Personal Notes and City Gossip From Yesterday
Wim Henderson returned home from a northern trip. Henry Maley the lumber king was in town on business. Father Oster was here last evening. Ed Call notes Western firms hire women as drummers, with social advantages for her customers. A Johnson county man left his horse tied outside a saloon, then his horse wandered to town and caused a stir. Shel. Demo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Maley
Father Oster
Ed Call
G. Owens
Johnson County
Nesind
Proposal to brick Washington Street in Columbus
A letter from a Tax Payen urges Morning Star readers to brick Washington Street this summer from Second Street to the railroad and extend bricks to 11th Street areas. The writer argues locals should invest in home streets to provide work for laborers, noting nearby towns with brick streets and calling for cost details later.
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Columbus
Washington Street
Second Stree
Railroad North
Washington
11Th Street
Bonds and paving eyed as signs of economic upturn
Increased evidence of improving times as bonds sold at North Vernon brought above published price and $65,000 in bridge bonds to be sold soon. Leaders from Stillinger & Lee note safer investments while Columbus factories run longer hours. Residents favor paving Washington Street to boost business and curb mud in wet weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Stillinger
Howard Lee
Stillinger
Columbus
Washington S.etween 2Nd and 12Th
Funeral for M. V. Mc Cann at St Augustine's Church
The funeral for the late M. V. Mc Cann will be held at 2 pm tomorrow from St. Augustine's church. The Rt. Rev. Vicar General August Bessonies of Indianapolis and Rev. Father Ernest Audran will conduct the service. The body will lie in a Walnut Ridge cemetery vault. McCann is the father of Mrs. Frank Griffith of this city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. V. McCann
St. Augustine's Church
August Bessonies
Indianapolis
Ernest Audran
Walnut Ridge Cemetery
Jeff Journal
McCann
Merry Belles of Blackville to Perform at Opera House
Rehearsals for the Merry Belles of Blackville continue with daily sessions and novel features planned. Special music will be provided by the theatre orchestra, and seats are on sale at Otto's with admission 25 35 and 50 cents. early purchase recommended.
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Opera House
Blackville
Otto’s
Bachelor Girls Association vows 25 year old marriage pledge
The Courier Journal notes a Michigan based group organizing in Indiana urging members not to marry before age 25. It argues many girls seek a group that would let them marry after that age.
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Bachelor Girls’ Association
Michigan
Indiana
Courier Journal
Extra freight passer visits town and local notes
An apparent twenty stock cars passed through yesterday morning. John Holland’s barber shop frontage is being painted, improving appearance. Editor Adams of the Edinburg Tribune was in town and may have matrimonial plans here. Mr. Rodgers of Greensburg, Standard Oil agent, made trade calls yesterday. A test alarm from box 13 at Fifth and Brown showed the system in good order with prompt response. Hartsville mayor Wa F Rominger visited the city Thursday. Reports indicate smooth operations there. Dr Holder attended a minor diphtheria case involving a girl at Maple Grove with Mrs Caroline Keith, flag raised today.
Bond at Liberty to Return Home When Health Permits
A. J. Bond of Columbus arrives with papers to release son James M. Bond from jail in Cincinnati. Bond, arrested last October on warrants accusing him of issuing orders to trustees Wooley and Doyle, was bailed at 1500 and later reduced to 700. His illness delayed defense. bail bond then accepted by Judge Buckingham, and this morning Sheriff Schoelch placed Bond with his father at Maplewood pending recovery for transfer to Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Bond
Columbus
Buckingham
James M. Bond
Young Bond
Cincinnati
Thomas Wooley
Washington Township
John Doyle
Moratowship
First Nationa] Bank
Bond
Dora Letsinger
Maplewood
Jason Brown
Letsinger
Henry Mullen
Frank Halk
Phillip Meek
Schoelch
Shel
Rep
Eleven inmates granted clemency by Pardoning Board
The Pardoning Board granted clemency to eleven inmates of the Reformatory after receiving one hundred applications. Notable cases include Sam Harbin, reduced from seventeen to eight years for arson at the Daviess county courthouse, and J. L. Carr, jailed two years for killing a boy robbing his watermelon patch. Others covered include McVick, Langford, McCarty, and Hoover.
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Reformatory
Pardoning Board
George L. West
Pike County
John McCarty
Henry County
Ed MeVick
Dubois County
George Auten
Owen County
Geo. E. Langford
Knox County
J. L. Carr
Daviess County
T. G. Wolff
Fayette County
Chas. Bohannon
Vigo County
Joseph Venbo
Crawford County
W. R. Hoover
Scott County
Sam Harbin
Washington
Gov. Matthews
Harbin
Basil Legerwood
Burr Hawes
Court House
James Seagall
Legerwood
Seagall
Hawes
McVick
Lankford
Carr
McCarthy
Hoover
Farce in Two Acts at Maple Grove store scene
In Maple Grove Ed Maley tries to buy a gross of matches from Young. A mix up leads Maley to receive far more matches a lit fuse erupts when he kicks the bundle and it catches fire. To avert scandal Maley hides the blaze by burning cigars and swears off matches thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young
Maple Grove
Ed Maley
Maley
Local notices on shop awning and personal visits
C. M. Kellar & Co. have put up their awning. Mrs. Weaver will visit her daughter Mrs. Thos Hartwell in New Albany this Saturday and stay for several months. E G Maze Lehman car department manager who fractured his collar bone in a cellar fall is reported by Dr T A Shane to be improving nicely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. G. Maze
Lehman’s
T. A. Shane
Citizens Telephone Co shows strong growth in Columbus
Secretary Reynolds of the Citizens Telephone Co reports a thriving plant and rising business as six to seven orders remain outstanding. He departs for Chicago to order fifty more drops and new phones while the switch boards run full. Jail and school notes follow with local crime, education, and entertainment items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reynolds
Citizen’s Telephone Co
Chicago
Columbus
Hazel Pure Foods proposal sparks Columbus discussions
Columbus citizens propose a package to Hazel Pure Foods, offering 5 acres, $2,000 stock, and a $3,000 cash bonus to locate here. Hazel Co will decide by week’s end or early next week. The item is part of local civic effort to attract factories.
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Columbus
Hazel Co
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Lome
Focus
Gwens
Washington Steet
Morning Star
Tranklin
Seymour
Geo. H. Cummins
Washington-st
Mr McCann
Frank Griffith
John Holland
Adams
Edinburg Tribune
Bro. Adams
Rodgers
Greensburg
Standard Oil Co
Fifth and
Brown
Wa. F. Rominger
Hartsville
Will
Caroline Keith
Holder
Cuy
Give
Davies
W.S. Carpenter
Jeff
Wm. Gaddis
Alexander Cooper
Medday
H. K. Myers
Ed Cail
Owens & Williams
Call At
Greensburg Review
Cooper
Mense
C. M. Kellar & Co
Jas. Sears
Myrtle Lacy
Dennison
George Tinsley
Belles of
Tribune
The
Hazel Pure Foods Concern
Lumbus
Fred McCoy
Billy Brenton
Memphis
Andrew Hilger
Jack Rush and
James Perkinson Jr
Harry Abbott
McCalip
14Th
Chesnust
J. W. Werner
Richard Cook
Suehimeself
Lynch
Donner
Quai
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