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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1908
Page
7
A financial institution advertises conspicuous strength and conservative leadership while inviting new depositors. It seeks savings and checking accounts and signals openness to business customers under liberal terms.
The notice states the Review will be sent to any address for any length of time at ten cents per week. If you are going on a vacation let it follow you daily.
Local brief notes say the melon season is in full swing as overflowing garbage cans prompt frequent emptying appeals to city officials. Also, George Thursby, driver of a flour wagon runaway, had tied the team with a standard tie-weight, not left untied, letting frightened horses drag their load.
Trinity M. E. Sunday school officers and teachers met at Superintendent C. L. Monger's home with Mr. and Mrs. Monger hosting. A program featured Mrs. I. M. Clark on Our Sunday School and impromptu talks on topics chosen by Monger. Mrs. William Finn hosted a 6 pm dinner for Mr. and Mrs. R. Kelly of Milwaukee. Evangelical Church Girls met Miss Olive Gembering for a social evening with ice cream and cake. Pythian Club meeting postponed one week.
Engineer Dan Crowley on train No 50 reports a dust cloud near Granger as he raced toward the Michigan Central Y at Niles. An official Gary report confirms a $500,000 planned Lake Shore and Baltimore & Ohio union station at that site. A mail rider atop a moving coach caused yard attention, and train No 9 faced a hot box delay toward Goshen. A twelve-coach excursion moved through on the Big Four to Benton Harbor.
Stone was arrested Tuesday night for public intoxication after entering the Twentieth Century lunch car and threatening trouble when asked to leave. He refused to depart despite requests.
M. W. Kessler's car swung wide on East Lincoln avenue and struck a post in Goshen. His young stepson was thrown from the machine but escaped injury. A lamp on the auto was smashed.
At a regular meeting Tuesday evening the Knights of Pythias raised Charles L. Long from esquire to knighthood. The group also gave first reading to the fourth proposed amendment to its by laws.
The Central League results show Dayton 3 Fort Wayne 7 Evansville 1 South Bend 4 Grand Rapids 2 Zanesville 3 Terre Haute 2 Wheeling 1. Standings list Dayton Evansville South Bend Fort Wayne Grand Rapids Zanesville Terre Haute Wheeling. Two wrestling matches occurred Tuesday night at a Harrison street house with a Warsaw man and a Mishawaka man in one bout and two local men in the other, one described as a negro.
John Friedman of Mishawaka sustains a fractured foot Tuesday when the injury occurs as an engine is moved with crowbars. A local rumor about Judge T E Howard ending law practice to teach at Notre Dame is unfounded.
A local list reports several illnesses including a sick son of Mr. and Mrs. John Qhmier and Miss Irene Curran recovering from typhoid. Mrs. J. L. Kinyon recently suffered a stroke and Mrs. F. L. Kline was taken to Turner Hospital. Ruby Messenger recovers from a leg injury. J. K. Troyer fell ill after milk. The Winey remains were moved by pallbearers to avoid passing Curran’s home. A Japanese dancing party at Hoffman's hall hosted by Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Hopkins drew about fifty couples with lanterns and dolls given as souvenirs. The P. G. Club meets at Mrs. Samuel Rogers’s home on West Street. The Daily Review is advertised at ten cents a week.
The Elkhart county commissioners announced plans for several bridges and arches and multiple repairs in Jefferson Union Clinton Concord Olive townships. Items include a 16x16 concrete bridge over Pine creek cost 383 and a 16x24 steel bridge over Wagner ditch cost 633. Also a 16x16 concrete arch over Ulrich ditch cost 175 and ditch work cost 500. Elkhart river bridge repairs 600 and new floor for Elkhart Goshen road bridge 350. Steel stringers and planks for Olive township bridge 300. Jerry Trump appointed to fill two years of Amos Heath’s constable term due to Heath’s health.
George P. Harmon of this city and Anna Verhage of Kalamazoo secured a marriage license this afternoon and expected to wed today but had not chosen a minister. From Geneva London report Aug 19 says Young Turk leaders may meet to decide on deposing the sultan and selecting a successor, but no confirmation is available.
Utica dispatch says Representative Sherman received a telegram from President Roosevelt inviting him to visit the president at Oyster Bay tomorrow.
A New York Press survey describes diverse money carrying methods among immigrant groups. The Irish use canvas bags packed with notes and coins, Germans favor embroidered money belts, French and Italians store cash in screw-topped brass tubes with twenty franc gold pieces, Swedes rely on heirloom cowhide pocketbooks, and Slavs hide money in their high boots along with eating utensils.
The gray petrified trees of Albany are explained as ancient vegetation buried by sand and transformed by water and wind over ages. A London Globe excerpt notes how the forest reappears as stone while the wood erodes, leaving stone forms.
A New York inventor develops an adjustable dress form that can slide up and down the upright rod to fit varying waists. The design eliminates the need for multiple forms for window displays and dressmaking, saving time and money by replacing several old styles.
The piece explains that hydrophobia is rare and true mad dog symptoms differ from lore. A changed disposition and trouble swallowing suggest danger, but the clearest sign is sticky whitish saliva around the teeth and lips. It notes furor and exhaustion cycles with red eyes and hoarse barking.
In Duluth sailors recount a 15 year old storm tale of Captain H. whose steamship was struck by lightning twice off Point Aux Barques. The first bolt burned a hole midship and the second belt jolt cut the foremast and plugged the hull, saving the vessel after sawing off damaged ends at drawdock.
The text provides kitchen instructions for Sunshine Cake Lemon Ginger Beer and Lemonade including egg white technique lemon peel and orange flavoring. It also includes a social opinion piece titled A Plea For Less Snobbishness arguing against class prejudice and urging courtesy across social divisions.
A fragmentary mountain climb anecdote ends with the narrator dying from exhaustion and freezing at the summit before descending. The second item announces Dr Frank Randolph returning from Vienna and Moorfields to specialize only in eye ear nose and throat care.
A New York clergyman recalls the late Dr. Morgan Dix who lightened grave topics with humor. He quotes Dix's dental style remark to a medical school graduation class about physiology and brains, noting the clash between aging and youthful knowledge.
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