Local Markets Wheat and Oats Prices Noted
Fragments from a local market listing show Wheat at .000 and Oats around 2.02 with Butter near 146 and 64H noted. Values appear incomplete and lack clear dates or dealer names.
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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1908
Page
7
Fragments from a local market listing show Wheat at .000 and Oats around 2.02 with Butter near 146 and 64H noted. Values appear incomplete and lack clear dates or dealer names.
Local brief notes that the reported failure of Mann Lumber Co of this city will injure the Mann Watson Co of Muskegon according to authorities.
Milo Bensecker, formerly of this city now in Toledo, broke both ankles after slipping on frost while cleaning a box car in Toledo yards last Wednesday. William Bensecker reports Milo is recovering as well as could be expected. Mildred Overlease, eight, fractured her right arm playing with friends. Lake Shore motorman B Colburn injured his right wrist adjusting a motor. Ida M. Rice of Cassopolis reported a theft of 15 dollars worth children’s clothing from her buggy on Franklin. Walley and Charles Alley fished through the ice on a lake, bringing in thirty perch and bass.
Dr. Eugene Oldeman and colleagues are reappointed as physicians for several townships. The notice lists AY and Holde as appointed physicians, outlining their duties and the scope of medical oversight for local communities.
Rail bulletin notes Canada bans live animals on American lines, directing eastbound traffic to Lake Shore Detroit and westbound to Lake Shore Buffalo, with transfers to Michigan Central at Detroit for Michigan stock. Also covers personnel moves, shop supervision changes, bridge closure near Mishawaka, theater seating shift, new two cent stamps, and local Bible class meeting.
The Current Club enjoyed a holiday gathering with ten minute entertainments and several stunts. Miss Zoa Hay performed a humorous reading. Winners included Miss Frances Bigelow for gum drop eating and Mrs. B. C. Godfrey for crackers. Other contests featured pin pulling, gum wads animal figures, and flower name questions. A moon craft and refreshments followed for sixteen members and a guest.
The Ben-Hurs announce an open house New Year event at the G A R hall with a dramatic reading by Miss Marguerite Crowley and a one act comedy by Mrs C J Nye and E Perrin Schwartz. There is no admission fee and the program begins at 8 15 with broad invitation to friends and the public. About 400 attended the W O W district meeting in South Bend Tuesday with twenty traveling from here.
Irwin and Geyer lead a Modern Woodmen meeting gifting clerk Glase a Christmas rug. Knight Templar conferred Red Cross Temple and Malta degrees. Colfax Camp MWA plans a $50,000 building. Elks lodge, Century Club ball, dances, Emanon Club party, and Century Club crown social promise a busy post holiday season with Geiss Orchestra set to provide music.
City Clerk Wilkinson reports inquiries from two residents about an ordinance banning trading stamps. A 1901 veto left the issue unresolved. merchants once sabotaged the scheme amid a green versus brown stamp war. William Smith, selling teas and spices, seeks local opportunity after hearing of South Bend and Terre Haute booms.
South Bend citizens presented John Mohler Studebaker Sr. a solid gold album seven by five inches and weighing fifty ounces during a banquet for about 300 guests at Hotel Oliver. The album features bas relief portraits of Mr and Mrs Studebaker, a center leaf inscription, outlines of the Studebaker plant and old blacksmith shop, the motto Labor Omnia Vincit, and a rosewood box with purple plush lining and diamond clasp.
County news reports Mrs. Zimmerman of Bristol, formerly of Goshen, fell last week and dislocated a hip. Her old age and recent severe illness leave her weakened, and the injury may prove fatal. She is the stepmother of Mrs. John Inbody of the city.
Police notes report six men applied for shelter at the city building Tuesday night amid a severe storm. One arrest for intoxication was also made that evening.
A team hitched to a St. Joe Ice Co. wagon narrowly avoided collision with a southbound interurban car near Main and Marion. The driver maneuvered around a city car on the track and, at a slow speed, prevented a serious accident.
The Elks banquet will be held Thursday evening with R C Barney as toastmaster. Charles L Kinney J H Calkins and D J Ford will respond to toasts, 11 oclock W E B Wider will reply to the Elk toast, and City Judge Hughes will respond to the New Year at midnight. Music will intersperse the exercises.
Edwardsburg Argus reports a motor vehicle struck Herdman Christian, the Harris township mail carrier, near Ed Hain's residence, demolishing his buggy but leaving him uninjured. The auto’s number is known and the owner may be held responsible for damages. Christmas meat dispensation not extended to New Year. meat prohibited on Friday.
The Delta and High School Independent teams meet this evening seeking win number two after each side already secured one victory.
Gilford N H proudly cites Mrs Susan Emerson at eighty three who can fry old fashioned molasses doughnuts. Miss Clara M Howard is named to an international London fellowship and lectures at Wellesley College. Miss Julia Morrow goes to Cincinnati to train rescue and purity workers as correspond ing secretary of the National Purity federation. Mrs John Jacob Astor may lead New York society, Ava Willing is her successor. Ester Voorhees Hassan becomes chief nurse in the United States navy directing a corps of 100 nurses for a war ready nucleus.
An account of unusual animal traits including an elephant smelling via the roof of its mouth, moor hens diving with wings, and birds swimming with webbed feet. Also describes the peniophthalmus walking fish in the south Pacific and a tall marabou adjutant stork that can consume a hare or cat, standing five feet tall with a fifteen foot wingspan.
Sunderland Vermont reports a tied result with three votes for Bryan and three for Taft in the last local election. New Britain Connecticut begins naming a series of streets after its former mayors. New York City houses the most charities of any city globally. Cummington Massachusetts remains a secluded hamlet lacking a post office, distant from rail and towns.
A brief aphorism from V. Press discusses gender dynamics in romantic relations. The line suggests a provocative view on how a girl might influence a man to initiate sexual activity.
Quick meal gasoline stove square dining table chairs and carpets offered at 108 East Crawford Street. Sixteen acre truck and fruit farm two miles south of Elkhart described as best small farm in country, priced right by Kessler and Stauffer of Goshen Indiana. Lime partly air-slacked ten cents per bushel available from Elkhart Egg Case Company.
Local groups announce Thursday and Friday meetings across several clubs and lodges. Progressive Hive and L O T M meet Thursday afternoon, P G Club gathers with Mrs A H Swartz, Five Initial Club spends Friday with Mrs George Seaberg, and Hane Lodge F and A M has a special 730 pm meeting with second degree.
A New Year’s Eve dance is announced at Hoffman's Hall with Mr and Mrs M R Hopkins hosting. The event invites guests to dance out the old year and welcome the new year amid festive celebration.
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