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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1907
Page
3
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Sealed proposals will be received by the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners until Friday July 26 1907 at 12 o clock for improvement of Colerain Pike from Cincinnati corporation line to north corporation line of Mt Airy in Colerain township. Bids on blank forms must be accompanied by two sureties of 500 dollars each. The county reserves right to reject any or all bids. By order of the Hamilton County Commissioners. TANLEY STRUBLE President Attest FRED DRBIHS Clerk
Notice to all Piersons and corporations about reconstruction of the Kanawha and Michigan Railway bridge span over the Ohio River at Point Pleasant West Virginia. Work starts July 1 1907 and will continue at a rapid pace for up to ninety days to October 1 1907 with a temporary channel and lights to aid navigation during the project.
Notice to contractors in Hamilton County Ohio invites bids for Calvert on Clevesand Ridge Town Pike improvements under Specifications 631. Bidders must submit two good and sufficient sureties totaling five hundred dollars each with bond. Bids due July 12 at 12 o clock M. Contract awarded by the Board of Hamilton County Commissioners. Stanley Struble, President. Attest Fred Dreihs, Clerk.
Hamilton County Commissioners announce sealed proposals for culvert repairs on Whiskey Run road near Winton road in Springfield Township. Bidders must submit two sureties of five hundred dollars each and may be rejected at the board's discretion. STANLEY STRUBLE, President. FRED DREIHS, Clerk.
U. S. Engineer Office Cincinnati invites sealed proposals for constructing a concrete dam at the head of Marietta Street and the Ohio River. Proposals due until 12 m June 1907 with public opening announced at the office of Lt. Col. WM. T. Ell.
Crowds packed the Eighth Ward Picnic at Coney Island as Wild West acts and vaudeville drew overflow audiences. A second matinee was added, with hundreds turned away, while the Elks and Lagoon management prepared new features for next week. The day featured cowboys and Indians, a merry go round, gravity railway, and lively club gatherings amid a bustling river park scene.
Large Chester Opera House crowd last night filled the seats for The Mocking Bird. Miss Stanley drew praise as the company’s engagement grows and Dolly Varden is promised next week with Marion Stanley and Lulu Glaser featured in the touring program. Seats go on sale at Smith Nixon's this morning anticipating strong demand.
Preparations are complete for Elks Day at the Zoo with Weil's Band performing a special programme at 8 PM. Gladiatorial contests from last Sunday will be repeated on the lake, living pictures at 9, followed by fireworks at 9 30 on the slope east of the clubhouse.
The roof garden ballroom buzzes as two moons become feature elements for the moonlight hop. Director Kirkpatrick says the moons will be placed for maximum effect, implying he has secured accommodating moons by whatever means.
The river is at fine bathing stage with many women and children at the resort daily. People enjoy the cool water and lunches under willows while night bathing becomes popular for workers off daytime shifts.
Last evening the Odontological Society of Cincinnati led by President J. R. Callahan dined on the Zoo upper porch cafe at 6 p.m. with fifty-five members including Vice President C. P. McLaughlin and Secretary S. A. Stuart. Wednesday a large audience heard Weill's Band at the Zoo in a ragtime concert with musical comedy numbers and multiple encores.
At a special Covington Board of Education meeting the committee on Buildings reported bids for the new school at Nineteenth and Mary streets. The list totals 60 952 for excavation masonry brick work concrete mill work carpentry iron work plumbing tile roofing and stone work. The full building to the roof is planned this year with total cost estimated at 90000 for furnished completion.
Report claimed Ezra Kilpatrick and Hazel Selvers wed in Charleston West Virginia. Officials confirmed the marriage was a practical joke and the couple are not married. Kilpatrick said a friend started the rumor for laughs and publicity.
Covington reports the railroad works lay a West Second street switch to join Ludlow tracks. A Seventh Street and Madison Avenue building is demolished for a new fireproof mixed brick and concrete structure, to be occupied by John R. Coppin. City permits issued for two homes. Day and Waterfield Company forms with $5000 capital to run a horse livery business. A sixteen page Illustrated Magazine will feature Bishop Camillus Paul Maes with other features.
Leo Dalheimer filed for divorce from Nellie Dalheimer alleging abandonment. Ethel Coleman sues John Coleman for divorce alleging cruelty and seeks custody of their two-year-old son. Precinct redistricting altered precincts in Covington and ward boundaries. Judge Shaw granted three divorces: William Hall from Isabel Hall for abandonment, Lizzie Hoelsfoerster from Henry Hoelsfoerster for cruelty, and Hattie Davis from W. C. Davis for abandonment.
Robert Burns and Tony Bredford pleaded guilty to petit larceny for snatching a lie from Miss Ross and were sentenced to three months in jail. Charles Lang faces trial. Grace Clos sues for divorce from Louis Clos. Kinney and Campbell’s damage suits against GC&O Railroad dismissed. J M Hill William Massey of Cincinnati and Howard Wilson of Newport fined for a street disturbance and fighting on Eleventh street.
Miss Mary Kueven married Frank J. Cannon in St Marys Cathedral after her mother Mrs Louis B. Kueven passed away from illness. Mrs Kueven asked that the wedding not be postponed despite her condition.
Plans are underway for a massive whisky warehouse and aging plant in the upper Dayton area near the Kentucky Gun Club grounds by the Kentucky Distillery Company. The facility will employ about seventy five men and store six thousand barrels of whisky at an estimated cost of seventy five thousand dollars. The old L. O. Maddux Distillery will be razed to clear the site.
The Illustrated Magazine of The Commercial Tribune, due next Sunday June 30, will feature a full size portrait of the Right Rev Camilius Paul Maes D D, third Bishop of the Covington Diocese, among its special features and stories.
Special Dispatch reports Frank R. Mowrer of Ohio now reassigned from Leghorn Italy to Copenhagen Denmark as Consul General. He exchanges posts with Ernst A. Mann who moves to Leghorn as Consul General.
The Advertisers Club of Cincinnati held its quarterly dinner at the Lagoon. One hundred members and guests attended as speakers included Solon Goode of Indianapolis and Warren G Harding of Marion. Judge James B Swing delivered a well received wrap up speech.
The chauffeur of Clarence E. Mack's touring car on Washington Avenue Cincinnati lost brakes while turning near the Altamont Hotel. The car backed over a boardwalk, struck a telegraph pole after a downhill run, but none were injured and the Mack party continued home in a second auto.
Salary and mortgage loan brokers affected by the ordinance set to take effect July 1 plan court action to block its provisions. Attorney W. F. Chambers is retained to file an injunction against City Auditor Culkins to restrain collection of the $250 license fee. The main objection targets the weekly loan reporting to the Auditor.
Residents near Gilbert and Woodburn avenues have been drinking spring water contaminated with disease germs from escaped sewage. City Health Department Chief Chemist Dr. Sampson analyzed the water sample and linked the contamination to a spring located on private property at the head of a seepage area north of Gilbert Avenue and west of Woodburn Avenue.
E F Walter of Hyde Park and his son Augustus will sail from New York on July 16 aboard the Kronprinz Wilhelm for a long vacation in Europe. They plan to visit London Paris Venice Rome and other cities with side trips through Italy France and Germany. They will return sailing from Plymouth on September 3.
Seven hundred pastors and delegates attend the Kentucky Baptist Association session in Mayfield. The ministers' session closed last night and the general association began today. Dr. J. S. Dill of Bowling Green is chosen Moderator and J. K. Nunnaly Secretary.
San Francisco June 26 The Oliver Grand Jury returned four indictments charging individuals with acts of violence against the United Railroads amid the current street car strike.
Edith C Barr filed for divorce from John E Barr in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court on May 21 1907 cause 187155 alleging willful absence for over three years and requesting restoration to maiden name Edette Anny. Hearing set for July 6 1907. Attorney Isma Troth Lynchburg Ohio.
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