Tragic Gasoline Fire Kills 15-Year-Old Dessie Dodd
Miss Dessie Dodd, 15, died after her skirt and porch caught fire from gasoline while she (and a lamp on a dark porch) drew fuel. Neighbors wrapped her in a quilt to smother flames but all clothing was burned off. Funeral 8:30 Wednesday at home. burial at Kurtz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Dessie Dodd
Thornton Dodd
Lincoln Avenue
B. & B. Bridge
Miss Dessie
Mrs. Pearl
Dessie
Drs. Emery
Short
Miss Dodd
J. W. Whitney
Kurtz
October Driest in 38 Years at Indiana Weather Station
The Weather Bureau reports October drought conditions at Indiana station with total precipitation of 0.01 inch, the driest October since 1902 and the driest in 38 years. The prior record driest October was 1992 with 0.28 inch, while the historical October average stands at 2.66 inches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
The
Weather Bureau
Death of Harrodsburg Resident Samuel Jones at 78
Samuel Jones, long time Harrodsburg area resident, died suddenly Tuesday morning at his son-in-law William Underwood’s home from heart failure linked to dropsy. Aged 78, he left three children Romney Jones Mrs Underwood and Miss Dora Jones who is in Texas. Funeral plans await Dora’s word. He belonged to Linthicum M E Church.
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Harrodsburg
Samuel Jones
Jones
Wm. Underwood
Romney Jones
Underwood
Dora Jones
Texas
The
Linthicomb M. E. Church
Public auction sale to dissolve partnership at Hobbs farm
To dissolve partnership, sale at public auction Tuesday November 10 1908 at 10 30 a m. Hobbs farm four miles north of Williams one mile southwest of Silverville. Items include 100 head of sheep Yews and lambs five bucks two work mares one colt one cow and calf and farm implements. Usual terms eight months time without interest. E M C Hosss Rex Stour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobbs Farm
Williams
Silverville
E. M. C. Hosss
Rex Stour
Milk Fever Cure Promises Life for Dying Cow
Humphreys veterinary remedy A A saves a cow after calving. Fever shows as refusal to eat, dullness, hot horns and nose, scant urine, and heavy breathing. A few doses break the fever. price 60 cents. Also offers a 500 page book and chart mailed free. Marriage licenses granted to Dixon and Crawford. Hoppingarner and Aldenhagen. Dr. Culmer returns to practice in Bloomington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humphreys
A. A
Humphreys’ Homeo Medicine Co
William and Ann Streets
New York
Boody Divorce Suit Seeks Abandonment Relief
Mary Boody files for divorce from Louis Boody in Lawrence Circuit Court alleging abandonment after their marriage on October 15, 1903 and separation June 20, 1904. She also claims lack of support. attorney Marshall Woolery filed the complaint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Boody
Lawrence
Louis Boody
Marshall Woolery
Divorce Action in Lawrence Circuit Court over Custody and Adoption
Bonnie Hileman seeks a divorce from James Hileman alleging marriage on July 31, 1904 and separation on April 27, 1907. She also seeks custody of their 2 year old son Clinton. James E. Clark of Linton petitions to adopt the child and rename him Clinton Clark. Attorney Marshall Woolery filed both petitions.
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Lawrence
Bonnie Hileman
James Hileman
Mollie Dickey
Clinton
James E. Clark
Linton
Little Hileman
Clinton Clark
Marshall Woolery
Hoosier Congressmen and House Balance Report
Washington November 5 Three hundred seventy six congressional districts heard from show Republicans 205 Democrats 171 with fifteen undecided. Indiana list names each district and party for the Sixty first Congress and the current House makeup contrast.
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Washington
House
House of Representatives
Indiana
John W. Boehne
William A. Cullop
William E. Cox
Lincoln Dixon
Ralph W. Moss
William G. Barnard
Charles Korbley
John A. M. Adair
Martin A. Morrison
E. D. Crumpacker
George W. Rauch
Cyrus W. Cline
Henry A. Barnhart
Engineer George House Sr Leaves City for Panama Canal Zone
George House Sr formerly in North I Street restaurant business sails to Empire Panama to take a locomotive engineer post. He is an experienced engineer with years in the vocation before starting a business in this city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George House, Sr
North I Street
Empire
Panama
Canal Zone
Mr. House
People Rule Restores Old Hitch Rack in Bloomington
In Monroe County the public voted to bring back the unsightly hitch rack surrounding the new $200,000 courthouse after a campaign by the Local Council of Women and critique from the State Health official. Voters handed ballots for the hitch rack with farmers largely backing restoration.
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Bloomington
Monroe County
Court House
James H. Smith
Council of Women
Harry
State Board of Health
Ballots Spark Democratic Landslide In Indiana Elections
Democratic leaders celebrate statewide gains as Indiana shifts toward a Democratic Legislature and possible U S senatorship. Prominent Republicans including Watson Landis and Overstreet suffer defeats while Prohibition and Independence party movements show slow, uncertain results.
Italian Gun Broker Fined For Intoxication And Concealed Weapon
Tony Bratta, an Italian, faced a police court today and was fined 26 dollars plus costs for intoxication and carrying a concealed weapon. A pistol seized at arrest was destroyed by Sheriff Box on Mayor Stipp’s orders under the law requiring destruction of such weapons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Bratta
Bratta
Sheriff Box
Stipp
Police Keep City Quiet As Drunkcies Decline
Police patrols kept the city streets and saloon alleys quiet on Tuesday with few disturbances. North I street residents praised the order, while the force was busy maintaining calm across the city. The Indiana Legislature is seen as Democratic by a safe joint ballot, signaling defeat for Senator Hemenway and election of a Democrat, likely John Wickern.
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North I Street
Indiana
Hemenway
John Wickern
Linton Call
Thomas Taggart
Republican Leaders See Crumbs Falling From Watson Loss
Complete returns from over twenty counties show Watson's associates on the state ticket far behind him with Marshall ahead by about 7,000 votes and possibly more than 10,000 final margin. Goodwine Sims Billheimer and others ran ahead by 110 to 254 votes per county. Marion VandErburg Bartholomew and Randolph show similar gaps. Local option law labor issues brewery money German votes and Prohibition/Temperance splits cited as reasons for Watson defeat.
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Indiana
James E. Watson
Jesse Overstreet
Charles B. Landis
John C. Chaney
Hemenway
United States
Senator Beveridge
C. B. Landis
Dennis
Martin A. Morrison
Carroll County
Clinton
Fountain
Tipton
Boone
Montgomery County
Howard County
Hamilton
Ira Christian
Hamilton County
Mr. Landis
Morrison
Rush
F. W. Lough
Marion
Chafin
Heynes
Watson
Independence Party
James M. Zion
Fred A. Sims
Indianapolis Star
Marshall
Fremont Goodwine
John C. Billheimer
Vanderburg
Goodwine
Sims
Billheimer
Fayette County
James Bingham
Fred Sims
Oscar Hadley
Geo. W. Self
Lawrence McTurnan
J. L. Peeta
Quincy Myers
David Myers
Bartholomew County
Hadley
Bingham
Self
McTurnan
Peetx
Columbus
Judge Cox
Randolph County
Peetz
Marion County
Tippecannee County
Vanderburg County
Associated
Republican State Committee
Lake County
Delaware County
J. L. Peetz
Kokomo
Earnest B. Thomas
Rushville
Thomas
Autumn wedding unites Addie Alden Hagen and Frank Hoppingarner
A home ceremony Wednesday at 8 pm united Addie Alden Hagen and Frank Hoppingarner at the Alden Hagen residence on Souths Street. Rev O Haver officiated before family and friends with music by Miss Mary Tech. The couple will reside in Bedford after a cottage-filled reception and gifts, with out-of-town guests Dr and Mrs Elmer Jonestof Shoals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Aldenhagen
Souths Street
Addie
Frank Hoppingarner
O’haver
Mary Tech
Wesley Hoppingarner
Bedford
Mrs
Elmer Jonestof Shoals
Mrs. Mitchell Dead In Orleans After Illness
Bedford mourns Mary F. Mitchell 69, long noted resident. She died Thursday at her daughter Mrs. Homer Fisher’s Orleans home after a liver cancer illness of several weeks. Survived by six children: Mrs. Fisher, Mrs. Millison, Mrs. Braxton, Edward D., John, and Henry Mitchell. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Mary F. Mitchell
Bedford
Homer Fisher
Orleans
Mitchell
Fisher
Henry Davis
Lawrence County
Leesville
Bryantsville
John W. Mitchell
West Side
B. C. Millison
Henry Braxton
Tombstone
Arizona
Edward D
John
Henry Mitchell
Indiana Wealth in Figures From State Statistician Moore
Mrs Mary Stubbs Moore presents Indiana facts for a biennial report covering size wealth railroads history schools and religion. The data include land area population 1908 2 775 708 counties cities and towns taxable property 1907 factory and wage figures coal oil crops and farm outputs with school fund values and teacher pupil counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Stubbs Moore
Indiana
Indiana Territory
Ohio
Switzerland
Congressional School Fund
Arrest Shakeup Over Munson Vote Buying Claim
The Mitchell Tribune notes a Tuesday arrest of Wm. Munson Jr on a loosely drawn affidavit alleging vote buying filed by a Bedford Democrat. Judge Giles, acting as special judge for Mayor Brown, saw Munson bond out minutes later. Munson’s lawyers seek abatement challenging Giles authority.
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Wm. Munson Jr
Johnson
Bedford
Munson
Giles
Brown
Ott strikes coal and artesian water on Bartholomew farm
John Ott, former Bartholomew county poor farm superintendent near Lowell, uncovers a twenty five foot thick coal seam while Safe Burns drills for water on his farm. He continues drilling and at 215 feet taps a strong artesian water flow rising to within twenty eight feet of the surface.
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John Ott
Bartholomew County
Indiana
Ott
On War Path at South Side Saloon Raid
Police entered Hugh Whiting’s South Side saloon on a search warrant based on information by John Brown but found no evidence. Pete Williams knocked Brown down after learning about the affidavit and was later arrested for assault and battery, pleading guilty and fined. Brown sustained light injuries and faced a court appearance as officers cleared the street amid the disturbance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Whiting
Payne, Corbin and
Embree
John Brown
Pete Williams
Brown
William
Payne
Williams
Mrs. Leah Barclay Dies at 27 in Pulmonary Tuberculosis
The estimable Mrs Leah Barclay wife of Harry Barclay and daughter of M N Mes sick died Tuesday night at 6 45 at her father's home after several months illness from pulmonary tuberculosis She was 27 years old and left one child Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2 from the M E church conducted by Rev J F O Haver with burial at Green Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leah Barclay
Harry Barclay
M. N. Messick
M. E
J. F. O’haver
Green Hill
City Jail and Fines in Intoxication Cases
Ben Dillard was fined one dollar and costs totaling eleven dollars for intoxication and went to jail. Elwood Trueblood also paid one dollar and eleven dollars in costs for intoxication and stayed. Frank Webb and Quinn McLaughlin were arraigned on vagrancy charges and discharged on promising to leave on the first train. Louis Lundy, barber, recovering well from appendicitis operation at City Hospital. Dr Short reports his condition gratifying.
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Ben Dillard
Elwood Trueblood
Frank Webb
Quinn McLaughlin
Louis Lundy
City Hospital
Dr. Short
Wagner Promoted To Trainmaster In Jacksonville District
D G Wagner, formerly chief train dispatcher for the Monon, is advanced to trainmaster of the Jacksonville district, including ACL branches north of Sanford Fla. He left here two years ago for Sanford as dispatcher, then chief dispatcher and trainmaster. Friends commend the rise.
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D. G. Wagner
The
Monon
Jacksonville
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Sanford
Fle
Wagner
Coast Line
Lafayette Courier
Prosperity Pulse Bends Toward Bedford Contractors After Election
Prosperity rises in Bedford as J A Coleman lands multiple contracts including a 64 foot extension to Struble mill making 455 feet total and a 96 foot extension to Rowestone mill. Bedford Machine and Foundry wins a new traveller for the mill and a West Sixteenth street stock company theatre project. Coleman says Taft's election boosted business confidence nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
J. A. Coleman
Bedford Machine and Foundry Company
Coleman
Stock Company
West Sixteenth Street
Taft
Rehearing Denied in Express Package Case
The Indiana Supreme Court denied a rehearing in the state versus railroad commission case on express packages. it held delivery limits may extend beyond city lines and that the 2,500 inhabitant cities delivery mandate intrudes on interstate shipments. Also reported: a public square stand used by Democrats was torn down and removed by a Cook Brewing wagon. Joe Melter, previously at St. Anthony's Hospital with pneumonia, returned home Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railroad Commission
Supreme Court
Indiana
Cook Brewing Company
Joe Melter
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Terre Haute
Death summons Miss Lillian Voris to Ashville NC
Miss Lillian Voris receives a telegram informing of her father Joseph Voris death in Ashville North Carolina last night. He was a younger brother of Col. A. C. Voris of this city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Voris
Ashville
North Carolina
Joseph Voris
Col
A. C. Voris
Death of Mrs Zella Fidler Near Dunlavy School House
Mrs Zella Fidler aged 25 wife of Lawrence Fidler died Wednesday at 2 pm at her home near Dunlavy school house from consumption. Funeral services will be held at the house tomorrow at 2 pm conducted by Elder John Williams and George Rayne. Burial follows at Crawford graveyard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zella Fidler
Lawrence Fidler
Dunlavy School
John’ Williams
George Rayne
Crawford Graveyard
Uncle Tommy Brooks Dies in Dinner Table Choking Incident
The 80 year old Uncle Tommy Brooks of Brookstown, four miles southwest of here, choked on a piece of chicken at the dinner table last Sunday. Despite efforts to relieve him, he died shortly after. He was the grandfather of Mrs. Ed Donahue of this city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy Brooks
Mr. Brooks
Ed Donahue
Brookstown
Here
Mitchell Commercial
Evangelist J A Lord to Lead City Church Revival
The First Christian church announces a two week revival starting November 15 with J A Lord of Cincinnati O as Evangelist. Lord edits the Christian Standard and is hailed as a leading preacher in the Christian Brotherhood. The church aims for its best meeting yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Lord
Cincinnati
Christian Standard
Christian Brotherhood
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Pinhook
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Public Square
MS. Barclay
den Wegner
South I Street
Morris & CO
Standestreet
Goyert &Vogel Egg and Poultry Co
J.W. Harvey
J. W. Traibor
East Side
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