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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1908
Page
5
The Queen Hathers of the city Methodist churches will host a lawn fete on Friday evening on the Walnut Hills M E Church grounds. Also, a telegrapher from East Radford Virginia asks Mayor Markbreit to help locate his brother G C Cord.
The Postoffice Substation No 31 began operations yesterday at the corner of Elberon avenue and Wighth street. Joseph Lammert is in charge.
Taxpayers realized payment without penalty must be made this week and stood fifteen to twenty in line at each window of the County Treasurer's office yesterday.
A counterfeit one dollar note passed yesterday at G Pfiff’s Budd street store, mistaken for a five by the Subtreasury who paid out a good dollar for the bad bill. Also reporting the death of Dr J A Crouse in Dayton Indiana, brother of Meigs V Crouse superintendent and matron at Cincinnati Children’s Home.
Trustee George W. Hays returned yesterday from the annual meeting of the trustees of the State Institute for the Blind in Columbus. The teaching staff is to be increased and all last year's teachers and employees have been reappointed.
Jacob M. H. Kneider marked his ninetieth birthday at his residence 211 Allanthus Street surrounded by seven children twenty two grandchildren and a wife ten years his junior. The gathering drew many friends and family to honor the occasion.
William Ryan John Loftus and Mark Suntheimer were arraigned in Police Court yesterday on disorderly conduct at the Gilbert avenue Eden Park entrance. They divulged the names of other boys and warrants were issued. The cases were continued.
Robert Holmes a 13 year old inmate of the Home for the Blind will give a benefit musicale tonight at 8 at the Odeon and Elm streets. He is noted as a talented violin player. Mrs Francis Hearne started the fund with 50 dollars to support the recital.
The Working Boys' Home at 518 West Ninth Street faces a deficit as matron Mrs Crutchfield recovers from a broken leg. Trustees authorize Mrs J B Clayton and Mrs R H Pringle of 18 Garfield Place to take up a collection to wipe out the shortfall.
Major Fulton of the Ninth Battalion completed a preliminary inspection of the colored military company to be formed in the city to replace the recently mustered out unit. His report to Adjutant General Critchfield is believed favorable, and Governor Harris has pledged acceptance if the company meets requirements.
August Pflug, 66, died at his Findlay Street home from a paralytic stroke after muttering that he would be dead at four. His family watched as he slipped into unconsciousness and passed away just as the mantle clock struck four. He leaves four sons and a daughter. funeral Friday at Mohawk Presbyterian Church with sons Charles John Jacob and Emil as pallbearers.
Civil War veteran Sol Behymer of Forestville, Ohio fell from an Interurban traction car near his home. He sustained a broken arm and head cuts and was taken to City Hospital. Henry McKane, 35, of 1824 Hamilton Avenue, lost footing alighting a Colerain Avenue car at Hamilton and Chase avenues. He suffered serious bruises and cuts and was hospitalized.
An advertisement outlines epilepsy as a nerve energy issue with channels to parts of the body. It promotes Dr Miles Nervine as soothing nerves and restoring nervous energy, citing a young woman’s improvement and offering a money back guarantee from a Bangor mail order firm.
Reverent crowds attended the reinterment ceremony at the Woodward High School site as the mortal remains of William Woodward and Abigail Cutter Woodward were placed in a crypt at the Broadway entrance. William Strunk and Henrietta Walter spoke of the couple’s educational impact, with Benediction by the Rev T H Crane and certification by A D Shockley.
Health Officer Brown released a Cincinnati 1907 mortality review noting pneumonia and tuberculosis as leading causes and urging stricter death certificate signing. Typhoid death rate was 4.52 per thousand, with New Orleans and Philadelphia higher, while five months into the year Cincinnati saw the lowest typhoid mortality among large cities.
Judge James B. Swing yesterday affirmed a jury verdict fixing 16000 as compensation to Albert G. Eggers and others for long taken for school purposes. Harry W. Vordenberg appointed receiver for Frank A. Feldhaus real estate tied to a Berea College mortgage for 5687. Further actions include dismissals and restraining orders in cases against The Retail Meat Dealers Rendering Co and Bettman Johnson Co, and a suit by Anna Schmidt against The Birds of Freedom fraternity.
Members of the Ohio Society Sons of the American Revolution travel to Lexington Kentucky for a summer outing honoring the June 17 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill. The group visits Ashland Henry Clay home Haggan stock farm and other sights with Cincinnati delegates listed.
In Judge Hunt s court Vir ginia Schoenberger alias Maud Castle pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods from Frank Schoenberger and was given one year, suspended due to her condition. Charles Cook pleaded guilty to stealing four watches and ten dollars from Louis Pohlmeyer, with a one year sentence suspended. Edward Miller pleaded guilty to cee orders on commission houses and was sentenced to one year. Robert Reissing confessed to theft of a horse from Lyman Perin and was sent to the Reformatory. Charles White pleaded guilty to stealing six dozen razors valued at sixty dollars and was ordered confined in the Workhouse for thirty days plus a 200 dollar fine and costs, totaling 450 additional Workhouse days if he cannot pay.
Floral tributes by scores and saddest friends marked the bier of Mrs. John Dickinson formerly Mrs. Ben Pittroff of 612 Vine Street yesterday. Funeral services are set for this afternoon and the body will be taken to the crematory for incineration. The simple rites will be led by Rev Heber D. Ketcham of Trinity Methodist Church and Rev Hugo G. Eisenlohr.
Detectives Reed and Allen yesterday arrested Charles Randolph, 37, a colored coachman of 830 Dayton Street, on a murder charge. He is alleged in a Police Court warrant to have assaulted Louis Smith, 966 Barr Street, on the night of May 10. Smith was found in a hallway at 624 Central Avenue and died May 22 after refusing to reveal details of his injuries.
The Service Board decided electric lighting for the City Hospital takes precedence over maintaining accident insurance on three boilers. Superintendent Fehrenbatch reported a recommendation from the surety company to cancel boiler insurance unless steam pressure drops from 100 to 80 pounds. He said 90 pounds are needed to run the lighting plant, and with no approval insurance would be canceled. The board authorized him to act.
United States Court heard Gaines & Co of St Lexington Ky sue Turner-Locker Company for 5000 claimed trade mark infringement on a whisky brand. Plaintiff asserts the trade mark value at 500000 and seeks an injunction to stop use. George H Hyland sues for land anchor patent infringement by Philip Smith and the Philip Smith Manufacturing Co of Sidney Ohio. Major W R Thrall posted 25000 bond as trustee for Banasch & Woerz Co and filed final receiver’s report for Joseph Cantor with a 75 allowance for services.
Deaths list multiple individuals with addresses and ages including Charles C Brose 62 at 2596 Hoff Ave and Abigail R Betts Johnston 77 of College Hill. Funeral notices set for Thursday and Tuesday. Also Mary M Koehnken, Kunigunde Pittroft Dickinson, James M Robinson, and Ida Rasensky burial permits filed for pneumonia debility nephritis in city.
The second annual commencement of Mt. St. Joseph on the Ohio Convent opened with high mass by Rev. J. Henry Schengher. Archbishop Moeller conferred honors after Rev. Francis A. Roth delivered the baccalaureate sermon. Graduates and medal winners include Juanita Cordano Rose Lee Kerrigan Cora Meredith Irene Wehbe Beatrice Goebel Katherine Kern Patience Madigan Sarah Pence Irene Grimmelsman.
Marie Bittenbiender as administratrix of Katie Bittenbiender’s estate is authorized to accept 98 in full settlement after Katie’s death from a street car on Highland avenue June 14. The record notes appraised estates of Cyrus Watkins 1531 and real estate 1950 and lists several estate applications for Helen Piper Annie Lowe Kate Lowe Harry Weber Caroline Asymann Helen Peterson and Charles Peterson.
In Squire Roebling's court yesterday J C Sweitzer and wife Mary L Sweit zer sued Mrs Anna C Bradley for taking care of the building at 111 and 113 East Third street from which the Helping Hand Society was erected recently. Plaintiffs claim $75 is due.
W A Vaughn a railroad man from Atlanta reported to police that while showing a $600 repeater watch to boys at Seventh and Mound streets one snatched it and ran. The watch given in 1890 by Michigan Central Railroad employees chimed hourly. Vaughn, staying at Hotel Sterling, had lent the timepiece to the boy to listen to the chimes.
A compiled list of marriages shows names, residences, and ages. Amid names such as Jacob Lachenmann Elizabeth Stiens and Louisa M. Schaefer at Palace Hotel, the register records multiple pairs with addresses, ages, and spouses across Cincinnati and nearby locales.
FUNERAL NOTICE. Yeatman Lodge No. 162 F and A M members meet 7 30 this evening at Yeatman Hall to arrange funeral for late brother Charles C Brosie N lL Abraram W M J Edw Runk Secy OHIG Lodge No 1 LOF OOF members meet at Temple Sev enth and Elm at 1 p m Wednesday June 17 to attend burial services of deceased brother J M Robinson H J Kahl N G Geo W Holabird Sec y
Kilwinning Chapter No R A M announces a special convocation on Wednesday June 37 at 7:30 pm. Work includes Past and Most Excellent Degrees. Visitors invited. Roberts H P LL Latta Secretary.
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