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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1909
Page
7
The article notes rapid progress at Carthage fair grounds for the Turners Turnfest with 20 actives and 3 ladies among the committee. Officials anticipate strong crowds as Cincinnati gym activities, events, and educational floats unfold, including a large field meet and inaugural exhibitions.
Avondale meets Ivorydale at Carthage College in Madisonville then Hartwell. Lockland hosts Pleasant Ridge. Norwood visits Northside. Ivorydale’s Bushelman stars. Diehl returns for Avondale with Diehl and Tarbell batteries. Madisonville and College Hill clash with Gatch pitching for the Villes. Poole to umpire. Lockland Carey face Pleasant Ridge with Dornell pitching. Norwood adds Lawton to outfield as Norwood, Hessler, Wood duel Northside.
The president alleges Schroth scored a home run last week on a ball that bounded through the fence. The runner was ruled safe by the umpire after a dispute over whether the field was enclosed and a ball crossing the fence could be fielded.
The All Collegian Baseball Club seeks first class Sunday games and lists contact J L Hackett 707 Garrard Covington KY. Indy Indians vs Philip Carey team at Wiedemanns Ballpark with lineup Ernstberger Victor Lee Sedam Latta Bramlage Breen Riley Dyas. Trades Union League games Sunday June 20 Molders Engineers 9:30 am Cigarmakers Bricklayers 10 am Lathers Garment Workers 3 pm Steamfitters Electrical Workers 3 pm.
Gov Shallenberger and Chancellor Avery refused to sign a petition asking John D Rockefeller for a 50000 donation to improve the University of Nebraska athletic field. They said their offices could not go on record as seeking the gift, causing the effort to be dropped.
C W Watson of Baltimore and Walter Winans stood out as winners on opening day. Watson's Ringing Bells reversed a recent decision to win the single harness class over Mel valley and Kitty Grey and Norena took second in the tandem under fifteen hands. My Maryland and My Maryland II placed second in the tandem over fifteen hands, while Kitty Grey and Norena won the double harness event.
Avenue division easily defeated Clifton club at Norwood Inn grounds by a 14 to 8 score. Players listed include Boland Giordan Wright Nagle and Barnett for Avenue and Hite Heenlein Oliver Bren n an for Clifton with Schafer pitching and Widmeyer umpiring in a two hour game.
Rainy, raw weather at Blue Bonnets. Five races listed with results detailing winners, placings, and times including Detroit and Pho renis in Race One. Busy and Flying Squirrel in Race Two. Pinto and Lightwool in Race Three. Silk Hose and Sally Cohen in Race Four. Braggadocio and Denier in Race Five. Mozart and Blue Coat in Race Six.
Portland Bay wins the Wokingham handicap over six furlongs at Ascot with Senseless second and Fallen Angel third. Twenty one starters include Baby Wolf and Edward The Windsor. Also Charles O Malley’s winner in the Windsor Castle stakes and Foresight takes the King’s Stand with Hillside III second. Five horses ran.
New York racing will continue at least into November as owners and trainers from Latonia and the Canadian circuit charter horses and top jockeys to race at Sheepshead Bay. The move suggests the anti-betting laws have not devastated Metropolitan track action and may revive interest across centers.
The Kumler Flickinger family association, one of Ohio’s largest.
Simon Hubig the pie man won a touring car as one of the prizes offered at Coney Island this week by the Retail Grocers association. The contest result was not decided until late Thursday night.
A traveling Turners show at Carthage fair grounds features Major Bob Yokum with riding and driving buffaloes. The opening night drew strong crowds as the buffalo pair performed under harness and saddle on the fair track, with bucking branchos and a cowgirl and cowboy riders proving popular.
Colonel Martin presents a Turnfest week bill featuring Ishikawa Japanese equilibrists hailed as world best, plus The Musical Maids with Liane and Evelyn Du Faye, Jarvis and Martin jugglers, Dunbar's Goat Circus, and Manning and Ford eccentric dancers. Goat circus extended due to popularity as Chester promises big times across all departments.
The New York Musical Comedy Company will interrupt its all-time shows at the Lagoon with a sequence of popular up to date musicals starting next week with The Spring Chicken by Edgar Selden. The Kinder garden closes with two performances tomorrow and The Hustler with a matinee Monday. Charles and Marie Heclon join Sunday performances for special features between acts. The Spring Chicken follows Gay New York and Madamoiselle Champagne as part of the lineup.
Bohumir Kryl refutes claims his hair is shorter than last year saying he keeps his hair as long as ever to please the ladies. He plans a lively program tonight with eight vocalists and fireworks at the Flarman banquet.
Yesterday and last evening the Coney Island steamers carried passengers under one of the few perfect days in the area. Heavy rains had cleared smoke and dirt, leaving air exceptionally clear and the sun shining through a cloudless dome.
The Cincinnati Paint club plans a banquet at the Zoo tonight with Harmonites fireworks and Bandmaster Kryl directing special selections by big players. The menu promises a rare and tempting feast for attendees.
Miss Adelaide Norwood performs a matinee of Aida this afternoon at the request of Cincinnati admirers who could not attend evening shows. Miss Louie Collier closes the opera with the final performance this evening.
Sunday is expected to bring large crowds to Queen City Bathing Beach as Ohio River waters fall and the Sand bar expands. The river remains high enough to offer cooling relief for bathers on the Sabbath, with sufficient sand for the week ahead.
The annual gathering of all Knights of Pything lodges will be held this afternoon and evening at Chester park. Lodges competed in ticket sales and a large crowd is expected for games, races, and land and water contests, plus an exhibition drill by the Columbia-Texas lodge Uniform Rank.
John Drew is set to act as Bevis the marquis of Bewdley in Bevis a comedy by Henry Hubert Davies. London critics find the play thin in construction but praise its brightness and tone. In London A E Matthews holds the Bevis role. the mock box office banter at New Amsterdam theater follows Mr Mantell’s Lear night.
McIntyre and Heath will star in a future season farce The Steeplechasers by H A Du Souchet. He has not matched the success of My Friend From India and The Man From Mexico in fourteen years. Jerome and Schwartz will provide the songs for the new piece.
Joe Weber will star Leona Watson, famed leading woman of The Climax, in an opera built around a song she performs in that play. Charles Frohman will produce The Climax in London and seek translations for Germany Hungary Italy France Sierra Leone and Terra del Fuego if successful. In his twilight, Mark Twain wrote the libretto for a comic opera and hopes a manager will stage it, based on A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.
John Smith is identified as the leader of the anti Callahan feud faction amid rising tensions in the dispute.
Pitcher Bob Harmon of the Shreveport Texas state league club was sold to the St. Louis Nationals and departed for St. Louis today.
In Ulysses Nebraska on June 18 a mob of 200 to 250 forced Bishop Bonacum of Lincoln Diocese and Fathers O'Brien and Kline from the town while attempting to take possession of a church. Father Murphy urged restraint as sympathizers protected him and the visitors rode out of town toward David City. The trio were later seen walking north toward Daytda City.
Attorney John L. Rich travels to Frankfort to argue before Judge EH C O'Rear for dissolution of the mandatory injunction. The order had barred the current board from interfering with the newly chosen board in bridge management. The injunction was issued by Judge Harbeson last week after a week of hearings.
A Covington committee discussed William A. Gardner's saloon license last night. Petition signers withdrew names after alleging misrepresentation. Police Chief Schuler opposed the license, and the committee will report its rejection at the next council meeting.
The motion for a new trial against Rev. Napoleon H. Carlisle was denied after being submitted by County Judge Stephens. Edward Reed sought to withdraw the motion, saying Carlisle’s reinstatement in the Wellington Baptist church ended his desire to prosecute further and he had no authority for the motion. Judge Stephens overruled the withdrawal. the case will likely be resumed today.
Multiple Covington churches list Sunday services and events. Shinkle Methodist, Union M E, Scott Street M E, First Presbyterian, Madison Avenue Presbyterian, First Christian, Fourth Street Christian, and St John s Episcopal announce morning worships, special programs including children s day services, ordination of Harry M Stansifer, ordination sermon by Prof Charles Louis Loos, and evening services with subject sermons and recitations.
Winifrede Cox sues Leslie Cox in Kenton county court for divorce alleging cruelty and abandonment. OQ. M. Rogers represents the plaintiff. Margaret Lillis was granted a divorce from James Lillis. A motion for a new trial was filed in Norris v. Eby.
The Rt. Rev. C. P. Maes as executor conveys 380 by 147 feet on the south side of Fourth Street to Alme L Hommedieu. Margaret E Menefee transfers 47 by 199 feet on the south side of Fourth to Harvey Myers.
The Covington council committee again deferred action on an ordinance to prohibit marriage solicitation by ministers or magistrates. Witnesses including guides Ernest Bratt and Theodore Herbert and ministers Joseph Hagin J R Savage and G F Oliver testified. The panel noted guides are not needed to obtain licenses and pledged to report Monday evening.
Covington reports include Deputy Marshal William Mays pursuing moonshining, a building permit roll for several residences, Latonia post office to become Covington substation, and multiple city suits settled for 525. Community events cover Royal Arch Masons initiation, government building inspections, and a 15 day fundraising push for a new Covington Y M C A. A fatal county infirmary inmate and two local deaths are noted alongside a court dispute over a monument site. A theft arrest involves Lizzie Smith and Jena Wells.
Newport Alumni Association hosted a reception and banquet for the Newport High School graduating class at Inverness Country Club near Newport. Judge C W Yungblut presided as toastmaster, with welcome by Miss Everetta Richey and remarks from Miss Helen Richey Marie Grizzel Prof Elsworth Regenstein and Attorney Aubrey Barbour. A dance followed the banquet and program.
The $15 600 damage suit of Richard Farmer vs H Bilerman Co was affirmed and satisfied by circuit court action bringing total judgment to $5 825 including costs. Criminal cases listed for June 23 24 and 25 include August Pfefferman for receiving stolen goods William Peters for forgery and Thomas Wilson for robbery. Robert Daunt sues Addie Daunt for divorce alleging abandonment in Ohio.
Rivermen dragged the Ohio river edge at Dayton Kentucky to recover George Hildebrandt who drowned Thursday at Benham street. The effort lasted all day and into the night without success. Newport notes record several community events and obituaries including deaths of William McNamara and Frank Neftner and various lodge activities and high school commencements.
Elmer Shelton of East Fourth street Newport was arraigned in County Judge Moore's court on a complaint by his former wife alleging nonpayment of alimony and failure to support their infant child. After a stern rebuke the judge, Shelton promised to pay $2 weekly for the child's support and was dismissed.
York Street Congregational led by F. Be. Bigelow holds morning sermon The choir directs four musical pieces under David H. Davies Grace M. E. lists Children Day program infant baptisms and evening sermon Seeing Too Much Central Christian presents sermon and communion The Man Who Was Always Starting Things and The Trial of Jesus Taylor Street M. E. East Third observes Children’s Day with choir and Sunday school infant baptism ceremony 7 p m preaching by J W Crates
The combined lodges of Red Men of Newport Covington and Dayton will observe the annual memorial at Evergreen cemetery behind Newport. Members meet at 1 o clock for a parade to the cemetery via upper Monmouth street with cars to follow. Attorney Fred Bassman of Newport to deliver the memorial address.
The Twelfth District convention of Kentucky Knights of Pythias meets this afternoon at Eureka lodge hall Fourth and York in New Port. The Limestone lodge team of Maysville arrives with band to perform first rank work this afternoon. grand chancellor O H Pollard and other state officers speak at tonight’s sessions.
Samuel Parker of Campbell county swore out a warrant yesterday for William Herzog a farmer near Alexandria after Parker says Herzog came armed with a club and threatened to kill his wife. Herzog faces trial in Alexandria court Monday on a writ of lunacy.
Miss Emily Roebling announces her engagement to Richard McCadwalder Cadwalder of Philadelphia. Her father Charles G. Roebling belongs to the Roebling firm, famed for steel and wire cable works. John A. Roebling, founder of the family, built the Brooklyn Bridge.
Chicago June 18 Dr Haldame Cleminson was bound over to the grand jury by a coroner s jury at the Rogers Park inquest into the death of his wife Nora Jane Cleminson. She was found dead at home and the jury ruled chloroform poisoning as the cause and warranted the update of the case. A murder charge had been filed and bail was denied.
A free-for-all fight at 09 Vine Street ends with arrests. Exina Neeley, 25, identifies as wife of jockeys and is taken to police headquarters for questioning.
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