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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1912
Page
2
The page presents the newspaper staff: Editor Managing Editor ERT C. WICKER with phone 269, News Editor and Circulation Manager IRS HARRY ASKEW with phone 887, and Society Editor. It reads like a traditional newsroom masthead listing roles and contact numbers.
Mayor Albert Fields appointed a committee to meet the Twenty third Indiana Infantry north of the city and escort the soldiers to their camping grounds. The group includes E. Ek. Farmer and R. C. Cosner with citizens J. R. Voris F. D. Hatfield W. A. Webb George W. Hay Charles B. Fletcher Dr. A. J. McDonald Dr. C. H. Emery W. E. Clark Dave Johnson Fred Prosser Jap Gyger Frank Reed and A. G. McCain. The march may involve 1000 men and a long wagon train with a field gun. The city will decorate with flags and bunting and crowds are asked to stay on the Oolitic pike to Sth street to avoid blocking the route. The Dunn and Kramer camping sites are under consideration with hydrant water provided.
Misunderstanding over the opponent for the Twenty third Regiment club led to confusion about a Washington Park game. Manager Robert K. Wicker of the Bedford Champs traveled to Bloomington and was assured the soldiers would meet his team, while Second Lieut Cole and Captain Dilingham disputed the contract details and arranged a game with Bloomington Athletic here.
The jury in Lillie Neff versus Allen Richardson failed to agree after long deliberations and was discharged by Judge Shea. The panel stood 7 to 5 for the plaintiff over an alleged injury on West 16th Street when a wagon allegedly crowded a buggy. Neff sought $2,000 in damages amid a local civil suit context.
State board of health figures show August totals of 193 personal crisis reports and 246 deaths, with 192 accidents and 54 from external causes. Murders, suicides, drownings, poisonings, and rail, road, and railway incidents fill the record.
The Monon wrecker traveled through the city early Friday toward Bloomfield to retrieve nine coal cars wrecked there several days earlier. The track was cleared within hours, but the cars remained unpicked up at that time.
Gilbert Pollard of East 16th street was moved to Cottom private hospital Tuesday afternoon where a second operation was performed late Wednesday to remove fluid from the lungs. Earlier he had a similar operation successful and life saved. his condition is again serious and a further operation is needed. Months ago he had to have his leg amputated due to bone infection.
Ross Terrell pleads guilty in Mayor Fields' court to intoxication and is fined $2 plus costs. He was apprehended by Policemen Clark and McBride on the south side of the public square.
Frank Hatfield purchases a fine new 1918 Buick touring car. The automobile was brought to this city Tuesday.
Distressed or in doubt readers are urged to weigh General Harrison's warning that love and allegiance to institutions and the constitution sustain a free government. He notes American stability comes from civil institutions, contrasts with Spanish American nations that follow cockades over constitutions, and warns revolution follows revolution.
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