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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1915
Page
7
In Marion Indiana a local option vote within Center township and the Soldiers' home area favored wet status by 408, while Marion itself remained dry by 719. Overall district results showed wet 9297 dry 621 with eight of twelve precincts voting wet. A prior four year dry vote contrasts with this year's outcome.
An authorized statement reports OC Conn, controlling interest in his band instrument factory and the Truth newspaper, sold to C D Greenleaf of Wauseon. A million-dollar corporation will operate the factory, Conn's name to continue. Greenleaf, a Lyon & Greenleaf flour miller, owns mills in Wauseon, Ligonier and a Norfolk jobbing business. Conn, age seventy one, built the factory after an early bakery career and invented an elastic mouthpiece for cornets in the sixties, founding the Truth in 1890.
Terre Haute officers of the Indiana Federation of Labor met here last week to plan the state convention in Gary September 28 to 30. Charles Fox, appointed deputy state inspector of mines, consented to retain the presidency until after the convention. Reports showed twenty one new local affiliates since the last convention.
Evansville James A. Carter, 71, died suddenly while seated on his front porch after witnessing two men fighting under an electric light. One man slashed the other with a razor. the shock was judged to have caused heart failure per coroner Neal Kerney.
An old bachelor posts a sign forbidding door sales to deter hawkers. Two sellers knock at his parlor window with props for sale. After reading the notice he challenges them to read and they reply. He buys, then adds a window notice to deter painting bids, ending with a ban at the window.
Warsaw reports W. J. Bryan plans three addresses at the Winona Bible conference on August 28 and 29. An announcement states Bryan has donated 1000 toward reorganizing the Winona assembly after the sale, with his attendance at the sale and potential election as president once reorganized.
Five petitions have been filed with the St. Joseph county commissioners by North Liberty residents protesting issuing any liquor licenses in the village during the next year. Two hundred sixty three residents signed their names to the petitions against the saloon.
Lafayette Luther Boyd a 32 year old lineman for the Big Four railroad probably suffered fatal injuries after falling forty feet from a telegraph pole landing head first on a brick curb Wet wood caused his climbers to slip as he worked at the pole top in a local incident with railroad workers at the scene.
A Collier's Weekly anecdote recalls a small country store where a youth, faced with change for an eleven dollar bill, exchanges it without issue using Roman numerals on older notes. The storekeeper sighs, noting a day’s work is done after a seven dollar change for a drummer.
A Chicago school tale of slang versus manners contrasts a boy and friend as they meet a familiar lady. A sly quip about removing hats prompts a lesson in slang. Other humor includes a future ideal legislature and a plucky jewelry trade joke about auto trimmings.
Evansville resident Ernest Lubitz, 28, was shot in the right side by his father in law Otto Hartman near Henderson Kentucky after a family quarrel. Lubitz likely will die. Hartman surrendered to police. In Pennsylvania, Mrs Louis Winner of Valparaiso, traveling to New York with three children, jumped from a PA train at Sewickley and sustained a fractured skull. doctors say she will die. A telegram had summoned the wife east to see a sick sister.
Walkerton area residents will vote Friday August 27 on a social option election following five petitions filed with South Bend Lincoln Township officials. The dry faction argues the measure can rid Walkerton of its saloons.
A vintage advertisement extols Cuticura Soap and Ointment for scalp cleansing and reducing dandruff itching. It promises cleaner skin and potential hair growth, offers free samples by mail, and ends with a quip about brains and longevity.
A loud blast in Covington caused property damage and raised alarms as residents reported a sudden rainstorm mingled with a loud noise. Investigators arrived to assess the scene and determine the cause of the disturbance.
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