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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1905
Page
2
The Vincennes Sun notes a nightly street sighting in which several young ladies dress in male clothing and roam the city about 8 o clock at night. They reportedly smoke cigarettes to avoid detection and often slip away when pursued.
Mrs. Mary Childers' three children are taken to Knightstown for the Soldier's and Sailors Orphan's Home with annual visit rights. The late J. C. Childers Civil War veteran prompted aid from G A R and W A C, ensuring the children receive education and training while remaining under their mother's care for the baby.
In Danville Illinois prospecting to determine coal conditions will start within days on over 10000 acres near Danville. G T Buckingham options for John R Walsh. J J Hackett directs drilling with a new large core extractor. Work continues to fall with plans expanding to Nimrod to Hamlets along the Walsh road. Henry Aldenhagen visits Indianapolis for the state fair.
The Columbus Republican reports a cattle disease in Bartholomew county resembling the historic black tongue outbreak. Cattle lose appetite, then develop paralysis and die. Believed linked to feeding on green corn, with no known cure. Affects mainly eastern county farms.
Dr J T Freeland a leading Bedford and Southern Indiana physician was taken to Terre Haute for removal of a carbuncle over the left kidney after days of agony. He traveled with his wife and planned the operation following a consult with fellow doctors. A prior chill after visiting a Springville patient preceded the decision.
Mrs Blandon Ketcham a longtime Lawrence county resident about seventy eight years old suffered a fractured right hip when a Bedford and Bloomfield line train lurched throwing her to the floor while traveling with her husband near Armstrong's station. Dr A J McDonald attended and set the fracture. Her age raises serious concerns for recovery. She is mother of George Paris Ketcham and lives on the farm eyed for a hospital site.
An Indianapolis woman Mrs Olin Bundy wed William Hutchings of Scipio in a romance that began in childhood. Hutchings once courted Bundy before her marriage to the late Olin Bundy, a prominent local lawyer who died after nervous strain from the Schafer murder case. The couple, now married, went to Scipio where Hutchings serves as school superintendent.
Emma Brown filed a petition in the Lawrence circuit court seeking an absolute dissolution of marriage from Henry Brown. She cites a 1904 marriage, separation on September 12, ailments described as crippling, alleged cruel treatment, and a co respondent Cynthia Parrott due to adultery.
Mrs Frederic Schoff and Mrs Edwin C Grice travel west to organize Congress work not yet established. They will meet Indiana women in Indianapolis on Monday September 25 inviting all interested in child protection education and home elevation to attend. For more information contact Mrs C E Shields Hazelwood Ind.
James F. McHugh national secretary of the Quarrymen Stone Cutter's Union of North America will travel from Washington to Bedford this Saturday to tour the local union and the oolitic stone belt. A committee will meet him, and a smoker is planned at Central Union Hall Sunday morning to discuss labor conditions and welfare of the members.
James Leach admitted perjury in Lawrence circuit court and received a 30 day county jail term from Judge Wilson. He had earlier used the alias Frank Long to trigger a theft warrant against his wife Wilma Leach, whose Jasonville arrest helped expose the plot. The couple, residents of Jasonville, were involved in a scheme alleged to steal $15 from Leach's claimed Englewood home.
Al Brown, former French Lick gambling concessions holder, plans a four story brick hotel costing 150000 dollars with stone trim on the present site. Architect W H Floyd of Terre Haute to design, building to be 200 by 150 by 150 feet, to rival Taggart’s Hoosier Monte Carlo in style. Construction to begin after demolition of the current frame structure.
Authorities begin strict enforcement of a new anti smoking law as students returning to IU face fines for carrying or using cigarettes. Justice Little fined a stone cutter $35 for papers while two students were warned by a officer and abandoned their cigarettes, while Mayor Malott ordered firm enforcement.
The small son of Noah Hatfield fell from a buggy shed at their home on Monday and fractured his arm. He had broken the same arm about two months earlier and it had healed, but the new injury reopened the fracture.
Mrs. Ernest Sears wife of Rev Ernest Sears living near Pinhook died Sunday morning from typhoid fever at age 25. She was daughter of Homer Crawford a Lawrence county farmer and member of the Christian church. The funeral was held Tuesday from the family home with interment at Pinhook cemetery.
A large Bedford crowd witnessed a Chicago National League lineup led by Wicker defeat Bedford 6 to 5 in an exhibition at Washington Park. The game featured a mid contest fight between Tinker and Evers, later settled, and Wicker earned the win with key hits and runs as Bedford and Chicago traded scores across nine innings. A public sale of horses cattle sheep hay and farming implements is announced for Sept 20, 1905 northeast of Bedford near Bug Chapel.
Ralph Panza a Bradley stone mill blacksmith was injured while hammering iron Tuesday. His hold on the tongs loosened and the iron wedge struck his left wrist severing an artery. Dr Stipp treated the gaping wound with several stitches.
Superintendent W H Whittaker announces contracts with Indiana Manufacturing and Union Carriage and Rattan Company will end within sixty days with labor moved to trade schools. About 700 inmates under contract will shift to stone cutting, cement work, tinware, music, printing, painting, tailoring and more while hollow ware and chain workers remain. Expected annual receipts rise from $60,000 to $80,000, with goal of $100,000 in two to three years. Earnings for year to Oct 31 1904 were $67,392.25.
The State Health Board abstracts July mortality data with 2774 total deaths and a rate of 12.3, compared to 2772 and 12.3 last July. Diarrhoeal diseases rose to 316. consumption and other diseases show regional and county variations. Newton county had the lowest rate, Monroe the highest. Public notices include a Chicago Special Train Excursion by the Monon for September 1995.
Milne reports shortage of pure spruce gum with prices around 18 cents an ounce. Indiana governor bans state officers from accepting railroad passes under new railway law. Ice from a Randolph Vermont pond harbors dangerous bacteria levels. Reno closes one of its largest gambling salons after a sheepman wins 14000 dollars before midnight. New Jersey church group seeks to raise cents for church funds. A woman calculates that 84.009 tools are needed to the dollar while placed side by side.
Joseph Wheelock Jr plans a Arizona vacation before joining George Ade’s new company and Fisher & Ryley’s forthcoming season. Nellie Lynch joins Tivoli Opera Company in San Francisco after The Tenderfoot. Mande Atiants recovers from appendicitis at home in New York. Mrs Temple's Telegram runs all summer in Chicago with William Morris in the cast. Herbert Kelcey and Effie Shannon head to London for a new English play next season. Florence Bindley’s The Belle of the West features book by Harry G Smith and music by Warl Loschna.
A census shows Rome with 506 840 residents. Leonelli’s Udine library holds over 3 000 Dante works. Germany has 17 tissue paper mills and leads global output. Paris adopts electric mail wagons to speed deliveries. Belgium bans absorb manufacture and sale across the kingdom amid rising consumption.
A collection of snatches from editorials noting heart failure statistics in New York, women managing fairs spending and politics, a Japanese naval cadet admission, a call to send an American cadet to Japan, a judge upholding an anticigarette law with caveats, and remarks on women’s roles in government and business.
The Atchison Globe remarks on luck versus misfortune, the value of money at death, and the way people chase fleeting chances. It compares a novice gardener’s pride to a traveler’s first trip abroad and notes how most people imagine a better hand in life, while acknowledging parental care and financial obligations.
In St Paul saloons operate round the clock with coal carts dumping at business blocks. The World notes Mayor Smith has served twenty seven years and seeks perpetual tenure. Hotels are criticized for cold staff, high rates and clerks' arrogance.
Western travel plan urges summer trip to California and Portland. Round trip summer tickets on sale on certain dates May through October to Colorado California Oregon Washington. Rock Island offers route choices and value. Full information and rates from John Sebastian Passenger Traffic Manager Rock Island System Chicago.
Special low fares effective September 2 for excursions to North Michigan resorts via Pennsylvania Lines. Round trip from Indianapolis to Traverse City Omega Northport Petoskey Mackinaw City is $10, $11 to Mackinac Island and return. Excursionists may stay up to a month in the lake region with hay fever and asthma absent.
Two commuters share quick morning thoughts on riches. A jokey exchange reveals a man would hire a 5 o'clock door-knocker to drift back to sleep. The strip then offers quips about a clever wife, a cool summer resort, and social foibles in pithy captions from period papers.
The Chicago Record-Herald notes a grim quip about a wife’s last words and gas safety. The Detroit Free Press echoes warnings on dangers from careless eating, naming indigestion and bankruptcy as major threats to Americans.
A dialog fragment quotes a couple discussing love and a dowry with a sharp retort about lasting commitments. The line appears in a Fiiegende Blatter publication, suggesting a satirical or humorous exchange between engaged partners.
The item lists social visits from Bloomington to W C Denniston and notes travels of Charles Johnson to Marion to see his mother. Oscar Phipps and wife return from Louisville. Julia Ashley is Mrs Phipps’ sister. Harry Malott works on a major bridge at Peru. Tom Reath’s South H street house gains a light stone color. Walter Newland handles the contract. Mrs H Rambo of Scranton visits her son Aaron Rambo at the Central Telephone Co.
T. W. Box has shipped his famous trotting stallion home from Indianapolis for the fall season. The stallion will be kept at Krenke Bros. livery barn.
Albert Tow files for divorce from Tina Tow in Martin Circuit Court at Shoals alleging abandonment and neglect. The couple married in the county in 1889.
From Sept 15 to Oct 31 the Southern Indiana Ry offers very low one way tickets to California Montana Washington and other western states. Homeseeker's tickets go on sale the first and third Tuesdays monthly until Dec 19 1905 good for 21 days from purchase to many states and to Canada and Mexico. For Fall Festival at Elnora Ind special fare to ground trip Sept 27 28 29 return allowed only on sale date. J G Ray, General Agent.
Community notices record Rev Vanclere preaching his farewell sermon next Sunday night with all invited. Local teacher Miss Grace Wilkinson reports fair attendance opening the school Monday morning. Obituaries note the deaths of Charles A Knight at 87 in Bedford and Mary Lockhart at 72 after illness, with interment at Saltillo and ties to local families.
Notice is given in the estate of Francis M Beavers deceased in Lawrence Circuit Court September Term 1905 that George A Dodds administrator has filed final settlement accounts and vouchers Heirs creditors or legatees must appear September 23 1902 at Bedford Indiana to show cause why the accounts should not be approved and to prove heirship Witness Clerk Boone Leonard Brooks & Brooks Attorneys
State of Indiana notice to non residents in Lawrence Circuit Court September Term 1905. Virgil Able vs Henry Speed and others seeks to quiet title to real estate in Indiana. Defendants must appear by November 2 1905 or answer or demur. case to be heard in Bedford Court. Clerk Rome Leonard seals the notice.
A resident of Shanswick township in Lawrence county Indiana applies to the Lawrence county Board of Commissioners for a license to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors in a front room of a two story brick building in Bedford Second Ward. The room measures 22 by 30 feet with clear glass frontage on Sixteenth street and no partitions.
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