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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1907
Page
2
The Carthage Citizen lists C G Hill as proprietor and Florence B Hunt as editor. It notes second class matter status entered May 25 1907 at the Carthage Indiana post office under the act of Congress of March 3 1879.
Publication details outline weekly issues and rates for ads and notices. Charges cover business locals by line, card of thanks, obituaries by word count, extra copies, and paid entertainments. Display ads require rate inquiry. statement notes continual rain.
The Central Normal College at Danville opened its summer term Tuesday morning. The article notes the State Sunday School workers will convene in Kokomo from June 18 to 20, with Prof KE Excell of Chicago expected to enhance the musical portion of the program.
Dr. Rufus M. Jones of Philadelphia delivered the commencement address to Earlham College graduates on Wednesday. A remarkable traveler who crossed the Mississippi from Cincinnati to New Orleans last winter in cedar shoes plans to attempt an English Channel crossing the same way.
The Friends at Amboy plan a new church costing $20,000 with brick and stone construction and modern lighting and heating. Rev. Frederick Tarmohlen serves as pastor, guiding the project.
Domenick A Montaini, a recent Indiana Law School graduate and native of Indianapolis, is likely the only Italian lawyer practicing in the state.
A girl from Atlanta Georgia vowed never to marry, and she did not until she wed her chosen “man” atop the dome of the state Capitol. The unusual ceremony links a vow and a bold union on a prominent civic landmark.
Under Prof. S I Connor of the Indianapolis Metropolitan School of Music the seniors of Franklin College will stage their play titled Abe Martinsville in a student performance.
President Robert Kelley of Earlham College delivered the Baccalaureate sermon to Indiana Normal school graduates. The school plans to request from the next Legislature a building for exclusive use of the manual training department.
Edward Bok editor of The Ladies Journal will receive a honorary degree of L L D from Villanova College near Philadelphia during its commencement by direction of the Pope.
The Maxwell Briscoe automobile plant at New Castle will not lay its corner stone on June 8 as planned. The ceremony is moved to June 22 due to the illness of J D Maxwell's mother. Vice President Fairbanks will be the principal speaker.
Greensburg firms secure contracts to erect and plumb the hospital at the I. C. O. F. Home near Greensburg. The agreements total 10500 and 3415.96 dollars respectively, outlining firm work and payment terms for the project.
The Hamilton O. Ministerial Alliance will abandon its annual picnic and on June 17 attend a professional baseball game between Cincinnati and New York at the National League Park in Cincinnati. The preachers will lunch at a restaurant and sit in a box at the game.
Morristown considers Saturday night band concerts or open air vaudeville while a June 16 Brookside Park picnic in Indianapolis invites Rush county residents and visitors. Afternoon speeches planned amid a broader scene of regional athletics shifts and local events.
President Roosevelt will for the first year under the $25 000 traveling allowance law return nearly $20 000 to the Treasury. His trips have contrasted with former presidents triumphal journeys. The sheep killing dog law imposes fines for owners of dogs known to kill or injure livestock and requires damage reporting within 20 days under oath with penalties for false statements.
Elizabeth Schneider Binford writes from Mito Japan on February 15 describing a dramatic fire nearby. A strong north wind spread embers but kept the first two houses from total loss, sparing their home with thin shingles and a wooden gate as ashes shifted with the wind.
Mr and Mrs Torikai arrived to receive callers and guard the house while 184 cards came from friends and servants bearing lanterns. Six Christian youths climbed roofs with buckets of water as a fire in the doctor’s yard burned rice to replenish strength. A prayer meeting followed, gratitude due to faith. Gurney will visit tomorrow to thank supporters. You sense how perishable a Japanese house is with little debris left.
Rural Illinois legislator John R. Robinson of Farmer City proposes nine amendments to a pending automobile bill. His mock sections require bizarre rules for drivers, including disguising parts, wearing digitiges, veiled ladies, upside down numbers, horn signals on foot, and fines for perceived cowardice and assault.
The piece parodies early road etiquette with comically strict Secs on speed limits, signaling, color changing vehicles by season, and absurd penalties. It notes amendments presented and voted on, but the speaker declares them lost despite an unanimous vote.
Public schooling reform requires professional training for teachers in Indiana. Earlham College will offer six weeks of summer term training beginning June 17, priced at ten dollars for the full session. President Kay in Richmond, Indiana, will provide full information.
A college captain hosted a nine person baseball themed supper where guests sat as a team around a diamond shaped dining arrangement. Each place card named a position and the nine course menu used innings as course labels. Favors were tiny horns for cheering the host. The story blends playful college life with a fragment on the Drago doctrine from a Chicago News note.
Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou explains that guarding the mails against abuses is a vast task but is improving each year. He notes a recent remark calling the post office department the most effective agency in the world for detecting and preventing crime and pursuing criminals.
In Brussels a lawyer used a phonograph to prove nuisance from hammering at a near by iron foundry. He placed the device in his library for a day and, when the case went to court, played the cylinder to demonstrate the noise, winning the suit. The article also notes a Dreadnought test where eight of ten twelve inch guns fired, causing the ship to skid and presenting immense recoil and speed details.
In Alsace Lorraine the German control remains unpopular. Despite thirty six years since annexation most residents still harbor anti German sentiments, the London Globe notes this enduring dissatisfaction.
Howard E Henley and P J Sattler advertise fire and tornado insurance with first class companies. J J Anderson lists Hartford North American Phoenix of Brooklyn and Indiana life. E D Lewis is a licensed embalmer offering funeral director services with free funeral car, ambulance transport, and local Carthage contacts.
The Carthage hotel operated by proprietor D. M. McCorkle invites new guests and patrons to consider staying or using its services.
East Street Christian Church lists Sunday School and preaching at 10:48 am and 7:30 pm on the first, second, third, and fifth Sundays. Prayer meeting on Thursday led by Elder M. V. Foster.
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