Market notes from Elkhart review prices
Local column lists farm commodities with prices for wheat corn oats beans pork butter and bees. Items include a wheat price around 96 and oats near 2.05 while butter and beans show varied quotes.
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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1908
Page
7
Local column lists farm commodities with prices for wheat corn oats beans pork butter and bees. Items include a wheat price around 96 and oats near 2.05 while butter and beans show varied quotes.
Mrs. Edna Webb, a smallpox patient, is gravely ill today. A rose bush at 1106 Franklin Street yields a blossom recalling a distant June. A saloon dispute ended with one man struck and knocked over a lunch counter. Carl Simonton recovered a bull terrier from Dan Ott after it strayed. George Ziesel took Mildred Fruesinger home in East Chicago for care. Mr. M. Clark finished interior work for Mr. Myers in South Bend, a gift for Myers’ daughter. Clark’s pride in the artistry remains evident.
Harry Harrington arrested Tuesday evening faced an assault charge. He entered a guilty plea in city court this morning and was fined one dollar plus costs.
After the jury verdict for the plaintiff in the Searfoss case, defense counsel E A Dausman moved for a new trial arguing the verdict conflicted with the evidence and that the court erred in denying a dismissal. The court overruled the motion and instructed a $400 judgment to be paid in four installments beginning January 1909. The session adjourned to 9:30 a m Friday with several cases carried to the November term.
In the Circuit Court on Wednesday the session was brief with work limited to court orders and various entries. The Gustaf Clara Leonard divorce case shows defendant in default. An application to practice law before the Elkhar circuit court was filed by Guy M. Dausman. The state was not ready to try Winifred Weaver on a perjury charge. Prosecution requested a continuance in the Douglas Stewart assault case due to an ill key witness. J. A. Bigelow, probation officer, reported five juveniles under surveillance behaving well, with Judge Dodge overseeing their welfare. A divorce suit was filed today by Lizzie Mortimore against Francis Mortimore for non support, residing in Hikhart.
Wisler guardian reports balance on hand of 156.13 dollars while Landis administrator shows 605.07 dollars in custody.
The Century flyer with two extra cars, including the Chicago National League team, ran from Chicago to this city on Wednesday afternoon arriving to schedule in Toledo and only slightly late in Cleveland and Buffalo. Mark Floyd hauled the train from Chicago while Ira Sparklin drove to Toledo. E R Dreves traveled to Chicago.
Albert F son of Adam Foreman of 902 Indiana avenue died at 3 p m Wednesday of typhoid malaria born December 19 1904 leaves two sisters Jessie and Agnes funeral Saturday at 1 p m at home by Rev C A Wright interment Oak Ridge cemetery Bristol also Mrs Mary Kline of Atwood died Wednesday of blood poisoning aged 67 Mrs Jonathan Hummer of near South Bend died Wednesday aged 54 Mrs Sarah Dunnuck of near Warsaw died Tuesday night aged 75
Hatch and Sons of Goshen have secured a contract to build a two mile crushed stone road at Gibson, Indiana, costing seventeen thousand dollars. A separate contract for decorating the rebuilt Elkhart county courthouse is set for award on November 7, and the acetylene lighting plant at the county infirmary may also be awarded then. In Napanee, James Casper fell while helping install stove pipe at the Brethren church and fractured a rib. Ben Hur Benefit at Dream Tonight.
Special correspondent aboard the Twentieth Century notes Chicago Cubs fans cheer as Boston beats New York 2 0 en route to final game in New York. Elkhart crowd greets score update and Mordecai Brown adjusts his pitching hand for Hoosier spectators. Alkhart Athletic Club forms with 76 members and plans basketball and possibly football. Y M C A gym paraphernalia donated to the new club.
In Ford Michigan Ari Woodruff has voted first at every election for ten years. Bluffton saw Albert Numbers play piano nine hours twelve minutes until swelling and finger damage forced rest. Eva Haines, sixteen, was badly injured when kicked by a colt near Nappanee. The South Bend Y M C A dedication by Studebakers is postponed to October 24. A Mishawaka saloon building owned by Russ of Elkhart was fire damaged for about 100 dollars early Wednesday.
Marriage license issued for Clarence M. Blosser of Union township and Anna F. Bosse of Wakarusa. A license was used today by Hugh A. Miller and Mabel Winegardner.
A reflection on how true greatness starts when a man can view cartoons of himself and feel amusement rather than offense, suggesting self awareness as a measure of character and status.
In Indianapolis on October 8 the National Funeral Directors Association adopts live and let die as its guiding policy. A report by President Eickelberg is approved urging members to support a congressional bill to ban burials at sea except for infectious cases, requiring disinfectants and shipboard arrangements, with denial of clearance papers for noncompliant vessels. Sentiment cites distress of families when burials occur at sea.
Ed Mossman of Kokomo Indiana returns home after a 1000 foot fall during a balloon ascent at North Manchester and says he is finished with aviation. He is recovering from injuries after earlier ascents in Elkhart several weeks prior.
Mrs Sophia Brehm of 1804 Claremont Avenue lit a fuse thinking it was a candle. A cannon firecracker exploded in the cellar, shattering her right hand and hospital reports say she probably will die. The incident occurred in Lincoln Nebraska on October 8.
In Prague tipping is treated as standard for tramway conductors and cafe staff. Heads waiters in Bohemia reportedly earn more from tips than professors, with patrons giving a half krone to the head waiter and small coins to assistants. A London Chronicle note highlights the social weight of tips in daily life.
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