Local News Roundup from Seymour and Nearby
John Younger of Erie and Stephen Fountains from Zelma visit Seymour on Saturday. Many residents, including Basil Lee, Horace Richardson, and families from Heltonville and Springville, appear in town for illness, visits, or errands. A 9 pound girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Everett Sheeks Sunday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Younger
Erie
City
Chas. Reath
Heltonville
Stephen Fountains
Zelma
Everett Sheeks
John Tannehill
Bloomington
Local notices and transfers fill Fort Wayne week
A long list of short items covers residents traveling, visiting relatives, and town business. Names include Tom Miller Hower Utterbach J. B. Marshall Andy Brown Harmon Vantayle D. Y. Johnson Charles Noe E. R. Ray M. O. Reeves W. E. B. Driscoll Mrs. M. J. Tilford Mrs. Morton F. Brooks J. Huckleberry Merrett Smith R. E. Sproull Lem Harbaugh Misses Laura George Effie Lucas Bert Sears Lou Woolery Mrs. Eva Ewing Mrs. Rufus Hall Mrs. Elizabeth Williams Charley Reid and crew. There are real estate, road work, and court notices plus a flood of social moves and visits among Indiana towns.
Three-Year-Old Scalded By Hot Water In Bedford
A three year old child of Red Rowland a Bedford stone cutter on North H street was severely scalded at 11 o clock Tuesday after falling into a bucket of hot water. The Monon wrecking train went south at 1 30 Tuesday afternoon to Orleans to pick up a car loaded with coal pushed off the elevated coal track in the yards. The scenery car of the H T A railroad arrived with theatrical scenery for The Night Before Christmas and was in the Southern Indiana yards. The Avoca staff of teachers Miss Nugent Miss Fry Miss Lulu Bridwell and Principal Mr fish will spend Sunday with Miss Nugent at her home near Red Cross. A few invited friends will attend. An extra freight on the Southern Indiana carried forty five car loads of stone into Terre Haute Sunday evening. The passenger business of the S I is profitable but freight traffic is a gold mine. Mrs W M Denniston reports a pleasant time in Saint Louis visiting the Great Worlds Fair grounds scheduled for 1903 and praises the social qualities of its citizens. The Monon ran its odd appearing section foreman special car south Monday and Tuesday taking foremen to New Albany to view how railroad property is cared for by others in the same business. The foremen sat in an amphitheater like structure on the car and the trip recalled last year when it was cold and some paid to go.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rowland
North H Street
Monon
Orleans
Avoca
Miss Nugent
Indiana
Terre Haute
S. I
Bedford
The
New Albany
Mitchell Visitors and Local Notes From Town
Mr and Mrs Fred Strout spend a few days in Mitchell. Mrs Charlotte Northcraft left for Adeline Kansas. Homer Utterback traveled to Freetown for a short visit. Nellie Hunter of Heltons ville called on friends here. Rice Haverly is home with typhoid fever. Marenia Pace of Guthrie visited her daughter Mrs Morton Gregory. Herschel Bridwell slowly improves. Fannie Dussard erecting a cottage on the corner of 6 and 18th streets. Lula Jackson returned to Freetown after visiting A R Brown. W B Smithers shows a copy of the Vicksburg Citizen of July 4 1863. Eli Marquart of Lyons to Jonesville and stayed with John Hartman. Charles Elkins burned with blasting powder at Dark Hollow quarry and may lose an arm. Jack Voris burned in the same incident improving slowly. Mrs Taylor Byers reported better. John Vaughn the veteran Monon engineer resumes engine 105 runs 5 and 6. Lew McDonald Monon Inspector seeks patent on throttle valve now on engine 108. Notice to Tax Payers warns payment before November first to avoid penalties. Internal Revenue report from Kentucky notes fewer than 125 brandy distilleries operating. Some apple and peach brandy activity varies by county. Kentucky overall output likely short.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internal Revenue Agent For
Kentucky
Clinton County
Russell
Green
Indian Springs man visits Bedford on business and locals hear lecture
A. M. Harris of Indian Springs was in Bedford on business Thursday. Nine Italian quarrymen left Bedford to work at Fishing Creek quarries in Stonington on the B and O South-West line. Emma Pease returned home to Gerard Kansas after visiting her son. A croquet match in Bedford produced a Smith and Henry Campbell victory. Henry Embree leaves school for Byrantsville to restore health. Rourke Cochran opens Indiana University Lecture Course at Bloomington on November 15 delivering The True Source Of National Prosperity with special rail rates offered from Bedford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stonington
Fishing Creek
Emma Pease
Asbury Pease and
Gerard
Kansas
Henry Embree
Byrantsville
Bedford
Rourke Cochran
Indiana University
Bloomington
Cochran
Indiana
Poets visit Nashville and Bedford talk on stone bids
Indiana dialect poet J Whitcomb Riley and Jap Miller visited Nashville and Martinsville with little hospitality from locals while a Bedford lecture by Geo R Wendling draws high praise for diction and civic virtue. Indianapolis dispatch notes Rankin Kellogg plan federal building bids in Dec with a choice of granite or Indiana stone led by John R Walsh of Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Washington
Rankin & Kellogg
Philadelphia
Indianapolis Federal Building
Taylor
Indiana Stone
John R. Walsh
Chicago
Bedford Quarries
Three men plead guilty in City Police Court
Elmer Scott Fred Reynolds and George Jenkins each pleaded guilty in two cases to trespass and riot in Judge Stephenson's court, fined 20.70 dollars with costs. Special Constable John W. Owens pursued Homer Howard who escaped after a gun was drawn. Gerald Smith found guilty of hunting without a permit and trespass with a 27.77 total including costs. Dode Hert convicted of trespass and fined 39.27 with costs stayed. other cases postponed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Scott
Fred Reynolds
George Jenkins
John W. Owens
Homer Howard
Bedford National Bank
Howard
Owens
Gerald Smith
Chrisler
Feldun Fields
Dark Hollow
Zaring
Underwood
Dode Hert
Dode
Feldon Fields
Funeral Service Of Mrs J W Newland
The body will lie in state at the home on West 16th Street until 1 pm Friday. Funeral service at First Christian Church at 2 pm with hymns Lead Kindly Light and Rock of Ages, Scripture readings, remarks by Rev James Small and Elder Joseph Franklin, anthem, benediction. Burial at Green Hill Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Newland
West 16Th Street
First Christian Church
James
Green Hill Cemetery
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Herrick
Boss Dinkelspiel Bros
East Side Square
Bedford, Ind
Louis Mayer
James Ragsdale
Basil Lee
Horace Richardson
Stary
Mrs
Harry Huffstetter
Belle Shacklett
Springville
Mack Chesnut
Wade Mason
Morgan & Dodd’s
M. E. Vestal
Foster
Wm. Henderson
Mollie Brown
J. H. Ellison
Seymour
L. R. Thompson
George Needham
Tom Jackson
Bono
John Walker
Kurtz
J. M. Turner
John “Foley
Ft. Worth
Texas
Fred Freeman
Fred Edgar
Frank Bridwell
Addison Younger and Wife
Bartlettsville
Limestone
Luxe Reynolds
W. C. Griner
Barber
Ben Wyckoff
West 18Th Street
G. B. Ross
Heltonsville
Wm. Elmes
Mary Link
Oolitic
Small
James Chesnut
West 12Th Street
Johnson
Seymour National Bank
Seymour Water Co
Silas Whitted
Perdue Acion
Beech Grove
Dr. F. H. Stipp
Charles. Walker
Washington County
Eva May Horton
Mitchell
H M. Burnham
North N Street
George M. Johnson
Jackson County
Hirsha Johnson
Harley Shields
Mary Stoessel
17Th
K Srs
Joe Wright
Henry Owens
North Bedford
M.D. Strout
Purdue University
la Fayette
N. E. Strout
Walter Armstrong
Elizabethtown
Lon McBride
Washington Herald
Niagara Falls
Southern Indiana
Capt. S. B. Voris
Harry Voris
Antionette Voris
Louisville
Mary E. Byers
West 19Th Street
Byers
Dessie Phipps
Jerome Boyles
Mt. Carmel
O. M. Seitz
Seitz
Maud Jefferies
Lawrence County
Earth
Tom Miller
Hower Utterbach
Visist
Freetown
J. B. Marshall
Shoals
Andy Brown
Gus Weyerbacher
Harmon Vantayle
D. Y. Johnson
Bowling Green
Charles Noe
Cable Car Co
E. R. Ray
I. U
M. O. Reeves
Columbus
W. EB. Driscoll
Manatee, Fla
M. J. Tilford
Ben Ramsey
Morton F. Brooks
Windsor
Canada
J. Huckleberry
North Vernon
S. W. Williams
8Th and
O Streets
Merrett Smith
R. E. Sproull
Lem Harbaugh
Mitchell Monday Forenoon
Laura George
Effie Lucas
Bert Sears
Lou Woolery
Leesville
Eva Ewing
Harrodsburgh, Ky
Harry M. Voris
Rufus Hall
Mort Duncan
Bullit County
Elizabeth Williams and Son
Cedar Grove
E.E. Trueblood
Campbellsburg
Elijah Hiles
Charley Reid
J. Sherrill
I and
Sth Streets
Methodist
Fort Wayce
Jesse M. Winstandley
S. H. Crim
H. M. Voris
Monon Corps of Surveyors
Horseshoe Bend
Rocky
Crawfordsville
Freemont Davis
Helen Lewis
East 16Th Street
Smith
Frank McPherridge
Acme Bedford Stone Company
Monroe County
John Steward
Monroe
Acme
Supreme Court
George J. Peyton
E. I
Elnora
Ind
Peyton
B. B. Marley
Cass Porter
John Morgan
Greene County
Quincy Rainbolt
Popcorn
St. Louis
Cosner’s
Clara Bodenhamer
John Martin
Bessie Pierce
Williams
M. D. Lane
G. B. Ross & Co
Robt. Reed
William Embree
Bryantsville
D. W. McHargue
Plainville
H. H. Walls
A. L. Richardson and Son
A. Johnson
Illinois
Otis Shot
Bomer West
Indian Creek Township
Old Union
Kate Malott
H. & T. A. Railroad
Len
Congo
Les
A. Will
Fred Strout
Timothy
Charlotte Northcraft
Adeline, Kan
Homer Utterback
Nellie Hunter
Rice Haverly
Marenia Pace
Guthrie
Morton Gregory
Lula Jackson
A. R. Brown
W. B. Smithers
Vicksburg
Eli Marquart
Lyons
Jonesville
Bartholomew County
John Hartman
Charles Elkins
Jack Voris
Taylor Byers
John Vaughn
Monon Pasenger
Lew McDonald
W. H. West
Wilson’s Bargain Store
Logan McDonald
Hugh Dodd
John
Wicker
Stovington
A. M. Harris
Indian Springs
George R. Field
Marion Township
Andy Fine
Koleen
J. H. Smith
Henry Campbell
Frank Owens
Geo. Campbell
Henry Campball
J. Whitcomb Riley
Nashville
Brown County
Jap Miller
Martinsville
Riley
Miller
Geo. R. Wendling
Tarsus
Wendling
Athens
James Small
Capes
Mammoth
W. H. and
Rg, Cosner
FREE
City Police Court
Richard B. Short
Alexander & Harris Attorneys- At-Law
Ofice
Gunn
New Opera House
D. H. Baldwin & CO
M. Young
F. E. Stipp
South Street
J. W. Prichard
West Side
Mitchell's Drug Store
Elder Joseph Franklin
E. Kinser
General Merchandise
Wallheiser
Hamer & Day
Northeast Corner Square
Hamer
Hodge & Ferguson
East Side
C. H. Emery
Jas. G. Stull
Square
Sherwood
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