathes. Boy camping at Cox ton. camping parties planned for early June. August Benzel visits Seymour for his mother’s birthday. Pension increases awarded to Thomas T. Ray and Seth C. Burris. A new stone quarry to open in Monroe county by Henry Dillman lands near Clear Creek. Bedford voters to Louisville require smallpox vaccination proof. Y. M. I. to Bedford for Southern Indiana excursion. Bedford ordinance bans Sunday baseball with admission. Monon completes largest baggage and mail car at Lafayette shops. six more cars underway for scenery transport.
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Monroe County
W. J. Allen
Tilman Mefford
Henry Dillman
Clear Creek
Harrodsburg
Monon
Lafayette
Lafayette Shops
Local News Briefs from Bedford and Nearby
Wm. Young visits relatives in Leavenworth Ohio and Miss Emma Overton of Little Rock Arkansaw visits Bedford. Boiler arrives at Monon shops for engine 34. Various notices cover Bus., rail, pensions, Civil Service exams, local travel, roads and weather. The month’s rainfall totals to 6.02 inches, reducing a prior nine inch deficit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Overton
Little Rock
Arkansaw
Weather Bureau
Circuit Court Notes Show Divorces and Estates Actions
Euphemia Garges granted a divorce from James Garges. Several estate claims, including John Hulse and George W. Buton, set for trial tomorrow and Monday. Judgments awarded in favor of claimants in Sappington and Berton matters. a 14 year old was sent to Reform School for Girls. a partition suit was ordered. and other court actions include housekeeper claim, school township warrant case, and adoption proceedings for Carrie Rose. Gardiner, Dye and Martin led plaintiff side. Rogers and Brooks defendant. J. M. Robertson Norton Co. prevailed on attachment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James K. Hall
Mitchelltree School Township
Martin County
J. M. Robertson Norton Co
Louisville
John
Mary Sebr
Limestone
Carrie Rose
Pleasant Run Township
Kentucky
Hall
Mitchelltree
Court records show fines in city cases this week
Judge Fletcher disposed several cases with judgments for the plaintiffs in Dye v Hoar ($17) and Freelan v Taylor ($10). The State prosecuted Brown, Lynn, Spaulding, and Dixon for intoxication with fines totaling $9.50 to $33 and jail for Spaulding. Dessie Phipps returns to Daviess county after a two week visit. Chicago and Northwestern imposes tobacco and whiskey ban on employees with dismissal after two garnishments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. Freelan
Thomas Taylor
State
Theodore Brown
George Spaulding
Clark Dixon
Fletcher
Bedford Set To Welcome Rev. Jas Small In June
Mrs Ellen McDaniel returned from Indianapolis where she attended the Assembly of Daughters of Rebekah. She reports Rev Jas Small will be in Bedford the first of June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen McDaniel
Indianapolis
Assembly of Daughters of Rebekah
Jas. Small
Bedford
Clayton Stone
Assembly of the Daughters of Rebekah
Local notes and society items from Bedford area
Short items cover lost keepsake and rewards, travels of Mrs. Holmes and Mrs. Stone, life insurance of Homer Denniston, and a canceled Fourth of July plan. Also marriage in Bedford, end of school term, Decoration Day plans, and Western Union pole dispute with the Pennsylvania railroad amid Goulds and Penn magnates tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Union
Pennsylvania Railroad
Goulds
Pennsylvania
Death of Homer Denniston and electric chair proposal
Homer Denniston died Wednesday morning after five weeks of pneumonia and heart trouble. He leaves a wife and five children. funeral was Thursday at 8 p m at his home with Rev. R S Hyde officiating. Burial at Green Hill Cemetery. Attorney General Taylor states the next Legislature will consider replacing hangings with execution by electricity. a judiciary committee bill died last session, but support exists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Denniston
P Street
R.S. Hyde
Green Hill
Taylor
Judiciary Committee
House
Faubion Cummings McPike Family Reunion Meeting
The Faubion Cummings and McPike families hold their annual meeting on June 7 1902 at the old home farm of Enoch Faubion also known as Issac Bonham's farm fourteen miles northeast of Heltonville. Good speakers will attend and all are invited. May 20 1902 H A Cummings Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faubion
Local society notes and rail safety tale from Indiana
Homer Guthrie a Stone City Bank cashier traveled to Indianapolis Thursday morning. Mr and Mrs F M McPike of Clarinda Iowa arrived to stay through Decoration Day visiting relatives including A J McPike of Morgan County. Decoration Day May 30 recalls General Logan 1886 and is a legal holiday. Gentry Bros exhibition drew full crowds with new acts including a noted aftershow Japanese theatre. Paoli dispatch reports Harry Millis saved a southbound French Lick branch train from disaster by signaling stop after a washedout fill, earning potential lifetime passes from the railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Guthrie
Stone City Bank
Indianapolis
F. M. McPike
Clarinda
Page County
Iowa
McPike
A. J. McPike
Morgan County
John A. Logan
United States
Gentry Bros. Trained
Paoli
French Lick
Monon
Here
Harry Millis
Millis
Showman Ringland Hurt Unloading Wagons Near Depot
Ringland of the Gentry Bros show was badly hurt unloading wagons from a train near the Southern Indiana depot. A wheel slipped and hurled him about 15 feet striking his back bruising and spraining it. he will be laid up for weeks. Howard Lang fractured his collarbone in a Bloomington bicycle race incident.
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Gentry Bros
Ringland
Southern Indiana
Bloomington
Howard Lang
Howard
Orleans Herald
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Tom Buskirk
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Eva Paynter
Salem
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J. L. Wagoner
Trinity Springs
Springville
Harve Dixon
Chas. Allen and Family
Ft. Ritner
Geo. D. Gowen
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J.w.huffington
H. H. Walls
Will Russell
Sherwood Tobacco Store
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South J Street
Banda Rossa
Italy
The
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John Hartman
Seymour
Stella Mosier
Silverville
W. H. McDoel
Manon
Francis Edwards
Mary Wilcut
Feedle Tgerman
John Bennett
Avoca
Albert Faris
South M Street
Snyder & Doman
Dinkelspiel
Ed Trueblood
Charles G. Malott
White River
Bert Wicker
Ruth West
Lola Owens
North
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C. G. Pfathenham
Evansville
Ind
West Baden
Paoli Republican
McDoel
R. H. Williams
New Opera House
Ndiana
Marguerite Bowman
East 17Th Street
John Pace
North O Street
Fred Benzel
Ellettsville
Everett Bowman
James Cather
William Erwin
South K Street
W. F. Brooks
Bogeman
Dave Skerd
A J. Hayward
Orleans
Amos Lawson
North J Street
Charles Pace
East 16Th Street
Bertha Stone
Will Young
Leavenworth
Ohio
A. T. Wiles
Maroon
Walter W. Day
Amy Mathes
J. W. Mathes
Coxton
August Benzel
Mr. Benzel
Wilhelminna Benzel
A. W. Jones
Thomas T. Ray
Seth C. Burris
Alfordsville
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Farrel
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15Th Street
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Borden
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Livonia
Post Office
Jack Palmer
A.W Jones
Dawson Cain
Volitic
Frederick W. Baker
Leipsic
Stone City
Fayetteville
Salt Creek
Suy
BE. J. Stalker
Circuit Court
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James Garges
John Hulse
George W. Buton
Frances Sappington
John Carey
Mary F. Mitchell
John Reed
George and
Mattie Burton
Josie Mead
Reform School For Girls Today
Martin
Jance Coleman
Geo W. Berton
Calvin Hughes
Abraham Ritchard
Robert Anderson
Andrew S. Brinegar
Jennie Hulse
City Police Court
E. K. Dye
William D. Hoar
Bert Lynn
Dessie Phipps
Chicago& Northwestern
W. S. Richey Company
Benzel Riock
Bedford, Indiana
B.B. Marley
Foster’s
Nf. J. Box
Isaac Holmes
Mariel
Short
Ben Hur
Metropolitan Insurance Co
North H Street
W. B. Chrisler
Nellie Millicons
H. A. Cummings
Secty
Showman
Gibson
Wilson’s Bargain Store
W.S. Richey
Notary Public
Benzel Block
Bedford, Ind
Mambrino
Morgan
Bedford - Horse Co
Carrara Paint
Draper
Baker's Racket Store
South Side Square
W. S. Holcombe
Offe Over Haase & Owens
J.W. Trinor
East Side
Hodge & Ferguson
Jas. G. Stull
Attorney-at-Law
Undertakers
East Side Square
Hamer & Day
Northeast Corner Square
Hamer
F. E. Stipp
South Street
C. H. Emery
Alexander & Harris
Attorneys-At-Law
Gunn