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Newspaper
Boone County Progressive
Location
Boone, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
6
Boone County Progressive reports on the 1912 state ticket and local political debates. It critiques tariff policy, public parks, and taxes while lampooning Taft and Wilson era issues, urging Lebanon Democrats to join the Progressive cause and highlighting canal expo funding concerns.
Delegates to the Progressive County Convention meet in Lebanon on June 6 1914 at 9 am to select township members for permanent organization rules and order of business credentials and resolutions. The main convention assembles at Grand Opera House at 10 am with reports then adjourns for renomination of county officers and council seats. County delegate apportionment follows Beveridge governor race results with detailed precinct allocations across townships. County Chairman is R R Stewart. Will Smith hosted a dinner at the Clate Inn with guests Mary and Fern Coons Frank Adney and Ethel Miller of Frankfort.
Winnebago Tribe No 36 I.C.R.M. voted to hold memorial services at the Methodist church on Sunday evening June 14 at 730 p.m. Officers elected for the term begin July 1 and end January 6, 1915, with Murat Wiley as Prophet Claud Shaw as Sachem H H Clay as Senior Sagamore O P M Davis as Junior Sagamore T P Wiley as trustee Roy Kiser as district deputy and several representatives to the Great Council to meet in Indianapolis in October. The memorial sermon on June 14 will be preached by Rev Kirk Waldo Robbins.
Probate Court filings show final accounts approved with administrator discharges for Jennie C Stewart and Granville J Vaught, real estate sale in Lebanon to Fred Parr, estate settlements for William Sprong and talitha G Riley, guardianship of Martha A Cox with mortgage authority granted, and letters testamentary for Jessie F Allen.
At a Boone County Bar Association meeting a committee of Jesse Neff Judge B S Higgins and John Hornaday was appointed to draft resolutions on the death of C P Mehan. The committee will report at a bar association meeting Monday.
Mrs. Charles Hartman hosted a Wednesday afternoon musicale at her Indianapolis home attended by about forty guests. The program featured Mrs. Lester F. Jones with aria and operatic selections, Miss Harriet Gabriel and Miss Ethel Miller among others, with readings by Mrs. Kennedy of Crawfordsville and mandolin pieces by Miss Miller of Frankfort. Summer refreshments followed, with out-of-town guests from Crawfordsville Thorntown and Frankfort.
Wendell Little known as Doc in basketball circles passed through Lebanon en route to Lafayette. At Purdue commencement next week he will graduate and then proceed to Valparaiso to take a sanitary inspector position for Porter County.
The second day of the state Prohibition convention at Tomlinson Hall in Indianapolis drew a large audience from Boone County with speakers including Dora Caldwell William Crawford Robert Burns Malon Woody and D C Price On day three Rev Cash T J Gibbs Maior Woody and others attended A Catholic priest Father Berry spoke urging prohibition through voting The Wednesday address by Mrs Stanley of the W C T U emphasized ballot action to end liquor.
The board of review added or corrected amounts on multiple tax lists. M W Chalk in Marion township gained 100 dollars, N G Fall in Clinton township 460 dollars, Frank Hawkins in Clinton 10 dollars, Nancy Cox in Marion 10 dollars, Edward Henderson in Clinton 180 dollars, Charles Hodge in Clinton 50 dollars, Robert Kern in Clinton 100 dollars, Charles C Martin in Clinton 150 dollars, and Charles F Miller in Clinton 280 dollars. Each item reflects adjustments by the board of review.
Bennett Raper writes home from Lobos Island Cay aboard the Warrington en route from Tampico to New York. He describes weather delays, oiling at Key West, an overhaul period, and plans to send a typewriter home. The piece includes humorous verse and shipboard happenings with the crew and wireless staff, ending with a good night.
The Crawfordsville Journal reports four coach blinds were pulled down at Vandalia north of Darlington on request of Darlington resident Charles M Daugherty who starts a two to fourteen year forgery sentence at Michigan City prison. Daugherty was sentenced by Judge West after pleading guilty. Venus Lodge R of P and Pythian Sisters held Memorial Day with Rev St John Halstead delivering the address at the Christian church. Attendance was light but the speech drew praise. Boss Glove and Mitten Company plant workers transfered to Indianapolis Glove Company as the Frankfort plant prepares to vacate within a week or two and machinery is packed for shipment nationwide.
A New Jersey woman may receive $50,000 from a man who once sent her $50 forty years ago. In Newcastle Pa a church ruling warns members against liquor club sideboards and licensee entitlements. Minneapolis proclaims June 6 as lox show day. A burglar near Cold Spring, Minnesota, disturbed a hive of 600 bees, then fled after dropping a bag of $300 in valuables. Bayonne N J’s lone policewoman bans spearing in parks. Leavenworth Kansas parolee Davy Truax dies just before release. Cleveland lawyers’ hats flood Eugene Quigby’s office for a charity haul. Chicago ion of a dynamite pressure machine causes fatal teeth showers on State Street.
Clarence Shepherd built a fence for Everet Goodwin in the Scotland neighborhood. After finishing, he found his own team’s fence shorted and had to cut a section to free his animals, a minor mishap noted in local labor.
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