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Newspaper
Boone County Progressive
Location
Boone, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1914
Page
3
Two teenage boys initially identify as Edger Hass and Carl Bernard confess to stealing a Studebaker in Richmond and driving to Indianapolis, then recant and reveal their true names Ernest Hazlett and Edgar Wheaton from Dayton Ohio. They admit prior trouble in Dayton and say they fled toward Chicago before being captured.
The army worm pest appears in Indiana with many adults seen at Kendallville Bluffton and Lawrenceburg. Experts note three yearly broods and advise fall plowing weed control and targeted poisoning to limit spread and damage.
Two seventeen year old boys, one an Assistant Scout Master, pleaded guilty in the circuit court to stealing gasoline from James Vaughan of Slabtown. They fled their homes claiming camping plans, rode a train to Richmond Indiana, and stole a car. Sentencing was postponed as investigators pursue their story and Mr Niccum plans travel to Dayton Ohio to locate the boys' parents.
Relatives report the marriage of Eloise Busby to William Townsend Warner in Fort Wayne. The ceremony occurred Thursday October 1. Eloise, daughter of Charles Eugene Busby, is well known in the area where she has visited. Busby, former Lebanon resident, now manages two Fort Wayne factories.
Work on a new cement built addition measuring 421 feet by 11K feet at the Dairy Cream Separator factory advances well. It should finish late December or early January. The plant now employs seventy men with capacity for 30 to 40 tons daily, soon doubling and surpassing 100 workers once the machinery is installed.
Joanna Anna Godfrey born August 31 1833 in Coshocton County Ohio died at her Clinton township home Friday night at age eighty one. Married Charles Godfrey in 1852 who died last April. She leaves five children Melissa Campbells John W Godfrey Susan Allen Jamie Godfrey Jeremiah of Thorntown one brother William Meeks Thorntown and one sister Mary Bennett Kensess First Christian church Scotland member.
The Modern Miller's crop bulletin says a favorable week for plowing and seeding in the winter wheat belt enables rapid work and a large acreage is assured. Wheat is up with a good stand, deliveries ample in some areas, but Kansas and the Northwest farmers hold back. Fall plowing in the Northwest lags and activity is urged.
M M Apple also captured a $400 purse at Hopkinsville Kentucky and reportedly won a $75 stopwatch prize for the horse with the lowest mark in two races during the week. Tommy D broke the Hopkinsville track record with 2 14 percent and set two new course marks of 2 10. Mr Ap-
The writer recalls a Monday with warm weather twenty seven years ago when he and his wife moved into their present residence on East Main Street. He notes the weather remained warm for some time after the move and mentions the Kies 6-80 bad 4 to.
Michael Feeley of Ladoga sues the Central Indiana Railway Company for 20000, claiming a defective push car caused a severe accident on April 9 1918 while he was a section foreman with two assistants. He alleges permanent disability, nervous and physical breakdown, sleeplessness, and impaired sight and memory, and that officials ignored warnings to repair or replace the car. He asserts the railroad knew of the danger but compelled continued use.
Ralph Lowman of this city, a Peru University student, created a detailed map depicting the western European battlefield. The display shows troop positions, principal cities, forts, rivers, and frontier points from current telegraph reports, with aims to update as battle lines shift.
At a Lafay ette meeting of the Battleground Camp Meeting Association the 1946 assembly was set for August 1 to run through Sunday. Rev E McCloud of Oxford was named secretary of the association.
Dr Geisel spoke to about seven hundred pupils at Central Christian church and later to high school students on health. She urged avoidance of smoking, highlighting health as essential to future men and women. The speaker, a regular physician and University of Michigan graduate, stressed science and personal well being.
Announcement Monday confirms George B. Jones retires as managing editor and will resume ministerial work at Hillsboro and Waynetown pastorates. B. F. Coombs acquires an interest in the papers. Fred Donaldson becomes managing editor and Boyd Bynum named city editor.
B E Gregory of Zionsville has devised a motor primer that replaces priming cups. It supplies the correct amount of gasoline to the engine, reducing cranking and starting trouble.
Lebanon councilmen Delaskie Smith and Frank Myers toured Illinois towns including Tulon to study a modern sewage disposal plant. Tulon’s system uses settling tanks filtration beds and germ treatment with crushed stone filtration beds. Blueprints were obtained and a Lebanon installation is estimated at about $20,000.
Judge S R Artman newly appointed to the Indians State Normal edgor board of trustees attended the Terre Haute meeting Thursday. GovernorRalaton expected the vocational education building contract to be let Thursday but it was postponed until November 6. Routine business only. B F Loutham of Logansport elected president to succeed late William H.
The North west Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church held its final session at Trinity church in Lafayette. Bishop McDowell announced Hammond district would merge with others, reducing districts from five to four. Appointments for Crawfordsville district and a world Sabbath observance conference were set, with eight new members admitted and several ministers moved or retired.
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