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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1908
Page
7
Market brief from Elkhart on Saturday June 6 1908 shows wheat and corn prices with notes on butter eggs and general grain movement. Details are fragmented but indicate activity in farm commodities and dairy.
Socialist speech by Mrs Gertrude Hunt attracts about 150 at Main and High. Health Inspector Feltz searches pawn shops for stolen bicycle. Jessup & Ellwood dissolve. Ellwood retires, W O Jessup to run firm. Goshen room to be a furniture store by W P Bacon with existing outlets. Adamsville grapevine notes Scott Thomas in Elkhart. cat steals pale blue necktie believing it catnip. Co B members chosen for battalion shoot by Capt Groll by June 15. Eber Darling Jr cites Muskegon lumber mills rising to four. Thayer Lumber two. Gow Campbell and Albert one each. Milford Mail Memorial Day observance notes aSunday union memorial.
A memorial sermon at Grace Brethren church drew a dense crowd as pastors from Milford participated. Sheriff Ziesel arrested James Atkinson on an old gambling charge after a Goshen warrant and a failed bond. The case includes a divorce suit by Atkinson’s wife and a separate juvenile hearing for Marie Schump in Goshen. Health officers hunted a smallpox case, tracing a worker to Chicago before quarantine.
A past Review report revealed a swindler tried to bill South Bend professionals for promised write ups in a special anniversary edition. The paper now learns a similar fraud may have occurred in Mishawaka, where the man took twenty five cents from several businessmen for complimentary notices in the Daily and Weekly Review.
In Collinwood offices officials discuss proper locomotive repair charges. Parlor car service between Chicago and Elk Hart on trains 175 and 176 proves popular with the Albatoross car featuring a state room and chef. April Lake Shore figures show net earnings of 756 865 40 and a reduction in expenses. Excursion to South Bend for Springbrook Park game scheduled. various staff on leave or return from vacations. Regarded notices include Riverside property bargain and a Gatt Band concert at Island Sunday.
Chicago notes standings for the National and American leagues with team records and recent results. The report lists Cincinnati Brooklyn New York Philadelphia Boston St Louis Chicago and others with hits errors and batteries. It also includes a local tax levy note for Concord township lowering road tax to twenty eight cents to cover bridge and emergency costs.
Mrs Emmett Godfrey of Marion street hosted the Home Culture Club gathering with a box supper and a partner swap by chance. Mrs H L Long on Hubbard avenue entertained the Five Initial Club with a dinner and floral decor. The Y WCA plans Islands Park picnic with Miss Carrie Woodward attending. Miss Edna Weaver and Clifford Denny wedding reported with Hazel Butts conducting the wedding match. Mrs Henry Stephens hosted the 08 Club on Jefferson Street.
The Ben-Hurs Fraternal Society elected new officers Friday night with Past chief Harry Melvin, chief BEP Schwartz, and judge E. A. Hammond among those re elected. Emery Horm was chosen teacher and captain while J. P. McGee and A. M. Smith retained posts as scribe and keeper of tribute respectively.
The Presbyterian Womans Foreign Missionary Society met at Mrs. Howards Allen Dale home to review a year of study on immigration and foreign fields. Talks covered Congress immigration, Ellis Island, conditions in Mexico and South America, and Alaska needs. The pope in private audience received pastors from St Josephs Mishawaka and St Peters Fort Wayne on diocesan jubilee greetings. In court, Inez Wilson was found guilty of attempted assault, fined $1 and costs. Hannah Beckett testified. Hughes Arnold appealed. Thomas Mendenhall allowed to reunite with wife without prosecution in a sobriety case. Lottie Scanlon arrested for assault and battery. city jail counts down to three inmates.
Elkhart and Stars square off at the Driving Park on Sunday with a fierce battle expected. Stars manager Vic Menschein fields a strong lineup against Elkharts led by Fisk as the two clubs renew a long standing clash. South Bend climbs in the Central League standings with Fort Wayne games at Springbrook Park, a seven coach special train planned for fans.
Mrs. Benjamin F. Carling of Chicago returned home after partial identification of a body exhumed in a potter's field to test if it was her husband, an insurance agent who vanished two years ago. The skull contour and a false upper denture matched, but she will decide on claiming the remains as digs at the farm yielded no new results.
In Ripley Ohio June 6 the Burley tobacco district tightens as independent farmers and pool farmers alike resist planting. Night riders are attacked on Norval Johns farm near Decatur leaving blood evidence. Troops from troop B clash with riders at David McPherson’s farm. Hamilton Myers and William Devore are arrested for scraping beds with thirty more arrests expected by Monday. Frantic appeals go to Governor Harris to keep mounted troops deployed.
An advertisement proclaims Prof. Giroux from Paris endorses Parisian Sage as a cure for dandruff and hair loss. Produced in Buffalo, N Y, the tonic is sold by Houseworth Bros with a money back guarantee and claims rapid hair growth if roots are alive. Price 50 cents per bottle.
Effective May 31 trains 176 and 175 on the Lake Shore By route between Chicago and Elkhart gain broiler buffet parlor cars serving stews and chops. Train 175 will depart Chicago at 5 02 p m daily with a quicker schedule.
William J. Sigerfoos will be presented to the Republican township convention for the office of township trustee. The move signals the party's candidate choice for local governance.
In Elkhart Circuit Court May 1908 Term Solomon Thornton as administrator has filed final settlement for Ammon Gemberling deceased The court will examine the account and vouchers on June 30 1908 at Goshen Indiana Heirs creditors and legatees must appear and show cause why the settlement should not be approved Witness Clerk GEO W Fleming June 5 1908
An advertisement promotes land as a safe investment in Monger’s South Allendale Addition. The copy urges savings in real estate and directs readers to take the South Main street car to the addition, with salesmen active until dark. Coffinberry Land & Improvement Co. lists 321 Monger Building as the sales agents.
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