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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1908
Page
7
Chester Beach remains a popular bathing spot from 7 am to 6 pm with clear filtered water. The lake’s safety attracts families with ladies and children enjoying extended hours and steady crowds.
Colonel Martin's park draws daily crowds to the Chester Beach and free vaudeville as swimmers brave cool weather. Next week features Captain Webb's trained seals, billed as the best of the trainer's sea monster groups, and the Amazon Canoe Club regatta on Lake Como with races from 4 30 PM. The Coney Company has posted prizes for each boat race.
The Kemp Sisters Wild West and Indian Congress begins its final week at Lagoon Sunday afternoon. The Kentucky park remains popular with patrons praising the program and enjoying boating and fishing on Lagoon Lake as crowds are expected to grow with improving weather.
Coney Island hosts the largest gathering of canoeists today drawing participants from coastal clubs and regional teams. Spectators are invited to watch races along the array of canoes on the water.
Phoenix Country Club hosts its annual Campers Day with Welfare and Managing Committees enhancing grounds. A new baseball diamond and updated camping quarters create a small town feel, while feasting and music promise a long evening of outdoor sports and activities led by Fred Smith Charles Woellner and L. R. Carrara.
Tomorrow the Hamilton County Bowling League and Newport Rival Bowling Clubs meet at Mackes for a combined outing and base ball game. Committee members George Maggini Billy Margeson and Chris Stoess will ensure all is arranged for the bowlers with Schnapps Band providing music. A 12 30 dinner will be served promptly rain or shine.
Senator Otto G. Foehler of Brooklyn traveled from Staatsburg to Albany to vote for the Agnew Hart antirace track gambling bill and returned home today with his physician Dr. Murphy. He appeared improved in health.
New York June 12 announcement confirms Abe Attell and Owen Moran will fight twenty rounds at the Mission Street Arena San Francisco on Labor Day. The bout starts at 2 30 p m with a 122 pound weigh in and James J Jeffries will referee.
Managers Thompson and Tag have recruited new players for the Adams Express and Big Four teams. Games listed: Procter & Gamble vs Big Four at Northside with umpire Ransom. Adams Express vs American Laundry Machine at Linwood with indicator Bentlinger. Q and C Railway vs C H D Railway at Reading with umpire Clark.
Dr Bonifield C Gordon Neff Dr Hey Dr Colter Gus Drach and Mr Merkle left last night for Cleveland to attend a meeting of the State Automobile Association.
Don Philippini curates a week of concerts at the Zoological Garden with a Thursday night tribute to his own works headlined by One Night in Prison. Friday includes Verdi pieces and La Forza del Destine excerpts with Tannhauser and Herbert selections. Saturday features Cimino solo and a Rigoletto quartet plus Carmen finale by Philippini’s temperamental band.
Coney Island steamers report high crowds on evening runs with the Island Queen carrying 700 to over 1,000 passengers during the 8 pm trip. Moonlight on the water is the week’s main attraction, described as poetic and inspiring in the hot summer conditions.
The Bostonian Quartet, praised in other cities, will be brought to Cincinnati by Don Philippini and heard nightly at the Zoo. They will sing as a quartet and individually with members Elsa Gibson M Hoffman Paul Durand and Estelle Gevanni performing.
Detroit millers at a national convention vote to launch a white flour advertising campaign. Secretary Goetzmann is to contact milling clubs nationwide for funding and speed replies by September 12 to start in fall. They urge stricter trade demands, oppose price fixing by buyers, and pledge no dumping of overproduction.
Charles B. McCormick, 38, an attorney and brother of Henry J. McCormick, died after leaping from a five story Water town building during a forgery and embezzlement case. He had been arrested on a grand larceny charge related to a railroad settlement in 1906 in which $3,250 was netted of a $5,000 claim. He died shortly after being taken to a hospital. He had been released on $7,000 bail the night before.
A Columbus meeting of Ohio delegates to the Democratic National convention approved a Doughty plan for a special train leaving July 8 to Colorado Springs and Denver. The train will split to visit Pike's Peak, with delegates from Columbus traveling Monday and Tuesday to organize, then returning July 11 to Columbus.
ST. PAUL Minn June 12 Governor Johnson states in a written message he will not seek a third term as Minnesota governor and would not accept nomination if offered He Reasons the move avoids party embarrassment and enables the party to pursue a strong ticket without uncertainty He praises the party’s rich talent pool and potential candidates.
One man dies and another is critically wounded after a nighttime shooting near Front and Sycamore streets. James Force, 49, and Brunson, 36, fought over two women, with Force cut and Brunson shot twice. Brunson captured after fleeing to Sixth and Broadway. both men taken to City Hospital.
Detectives Pflug Hueftlein and Gra mann arrested Michael Kelly 21 of 700 West Third Street and Harry Wolf 18 from Chicago after searches at Longworth Elm and Eighth Race streets. Officers recovered a woman's silver purse and two leather purses from Wolf’s room at 129 West Eighth Street as they investigate multiple streetcar robbery reports.
The International Brotherhood of Bookbinders wrapped up its five day session at Douglass Castle Hall and will hold its next convention in Cedar Rapids Iowa during the second week of June 1910. Officers elected include President Robert Glockling and Secretary Treasurer J W Daugherty both of New York.
Delegates to the Baraca and Philathea Convention will occupy pulpits. Rev Dr Edward Mack of Lane Seminary sends a message urging revival and evangelization, praising the Norwood chapter’s work and predicting it is just beginning. Various church events and services are listed across Cincinnati suburbs including Sabbath outings and Children’s Day programs.
The First Universalist Sunday school hosts a Friday 8 o clock benefit for the Fresh Air Fund. On Thursday June 18 at Northside Presbyterian Church pastor Lewis Earle Lee presents 100 stereopticon slides of Mt. Hood ascent. Baraca-Philathea speakers at Walnut Hills Baptist Church tomorrow morning while Glenn Greenlee and L L Roberts discuss Sunday School topics. Luther M. Tesh will speak in the evening with a musical program featuring Mrs. Zimpleman Miss Meyers William Kline and J R Reinke.
Morning sermons at Central Ninth Street opposite City Hall by John L Hill on The Eternal Gospel. Evening by Dr Charles McKenzie Johnstown NY on The Rich Fool. Northside and Mt Healthy schedule Bible school services and sermons with titles Burden Sharing God Is a Rewarder. Walnut Hills afternoon and evening services feature On the Mount of Temptation. Camp Washington lists Vine and the Vines and Junior Y P S C E programs.
A church schedule lists services across multiple congregations including Presbyterian Clifton Minister Donald M Grant leading 11 am worship with Lord's supper and 7:45 pm evening service on Life's Paradox. Other churches provide 11 am sermons, sacraments, and youth programs through the day.
Early communion at 8 45 a m and 7 30 a m at multiple parishes. Sunday schools at 9 30 or 9 45 a m. Morning prayers, sermons by Rev T C Campbell and Rev W H Poole. Evening prayers and sermons by various clergy including Rev Elmore N Owen and Canon Mc Grath. St Pauls Cathedral lists services with dean and canon.
Baptist First on Wesley avenue lists sermons by Dr William J Cambron at 11 am on The Preacher s Problem in Cincinnati and 7 45 pm on A Woman in a Barrel with 9 30 am Sunday School and 7 pm Young People. Lincoln Park hosts multiple services and an annual picnic Wednesday at White Water Park. Ninth Street features Bible school at 9 am and evening preaching by several pastors. Columbia and Wyoming churches present sermons and Children s Day events while Madisonville holds Bible school at 9 am and morning worship at 10 30 am with Children's Day activities at 7 30 pm.
North Fairmount led by Albert E. Harding holds Sabbath school at 9 30 a m and worship at 10 30 a m with Flag Day exercises at German Presbyterian Church. Walnut Hills Dwight Mallory Pratt hosts 9 30 a m Sunday school 11 a m Children’s Day baptism and Bible presentations with a 7 p m social. Storrs Church H T MacMahon preaches at 10 45 a m on Christ’s Interest in Men with Children’s Day at 7 45 p m. Lawrence Street M O Evans offers 10 50 a m Welsh service 2 p m Junior C E 3 p m Children’s Day service 7 30 p m English service An American Child. First Unitarian George A Thayer preaches at 11 a m Turned Out Into the World.
Multiple religious congregations list Sunday schedules including morning sermons at Asbury Wesley Chapel Avon dale East Pearl Street St Paul Westwood Linwood Trinity and more. Activities include Sunday schools, Children's Day programs, Epworth League and Baraca convention speakers with additional sermons in the afternoon.
Day service at 7 15 p m Epworth League address by Prof J Wesley Brown 8 p m Rev L C Knight D D of Waco Texas 10 30 a m Children s Day exercises 7 45 p m sermon The Limits of Self Sacrifice Mt Auburn Hasse Enwall pastor 10 30 a m worship and Children s Day program address by Dr E O Smith 7 p m Epworth League services Walnuth Jesse Bowman Young pastor 11 a m Children s Day services floral decorations songs recitations address Oh What Is the Use of Going to School 7 p m Epworth League A Christian Education 7 45 p m Our Wonderful Century Its Franchises Achievements and Opportunities Mt Lookout O P Hoffman pastor 9 30 a m Sabbath school 10 45 a m News From the Front 7 30 p m Children s Day programme Hyde Park O P Hoffman pastor 9 30 a m Sabbath school 7 45 p m
Norwood at 5189 Main avenue F H Bohn preaches at 10 45 a m on An Astonishing Question and at 7 30 p m C W Kurtz leads communion services. Cumminsville Borden and Weber Co B Boda pastor 9 30 a m Sunday school delegates speak to Baraca and Philathea 10 45 a m sermon by Rev W R Wood of Fairport N Y 7 p m Christian Endeavor 8 p m preaching by pastor.
The Church of Christ holds a service at 10 45 a m on the fourth floor Mercantile Library Building with the sermon God the Preserver of Man. The First Church of Christ on Rockdale Avenue Avondale meets at 11 a m with the same message in rooms 1019 1020 of the First National Bank Building.
A compact notice lists morning and evening worship times for multiple churches in Walnut Hills and nearby streets. Includes First Universalist Ayres sermon at 11, Walnut Hills Lutheran, New Jerusalem, Union Gospel Mission, First English Lutheran, Church of Christ, and Church notices with subjects and leaders such as Samuel Gilbert Ayres and Don Carlos James.
Lexington Ky June 12 Hd Callahan a noted Breathitt County feudist who recently divorced his wife has married Miss Tymanda Deaton from another feud family. Callahan has recovered from wounds inflicted by his brother in law during which Callahan's son killed his father's assailant.
Lexington June 12. While blasting rock on the Morehead and Norfolk Railroad near Paragon Morgan County Noah Fugate and Cbanion Perry were killed. Tolman Triplett was badly injured and expected to die. The blast exploded after Fugate struck the blasting cap with a pick.
Cardinal Logue Primate of all Ireland arrived in Queenstown from New York aboard the Campania and received a hearty welcome. He expressed enthusiasm over his reception in America and gratitude for the cordial greeting.
Washington June 12 The State Department announced the President has promoted and transferred fifty seven American consular officers to new stations. Names include Edwin N. Gunsaulus Rimouski to Johannesburg Robert P. Skinner Marseilles to Hamburg John E. Kehl Stetten to Sydney Jesse B. Jackson Alexandria to Aleppo Heingarten Riga to Batum Chapman Coleman Doubaix to Rome William A. Masterson Batum to Harput William Coffin Markat to Tripoli Robert E. Mansfield Lucerne to St Paul John H. Snodgrass Pretoria to Kobe.
Chicago June 12 Merman Milik the Bohemian fortune teller condemned to death for the murder of five Vizal family members was granted a stay of execution to allow an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States Judge Landis of the United States District Court had denied the writ of habeas corpus but ordered the appeal and a stay until the high court decides The crowd outside the jail roared at the news and prisoners inside cheered when the petition for stay or commutation was signed by inmates PMID
The Cunard liner Lusitania arrives off Sandy Hook at 1 08 am lowering the fast crossing record to 4 days 20 hours minutes, beating her sister ship Mauretania by seven minutes.
Columbus June 12 Charles J Krupp of Sandusky was today reap pointed a member of the State Board of Embalming Examiners for the term ending June 6 1911. Mr Krupp has served but one term.
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