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Newspaper
Boone County Progressive
Location
Boone, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1914
Page
7
Governor Ralston urged the Indiana Association for the Blind to seek a state commission to support blind workers, secure affordable materials, and assist employment. The talk followed a day of visits to the Crawford Home near Zionsville with a 35-person group, including chaperones and generous auto contributors.
Mahlon Hunt and Roy Keesling were shocked when lightning struck Walter Hunt’s farm in Hamilton County while they were plowing. A horse was killed, three other horses were stunned, and the boys recovered after a dazed period. The incident occurred during a thunderstorm on Monday afternoon.
A group of children from Walnut Street Baptist Church, who practiced no faith, received a creditable Children’s Day entertainment and were then treated to a delightful automobile trip to the Crawford Industrial School on Tuesday afternoon.
Dr. L. M. Beaven, back of the Lebanon taxi-cab enterprise, plans a taxi office and telephone booth in the Farmers Bank building rear, with a news and cigar stand. Miss McIlwain’s millinery room nearby will be used, driver Charles Elder remains Lebanon’s taxi head, Alfred Roberts drives Noblesville. Recital at Centenary Methodist church features Henderson, Ball, Wynn. program includes Beethoven, Schubert, Debussy, and others.
Two girls from the Clermont Girls Industrial School escaped Wednesday while riding a freight train. Marshal Mose Brown captured Sarah Rozenblatt and Irene Leigabeth at Thorntown and returned them to Clermont, where they were later moved to Lebanon and jailed. Officials had tried to secure the capture locally before notifying Thorntown authorities. One girl admitted a third escape attempt and planned another at the first chance.
The Darlington Oil Company advances its Garfield prospect toward oil discovery. Drilling has reached 600 feet with a sand layer followed by limestone, and expected hard rock oil bearing strata lie around 1,650 feet. The crew recovered tools last week and continue work day and night in pursuit of the objective.
Hot weather brings many picnickers to Mechanicsburg area sites near the city. Lebanon has provided several picnic parties this week. A Methodist Hustler class gathering occurred Wednesday at the Mechanise burg grounds under teacher Watt Fogle. Tuesday saw four families travel ten miles north for an all day outing including the Coombs Rens and Kirtley families.
The state board of agriculture announces the annual livestock and grain judging contest for boys during State Fair week. Participants will judge dairy and beef cattle, hogs, sheep, horses, wheat and corn in a game manner. Work begins at 8 a.m. Tuesday September 8, 1910. Premiums accompany the awards.
Four premium scholarships totaling 100, 75, 50 and 25 dollars are funded by the state board of agriculture for Purdue university agriculture programs. Eligible entrants are Indiana boys aged 16 to 20 who are not already enrolled, with conditions on course entry timing and prior schooling. Applications available at the state board of agriculture office in Indianapolis.
Prophet Hicks forecasts a volatile July with a Glorious Fourth focus on a central storm period around July 10 to 12 and a regular storm phase around July 18 to 19. Expect cooler spells briefly, followed by blustery rain and thunder near July 21 and 22, then a last week centered on July 27 with cloudy, variable conditions and a cooler northwest breeze into August.
Frank Stewart of Jefferson township suffered a severe facial injury Monday afternoon while finishing a well on William Jennings’s Bazelrigg farm. A crank kicked back striking his forehead above the right eye and nose, requiring six stitches for the forehead gash and two for the nose. He, about fifty, is recovering well.
George T. Miller has secured a street paving contract in Sullivan Indiana. The contract calls for four areas of concrete roadway and amounts to about seven thousand dollars.
W T Benham of Consolidated Time Lock Co Cincinnati opened the Citizens Loan and Trust Co vault after three blows with a timber and oiling the door. Rust and moisture formed glue on edges, but bolts released. time lock functioned, opening the door swiftly. Benham, with 22 years in the business, praised the lock and noted heavy weather and heat contributed to seizure. He has opened many safes and bemoaned the rusted, stuck door being the sole cause.
W C Hail of Indianapolis reelected president for the eighteenth time. The Elementary Honor Roll lists Allen Boone Hamilton Hancock Huntington Knox Marshall Newton Ohio Posey Pulaski Starke Tipton Vanderburg Wayne Wells. Two new graded unions formed, six total in state. cradle rolls total 2 227 with 61 125 members. Wells County unique in having cradle rolls in every school. Boone and Pulaski tied for second. Ziondville Christian church in Boone county hosts the largest cradle roll with 140 members. Marshall county leads teacher training with 476 enrolled. First standard graduates 9 802. Advanced-course graduates 93. Elementary specialization seals 58. Home department contest cites Clingis Indiana. President W Ball reports progress.
A sanity inquest in Squire Harlans court examined Arthur Sorter of near Whitestown in a failure to support children case. Dr Oscar S Taylor testified Sorter was quarrelsome and abusive and sometimes dangerous, threatening to kill or burn the house. Doctors H N Coons and De G K Hurt urged compulsory attendance and treatment as the sheriff took Sorter into custody awaiting hearing.
The Brazil Times reports a new schedule for the Central Indiana railroad accommodation service, with trains now arriving and departing Brazil from the north every other day. A Carbon resident’s party planned to travel to Brazil, but the southbound train reached Brazil one hour ahead of time, having left Carbon at 9:05 a.m. The article notes this is the first time the train arrived in Brazil ahead of the scheduled time.
Seymour R. Stewart as Trustee of Worth Township in Boone County Indiana will let the contract for a high school building on July 10 1914 at Whites town at 1 PM The plan specs are on file for inspection Bids for a heating plant and ventilating system will also be received A $500 certified check payable to the trustee is required as security and will be forfeited if the bidder fails to enter into a satisfactory contract.
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