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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1908
Page
11
A partially legible OCR fragment shows items like butter eggs and pork with numerical tokens. The text is incomplete and lacks clear context or dates, making it a minor shopping note rather than a full news item.
A carload of New York delegates traveled to the convention on No. 15 Sunday. A special Cornell alumni train from Chicago to Ithaca will pass Elk Hart tonight. Jacob Bontrager bought the Garfield avenue and Eighth street grocery and meat market and took possession today. Ringling Bros circus visits Toledo today and Goshen tomorrow with seventy nine cars split into three Lake Shore trains from Goshen to South Bend Tuesday night.
Captain Edwin Nicar told Minister Wu that Oliver Plow Works would suspend work for two weeks for inventory and repairs. Increased business means a two week halt, with some departments operating during part. The post office plans to repaint city letter boxes in bright green starting soon. Pasteurized buttermilk advertised at 8c per quart. Wambaugh Sanitary Milk at home delivery. phone 1175.
County Attorney Gottschall outlines the counties bid rules under the 1907 law. Plans and specs must be filed in duplicate with the auditor, bonds equal to bids required, and lowest bidder awarded. Noted eight bidders including National Company and Chicago firm. controversy over plans differing from county surveyor. New store to open as Fred Keene, Edward Keene, and Hugh Miller form a gents tailoring company. shop to occupy former Hoffman grocery space on South Main.
A young girl crossing a trolley track was struck by a returning car after a near miss. Motorman Replogle acted quickly but could not stop in time. another girl escaped unharmed. Witness Rev J H Breish and Dr A A Norris aided the injured child who recovered consciousness within minutes. Multiple other mini incidents and injuries follow, including gasoline blast burns to Mrs Thomas Wedge and accidental hand wound from blank cartridges to Carl Anderson’s son.
Walter Roose and Gale Cronk of Shively's shoe store plan a foot race on July 1 from Goshen to Elkhart with a two mile head start given to Cronk. Roose will cover about ten miles while Cronk travels eight, race may be run or walked, and a small wager adds rivalry. Roose formerly starred in the Northern Indiana High School League for Michigan City. George Cuppy went to Klinger Lake for a week.
A youth who worked for Edward Waters and later confessed to stealing a Gummer suit and other clothes at a Marion street tailor shop was arraigned in city court, pleading guilty, fined 15 dollars plus costs, and sentenced to ten days in jail. He had been held in a dazed condition after police sweat interrogation.
Miss Ruth Bancroft dies of Brights disease at her sister’s Osceola home after two months illness. Born April 4 1842, she leaves sister Louise Pierce. Funeral at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Also Mrs. Jacob H Brown of Harrison Center dies aged 36. others include Mrs. Margaret Koehler of South Bend age 49, Samuel Harris of Goshen, and Mrs. Joseph Coash of Goshen aged 35.
The cylinder head on engine 4836 attached to the Twentieth Century blew out at Waterloo Sunday morning. A freight engine was attached to pull the train to Elkhart, arriving forty one minutes late. The engineer and fireman involved in a prior criminal action have been discharged. Yard engine relief and midnight duty for firemen have been discontinued. Carpenters are repairing the passenger turntable at the round house.
Indianapolis Secret Service head Capt. Tom Halls visited Elkhart and northeastern Indiana seeking a counterfeit coin operation said to be near the Eel River at North Manchester. No arrests reported in the raid, though molds were found. Halls was said to be unsuccessful. A. J. Lamb mourns theft of his bicycle on Lexington Avenue as three men faced intoxication charges and four vagrants were brought in Saturday night and Sunday.
Samuel Derrant, a South Bend patrolman, is suffering blood poisoning in a leg from a sock dye incident. He is hospitalized at Epworth Hospital for treatment.
Regular session of Starlight Chapter 0 BE at 7:30 p m Tuesday announces initiation. Elkhart Owls depart at 7 p m tonight for a meet at South Bend. Hudson Street Junior Loyal Temperance Legion cancels meetings during vacation months. The Boys Wonder Band of twenty six pieces offers a free lawn concert at 920 West Franklin Street on Friday evening June 19.
A Goshen boy receives the name Clover Hay, with parents considering Timothy as a possible given name and Clover as a sister’s name. Oscar Castle of Frankfort and Alyena Witmer of Wakarusa obtained a marriage license at St. Joseph.
Co E of this city Co F of South Bend Co H of Plymouth and Co I of Warsaw arrived at intervals to practice for the battalion try out which began today at a.m. A four man team drawn from the four best will represent the battalion in the regimental shoot at an unspecified date. South Bend team arrived Saturday and practiced Sunday as did Co 5 in preparation for today. Meanwhile Michigan City faces severe water shortage and the fire chief urges halting street sprinkling when alarms sound proposing district watering hours.
Newly married couples seek romance on the Detroit and Buffalo steamboat service across Lake Erie. June brides enjoy lake rides aboard Eastern and Western States steamers with stately staterooms and parlors. Booking via Detroit and Buffalo Steam Boat Co at 5 Wayne St Detroit. Ice cream strawberry cake social by St John's Ladies Guild slated for June 17 at the rectory.
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