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.
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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1908
Page
7
Grain prices listed include wheat corn and oats with points noted. Butter market opening cited with unclear references to names and entities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hand colored Passion Play shown tonight at Globe theatre with admission priced at five cents.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Coroner Dewey today conducted an inquest into the death of Ephraim Holderman who was killed at the gravity yard last Saturday night.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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