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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1907
Page
5
A Presbyterian Missionary Society will meet tonight with Mrs Smith at 503 South Third Street Friday afternoon. An announced Spohn reunion at Island Park yesterday was a myth with no plans made and insufficient family members for a gathering.
Society items report a Krieghbaum reunion planned for Island Park on August 14, a postponed Queen Esther Giréle meeting, and a Sunday school class party at Mrs. A. J. Pettit’s with life girls attending. Also listed are a Bowles cottage dancing party at Eaglelake attendees and the First Christian church C W B M meeting at Mrs. Fremont Thomas home with mission reading and refreshments. next gathering in September.
Rev. Bachman is sick at home on Prairie street. Mrs. C W Maines of South Main street is on sick list. Florence Eldrich daughter of Sheldon Eldrich of South Main street has diphtheria. Miss Cora Kingsley returned from central Michigan. Miss Helen Cronk and Merle Doty back from Hawlin lake visit. Jan Alley visits South Whitley Indiana for a few days. Mrs Rowley returned from a Rhea visit. Powles of State street with catarrhal fever improving. Mrs Butts of Kendallville arrives to visit Mrs Kalbury. Thomas Anderson goes to Constantine for a short business trip.
Deline of Rockford hosts guests while Mrs Arnold and Mrs Peters visit from Valparaiso. Several locals endure injuries and health scares as family members travel, with lists of arrivals and departures at Shicks landing Christiana lake and reports of recurrences from nearby towns.
A C Menges, the automobile manufacturer, arrived in Elkhart this morning from Chicago in about five hours. He traveled in the car that yesterday weekend rally passage opened a drawbridge and fell into the Calumet river. The car was not washed and still wet when drawn from the water. A photographer captured a picture this afternoon.
Lennox Mass August 8 Attorney General Bonaparte plans to criminally prosecute those responsible for anti trust violations He believes jailing a few trust members would have a stronger moral effect than extensive litigation
T H Brown of Thomas Street welcomed a bright little girl last evening after returning home. The delivery occurred shortly before his arrival, marking a joyful new arrival for the family.
A franchise proposal outlines construction of additional tracks from Lake Shore to Jefferson Street with extensions to Elliston and McNaughton parks. It details 15 to 20 minute streetcar intervals on various lines, a 60 day build window after approval, and long range extensions while prohibiting street loading of express freight.
City council grants a fifty year franchise extending the life of the street railway contract, promising lower fares and improved service with fifteen minute schedules. Council approves transfers from funds to cover obligations and speeds sidewalk construction on Edwardsburg Avenue. Bids for paving, awning height enforcement, and street improvements are discussed as part of ongoing urban development.
J B Hoffman of Hoffman Strucker found a bundle of Lake Shore payroll checks in a depot basement last night. An honest employee recovered the checks and returned them to the owner today.
United Press reports representatives of 41 000 railroad men in the Great Eastern system held a secret ten day conference at Cambridge Springs Pennsylvania to seek a readjustment of the wage schedule. No strike talks noted and engineers are among those represented.
A United Press report from New York states that Reeco Valardes, a wealthy Italian, says his daughter Dominica, missing since Tuesday, is being held captive and will be murdered unless a $400 ransom is paid. A man is to call this week to arrange the payment.
August reports say the local strike ended and workers returned to work. Factories resumed operation as business conditions gradually stabilized.
A local firm described as an electrical company acquired the Volant mill ruins and adjacent assets in Elkhart County for twelve thousand dollars. The deal includes rights to the mill site and related property recently damaged by a fire.
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