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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1901
Page
3
Local items report Mrs. John Roote severely ill with fever and John Rainbolt seriously ill of typhoid in Oolitic, with other sickness notes including malaria. Ed Skerd of Puntelton visits the city. 667 Odd Fellows lodges in Indiana total 55 463 members. Various residents travel, move, or attend events including church services, funerals, and a building sale in progress.
Milton Kern of Fayetteville visits town on Saturday. Mrs Basil Miller is ill at her West 12th Street home. Born to Cyrus Blackburns of North M Street a fine son. F M Lemon improving his residence. Charles Giles of Springville in town Monday. Joseph Haona moved from North O Street to North H Street. New stock of shoes at cost. Iseminger nearly played the whole game for Bedford Washington Gazette. Mrs Herbert Earle returns from visit with Mrs Nora Gainey in Liberty. Clarence Quackenbush and family visit Lawrenceport. F P Mallicoat moving his family east of the city. Mrs Katherine Cole sick with rheumatism and worse. Earl Fish visiting his aunt Eva Duniavy on West 13th Street. The Rutledge child ill with typhoid fever improving. Marriage licenses issued to Everett E Sanders and Mantez Vanmeter, John W Edwards and Loda P Hawkins. W Dobson seeking a new farm in Indian Springs. H H Walls offers farm loans in Southern Indiana. Pension Attorney A W Jones of Mitchell increases pension for John L Roses of Orleans. Joseph Simpson of Bono has business in the city. Republicans in his township favor prosperity. Mrs A Andrews leaves to return home via Springville. John Rainbolt dies of typhoid fever in Oolitic buried there. leaves a wife and child. Seymour to renew county seat fight with Brownstown. Beatrice Sanders to Mitchell to entertain at Burat Baptist church. Two new hotels at French Lick and West Baden spur labor demand. bricklayers at 60 cents per hour.
Mrs. Culmer of Springville and several residents are noted in brief items. Miss Elnora Stevens dies at 17 and is buried in Huron. Dr. Driscoll returns home to Manatee. a real estate trip. John Reath adds dormer windows. multiple visits and travel among Bedford, Bloomington, Avoca, and Indianapolis. A school superintendent meeting is postponed. a child dies from a fall. hunting trip reports. armchair union talk for 1902. printing and insurance interests shift. Purdue football anecdote. Democrats set district meeting January 8. signs of mild winter. Indiana Health Board to combat tuberculosis.
Joe and Watson of near Heltonville were in town Monday visiting Mr and Mrs D W Parker at Owensburg. John McBride moved his family from Washington Indiana to this city. Born Sunday to Mr and Mrs Wesley Ramsey of North O Street a fine daughter. John A Reath has a new coat of paint on 11 and 18th streets. Elsworth Knight, from Aurora Illinois, returned home for winter. Mr and Mrs Hubert Store and baby arrived Tuesday from Knoxville Tennessee to visit relatives. Mrs Richard Rowland returns home after visiting Chicago. Mrs Mary BE Aitchison visits daughter Mrs Bart Short then returns to Mt Olive. F W Smith buys George corner property for 6000. Mrs Ben Nicholson and Miss Achsah Bennett visit Marion Indiana. Joe Hennon returns from Oklahoma and reports prosperity. A surprise taffy pull honors N R Louder on West 14th Street Monday night. Evangelist Austin Sommer’s meeting at the Leesville Church of Christ grows, with three baptisms and one relation. The meeting may run past next Sunday. Due to poor health B J Naugle, manager of B M Lingle & Sons, will close out stock of harness and saddles. prices cut for 30 days. Lingle & Sons announce BOM. Mr and Mrs Joseph Durham relocate from Jeffersonville, living temporarily in Bradley property until their new East Ninth Street home by Mrs Mary A Day is finished. New Albany item in Courier-Journal.
We express thanks to relatives and friends for aid and sympathy after the death of our mother and wife. May God bless all who comforted us. Respectfully, Taylor Byers and daughter. Also notes about local mill threats, potato market chatter, and praise for independent telephone networks aiding farmers and local business.
The Washington game left players bruised but in good shape as Prof. Greist runs a rub- down for the squad. Miss Sanders spoke on Wagner's four operas, detailing Das Rheingold and Die Walkure and teasing Siegfrid and Gotterdammerung. The junior class cleaned desks, and plans for future talks and the season’s close were outlined with football and scholastic activities throughout the week.
Local items report engagements, visits, and residences in Bedford and nearby towns. Mentions marriages, a pension increase, a roof replacement, a Monon Railway land purchase and roadbed work, a theater show, a fatality and travel notes, plus an art exhibit schedule and lawsuits involving West Baden Springs Co and others.
Burley Webb, about 18, pleaded guilty to larceny and was sentenced to the Reformatory by Judge Martin. The Fritz cases dominated the docket with a change of venue granted for Nelson Fritz, a murder in the second degree verdict for George Fritz later reduced to life in prison, and extensive witness involvement. Several witnesses, including Italian interpreters, testified as cases unfolded with updates on plea changes and sentencing proceedings.
A Bedford paper urges neighboring Bloomington to visit a vice crusade, promising Bedford can furnish the vice if Bloomington supports it. The Indianapolis Southern gains city rights, enabling Brownstown Salem and Paoli to visit. President Par ry and Secretary Barrett recalled for promises, with a costly half tone of Barrett and a gaily dressed figure presenting the I. B. depot site.
In city court Judge Christer Sawrday dismissed the preliminary assault and battery case against Joséph McBrayer after the prosecuting witness failed to appear. McBrayer claimed the Gypsy Schafer attempted to collect money for not appearing, and witnesses to resolve the matters were not provided. The report also notes local burials and residents’ health updates.
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