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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1908
Page
2
The Daily Review notes pre Fourth of July jitters as Henry Clews predicts Taft’s victory and Gompers faces calls for immunity. It warns of sensational assassination fears while predicting a bountiful harvest in Elkhart County, urging men to turn to farming as food grows plentiful.
An eastern magazine contributor argues women are generally failures in business despite some success in comfortable living. She cites lack of drive for business honor and insistence on home life as key causes, with long standing dependence and prejudice hindering progress in medicine law and other fields.
The passage argues that women have only recently gained broad education and access to business, facing prejudice and a learning curve. It urges fair comparison of women’s achievements with the average, not the extremes, and calls for giving women real opportunity and a fair measure of their work.
District Chairman Stevens schedules a congressional convention in Plymouth for July 23 with 104 delegates requiring 53 votes. Counties listed include Elkhart 20, St Joseph 30, Kosciusko 15, Marshall 14, Fulton 11, Pulaski 8, Starke 6. Names floated include Clay Metsker, B F Shively, Samuel Parker, A J Bunnell, and L H Waterman. The county may hold a second meeting July 25 or 28 depending on Governor candidate Thomas J. Marshall’s presence.
Henry Whitmer transfers 80 acres in Benton township to Orley Brown for 4000 dollars. Daniel W Eshelman sells a Wakarusa lot to David V Werntz for 1000 dollars. John Whittle conveys a Elkhart lot to Eva Reed for 1800 dollars. City of Elkhart sells an Elkhart lot to Eva Reed for 300 dollars. Fred Vinson sells a Goshen lot to Sadie E Yoder for 60 dollars. Mary Mishler sells Concord township land to Frederick W Meyer for 2000 dollars. Frederick Martin transfers Concord township land to Edward Zook for 1 dollar.
Local county fair presents two entertainment nights with the Plantation Quartet and the Black Party performing on evenings of June 23 and 24 on the Kuhlman Bickel lawn.
Mrs. Abraham L. Brown and her son Lester Brown arrived in Elkhart after a 22 day journey from Los Angeles to Chicago. Heavy Montana washouts and a landslide stalled the Northern Pacific route. Passengers, including 370 aboard, were sheltered in coaches on sidings near Clinton and Drummond. After delays, the party resumed eastward via the Great Northern to Chicago. The trip featured a rescued dogged endurance, rail crew sanitary efforts, and minor incidents from the flood and a broken bridge. Brown family plans to return to 1019 South Third Street once homes vacate.
The Presbyterian Church held a forenoon service with thirteen adult members received and three baptisms two women and one young man. Attendance was large with 104 new members since Rev. L B Hall became pastor last October. An outdoor vesper service drew 100 to 150 worshippers on the manse lawn. Tonight’s service featured W B Hile and Dr Hall discussing Christ's Sermon on the Mount variant about being not anxious.
The article notes a annular solar eclipse on Sunday June 28 with visibility in the region. It mentions smoked glasses for viewing and lists a shadow path through Mexico Tampa and Bermuda Islands. The event runs from 9:22 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. and remarks that locals may witness the solar phenomenon. Elks Lodge 425 funeral details follow with gathering at 1:30 p.m. and fortune telling fair at County Fair June 23 and 24.
The Daily Review invites readers to a Delicatessen Store with a 10 cent weekly price offer.
James Cantillon of Marquette Wisconsin, a Des Moines Iowa team member and brother of Joseph Cantillon Washington manager, regains sight at Bellevue after Doctors said his hopeless blind case would end in lifelong blindness. He had left eye removed from Chicago accident and faced possible permanent blindness in the right eye before a hospital run test sparked a sudden vision return. Doctors now hope to cure him.
In New York on June 22 Judge Adams of the U S district court ruled that a foreign born wife's nationality follows her husband. Mrs Harriet Rionda, British by birth, married to a Spanish subject since 1889, cannot naturalize while her husband remains an alien. The decision holds that US born wives lose citizenship rights when married to aliens. The case aimed to safeguard her property interests in the United States.
White House letter dated June 8 from President Roosevelt to Rudolph Spreckles commends local graft prosecutions and urges prosecutors to keep up the fight. He notes the battle against evil powers and the indifference of some good men, urging perseverance for decency and democracy.
Washington Pennsylvania June 22 Geo Sullivan an engineer at Baldwin mine No 4 of Pittsburg Coal company died after eight inch steam pipe burst. He stayed at the engine throttle allowing a cage with ten men to descend 150 feet safely to the shaft bottom. He was cooked by steam. Miss Gould charged with slander in New York lawsuit seeks 20000 damages from Helen Miller Gould charitable worker and eldest daughter of the late Jay Gould after a servant alleges she called her adulterous in front of other staff.
Reports show more than half a million dollars in damage from a Pacific cyclone in Washington County Pennsylvania and a $200,000 fire loss at Keystone and Booth Fish plants in Erie. Torrential rains hit Mullen France, while Boston hosts the General Federation of Women's Clubs convention. Democratic state conventions are set for Georgia North Carolina Iowa and Vermont. Taft visits New Haven for Yale commencement. Berlin reports twenty six incendiary tenant fires traced to a night watchman named Sut tkoski.
Illustrated Bits presents a scene where Bridget warns the mistress about guests as she vows to do her worst to prevent trouble. The dialogue hints at a domestic farce with comic intent and repeats the line about never trouble again.
The Brethren church of Goshen Avenue holds its quarterly business meeting tonight. The W C T U meets Tuesday at 2 pm with Mrs. Milton Wertz at 511 Middlebury Street. St John’s Episcopal parish and Sunday School plan a Island Park picnic Wednesday after noon June 24. Osolo Chapel Sunday School hosts an ice cream social at the church June 26 evening. F W Club cancels tomorrow due to heat and will meet with Mrs. B C Godfrey a week later. Aldrich and Simonton relocate to 204 205 Monger Building. County Fair museum curiosities on Kuhlman Bickel lawn evenings June 23 24.
The King's Daughters host an ice cream social for charity at 401 West Lexington Avenue on Wednesday evening June 24. St Joe Ice Co supplies ice cream and Swede Johnson and Et Kuhlman fry hamburgers for all at the County Fair on June 23 and 24 at the Kuhlman Bickel lawn. Bank Nos 204-205 Monger build hot hamburgers and ice cream cones at the County Fair on June 23 and 24 at the Kuhlman Bickel lawn.
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