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Elkhart Daily Review

Location

Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Oct 13, 1908

Page

7

Local Markets Report Includes Grain and Butter Prices

Grain prices listed include wheat corn and oats with points noted. Butter market opening cited with unclear references to names and entities.

A Stubborn Cinderella At the Bucklen This Evening

Local items note a Taft monogram badge gold plated bearing all four letters of Taft. Bell Telephone Co distributes a new Elkhart subscribers list, Home Company drafting a fresh list. Y M C A board meeting yielded important business with no public details. J M Smead of Gravity Coal Bin Co of Chicago met Godfrey & Sons about an elevator project, details pending.

Bucklen Taft Bell Telephone Co Elkhart J. M., Smead Gravity Coal bin Co Chicago Godfrey & Sons

Schrump case witnesses called in Goshen circuit court

Elkhart residents were subpoenaed as witnesses in the state against Fred and Delpha Schrump over alleged mistreatment of their daughter Marie who was sent to a girls reformatory. Attorney A Dausman defends while L L Burris prosecutes. Some Elkhart witnesses failed to answer and attachments were issued. Beemus horse theft case to follow. Maj James D Braden traveled to Goshen to identify Byron Beemus whom police suspect was arrested.

L. L. Burris Elkhart Simmons James D. Braden Goshen Byron Beemus Beemus

Police Chronicle of Thefts and Arrests around 1900

Maj Braden then superintendent of police tracked a horse theft to Michigan arresting a suspect named Henry Wilson on January 9. Beemus suspected as Wilson faced Toledo arrest for the June 27 1908 horse theft from Franklin street nine miles southwest of the city. Wheel thefts reported from Dr Miles Medical Co and Goldberg's store. Mabel Spillman fined for intoxication. Grover Bash also fined. A Rambler bicycle theft and a drunken arrest are noted.

Maj. Braden George K Bower Street Braden Michigan Henry Wilson Beemus Wilson Toledo Ira Ward Franklin Street Paul Kegg Tipton Street Dr. Miles Medical Co G. A. Henry Cleveland Goldberg Mabel Spillman Grover Bash D. W. New

Railroad News and Local Car Foremen Meet

Hudson lake tragedy claims George W. Fowler age thirty nine. He worked fifteen to eighteen years with Lake Shore as baggageman and later held roles on Michigan Central and Central Union Telephone Co. local car foremen list includes CC G Stoll and others. Locomotive firemen seek schooling to master firing tricks. Lake Shore speeds up freight as business improves. Electrician Fred Davis to Englewood. foundry closed for Monday.

Lake Shore Hudson Lake George W. Fowler Fowler Lake Shore Road Michigan City Michigan Central Central Union Telephone Co

Obituaries of Sol Goldsmith and Several Local Residents

Deaths reported include Sol W. Goldsmith on October 4 at age forty eight from typhoid fever. Survived by wife and two daughters. former Elkhart Truth manager, later Louisville paper head, Detroit insurer, Jewish church journal publisher. Also William Harper of South Bend 1860 birth, 14 years Lake Shore yard conductor, survived by widow and two daughters. service at 809 Rush St. at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Jubal B. Wheeler, South Bend. Mrs Henry Starke Niles. Jonathan Sipes Warsaw. John H. Fikes St. Joseph Monday. Mrs Nancy Gissom Goshen. Lorie Capron Plymouth. Joseph Stein Plymouth.

Sol W. Goldsmith Elkhart Truth Goldsmith Louisville Detroit William Harper South Bend Corunna Ind Lake Shore Railway Rush Street Jubal B. Wheeler Henry Starke Niles Jonathan Sipes Warsaw John H. Fikes St. Joseph Nancy Gissom Goshen Lorie Capron Plymouth Joseph Stein

Elkhart Woman Wins State WCTU Pennant at Bedford

Ivy Wood Parker of Elkhart won the pennant at the Bedford state WCTU convention presented to the county president for best press work. Rose Pearce reported the mid year executive committee meeting at Lebanon on April 7. Dues totaled 3001 members this year versus 2134 last year. The plan seeks 1000 new members and Miss Robinson, a national organizer, will lead Indiana work for four months. A 10 cent per capita levy was adopted to defray delegates' expenses for the Denver national convention.

Elkhart Ivy Wood Parker Bedford Rose Pearce Lebanon Robinson Indiana Denver

Passion Play Tonight at Globe Theatre Admits Five Cents

Hand colored Passion Play shown tonight at Globe theatre with admission priced at five cents.

Globe Theatre

Final report shows $1426.87 to heirs in Connolly estate

Georgia Superior Court records reveal Administrator C T Greene’s final balance of 1426.87 to be turned over to heirs. The piece also notes property actions, divorces, custody rulings, and jury changes across local courts.

C. T. Greene Georgia E. Connolly Walsh, Boyle & Co North Elkharte Addition George Manning P. L. Turner

Elkhart County News Notes Family Inheritance And Local Bank Charter

Nathan and Harry Ascher of Goshen linked to the Boreal glove factory gain notice as their father Emil Ascher of Chicago inherits a 1,000,000 estate from a late uncle. Millersburg State Bank of Millersburg, Elkhart County, files incorporation papers with S L Thomas president and Henry Long cashier for 12,500 capital. The Stubborn Cinderella musical company arrives on the Big Four tour with Bucklen Theatre show at Bucklen tonight, adding eight crew to the stage for a full house.

Nathan Harry Ascher Goshen Elkhart Emil Ascher Chicago Millersburg State Bank Millersburg Elkhart County S. L. Thomas Henry Long Cinderella’ Co Bucklen Theatre

Father Refuses Life Insurance for Son’s Burial Costs

The father of Michael Yoder, who died in New Paris from burs, refuses to accept the $1,000 life insurance and will not permit lodge members to cover burial expenses. He adheres to Mennonite orthodoxy which forbids life insurance as inconsistent with reverence.

Michael Yoder New Paris

Divorce Case Targets Mangold Photographer Wife Alleges Abuse

South Bend photographer E Mangold is defendant in a sensational divorce with Mrs Mangold accusing him of hair pulling and beating. She states he is unfit to raise their child while his work as a children photographer is noted. Police and ministers in Warsaw push to ban sensational moving pictures. A short sequence covers a Warsaw marriage after a divorce for John Tucker and Albert Tucker's son amid a prior separation. A South Bend area barn fire destroys a farm, with loss of livestock and implements. A Ohio worker Severely burned by steam near La Porte and expected to return to work soon. Dr Henry Webb Johnson elected moderator of the Indiana Presbyterian synod at Richmond.

E. Mangold South Bend Warsaw Iala Tucker Atwood Ind Albert L. Tucker Akron William Eller John Tucker Albert Tucker David Stillwell W. B. Towers Stryker Ohio Lake Shore la Porte Henry Webb Johnson Indiana Presbyterian Synod Richmond

Inquest Held on Death at Gravity Yard

Coroner Dewey today conducted an inquest into the death of Ephraim Holderman who was killed at the gravity yard last Saturday night.

Dewey Ephraim Holderman Gravity Yard

Soiled Paper Walls Remedy Outlined

The article explains cleaning soiled walls by placing blotting paper on the stain and ironing with a hot iron to remove the marks. It emphasizes a simple household technique for restoring wall surfaces.

Seeing and Listening Nearsighted Man Prefers Glasses for Listening

A nearsighted man explains his unusual reading habit with glasses off to read up close, and his understanding improves when listening with glasses on. He notes better comprehension with the spectacles in bright light, while reading benefits from the natural eye focus.

Secog Ori New York Sun

Queer Titles Reflect Royal Nobility Origins from Haiti Era

The piece explains three fanciful titles Duke of Marmalade Count of Lemonade Earl of Brandy were real in 19th century Haiti under Christophe. They named places formerly plantations, later towns, showing the titles reflected geography rather than frivolous Africa myths.

Haiti Christophe Fran Germany Pearson

Liberty and the lasting guard against power

A quotation from Daniel Webster extols liberty as a bold vigilant force that resists encroachment by authority. It emphasizes checks, securities, and durable safeguards over mere temporary resistance, urging foresight from past experience to benefit future generations.

Daniel Webster

Portrait Painters Vanity Trial In A Family Picture

Allan Cunningham recounts in Lives of British Painters how Copley painted a man with three wives in a single family portrait. The husband insisted on adding portraits of all wives, even deceased, clashing with tradition. Copley removed the later likenesses. the man sued over the price and the son, future Lord Lyndhurst, won the case for his father.

Allan Cunningham Copley Lyndhurst Lord Lyndhurst

Grammar Arouses French Professors In Dream Tale

A jest about M. Lamany depicts a French grammarian so strict about language that a dream of speaking with a grammatical error causes alarm and despair. The anecdote highlights their punctilious devotion to syntax.

M. Lamany Tie

Undertaker’s humorous placard on dying line

In Scotland a tract distributor posted It is appointed to man once to die on a tree. A local coffin dealer seized the joke and added funerals economically furnished by Blank. The incident shows how even grim topics can spark quick, wry marketing locally.

Scotland

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