Vesey Death By Own Action In Fort Wayne Area
Benjamin W. Vesey of Fort Wayne a former Goshen resident died by his own hand Sunday amid infirmities of old age aged seventy nine. He suffered extreme pain and could not sit or lie without distress. He leaves a wife and three sons. Ed Vesey of Goshen is a half-brother. Vesey traced from Vermont to Goshen childhood, joined a California gold party in 1849 earning two thousand dollars, then married Sarah J. Waterhouse. They settled in Lagrange county. six children born, three living. wife’s health is serious. He and his wife celebrated their golden wedding about five years ago. The obituary notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin W. Vesey
Fort Wayne
Goshen
Ed Vesey
Mr. Vesey
Vermont
California
San Francisco
Panama
Greencastle
Sarah J. Waterhouse
Lagrange County
Estate Administrators Report and Hearings Scheduled
George W Farrell administrator of Lydia Smith estate files final report with hearing set for June 22. Otto E Deal administrator of Margaret L Layton estate files sale bill at 16.60 final report and resignation accepted. George R Harper administrator of Albert Hagadone estate posts 200 bond. David S Wenger guardian of Noah R Hoover minor heirs reports balance 1682.10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Farrell
Lydia Smith
Otto E. Deal
Margaret L. Layton
George R. Harper
Albert Hagadone
Davids. Wenger
Guardian
Noah R. Hoover
Mortuary Notices From Indiana Obituaries and Deaths
Clarence Asbey originator of statuary living models died in South Bend after a two year illness. Mrs T C Beck 60 of Troy Penn died at home from rheumatism. her husband is J C Beck of Goshen. Simon Hostetter died in Crawfordsville aged about seventy six, first white child born in Noble county to reach maturity. Michael Kroetsch of Mishawaka died Saturday aged nearly eighty one. Solomon Burtsfield of New Paris died Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. C. Beck
J. C. Beck
Goshen
Troy
Penn
Simon Hostetter
Crawfordsville
Noble County
Michael Kroetsch
Mishawaka
Solomon Burtsfield
New Paris
Rail office changes and local crew moves update
Operations talk in Corona notes staff shifts at Lake Shore telegraph office with G C McMillen visiting. J W Hostick fills night operator role, and a Toledo replacement arrives for his night duties. Minor injury at the grate by C W Culler reported. others resume or travel for work across Grand Rapids Joliet and Plymouth alumni events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. C. McMillen
Lake Shore
Corona
J. W. Hostick
Hostick
Toledo
Alumni Banquet at Bucklen Hotel Tonight
Local notes report an alumni banquet planned for this evening at the Bucklen Hotel. Also listed are a jeweler optician business move at 108 North Second Street and a Warsaw grocery sale by C. W. Cook after short tenure as editor of the Daily Union. Fred A. Waters of the Sidway Concert Band new march Allwin dedicated to Sidway Mercantile Co. will be played next Sunday at the Island. A Warren Hill Co. horse delivery incident damaged a Jackson Street bridge floor injuring a leg. repairs were begun by Street Commissioner Williams and a crew later in the day.
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W. S. Asbey
North Second Street
C. W. Cook
Elkhart
Warsaw
Daily Union
Fred A. Waters
Sidway
Allwin
Sidway Mercantile Co
Island
Warren Hill Co
Jackson Street
Williams
Fireman C W Culler knocked by grate shaker at roundhouse
Fireman C W Culler was struck under the left eye by a grate shaker while shaking grates at the roundhouse Sunday forenoon and was rendered unconscious for a few minutes. A gash about an inch long was made. The nine year old son of William Reeber of Wolf Avenue injured his hand with a rusty nail this forenoon and had the wound cauterized by a physician. Pupils at the Fifth Ward school reported as not tardy or absent for the year ending May 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Culler
William Reeber
Wolf Avenue
Fifth Ward
Fern Winey
Gene Schuler
Florence Cooper
Maynard Opper
Florence Brubaker
Fay Shoup
Dwight Poyser
Catherine Schafer
Vera Hiter
Florence Snake
Pauline Norris
Goshen Council Awards Fifth Street Paving Contract
Goshen council let the Fifth street paving bid to W W Hatch of Goshen for 32 265 60 with one competing bid. Cha mley and Replogle named to the Goshen school board for three and two year terms. A fireless lamp incident involving Ruth Horn, 13, in a Geo Cobb property upstairs room ended with the girl extinguishing flames unaided. Kosciusko and Elkhart county trustees hosted a joint meeting with a lecture on Needed Legislation by Orville C Puterbaugh. H O Eldridge buys the Athens Times.
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Goshen
Fifth Street
W. W. Hatch
W. H. Chamley
J. W. Replogle
D. W. Vallette
HE. L. Jones
Ruth
James Horn
Geo. Cobb
Pasteurized Buttermilk Ad From Wambaugh Sanitary Milk Co
Home phone 1178 lists pasteurized buttermilk at 3c per quart from Wambaugh Sanitary Milk Co with a typed advertisement style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wambaugh Sanitary Milk Co
Local social events feature chafing dish supper
Miss Hazel Walley hosted a group of young women at a chafing dish supper on South Main street Monday evening with music to close the night. Mrs H A Day entertained a small gathering Monday evening for guests Miss Ethelyn and Homer Benett of Huntington at her Lexington avenue home.
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H. A. Day
No. 509
Lexington Avenue
Ethelyn
Homer Benett
Huntington
Reading Circle Members Meet at Trinity Church
Twenty two members of the W H M S Reading Circle of Trinity M E B church gathered at Mrs D B Morgan's home on West Crawford street. The group conducted Bible reading and story readings, a missionary letter was read, and light refreshments were served. A Baltimore conference change renamed presiding elder to district superintendent. Mothers Day proposal for May second Sunday was tabled. Rev Jansen to attend Michgan City deanery priests meeting in LaPorte tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. M. S. Reading
Trinity M. EB. Church
D. B. Morgan
West Crawford Street
W. H. Theis
W. J. Stamp
Mary Nichols
Gordon
MBH
Baltimore
Baseball Trades and Roster Rules Stir Michigan League
Albert Wagner returns from Jackson with Harry J. Wilkinson who was traded to Tecumseh. Southern Michigan league teams limit rosters to eleven men, sparking moves to discharge Wilkinson as both clubs seek extra pitchers. It is expected the rule will be relaxed soon and Wilkinson may get another chance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Wagner
Jackson
Mich
Harry J. Wilkinson
Tecumseh
Southern Michigan League
Wilkinson
Memorial Day tribute and local incidents in Noblesville and South Bend
A Memorial Day observance in Noblesville featured a tribute to the naval head as thirty six white dressed girls released blossoms from three boats on White River. In South Bend at Singer works Otto Jena a watchman aged thirty six was seized by a fit and fell thirty five feet while entering a building after stepping on a cut. doctors expect recovery. Joseph Cominski from South Bend aged eight suffers blood poisoning at St Josephs hospital and may lose his leg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noblesville
White River
Singer Works
South Bend
Otto Jena
Joseph Cominski
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Elkhart Men of Affairs Cartoon Portfolio Issued
The Truth office releases a portfolio of forty or more cartoons featuring Elkhart business and professional men. The collection reproduces earlier Truth cartoons and serves as a keepsake for those pictured and their friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkhart
Truth Office
The
Truth
Brown takes letters of administration in G Brown estate
In the Superior Court Earl W. Brown today took out letters of administration on the estate of Jacob G. Brown who died May 6. The personal property is valued at $500.
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Superior Court
Earl W. Brown
Jacob G. Brown
Ex Senator James K Jones Dies in Washington
Former U S Senator James K Jones of Arkansas died at his Washington residence after a brief illness at age sixty nine. A longtime Democrat leader he chaired the Democratic National Committee and led campaigns in 1896 and 1900. A Mississippi native and Civil War Confederate veteran he practiced law afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
James K. Jones
Arkansas
Senate
William J. Bryan
Democratic National Committee
Mississippi
Dining room dispute ends with flooring compromise
In the Plunkett family a long running dispute over a dining table ends when Cordelia accepts a compromise to install a new hardwood floor over the old one. The plan would raise the surface by about three eighths of an inch, making the table fit better.
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Plunkett
Cordelia
Balzac Promises Five Act Drama Read to Paris Theater
Balzac promised Lirieux of the Odeon a five act drama The Springs of Quinola. He read four acts to the company as the fifth remained unwritten, with two alternative endings already in his head.
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Balzac
Lirieux
Odeon Theater
Paris
Quinola
Police Lantern System in Mexico City Described by Artist
An artist notes Mexico City’s night patrols where each guard guards a street lantern on a stand. Any thief who reaches the lamp before intervening earns 500 dollars, while losing a lantern brings instant dismissal. The system ensures constant vigilance and easy police response. Desperate criminals find it nearly impossible to operate openly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
City of
New York Telegram
Touched by Death The Talismanic Belief in Healing
A historical note on superstitions that a death by own action or an executed criminal could cure the sick. The text cites west of England beliefs from Cornwall to Devon and Northampton, including a scaffold touch, a hangman’s fee, and a rope knot’s curative value, with coffin handkerchiefs and interment rites.
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England
Cornwall
Robert Hunt
West of England
Community announcements list Wednesday church and club meetings
A slate of Wednesday events includes Regular meetings for L A to B of R T and the Red Men, Baptist Woman's Union at 2 pm, Presbyterian session at 7 30 pm, Samaritans and Helpmate Lodge gatherings, St John’s Guild at 2 pm, W H M S at 2 30 pm with a Jewel band reception, and a Lexington avenue church lawn fete with ice cream for ten cents. An address by missionary Mrs Cora Spear Packer is set for Thursday at 511 Middlebury Street with a temperance fundraiser bucket.
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L. A
R. T
Baptist Woman's Union
Presbyterian Church
Ladies’ Guild
St. John’s Episcopal Church
J. B. Holland
Sherman Street
Helpmate Lodge
L. F
St. Paul's M. E
Jewel Band
Lexington Avenue Christian Church
Templin
Wonder Band
Harry Reed
Cora Spear Packer
Mandalay
Burmah
Milton Wertz
Middlebury Street
Temperance Cause
Mole Catcher Observes Seabird Hunt on Turnip Field
A farm manager at Fodderty Dingwall Scotland watched a mole catcher at work while sea gulls hovered over a turnip field. One large bird floated above the drills then dropped its bill into the ground and hauled out a mole. A second mole was unearthed minutes later as the bird resumed its search.
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Dingwall
Scotland
White Evening Waistcoat Debates Style Limits
The London Graphic notes that white evening waistcoats clash with somber wear and suit only early in life. It argues white heightens proportions, making some slim men look heavier, while black narrows the silhouette. The piece cites Wambaugh Sanitary Milk Co. with home phone 1175.
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London Graphic
Hang Up Your Watch Says Watch Experts
The British Watch and Clock Makers guild discussed whether to wind watches at night or morning. George Russell advised that a good watch winds matter less than position, noting timekeeping varies with orientation. He urged keeping a watch in the position worn during the day, effectively hanging it up at night.
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Wate and
London Express
George Russell
Kew
Where Were the Gordons
An elderly Scottish woman mishears the Bible tale of Solomon’s wealth and, when told of a thousand camels, jokes that a thousand Campbells are common but asserts the Gordons are also present as an old clan.
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Gordon
Scotland
Work of the Farmer and American Agriculture
Hon. Ezekiel S. Candler Jr of Mississippi proclaims in the House that farmers feed and clothe the nation. He extols grain on the western plains, cotton in the south, and the global impact of agricultural output from Maine to California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Maine
California
Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr
Mississippi
House of Representatives
Lot Details in Second Hazel Park Offer
Advertisement notes 60 by 20 foot lots in Second Hazel Park priced at 50 to 60 dollars. Payment terms include one dollar cash and one dollar per week with no interest. Contact D. M. Best.
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Second Hazel Park
D. M. Best
Hazel Park
Chapel Sunday school social planned on church lawn
The Chapel Sunday school on Mc Pherson street Northeast Elkhart invites the public to a Wednesday evening social on the church lawn with ice cream and cake for 10 cents. Also notes sale and rental items including a store room 60 by 20 behind the American Express office and electric fixtures. Requests two experienced canvassers via Merchants Hotel.
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Chapel
McPherson Street
Elkhart
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