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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1908
Page
7
Elkhart Review notes local market updates with wheat corn oats and pork figures presented alongside butter and exchange indices. The OCR fragment shows prices incomplete and a mix of symbols and percentages, limiting precise figures.
Home Telephone Co expands its directory as Amiel Bierman seeks a liquor license for 128 South Main at the county commissioners November session. A dangerous dog on St Joseph street attacked a girl, injuring a bystander who fought it off. further dog at large complaints surface. A Big Four freight car was robbed near the Michigan Central Y in Niles, sweaters missing. a canvasser was watched by police but released. Robert Bachman’s bicycle, stolen last Thursday, was recovered.
William Clawson died at his daughter’s home at 9 a m Sunday born June 2 1827 he left fourteen children and will be buried in Ligonier. Mrs Anna OBrien died in Duluth at 2 a m of cancer aged 52 her husband Peter and children survive. Alexander Winborn of Niles died after visiting Mr Taft at South Bend at 72, a former barber. Jessie Leota Mechling two months old daughter of Asa Mechling died at 2 30 p m Sunday. Alice M Frink sister of Dr Frink died in Indianapolis. Mrs Thomas Cripe of Goshen area died Saturday aged 34.
In the Circuit Court several actions were dismissed including George Christler v Eugene Christler and Perry G W Ganger v Martin Mullett. C E Frank, assignee, cited to report by October 27. A motion to dismiss entered in Eleazer Weaver v Austin D Berkey. Huldah Culp v H J Culp judgment for 133.70. New trial granted in Alpheus A Zimmerman v Jeannette Gormer Johnson quiet title.
In Juvenile Court Judge Dodge suspended sentences for four Goshen boys charged with malicious trespass tied to use of nigger-shooters on pigeons and chickens at a local reform school.
Creditors of A F Underwood and Company will hold their first meeting at the office of referee Lambert in South Bend on Tuesday to elect a trustee to succeed temporary Trustee E A Skinner.
Elkhart 38, Winona 0 and Elkhart High School routs Winona Agricultural College 38 to 0. Stars Bedencop Darling Hilfer McCoy Brightmire Riblet shine in a strong Elkhart debut with four first half touchdowns and key substitutes delivering speedy defense. South Bend is noted as a strong state team with Varsity-level lineup.
Mr and Mrs W F Kreighbaum hosted a birthday dilinner with Rev H W Kreighbaum Mrs Henry Stude Baker South Bend and others. A group including John S Owen and Jennie Smith Cassopolis were married by Justice Oberholtzer Saturday evening and will reside here with the groom employed by the Lake Shore. Mrs J R Beardsley and daughter plan a luncheon next Wednesday for guests in honor of Mrs Knight and Mrs Lane of Kalamazoo.
A zoo keeper describes rat catching methods as he observes large gray rats near the carnivore house. He explains late night trapping with tongs and a lantern, using a signaling whistle to lure rats into bags, claiming this method as the best of the secretive techniques.
County news notes the death of James Davy five miles northwest of Goshen on Sunday at age seventy five leaving a wife two sons and a daughter. The report also lists upcoming events at the Y W C A including literature and Bible classes gymnasium examinations vesper services and the Santa Claus Circle meetings with times and locations.
Cleveland's private letter to Col. Felix A. Reeve dated July 14 1906 expresses disappointment with democracy and Bryanism as presented by an interview. It notes Bryan's London remarks claiming greater radicalism and unyielding stance on silver and economic policy, with no withdrawal on other issues.
Senator Dolliver recalled McKinley naming Taft for the presidency at a Dayton address. He told how McKinley, on the Ohio bench, offered Taft the governor’s post in the Philippines after a revealing lecture on duty. McKinley urged Taft to serve, predicting a future as father and builder of an independent Pacific nation.
Mrs J Ellen Foster formerly dazzled Elkhart audiences during Northwestern Branch Women s Foreign Missionary Society events at Trinity M E church. She has returned to Indiana as chairwoman of the national Republican women committee and earlier joined Mr Taft s Manila trip linked to the Longworth and Roosevelt marriage. Thomas A Kerr of South Bend died Saturday aged seventy.
The list reports numerous hometown and visiting individuals: John Watkins in Chicago, Dr W A Stauffer in Middl bury on business, Roy Harper and Walter Peterson of Chicago in the city over Sunday, a birth to Mr and Mrs Frank Brown of Water street, A H Ellwood returning from Portland, Mr and Mrs Charles Stephens moving to 118 North Sixth street, R B Buzzaird J White and Mr Kennedy from South Bend in town, John Bontrager planning to move to southern Texas, City Clerk Wilkinson returning from Chicago with Mrs Wilkinson staying a week, Mr and Mrs C C Puterbaugh dining with Henry Bechtel in Harrison township, John L Peetz editor of the Monon News in Elkhart, Warren D Bostwick noted, Sayers Stover Single Hay Millspaugh and Jacobson closing Henry Singles cottage at Simonton lake, Miss Ethel Jacobson visiting from Drexel Musical Conservatory in Chicago, Deputy Supreme Chief C O Fife of the Ben Hur s visiting Michigan City after six weeks of local work, Mrs Lloyd Newman to return to Los Angeles after weeks with Warfield Newman, B C Godfrey traveling to Chicago for elevator building preparations, Mr and Mrs Perry J Stamp and son Jawrence with relatives in Idaho, several Kendallville residents visiting, hunting trip updates from Lake Poygan near Feisten Wis, and Rev M K Bachman M P church state superintendent to Patton district conference for teacher training with an address and preaching.
A list of local illnesses and injuries includes Mrs. Benjamin Paige and Bert Larzelere of Franklin street with typhoid malaria. Alonzo Wilson is ill at J. S. Hoover’s Garfield avenue home. J. W. Phillips suffers severe lung hemorrhages and is in critical condition as his Tennessee relatives arrive. S. D. Reid has recovered enough from kidney surgery to go home. Peter T. Longawire, hurt when his auto was struck by a street car, is up at home. City Treasurer J. A. Campbell is gradually improving but remains bedbound. Mrs. J. H State fell ill after returning from the east and is under nurse care.
The W C T U will meet at 2 pm Tuesday with Mrs J A Work at 306 Division St. Reports from the convention will be given. The Presbyterian Men's Club will meet next Wednesday evening to discuss the city beautiful with Prof E H Drake as chief speaker. The Presbyterian Young Women's Missionary Society meets at Mrs Lybarker's home 185 North Sixth St 7 to 9 Tuesday evening. Members asked to bring needles and thimbles. Grace Lutheran invites all members and families to a reception Tuesday evening October 27 at the church for Rev and Mrs C E Rice who are moving to Bellefontaine Ohio.
Timed as a regional real estate notice listing an eighty acre farm near Edwardsburg with quality land, buildings, fences and fruit. Includes four acres timber with price sixty dollars per acre. Contact W. F. Puterbaugh I. C. QO. F. Temple Elkhart. The Daily Review 10 cents a week.
The London Standard reports a striking hazard in Ceylon where a nimble two inch leech crawls under clothing to reach the throat. Walking through jungle roads, leeches gather by ankles and feed on blood, driving horses palanquine bearers and coolies half wild as they victimize bare legs.
A bold Iowa banker's son launches a local morning paper on a shoestring funded by his father. Friends mock his claim to be editor sole owner. They note the father’s $200 start and a subscription marked paid a hundred years ahead on the editor’s books.
A naturalist notes that shore and water birds nesting in the Islands of the Bering Sea may undertake the longest continuous flights in their peregrinations. Some travel 2,200 miles to Tilawan and Fanning Island, completing the journey in a single flight with remarkable precision.
The Chicago Record Herald notes that many feel their own living standards are acceptable only if others do not live better, highlighting social comparisons and wage gaps. The piece surveys public sentiment on inequality and relative progress.
A Dallas News item notes the adage that fine feathers do not always make fine birds. The proverb warns that outward appearance can mislead about true merit or ability.
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