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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1919
Page
1
Cleveland report states United Mine Workers refused to endorse the League. Resolutions committee backed two resolutions but the matter was tabled. Speakers said the issue had become partisan and that action would affect the treaty and League, with socialist endorsement cited.
Masked bandits robbed a mail train near Quebec of seventy five thousand dollars and escaped.
Pittsburg dispatch reports on September 18 as Judge Gary weighs options to avert a looming steel strike. The article notes the union's mobilization and the potential impact on industry if no agreement is reached by Monday.
President League with six votes argued that the United States must have sanctions to act. Wilson seeks to meet opponents and offset Britain cannot out vote or unanimous vote is necessary. The statement notes the United States cannot force action without its sanction.
Henry Jedkins sues Carrie Taylor for divorce in Lawrence circuit court alleging cruel and inhuman treatment amid claims the wife took his watch temporarily at a carnival. The couple married June 20, 1902, separated Sept. 10, 1919. Accusations of infidelity are noted.
A man who boarded at the Jenkins home failed to pay for trousers and borrowed a watch. He disappeared after the carnival watch loan was refused. Police traced him to Orleans, then return to Mitchell on Monon train where he vanished. No name could be found, carnival staff unable to identify him. Believed to have lived in Washington. Mrs. C. H. Strupe visited Indianapolis Thursday.
The Bridge Luncheon Club enjoyed a pretty gathering at Mrs. Nelson Joyner’s home with purple and white decor and a menu of veal cutlets stuffed cucumbers browned potatoes and ice cream. Mrs. R H Williams won high honors in the games. The Allied Service Club, now settled in Lawrence county, received a Kimball phonograph as a gift from War Mothers, signaling a bright future for the veterans. In Bedford, Mrs. Bertha Pless Ambres and Roy L. Ragsdale wed at the First Methodist church with Rev. R H Toole officiating. witnesses were Melissa Pafford and Ethel Ragsdale. They will live in this city.
South eastern passenger conductor Dugan Johnson fell suddenly ill after departing here Wednesday heading north. He struggled to perform duties until Terre Haute where he was relieved on arrival and reported quite ill Thursday with stomach congestion.
The Bedford sugar shortage relief arrives as the Bedford branch train of the B&O Southwestern runs Thursday with a sugar carload consigned to local Frank R. Allen wholesale house.
Conductor Charles Wilson of the Southeastern passenger service visited the city Thursday on a special yearly trip to examine the rules book for all employees in train engine and telegraph service on the Southeastern line.
An act of 1919 grants two Indiana University scholarships per county based on high school scholarship. The first awards go to Helen Woolery Hettonville HS and Ruth Stephenson Bedford Serra. Counties will select two top scholars from the class of 1920 for annual full scholarships.
A recently returned serviceman, Boch, who served four years in the Navy and re enlisted in the Army, plans to stay with his mother Mrs Amanda Boch in Bedford until early next month before returning to duty. His brother Fred Eugene Boch was killed at Belleau Wood, France, and another brother William Boch remains overseas. The report also notes marriages and local family visits among Bedford residents.
Mrs. Robert Fiddler of East Seventeenth Street was badly burned Wednesday when a boiling kettle spilled on her leg from the stove. Alva Banks, who killed his father at Sanders weeks ago, was returned to jail from the reformatory in Jeffersonville. he appeared somber and troubled. The Bloomington Telephone notes the case, with the grand jury to consider it this term.
A Seymour Republican letter argues foreign labor harms American workers. It claims foreigners dilute citizenship, threaten American ideals, and that immigrants may be imported agitators working to corrupt Americans. The writer calls for government action to decide who stays or leaves.
Bedford residents will attend a big basket dinner and all day meeting to mark the occasion. A double quartet from the city will perform as Rev. S S S Lappin preaches later in the event, with ministers hosting. Guests Mrs J J Moore, Mrs Hannah Moore Childs and a young daughter have returned home to Norwood Ohio.
William Etter, 18, of Rochester, underwent an operation August 28 for kidney issues after earlier influenza and tuberculosis. He is improving rapidly at home in Tonville, having gained eleven pounds since leaving the hospital. his uncle W W Gyger visited him.
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