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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1902
Page
3
Erie visitors in city on Saturday include Mr George Speer and Mrs Walter Stipp. Heltonville residents Nellie Hunter and Miss Delia Gregory spent Sunday with family. Reed Bass and wife welcomed a 10 pound daughter. Monon railroad news notes a staff change and a Chicago excursion. Bourbon county KY awards a new Bedford stone court house. Mrs George Hyde plans to move to New Albany.
Pitmans Meat Market pays high cash for butter eggs chickens hides and tal low. First door east of Post Office. H Voyles coroner sent by County Health officers to Bono Township to inter a child buried without death certificate and burial permit. Bob Wicker pitched six and a half innings in Chicago game versus St. Louis. Tony Livers assaulted wife and neighbor and fled. Freight officials buoyant on corn crop prospects as sample cars arrive. James B Skerd and Mary Lewis wed in Bedford tonight. groom telegraph operator, bride millinery store worker. They plan to live in Bedford. Washington Gazette.
J A Rown a stove cutter from Frankfort arrived in the city. A marriage license issued to Benjamin Pitman and Jessie Daggy. Charlie Farmer bought the Swango hack between Bedford and Oolitic. Miss Myra Owen home after visits in Marshville Springfield and Illinois. Mrs M Allen and daughter Inez traveling to Jackson County to visit relatives. Henry Kindred moved family into Fred Maick’s house on O Street. Mr Maick moved to the country. Miss Amy Mathes returned to Harrodsburg after a visit with relatives. Woodward of Lebanon and Otis Carmichael of Bloomington in city as stock buyers. Married: C J Walker to Sarah Howard at Bedford. Mrs Henry J Accam and Mrs Will Stipp visiting Heltonville. Ann Lackey bought the Love farm at 975 per acre. Corn in field 29 cents per bushel. Editorial on coal prices. Licenses issued to Homer Ingle and Cora E H Stipp, Jeffie Stafford and Catharine Rout, Lee Hendricks and Maggie Ash, Lawrence Donica and Isse Maddox, Robert Uelton and Myrtle Perkins. American Express contracts Fred Burton to build depot at Monon Station with electric lighting. A quiet wedding at the home of E Richard Edwards for Jeffie S Stafford and Catharine Rout. They will live in Bedford. M D O Grady retrieved his son charged with stealing shoes at Foster’s. son to be placed in a Chicago school. The boy had money in a Chicago bank.
The Board of State Charities and county boards urge a general Prison Sunday on October 26 to raise public awareness on prison reform crime prevention and care for dependent children. Ministers are asked to preach on crime prevention and related topics and may receive literature from Room 52 State House Indianapolis.
Morrill Simpson of Shawswick visited town Saturday. Josie Snow left for Chicago to join her sister Mrs Frank Graves. Mrs Charley Lamberd and Myrtle visited James Cather. Frank Lavender, a Philippines veteran, re-enlisted at Seymour. Newland Day's wife seeks treatment in Martinsville. Several families returned from Salem after visiting Homer Harris, ill with typhoid. W G Hofferbert of Stone City Printing Co received a patent for a single trigger on a double barrel gun. The B&O S W shifted to lighter engines to reduce train weight. Congressman Miers seeks Bryan speeches in the district. State Chairman O'Brien denies inviting him. G M Norman is gravely ill with typhoid fever. A saloon in Oolitic labeled water “Kentucky Dew” provoked action. Evangelist Claude F. Witty’s Mitchell meeting reports seven additions and may last longer. J C Carlton of Bedford, youngest Mexican War veteran, attends Paris convention with Mexico views and photos. Lexington Leader notes Carlton’s upcoming convention role and expertise.
William H. Seace, a blacksmith, died Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 after a two week illness from typhoid fever. He was 28 years old, 10 months and 25 days. He married Cora Dussard last winter. Funeral planned for this afternoon at 3 o'clock, burial at Gren Hill Cemetery.
The Terre Haute Street Fair and Carnival Association announces the annual Free Street Fair to run October 18. It promises enhanced livestock and agricultural premiums, elaborate decorations and electrical luminations, and shows rivaling a national exposition. Last year nearly half a million visitors attended the Terre Haute Street Mall and attendance is expected to rise. Railroads offer reduced rates for the week.
Mrs. George Frown travels from New Albany to visit a sick relative while Mrs. O. C. Hubbard returns from Campbellsburg after X-ray treatment. Henry Ahler relocates to the city with his family. Mrs. Ahler joins her mother at 17th and K. Martha Hollers sues John R Tanksley et al on bond for damages over her husband Willis Hollers death in Mitchell tied to Shube Burton’s saloon, trial before Judge Martin.
We thank neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy shown during the sickness death and burial of our twin babies. We also thank co workers at the quarry where I am employed. Mr and Mrs Thomas Henderson.
Two Bedford couples wed in October as private ceremonies at First Christian and First M E churches. Otto Krenke and Kate Bright married by Rev Edwards, with guests surprised by the quiet nuptials. Benjamin F Pitman and Jessie Daggy united at the First M E Church with a full ceremony and reception, noting Pitman’s meat trade success and Daggy’s charm. A Lincoln era event followed as the Nancy Hanks Lincoln monument dedication was held in Lincoln City, Ind, with Gen John C Black delivering the oration.
Circuit Court notes list several Monroe cases with today and Monday trial dates. Morgan v Deckard and Deckard v Hat tie McConnell set for trial. Nicholson v Larter tried with defense verdict. Milligan v Mason foreclosed. Deckard case involves ejectment. O’Grady from Chicago sent to Reform School. Collier sentenced for attempted family poisoning. Kelly case found guilty with $25 fine. Roosevelt invites railroad presidents to a Washington coal strike settlement meeting.
The notice directs that any inquiries about rates times trains and related services be written to D B Stern Traveling Passenger Agent Terre Haute Indiana for prompt attention. It emphasizes separate and connected lines and excursions as part of the inquiry process.
The Power of the Cross by Phil Fisher’s company opens at the Stone City Opera House with two nights and Saturday matinee starting Friday Oct 3. Also featured is Twain’s Pudd'nhead Wilson with Shipman Brothers presenting a strong cast at the Stone City Opera House on Oct 17.
Schedule from Bedford shows trains to Indianapolis Louisville Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis with times for east and north bound departures. Travel times listed include 2 hours 53 minutes to Indianapolis and 8 hours 44 minutes to Cincinnati. H H Roseman GPLA notes connections to all points north east south and west.
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