02 Mar 1911
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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1911
Page
1
In a league home game the New Albany YMCA team defeated the Commercial Club 30 to 19. John Hendrickson sustained a broken nose, a handicap he had suffered in a prior basketball game.
The Huntington Morning Times piece urges Frankfort and Clinton county voters to heed praying mothers who plead to keep the open saloon away from boys. It argues liquor harms youths, cites a widow whose son died from drink, and asks voters to vote dry as a moral duty validated by mothers' prayers. Mrs. Thomas BR Terhune signs the appeal.
The Modern Woodmen of Hendricks County held a joint meeting in Danville on Saturday night February 25 with all county camps represented. Thirty candidates were initiated into wood craft and received an insurance benefit certificate. A strong Coatsville delegation attended and praised Danville hosts and the excellent supper.
Now is the time to print horse bills and have them ready for the season. The HeeRawp office offers all kinds of job work and is prepared to handle this class of printing tasks.
Fred Newman of Crestline Ohio writes to Laporte authorities asking for a large photograph of Mrs Gunness at any cost. He plans to mold a wax figure of the notorious murderer. This request stands out amid the numerous crimes attributed to the woman.
In Brownsburg the high school oratorical contest awarded first to Connersville for Blanche Iliffs speaking on The New South. Jamestown’s Miss Goldie Neff placed second and Mooresville’s Miss Julia Wadley third. Other towns included Greenwood Litton and Brownsburg with judges Demarchus Brown Horace W. O Connor and E N Johnson.
The Indianapolis post office will be closed on Sundays for the first time since its 1822 establishment. Of 147 letter carriers, 142 will not work Sunday mornings. five postmen will report for duty each Sunday under arrangements by Postmaster Robert V. Bryson and Walter Dynes.
In Pamlinson Hall Indianapolis Byron Price won first place on manuscript in a contest featuring rising silver tongues. Price, president of the Wabash College Press Club and editor of Bachelor, discussed Natural Forces and World Peace. Second went to Harvey Ehartsock of Chicago U, with Notre Dame's Francis de Wenninger tied for third. Delivery winners included Winniteer first and Pauw second with others tied for third.
The text reports on Mrs Carrie Nation’s ongoing actions and rumored health decline, attributing her condition to overwork and continuing activism against alcohol. It references Lewversworthy Institute friends and a possible link to her public stance against drink.
Following passage of the Strickland bill the Indiana Senate expands eligibility for the Knights Town home to include Civil War orphans and grandchildren of veterans needing care. Regular appropriations are increased to fund the facility with about fifty children expected to benefit. proposals for furnishing the facility are discussed but not funded.
Ernest Clart, living on Orlando Hamilton’s farm near Kingston, shot and killed an eagle weighing twelve pounds and spanning seven feet four inches from tip to tip. He first spotted the bird in a tree top, stepped from his house about 150 yards away, and fired from sixty yards.
S. W. Erbaugh of the state entomologist department spent days in Jackson inspecting orchards. He found nearly every tree examined covered with scale and warned that without proper precautions the trees would die. He added that conditions were similar across the state.
Jabez Winship of Noble township near Rushville received a 310 bill with a letter claiming an employee, eight years ago, was paid ten dollars too much. The former worker, newly converted, returned the excess money after feeling guilt, and Winship recalls paying it to avoid trouble.
DePauw 22 Earlham 20 at the YMCA court. Walker led DePauw with three field goals, Hardin scored the deciding basket in the final three minutes, Reagan and Leasonby added two and two field goals respectively, while Earlham’s Reagan and Conrad contributed several baskets and fouls. The half ended 10 8 Earlham.
Single comb Rhode Island Reds eggs offered at 00 cents per 15 or 3.00 per hundred. K. O. Stewart advertises in East Coatsville Indiana.
Charles Duncan, west of town, held the number 633-51 and won the sewing machine after the stop just before 6234-1. Lee Wilson and wife visited Win, Pike and wife last Sunday evening.
A Saturday night performance titled Millie the Quadroon or Out of Bondage showcased local talent. Gip and Siah led strong. audience praised the show. receipts totaled 86.20 with 30.00 to be split between Christian and Baptist churches after expenses.
The Indiana Supreme Court ruled the Sunday baseball law constitutional reversing a lower court verdict in the case of Charles Carr. The decision written by Judge Cox with Judges Morris and Jordan in agreement notes the statute allows baseball between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. away from churches or hospitals, upholding Carr’s conviction for violating the 1909 act. Judge Myers dissented with Judge Monks joining.
Greater Danville plans a $150,000 sanitary sewer system to be installed at once and three miles of brick streets this summer within city limits. The town, though not large, shows boosters uniting for progress, setting an example for other Indiana towns to follow.
Frank Thenson of Shelbyville and Miss Pyyne Barnes appeared in the county clerk’s office Friday evening seeking a license but were refused by Clerk Coyle who questioned the girl’s age and the couple swore she was eighteen. Mrs Henry Crews and her daughter from Terre Haute were visiting relatives when the incident occurred.
Reports show Benjamin Head burned to death by scalding water while slaughtering hogs on his Loogootee area farm. Duck hunter Harry Grifith claims a single shot killed thirteen ducks at a pond in the Eel river bottoms. Twin calves born to a Jersey cow near Lawrenceburg mark her fifth set. Eagles thrive with twenty killed near Mt Vernon as birds migrate north. Franklin man Arthur Norton, charged with larceny, attempted self harm with glass in jail. Edward Jacobs lost both hands in a Terre Haute mattress factory accident. Lyons and Quinn injured in a Carrollton to Madison buggy crash. Lyons killed, Quinn badly cut. John Michewiecz found dead after a night of drinking. coroner to hold inquest. Brazil workers in a factory quarrel left Wheaton and McCabe injured. authorities investigate a fatal head trauma. Wash Stewart and wife visit Chas Montgomery last Sunday.
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