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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1915
Page
8
Preference for good mixed medium and heavy hogs held as receipts over 170 pounds sold from 8.50 to 8.60 per hundredweight with a small lot at 8.64. Outside buyers dominated sales while local packers shunned lighter less desirable hogs, bidding 7.75 to 8.40 on those and 7.50 down for the lightest grades.
A compilation of wholesale prices across Indianapolis and neighboring markets. Lists include fruits vegetables poultry eggs butter and other produce with Chicago St Louis Cincinnati and Kansas City comparisons. Also covers live stock prices and early 20th century market notes.
The Johnson family gathered Sunday on the Jesse A Johnson farm four miles east of town with about fifty attendees including five Shoals and two Loogootee automobile travelers. A long lawn meal under oak trees preceded an afternoon of socializing with out of town guests and local relatives listed.
Mrs. H. W. Byrn of Terre Haute has returned home after visiting her mother Mrs. Gertrude Rariden at Hill Top this morning.
In the Lawrence Circuit Court September Term 1915 Texsie Schleer vs Ward relates that Homer Day, now in Miami Florida, has married Miss Ella Burkhardt of that city on September 26. He works in the stone business there and has many friends in this county. Notice to Robert F Schleer that he must appear November 4, 1915, at the Bedford court house to answer the complaint. Legal seal and clerk signature.
The Town of Politic appeals Charles Parks over a chickens at large ordinance violation in Justice Malott court. A guilty finding was entered with a $1 fine plus costs. An appeal followed to the Lawrence circuit. Fred Noble and Nellie Fines were jailed after pleading not guilty to associating. Noble posted $50 bond. Fines remained jailed. Fred Wood pleaded guilty to intoxication and paid a $2 fine plus costs. Remains of Will L. Martin, Monon switchman killed at a quarry, were sent to Harrodsburg, Kentucky for burial with funeral attendance by railway workers and Eagles lodge members. Miss Hattie Warren of Mitchell was in town Tuesday.
In the Lawrence Circuit Court of Indiana Maggie I. Jackson files complaint against William Jackson to establish non residence. The defendant must appear by November 4 1915 or demur to the complaint. case heard in Bedford Indiana. Clerk Fred E. Jackson seals the notice October 5 1915.
The Circuit Court of Lawrence County Indiana appoints Dora Hawkins as Administratrix of the estate of Levi Hawkins deceased. The estate is indicated as solvent, with Ira C. Batman acting as attorney.
A petition from over fifty residents of Shawswick and Guthrie Townships in Lawrence County Indiana asks the Board of Commissioners to grade drain and pave a one mile township line road between the Heltonville and Tunnelton road at the Denniston School House and the Pinhook and Leesville road. The proposal includes a grade of eighteen feet width with a twelve foot macadamized center and six inch side depths and seeks bonds under the 1905 highway act. Hearing before the Board set for November 2 1915.
In the Lawrence Circuit Court September Term 1915 John S. Hanner as administrator filed final settlement of Lydia J. Brown deceased. The court will examine the account on October 14 1915 requiring heirs creditors or legatees to appear and show cause why the account should not be approved. Clerk Fred E. Jackson issued the legal seal at Bedford Indiana September 20 1915.
Lawrence County Indiana petition requests paving by grading drainage and macadamizing a three quarter mile section of the Bedford and Fairfax Public Highway in Pleasant Run Township. The petition cites a former Rural Mail route and seeks a grade of eighteen feet wide with twelve foot macadamized roadway of gravel or stone. The hearing is set before the Lawrence County Board of Commissioners with the auditor’s seal.
Lawrence Circuit Court to hear final account of Raymond Mitchell administrator de bonis non with will annexed for the estate of John Scoggan deceased. Heirs creditors legatees must appear November term 1915 to show cause why the account should not be approved and to prove heirship.
The estate of William Bruce, deceased, is administered in Lawrence County. John H. Underwood and R. L. Mellen serve as attorneys for the proceedings.
Plaintiffs in the Lawrence Circuit Court announce a partition and sale action for real estate. Defendants named include Huffingtons and related parties, alleged nonresidents of Indiana, required to appear by November 2, 1915, at Bedford Court House to answer. Clerk Fred E. Jackson records the filing on September 20, 1915.
The Lawrence Circuit Court Indiana November Term 1913 requires defendant Hannah Dawson John W. Dawson to appear November 1915 at Bedford Court House or face default after a disinterested affidavit stated the defendant is not an Indiana resident and residence is unknown. Clerk Fred E. Jackson certifies this notice as of September 23 1915.
Statement of the ownership, management, circulation, etc., for the Bedford Weekly Mail published in Bedford Indiana on October 1 1915. Editors are Thomas J. Brooks and Fred B. Otis. Managing Editor and Business Manager Fred B. Otis. Publishers Brooks and Otis. Owners Brooks. No bondholders or security holders holding 1 percent or more. Notary William F. Brooks attested October 2, 1915.
The October 1 1915 issue lists the Act of August 24 1912 filing details for Bedford Indiana. It names Fred B Otis and Thomas J Brooks as holders and notes bondholders mortgage and security holders owning 1 percent or more. It records average copies sold in the prior six months and bears a formal seal with commission expiry.
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