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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1909
Page
5
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Announcements list several church societies. The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society will meet with Mrs William Bird at 1206 West Crawford Street with Mrs McLoud of Winona addressing. Trinity M E B officers to meet with Mrs Nichols at 414 South Fifth Street Saturday at 3. Grace Lutheran's Women will gather at Mrs Phil Kellys on Division Street Friday afternoon. Trinity M E B church W H M S meets at the church parlor Friday at 2 30. King's Daughters gather Sunday afternoon with Mrs Gus Strintz on Cedar Street.
The LS and LC sewing club will meet tomorrow afternoon with Mrs Idamailer at 209 McPherson Street.
Clouds gathered as 135 members representing Concord township Stutsman met at Island Park for the fifth annual reunion. A lavish noon feast, attendance from Mishawaka Goshen Bristol Syracuse and Chicago, with old members noted for age and memory. The afternoon program listed songs recitations and performances followed by officer elections. An island spread was planned but moved home due to weather.
A brief weather note records a temperature of 67 degrees with light rain totaling about one inch and winds at six miles per hour, observed over the past hour.
Wilkingson visits Chicago. Elmer Peabody and family return from Simonton Lake. Miss Margaret Connable of Baltimore visits Miss Tsabel White. Danville Ill. bound for C and E I railroad job. Mrs Defreece returns from Indiana Harbor. Miss Madeline Reichert of Des Moines visits Mrs H A McConnell. Lawrence A Schofield from Fort Wayne visits Elkhart. Gilbert Young of Chicago and Miss Victoria Boyee of Denver visit Mr and Mrs Herbert Wood. Mrs R D Shasberger returns from Chicago with news of Chicago relatives and Hyman birth.
Mrs. W Ralph Warner aged 38 died at 42 Jefferson street after a long illness following cancer surgery. She was born in Monroe county Michigan in 1871 and came to the city 31 years ago. Survived by her parents Mr. and Mrs George C Wilkinson and brother Harry Wilkinson. husband Wanner, an Indianapolis resident, with a recent Pennsylvania residence. Funeral plans set with Rev Ogilvie to officiate.
A Mishawaka lighting plan gains support from Tekanans and local officials. The Industrial association committee, with Royal Goldman as chair, will lead a lighting committee to promote improved illumination, with statements expected tomorrow and a meeting soon.
Readable parts mention a dated event with names and numbers but overall text is fragmentary and undirected, providing insufficient coherent facts to formulate a proper news item or outcome.
Explorer London Auger 12 reports Lieutenant Shackleton who reached within one hundred miles of the south pole has decided to make a lecture tour of America. The note indicates a forthcoming public program featuring details to follow.
The will, dated April 7 1907 and written by Horace N Shopert, leaves all personal property to his wife after his July 24 threshing machine death near Elkhart. She is to use the farm income for life and after her death the estate goes to Ray and Martin Shopert in equal shares. Witnesses were Benjamin and Elizabeth Ginter.
Interest in matters under consideration by the Industrial club draws many local interests. He expects a large number of business men and other people as guests at the factory tomorrow afternoon to discuss upbuilding the city.
Marriage licenses show Warren Jn James of Goshen age 24 and Gol die Smith of Goshen age 20. Onion Carnival by Onion Grokers association of Nappanee on August 24 offers diversions from tight wire to races and parades with band concerts and shows. The Blatt article cites Leip sic university debt restrictions from 1822 limiting student debts for books music wear etc to modest sums.
In Logansport Indiana on August 12 Fred Landis a former member of Congress surprised friends by marrying Miss Bessie Baker at 5 o'clock this morning in this city.
Maxon representing H. EB Bucklen refuses to renew the lease on the vacant lot at the corner of Main and Pratt streets for draymen. Residents protested, and the current lease ends this month, forcing draymen to seek new quarters.
Advertisement from B C Godfrey & Sons urging customers to buy chestnut coal now, warning it will be scarce next winter.
Jumbled items note Germany using water power and France minimal, New England bread with yeast from Mayflower era, milk freshness, museums in Constantinople, a Swedish geologist predicting iron depletion in fifty years, Sutton case evidence ends, St. Louis detectives on child abduction, a fatal Hankook fire in Calumet Michigan.
Jacob Dixon, former Lake Shore signal assistant to A M Shellenberger, boarded on Middlebury Street and is missing after allegedly forging a $25 check. He took a suit, bicycle, and money. Bridge work on Jackson Street’s middle pier is mostly complete with concrete poured this morning and no delays expected from water. A false alarm rang Central department to Johnson and Baldwin streets at 7:45 PM yesterday.
A historic note suggests New Jersey could raise up to 40 million dollars annually from oyster beds if the same source lands are properly seeded and cultivated, after current yields of about 8 million per year.
Readable notes describe a scene looking in at a window on 300 South Main Street. The fragment implies a street level view with potential nearby activity but no clear events or dates.
Mr and Mrs Harry Rose of 110 South Sixth Street welcome a ten pound daughter born this morning. Mr and Mrs Ernest Pancost of 914 Marion Street announce a nine pound son.
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