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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
8
A tropical gulf storm hits Mobile as waters rise and residents flee. An Associated Press correspondent remains at his post, paddling the beat, entering via a window, and broadcasting updates from the switchboard to ensure the story survives the danger. He chooses safety only after the reporting is secured.
The Fall Team of the Fivhart Ind Normal School and Business Institute will start next Monday August 26 with circulars free.
The Chicago Sunday papers announce Major R P Davidson will lead the academy battery from Highland Park on a trip to Washington later this week. It will carry a message for General Miles from General Wheeler, following Davidson’s withdrawal at La Porte last year. His experience this time will be watched with interest.
Hustler and fastest seller on earth offers satisfaction guaranteed or no pay. Orders left at Hosteitler and Lehman’s Hardware Store in 6m wi. G Lehman.
Most county schools will not open until late September or early October due to new law. Township schools expected to start in the last week of September. County graduating exercises date remains unsettled.
Marion Aug 19 At the soldiers home Dr Malloy the young interne who compounded the prescription causing the deaths of George Carruthers and Thomas Pinkerton tendered his resignation to take effect at once. Dr Malloy has the sympathy of his associates as the error was unintentional and likely to occur with less familiar workers. Congressman Steele local manager of the home is investigating.
Farmers are urged to buy Portland cement for walks cisterns and stable floors from Bigam and Son at 406 and Main Street save 20 cents per barrel. This advert notes a weathered offer and location details for purchase.
Emmett Whitsell says he and other county infirmary workers will demand 20 cents per hour for unskilled labor on public works, claiming a new law requires the pay. The county attorney says the law does not cover farm laborers or servant girls in public institutions.
In Oakland on August 19 Clyde Brenton sixteen year old newsboy fell from a platform of a coach as the EB&I train entered the city. He sustained injuries that proved fatal shortly after.
The Pennsylvania Society elected officers Saturday afternoon for the coming year. Col. R. M. Johnson remains president with vice presidents from Elkhart Mishawaka Goshen Adamsville Mich secretary B F Stephens and assistant secretary H S Beaver treasurer F J Goldman and chaplain Rev Edward Barr. The Trumpet Notes band performed on the Island as Hon S B McManus read an original Hoosier Poet poem and Hon T D Neal spoke on Our Homes. The gathering, the largest in society history, praised for its management and setting.
A letter to the editor describes Oklahoma Territory as prairieland with hills and deep ravines. It forecasts strong farming and burgeoning mineral wealth including gold copper silver lead zinc coal and oil. It notes oil near Chandler Creek east of Mt Scott and near Richards between Anadarko and Lawton, with orderly tension and patrols by deputy marshals and troops.
The International Society of Arboriculture endorses catalpa speciosa as a practical rail tie alternative. Secretary J P Brown of Connersville Indiana notes its straight durable timber suitable for crossties and furniture. Railroads could cut annual repair costs by about 200 dollars per mile by planting catalpa along rights of way to yield 3000 ties per mile in sixteen years and provide permanent supply.
Grand Rapids Herald surveys proposals to avert strikes through government arbitration. Critics warn such authority risks liberty and would fail to satisfy both labor and capital. Gompers favors bargaining power, unions resist incorporation, and rail unions show strength within organized labor.
Mrs Clara Makemer of Florence Anchorage Mission Chicago writes praising Peruna as a tonic and cure for general debility liver complaints and female disorders. Petoskey Michigan testimony from Mrs D Finlay credits Dr Hartman and Peruna with restoring health after years of illness and suffering. Health and Beauty guide offered free to women.
Officials and railway men praise the five brotherhoods with mutual wage and condition deals. Disputes are settled amicably, with strike rights and wage reductions possible. Government intervention appears impractical beyond conciliatory effort. the situation deserves careful study.
Simon S Bailey argues flowers carry spirituality and soften minds. He links women's morality to their affection for flowers and notes flowers comfort mourners, symbolize life and death, and convey messages of love. The piece emphasizes flowers as messengers of divine love and artistic inspiration.
Law firm Johnson and Osborne based in Eiknhart Indiana advertises practice in all Indiana courts. A long block of poetic prose honors art and God as the source and measure of true artistry, praising flowers as expressions of purity and immortality.
Government sends 600 teachers to the Philippines and faces possible suspension of the rule barring married teachers from appointment due to the voyage. Ten days at sea caused many marriages, with thirty weddings reported at Honolulu. Returns from Manila voyage awaited.
Joseph Kelly, arrested at Lafayette, pleaded guilty in Anderson city court to stealing a horse and buggy owned by William Ellison. He was committed in default of $500 for grand jury investigation. Kelly sold the rig at Lafayette and is also wanted there for forging a Lafayette liveryman’s name on a bank check.
The Red Men's carnival in Vincennes closed with about 10 000 visitors across the exhibition week. Officials report a larger crowd than ever before in Vincennes and plan to repeat the carnival next year on a bigger scale.
Eganville reports Clinton Watkins, a farmer, collapsed from cramps while cleaning a well on his farm. His wife rescued him by pulling him out just in time to avert a fatal outcome.
Edward Hook aged thirty four residing northeast of Alexandria and Miss Fay Lisbo aged seventeen from Rush County were married yesterday by Squire Briggs in the city.
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