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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1901
Page
3
Local residents and visitors are noted with many mentions of travel and events. Catherine Cole visits Springville. John Sadler from Salem spends Sunday in town. Oliver Agnew and Oma Kimbrel receive a marriage license. Multiple Bloomington trips for shopping and social visits are recorded, along with new birth and local rail updates.
Mrs. John Mead of Mitchell visits Bedford. Various births marriages and moves include a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Harry Ragsdale and another to Mr and Mrs T D Carlisle. Dugan Stone Co. operates night shifts. several residents relocate to Indianapolis Terre Haute New Albany Wellsville Moore's Hill College. Married Jesse Hardin to Rose Childers. Toddler Jennie Root dies of typhoid. families relocate to Chicago Heltonville and beyond.
Mrs J R Pope visits Sam Jones of Harrodsburg while Wm Bailey and wife visit relatives in Salem. Mitchell tailor Henry Schrieve and Orleans visitor Homer Kerby appear in town Friday and Saturday. Typhoid illness rests on Mary Panza and Mrs James McMahan returns from New Albany. Several residents plan trips to Terre Haute races and Indianapolis meetings. Pension increases for Mordica Ballard and Joseph Anderson are approved. Monon engine 108 undergoes overhaul with new McDonald valve test.
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A crowded roster of residents and visitors across Bedford and surrounding towns includes B. B. Marley loaning funds, William Roberts moving to Indianapolis, Miss Etta Gainey returning to Bloomfield, Mrs. M. Bush relocating to Oolitic, and many other neighbors. Auctioneer Geo W. Holmes to cry the Scoggan sale on Oct. 5, with others attending races, weddings, and social visits.
Popular Sunday excursion to Cincinnati offered by the B and O S W R R with return October 13 at $1 25. Train departs 8:00 a m. See small bills for details. Rev C E B Asbury arrived from Bedford to lead Wall Street M E church, and Rev G D Wolfe with family to depart Thursday for Columbus. Dr Asbury has wife and two children.
The funeral for Mrs. Winthrop A. Foote will be at the Presbyterian church Friday October 4 at 2 00 pm with Rev Irvine officiating. The remains lie in state at the residence Friday until 1 pm. Burial will be at Green Hill. Fr M Trexler of Allentown PA, attorney to the Pennsylvania cement company, has been here in consultation with Brooks Brooks on vows concerning the Mitchell cement mill project.
A thief entered Joseph Dussard's feed store Tuesday between 10 and 11 AM while he worked in the back. The money drawer, a combination lock, was opened quietly and about $23 to $24 was stolen. The robber avoided alarm and left no trace or suspect.
A small box house owned by Geo Chatman in the northwest part of town burned about 12 30 Thursday. The Fire Department arrived but the structure was destroyed before they could save it. The loss was not very great though it was a serious matter for the occupants.
A Washington Herald reader condemns football as barbarous and injurious, citing fatalities and injuries among youth in Washington and across the nation. The missive argues for avoiding the game, favoring exercise and the buck saw. The piece follows local notes on Miss Lucy Messick and Jeffersonville travel, and reports the New Albany Tribune on Nelson Fritz and son’s capture with details of the arrest and alleged self defense.
Circuit Court notes recount several cases including Hall versus Bedford Quarries Co for damage, State versus John McQueen dismissed for defective affidavit, Gagen & Co. versus Weyerbacher on conveyance, and Willard will case set for Oct 7 with special judge David N. Taylor. Grand Jury reports 151 indictments. Walter and Arthur Bex and Lafayette Dean indicted for resisting an officer.
A Shoals jury awarded John R. Davis of Evansville 4500 for injuries from the 1898 Elnora wreck. Davis, a former HE and I fireman, leaped free as the crossing collision killed Engineer George Peyton, while the SI railroad bore responsibility for not flagging across the crossing.
The Indiana Floral Festival and Chrysanthemum Show will run November 5 for five days in Indianapolis. The event, revived by about fifty state business leaders, aims to broaden public knowledge of flowers with organized planning by florists and merchants. Rail excursion rates apply within 75 miles of Indianapolis during show week. Homer Brannaman travels to the city. A brown overcoat was lost on the Fayetteville road near Sears sawmill and Mrs George Pace’s residence. Edward M. Shepard named Tammany Hall mayoral candidate for New York.
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