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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1900
Page
3
Local residents and visitors recorded include Pete Fillion and J M Shields in town for business, Miss Jessie Dunihue as city librarian, Jack Palmer visiting Griffin Georgia relatives, and many others arriving for events, sales, or social visits. Roosevelt campaign stop planned for Terre Haute around October 12, 1900. Community notices cover bridge contracting, patent medicines, real estate, and a church meeting in Bedford.
Miss Andy White and Mrs. Mary White of Zelma visit town en route to Ft. Ritner and Redman Ill. Milton Morgan returns to Bedford with bride from Brownstown. Doings include church painting contract, a Twenty third Lodi infantry reunion in New Albany, and Indiana M E Conference appointments across districts including Bedford, Bloomfield, Ellettsville, Greencastle, and more.
An advertisement claims deafness stems from Eustachian tube inflammation and offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh deafness case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It asserts constitutional remedies, notes catarrh as the common cause, and promotes Hall's Family Pills with druggist sales at 75 cents.
Walter Brown builds a cellar and foundation on North I street. FOE Railsback repaints his store near the S. J. depot and hires signs. Al Howard pays a fine for intoxication and goes to jail. Flora Wires takes a position at the Bargain Store in Bedford. J. E. Boruff returns from Baden after rheumatism treatment. Capt I J Box and daughter visit Indianapolis for a 27th regiment reunion. Flora Fowler returns home to Indianapolis. Melvina Woodruff returns from near Knoxville Tenn. W. J. Cook displays White Heath peaches, including a 104 inch circumference sample. W W Mitchell seeks hoop pole timber in town. Street mail boxes to be installed citywide by October first. Weekly shooting at Foddrill gallery offers watch as first prize and revolver second. match ends Saturday night with tie-breaker Monday.
The Republicans of Marshall township will gather at Gullett's Creek Schoolhouse at 1 p m Saturday Sept 29 for nominating the township ticket. Rev H C Moorman and wife leave Wednesday for Lyle Station near Princeton where he will oversee the A M E church for the coming year. He built up church membership and oversaw a new building on 7th and H streets and formed lasting friendships.
Weather Bureau notes warm dry conditions dominate the week with a cool end and rain needed. Corn harvest advance reaches two to three weeks early with high quality yields and some fields largest in years. Tobacco, beans, potatoes and fruit report good to fair results while ground remains hard for plowing. Pasture dries out. rye sowing continues and wheat seeding delayed to avoid fly damage. impacts felt on farms at multiple localities. Weather details dated April 1 1900 from David City Nebraska. Gevesse Pure Food Co Le Roy NY letter praises Grain O health benefits.
Emma Jackson was granted a divorce from Arista Jackson. Several cases moved forward or were settled including Frank Dorsey vs City of Bedford settling for 100 dollars, Howard Lackey vs Ida Lindley continued, and a divorce in Solomon Bass vs Mary Bass granted with alimony of 500. The court heard burglary charges against William Campbell and Ed York, the grand jury returned nine indictments, and Miranda Glover was discharged after false accusations. Stephen Fountain pleaded guilty to multiple charges then withdrew pleas.
Clarence Mathews 18 drove a horse against William Hubbard in a street race. Hubbard, about 50, was knocked down and died that night after striking a store. Hubbard left a family. Funeral held at M. E. church. Mathews arrested for manslaughter. $500 bond set for preliminary exam.
Friday evening Governor Taylor of Kentucky plans to speak at Orleans with a likely large Mitchell crowd expected. Wao Brown the Democratic candidate for County Treasurer was seen with the brethren Wednesday.
The Day and Woody families mark fifty years of marriage for Mr William Day and Miss Elizabeth Woody, with descendants and friends gathering at their South Astrreet home. Details recount their lives, courtship, civic service, and families, interwoven with local notices and society updates.
Doc Wilson about 55, a stable hand for M. N. Matthews, was badly hurt at 5 a.m. Thursday while feeding. He was struck on the forehead and knocked senseless, later recovering enough to go home with amnesia about the incident. He cannot recall whether a blow from a concealed instrument or a horse kick caused the injuries. bruises remain on his forehead and he is expected to recover.
Rev. Wm. J. Smith, new pastor of the A. M. E. church, will move his family from Mt Carmel Illinois to this city in a few days. He is an evangelist of note and will preach broadly at many points in this part of the state.
An accident near Oolitic caused by reckless driving on new brick streets draws attention to dangerous speeds on city roads. It notes risk of horses slipping on paving when driven fast, and mentions community concerns and the impact on relatives.
The Terre Haute programme plans 16 to 20 heats daily with special events and 50 cent admission, more races and big purses led by a 5 000 Wabash purse and top stallion clashes rated to attract large fields of sixteen horses per race. Boxcar prices shift with the market as freight cars see price changes.
Market notes dated September 20 1900 report on hardware and trades at Owens Depot and Stowe with prices and demand in a concise daily ledger style. The item highlights local inventories and turnaround for hardware goods.
A freight train on the B and O was wrecked near Huron yesterday morning, eight cars smashed. No one injured, but the track was blocked for six hours. At Terre Haute Union Station, 66 trains arrived or departed daily. if Big Four used the station it would rise to 76.
Gov Roosevelt's Indiana trip is set from October 10 to 12 with stops in Hammond Lafayette Delphi Logansport Peru Wabash Huntington Fort Wayne Marion Fairmount Alexandria Anderson Muncie Richmond Indianapolis Plainfield Greencastle Brazil Terre Haute and Evansville. He will then cross into Kentucky to speak at Henderson.
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