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Newspaper
Carlisle News
Location
Carlisle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1908
Page
2
Terms include 1.00 per year in advance. Display ads 19 cents per inch with three month or longer contracts. Local notices and straight advertising. Legal notices at legal rates. All ads run until ordered out. Telephone 45. Friday June 19, 1908.
No more dust on the streets of Carlisle as the annual water wagon started its tour last Friday to dampen roads and improve conditions.
A health officer notices residents to clear property by mowing grass and weeds in alleys and yards. Whitewashing tree trunks is proposed by some owners as a low cost improvement to be completed by July 1 ahead of the big celebration.
The Carlisle board of education has chosen the teachers for the 1908 09 term. Grover Clayton will teach Latin and mathematics in the high school. Mary Haughton will return to head the English department. J H Alsman will teach again, and Prof Leslie Childress resigns as principal to take the Fairbanks position. all teachers are deemed competent and the outlook is bright.
Carlisle customers will receive two daily deliveries morning and evening requiring two drivers. No credit extended to anyone. Tickets to be procured from the driver or at the creamery. Jim McConnell.
Due to heavy business the Sullivan circuit court term is extended twenty days, now lasting until July 25. This extension shifts the schedule and deadlines for filings and proceedings throughout the term.
The Bloomfield Democratic judicial convention ended a deadlock after 1,700 ballots showed Bays ahead 17 to Hudson. A delegate was accused of betraying the pledge, with calls to exclude traitors from political life while criticizing a southern county town, Shelburn, and noting implications for a Republican prosecutor and fair law enforcement.
The jury in the Leon ard Patrick murder case against William Alien remains out in Sullivan circuit court. They show little movement toward a verdict, with jurors reportedly opting for meals and recesses. Judge Henderson left for Chicago for the Republican national convention, appointing W. T. Douthitt to receive a verdict if reached.
The E. and T. H. railroad company installed two large coal oil lamps, one at each end of the depot platform. The lights, placed across the tracks by P. L. Hoover & Bros. and Daniel Hines, brighten the area on dark nights.
Letters from former residents state they will attend a local celebration in Carlisle after many years away. One correspondent notes it has been 36 years since leaving and expresses pleasure at returning.
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