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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1903
Page
4
A dignified judge narrator recounts a seaside summer where a handsome woman, Mrs Blank, entangles him in a tale of hotel robberies and a police baggage search. He aids her by delivering a package to the express office, while detectives later link her to multiple thefts totaling thousands, including the lodge safe.
Scout Bill Utter and Andy Gwinne recall a brush with horse thieves in the mountains. After a tense night, they kill two attackers and discover a girl whose father was killed. the girl is sent east to school and later to marry someone else.
Eph Bollinger expresses relief as notes and 100 bank certificates and about 750 in notes are returned. A thief seized his pocketbook at Wallace show grounds last Saturday, but mailed the papers from Bancroft, Michigan, August 6, with a list of contents. The Decatur Democrat notes the wreck near Durand shortly after.
Mr and Mrs L L Simons of Warren announce the wedding of their daughter Bertha M Woods to Curtis Merriman. The ceremony will be Wednesday evening August 26 at eight o'clock. Merriman, son of John D Merriman of Liberty township, is prominent in school work and a graduate of I U. He has taught in Crawfordsville High School and will teach another year. The bride is noted for her ladylike qualities and both plans indicate residence in Crawfordsville.
Dr. S A Shoemaker reported a minor accident near Poneto when a man mowing weeds was interrupted by his nine year old son, causing a deep gash in the leg that required stitches. Ida Starr’s fever has subsided and she is improving toward recovery.
August 30 1903 excursion from Fort Wayne to Chicago departs 9 15 p m August 31 returning with two full days in the city Fare round trip two dollars from Fort Wayne address C A Asterlin T P A Fort Wayne Ind Call on nearest agent for details.
The second Gold Metal contest of the year will be held Monday evening August 14 at 8 15 in the auditorium of the Methodist church in this city. Eleven persons are eligible to compete after receiving silver metals.
Herman Weicking sold 104 acres in Rock Creek township for 6000 dollars to Simon Houtz. Houtz recently acquired the E B Sellers farm and sold it to Perry E Gilbert for 2800 dollars.
Clover Leaf excursions from San Francisco list very low round trip rates to Colorado Utah South Dakota New Mexico and Texas through September 30 1903 and to Great Lakes Ontario Thousand Islands and eastern resorts in summer 1903 with dates in Detroit October 16-22 1903. Christian church mission society conventions noted with one fare round trip. For rates folders and information consult Clover Leaf agents or O D Whitney Toledo Ohio.
Bluffton teamsters report all Walnut street paving work filled by a horse trader’s gang, not local union teams. They accuse F. M. Kemp & Sons of favoritism with a trader’s horses and jockey tricks, urging council to grant home laborers first chance.
The Geneva community buzzed Sunday morning over an attempted assault on Flossie Dye and Bertha Wilson as they walked from Sunday School. Arthur Williams, a livery-barn worker, was found drunk, surrendered to a posse, jailed, and guarded. reports claim no mob violence occurred.
A. L. Bickel of this place hosts Wilson L. Bickel and family from Bluffton. Wilson, born in North Heidelberg, moved west in 1884 and has not returned east. The party plans to visit friends in Indiana before returning, praising Hoosier farming conditions.
From Pennville this morning C F Knowlton and A T Place arrived to check on road progress. Knowlton, longtime advocate of the project, says the work is moving and two miles of grading have been completed with teams and workers increasing daily.
Whitley county farm for sale one and a half miles north of Larwill on gravel road R F D. Black sandy soil well fenced and drained with 200 acres cultivated and the rest timber. Features a ten room frame house with cellar bank barn 44x88 tubular well wind pump and good outbuildings. A drilling company nearby is active within half a mile. Price 66 dollars per acre if sold soon. Address hioker Go 3.
George Souder builds a barn with Asa Myers as contractor. Asa also adds to his house. Will Sweeny takes his family to church in a new carriage. Will Wasson buys an organ from W. M. Hatfield of Ossian and Marion Garton purchases a $300 piano. Several families visit relatives, guests, and a planned elocutionist entertainment at the church on September 12.
Mrs. M L Marquart of 128 East Cherry Street testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills relieved years of backache and nocturnal restlessness after taking them from Chas Dean's drug store. She states the treatment steadily reduced symptoms until disappearance and urges others to remember the name Doan's and avoid substitutes. Price five cents. Foster Milburn Co. advertises as sale agents.
Word from the Uniformed Bank Company places the Rochester arrival at 12:50 Monday and immediate camping. They report the Logansport company as the only other on the grounds and praise the elegant site and premier fishing. Billy Kerfoot heads a foraging committee but misses a spring chicken. Chef Hall prepares a fine supper without the yellow log.
A paternity hearing before Justice Walbert this afternoon sent Charles Smith to jail for want of bondsmen. The prosecuting witness was Anna Trullender, who lives in the county.
Lawrence and Harve Opliger return from Angola with plans for teaching this winter and returning students. Miss Lenora Huffman becomes Peterson County principal while Miss Ida Baumgartner plans to attend the county institute. An ice cream social by the C M A cleared eleven dollars as Rev. Samuel Egley plans a public sale before moving to Arizona. Next Saturday bids for transporting Dist No 1 pupils will be opened to decide school centralization feasibility.
The W F M S of Myers Chapel holds its regular monthly meeting on Thursday evening August 13 at 7 30 p m. Devotional by Della Showalter Business by Adela Cobbum Paper by Long titled Short Sketch of Our C E Missionary Song Select Reading Our Missionary Efforts in China Effie Myers Closing Exercise Laura Chalfant Ida M Higgins Discussion Members are asked to bring their Missionary Record. President Ioa M Hiearns urges full attendance.
John McMullen died Sunday evening at seven o clock at his East Spring Street home after an acute cholera morbus attack. He was sixty nine and had lived near Six Mile church before moving to the city a year ago. He is survived by two sons John a passenger brakeman on the G R I at Decatur and James who lives in Michigan, and by his wife.
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