Indiana Woman's Christian temperance union pins hope on prohibition drive
The Indiana W C T U held its state convention with Mrs. Vayhinger reelected president and Floyd County earning praise for soldiers and sailors work. Delegates advanced resolutions urging home temperance education, school instruction, municipal suffrage for women, and state wide prohibition while planning a $5,000 pledge fund and county-level organizing efforts across the state.
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Mra
Adrs
Stalker
Parry
Mills
Minckford
Ridgevile
Irene Guard
Elkhart
Perkins
Woman’s
Ian Temperance Union of Indian
Indiana
General Assembly
Lena M. Beck
Bloomington
Beck
Floyd County
Kate West Haller
Muller
Nations
R. C. Travis
Stahl
Vayhinger
Florence Hadley
Jesus
Heath
Frances Willard
Bedford High School
John G. Hogan
Laura Cummack
Clara Sears
Organ Voluntary Invocation and Prohibition Song at Convention
The program opens with an organ voluntary and invocation followed by songs like Were Out for Prohibition and a Miss Grace Owens Jubilee recital. Members gain in county participation, with fifty or more added to membership alongside state banners and local committee presentations. The program includes music by chorus and orchestra, a violin solo, and readings by Miss Lelia Rowe, Miss Clara Sears, and a Devotions session as the convention is called to order and minutes are read.
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Laura Cumack
Converse
Elizabeth Stanley
Nellie Tracy
Esgietown
Jones
Hobson
Anderson
Rose Pearce
Coz
Westfield
Stanley
Servant At
Thompson
Greensburg
America
Petrie
Benton County
Murphy
Franklin County
Flower Mission
Heath
Indianapolis
Nina Murphy
Grace Owens
Lelia Rowe
Mra
Luella oWhkirong
Ius Arid Orchestr
Clara Sears
Taft to Speak in Mitchell and Bedford County
Chairman Zaring reports Will Hays of the Speaker's Bureau promises Mr Taft will visit Mitchell for a speech and likely Bedford as well. Meetings to be announced soon.
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Zaring
Will H. Hays
Speaker's Bureau
Taft
Mitchell
Bedford
Indiana poised for Taft as Bryan loses steam in state
Henry Watson expects Indiana to back Taft and Sherman for national and state offices. Strong GOP confidence grows as leaders privately doubt Bryan's bids. Key figures Fairbanks Watson Sims New express optimism on November victory while public claims stay cautious.
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James S. Henry
The
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Indiana
Bryan
Taft
Watson
Roosevelt
Fairbanks
Sherman
James E. Watson
Sims
Harry S. New
Ingersoll on Alcohol Temperance Address
The article quotes Col. Robert G. Ingersoll arguing temperance, describing alcohol as a demoralizing poison from distillery to death and detailing social harms including poverty, crime, and ruined families. He says intemperance weakens youth, breaks hearts, and fills jails and asylums with tragedy.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
A Fiend of Havoc and Slander Across a Nation
A sweeping denunciation portrays a force corrupting elections and justice, ruining morals and national honor. It condemns deceit, bribery, and violence, alleging it destroys trust, endangers government, and murders the soul in a monstrous moral catastrophe.
Republicans Pleased Democrats Satisfied On Local Option Poll
A thirty day statewide poll after the county local option law shows Republican optimism and Democratic satisfaction about election day results. Leaders cite gains of 20 000 to 35 000 for Republicans and 20 000 to 40 000 for Democrats, with voting machines and foreigner exodus noted as influencing factors.
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Fred A. Sime
Republican State Committee
James P. Goodrich
Stokes Jackson
Indianapolis Star
Watson
Taft
Sherman
John K. Gowdy
John C. Billheimer
Madison County
James Bingham
Delaware County
Sol E Harsley
Scott County
George W. Cromer
George Dinwiddie
Merrill W. Moores
John Ashby
John W. McCardle
Marshall
Lagranee County
Marion County
Bryan
Remonstrators Win License Appeal for Old Central Hotel Saloons
The remonstrators in Paoli defeated Milt Myers on a license appeal for the old Central hotel saloon. Judge Buskirk ruled for the remonstrators in the third ward, reversing prior Board of Commissioners denial from 1907. The Mitchell cage appeal also favored the remonstrants. two prior appeals by the saloon side were rejected.
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Milt Myers
Old Central Hotel
Third Ward
Judge Buskirk
Paoli
Board of Commissioners
Myers
Circuit Court
Orange County
John W. Harris
Mellen
Local fall injures man on Washington avenue roof
While shingling Mrs Anna T Guthrie’s residence on Washington avenue Albert Smail of West 9th street fell from near the roof top Thursday at 2 30 PM. He struck about 15 feet, broke the left leg between knee and thigh. Two physicians cared for him and he is resting easy today.
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Anna T.guthrie
Washington Avenue
Albert Smail
West 9Th Street
Smail
Voter attention to Chaney record on pay raise and duty
The Bedford area presses claim Judge John C. Chaney supported a congressional salary increase. The Democratic press retorts by citing Chaney's public statement detailing votes for measures from pensions to labor laws, building appropriations, and rail regulations. Marriage licenses issued to Bertie Admondson with Cora Taylor and Joseph Burton with Daisy Baldwin.
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Second Congressional District
John C. Chaney
Congress
Chaney
Bedford Democrat
Congressional Record
Saloon Organ
Congressman Chaney
Bedford
Lawrence County
Judge Chaney
Bedford Stone Construction Company
the Grand Army of the Republic
Washington
McCumber
Senate
Second
Sullivan
Indiana
Bureau of Mines and Mining
Ashpan
Agriculture
Bloomington
Abraham Lincoln
House of Representatives
House
Brick
South Bend
Bertie B. Admondson
Cora Taylor
This City
Joseph S. Burton
Daisy C. Baldwin
Mitchell
Walsh Case Part II Gets Under Way in Chicago
Judge A B Anderson of Indianapolis, who presided over the Walsh misapplication trial, will rule on the bill of exceptions next Monday. Points of disagreement between Assistant District Attorney Doby ns and Walsh counsel will shape what goes to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for review.
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Chicago
A. B. Anderson
Indianapolis
John R. Walsh
Chicago National Bank
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Fletcher C. Dobyns
Walsh
Anderson
New Survey Planned on Bedford Annexation Limits
Judge Wilson orders a new survey for extending the Bedford corporate limits due to rough territory in the area to be annexed. Lines will be drawn per the judge's views, excluding rough land, with the extension likely mainly north and some south.
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Bedford
Death Notice for Namine Dye Family
In memory of a beloved husband and father, the family expresses gratitude for sympathy and kindness received during this tragic accidental death. Mrs. Namine Dye and Children acknowledge their sorrow and appreciation.
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Namine Dye
Shall the people rule questioned by partisan readers
A Lafayette Courier opinion letter derides the phrase Shall the people rule as empty campaign rhetoric. The writer notes it has no factual foundation and mocks those who claim credit for it.
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Lafayette Courier
Will Test Law On County Boards Power Over Street Improvements
A suit challenges the three mile highway law enacted by the last legislature arguing unconstitutionality. The case will go to the supreme court if the circuit court rules against the law. The action targets men who filed a petition to improve a Middletown street paving project.
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Boards of
Supreme Court
Circuit
Middletown
Newcastle News
Prostitution Arrests In Police Court Case
Lewis Hall and Lizzie Modesty, both colored, were jailed Friday night by Officers Bowen and Meredith and fined in police court Saturday for prostitution and associating. They had entered Florence Robertson’s home on West 13th Street and occupied a bed belonging to Robertson. Robertson arrived at 11 o clock with police and the couple was arrested. Hall drew a $30 fine and thirty days, Modesty $15 and ten days, with the jail sentence suspended for the woman.
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Lewis Hall
Lizzie Modesty
Bowen
Meredith
Florence Robertson
Weat 13Th Street
Mitchell
Robertson
Birthday Party for Miss Mabel War ris
A birthday party was held at the home of Miss Mabel War ris at 1112 W 12th street on Saturday night Oct 10 for her fourteenth birthday. Guests included Miss Lilly Wever Elies Fish Bessie Newkirk Ruth Sherwood Ruth Embree Edna Rutledge Dessa Dodds Katie Mansenberger and Messrs Ben Smith Carl Lindsey Lynn Rutchback Frank Tirey Ralph Freeman John Jackson Lawrence Thorne. Mabel received many presents and well wishes. Mrs Agnes Tynes nee Roth of Vincennes is visiting Dr and Mrs J T Freeland.
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Mabel Warris
W. 12Th Street
Lilly Wever
Elies Fish
Bessie Newkirk
Ruth Sherwood
Ruth Embree
Edna Rutledge
Dessa Dodds
Katie Mansenberger
Messrs
Ben Smith
Carl Lindsey
Lynn Rutchback
Frank Tirey
Ralph Freeman
Etta McKnight Weds Melvin Robinson at Home Nuptials
A pretty home wedding was held Wednesday evening at the George and Mrs. Mc Knight home on West Eighth Street. Miss Etta McKnight became the wife of Melvin Robinson in a ceremony by Rev. Denny. Guests attended a reception with autumn decor and a Mendelssohn march. The bride, a Bedford High School graduate and city bookkeeper, and the groom, a farmer who owns a northeast of Bloomington farm, will reside there.
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George McKnight
West Eighth Street
Etta
Melvin Robinson
Bloomington
Denny
Ellettsville
Leota Potter
Bedford High School
Damaged Suit Filed by Fireman Over 1908 Wreck
Robert H. Peek of Seymour, a fireman on the B and O S W railroad, sues for 20000 damages for personal injuries from a May 18 wreck near Pierceville and Milan that killed conductor William Stigers and injured engineer William Murph and Brakeman James Lester. Peek alleges a broken leg and three broken ribs with permanent disablement.
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Robert H. Peek
Pierceville
Milan
Wm. Stigers
Cincinnati
William Murph
Robt
Peek
James Lester
Seymour Republican
Student injured during high school fraternity initiation
Bloomington Indiana October 8 Wilbur Hobbs 17 a Beta Phi High School Fraternity pledge was injured during initiation when a rope broke and his head struck a tree. He was unconscious for more than two hours though expected to recover. Hobbs is the son of E M Hobbs a traveling man who came here from Salem.
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Bloomington
Ind
Beta Phi
Wilbur Hobbs
Hobbs
E. M. Hobbs
Salem
Courtroom notes and verdicts in Nickless v. Mitchell Lime Co
A Lawrence Circuit Court case records the reversal for a new trial of judgment against Mitchell Lime Co in Nickless v. Mitchell Lime Co, featuring arguments on danger knowledge, warning duty, and res ipsa loquitur. The entry also shows Conrad Sherrill pleading not guilty to accessory to crime of shooting with intent, bound over on $1,000 bond, and notes divorces in Britts cases.
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Conrad Sherrill
Wilson
Nickless
Mitchell Lime Company
Lawrence
Mitchell Lime Co
Lawrence C. C
Rabb. C.J
Bedford Labor Leader Draper Speaks on Republican Gains
Bedford labor leader M H Draper spoke Friday under the Lincoln League aus pices outlining Union Labor ties and the Republican party’s past half century of achievements. His plain explanations tied labor gains to Republican policy, presenting a practical view of labor’s home benefits.
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Draper
Republican Party
M. H. Draper
Lincoln League
Benjamin We Rhoces Dies at 87 of Tuberculosis
Benjamin We Rhoces aged 87 died at his home on East Lith Street from tuberculosis. The remains will be taken to Watterson Indiana for burial with funeral services to be held tomorrow afternoon.
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Benjamin’ We Rhoces
Iast Lith Street
Watterson, Ind
Gompers Questioned Over Labor Leadership Allegiance
The Lafayette Courier argues Sam Gompers uses labor influence for personal gain and to back Bryan, claiming leaders often betray workers once in office. The piece portrays Gompers as a dictatorial figure trading workers as chattels and criticizes labor leaders who barter wages for political power. Mrs Stigelman of Stinesville visits Mrs Foster in West 18th Street.
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Sam Gompers
Bryan
Gompers
Federation of Labor
Lafayette Courier
Mrs. Stigelman
Stinesville
J. B. Foster
West
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