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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1906
Page
8
There will be a Trumpet Notes band rehearsal this evening. The L. I. and I. club will meet with Mrs Nolan at 18 Sherman Street tomorrow afternoon. The Epworth League will hold a social Friday night at the home of Mr and Mrs Charles Sage 303 West Beardsley Avenue. Members and friends invited.
Multiple marriage announcements span Elkhart and nearby cities. Edith Meyer weds Augustus Niedermier of Cleveland at State Street Lutheran Church. George Mayr and Helen Kelley set June 5 in Cincinnati. Mabel King’s kitchen shower precedes her Detroit fiancé Thomas Osborne wedding. Osborne and Nora McLaughlin, now Harland Paulus, to wed at Klinger Lake with Rev. Rice officiating. Local press committee member Sue Swarty attends Rathbone Sisters convention. A Notre Dame professor, John Gillespie Ewing, marries Ethyle Kelly of San Francisco after an earthquake and fire destroyed St Dominick's. a temporary altar was used in ruins. Ray Ducknall weds Eulah Burhans at the bride’s foster-mother’s home in Bango township. Community members attend with local clergy and families.
Dr R M Murphy leaves Friday morning for Winona to attend the meeting of the State Medical Society. Attorneys Skinner and Wider are in Detroit on a business trip and will return early next week. Reader returns to Larwill after visiting his sister Mrs C B Gowan of Middlebury Street. Secretary Machan of the Board of Education was at his office after illness. Rev Fr Boeckelmann attended the silver wedding anniversary of his sister Mrs William T Twomey of Goshen. Garin goes to Marion after spending a wreck here.
Weather report shows high of 90 degrees and a low of 66 with wind at 5 mph. Sunrise is 4 24 and sunset at 8 11. moon sets 8 24 p.m.
Ed Miller and son visited South Bend this afternoon. Mrs C P Forman and her husband the Mennonite Publishing House adaptor recently wed in that city and will live on Franklin street. William H Scintz of South Bend was elected Grand Junior Deacon at the Indiana State Grand Lodge in Indianapolis. Mrs Cass Benham and daughter of Ligonier visited the Hanskes. Alice Madden returned from Chicago after selecting midsummer patterns for Morison Neff millinery. Daisy Neff visited Goshen. Harry Wolf Boles left Hoon for New York to join his mother and bring her to Eagle Lake for the summer at the Boles cottage. Dorothy Bentley resigned as stenographer for Chicago Telephone Sunny Co. and moved to Chicago to live with her mother Madam Bentley.
Township assessor Martin reports a combined valuation of 1 466 287 for Elkhart city and Concord township with a city personal property drop of 42 150. City totals show personal 807 675 and corporations 423 342, with 65 800 in improvements. Concord township outside the city lists 169 470 overall, including 154 085 personal, 11 000 in corporations, and 4 385 improvements.
A pasteurizer was installed at Leininger bakery to pasteurize cream. The Monger block shows Sidway Mercantile company wares. Razing of the Pleasant View house at Fourth and Franklin began for W W Sterling’s new flat buildings. Fireman R A Morrow was scalded on his right leg by a bursting engine hose at Dune Park, expected to miss three to four days.
Washington reports curb on wasteful printing of public documents with large reductions in several reports and a predicted cut of 800000 to 900000 volumes next year. Other items include Crumpacker fraud order review and denaturized alcohol bill advances with domestic production directive.
Beginning May 27 and every Sunday thereafter, air line excursions leave at 6:30 a.m. from Lake Shore by old road at 5:00 a.m. Round trip fares are two dollars with connecting steamers at Toledo for Put-in-Bay and Detroit.
An article touts tourist sleepers on the Union Pacific as affordable travel to California and the Pacific Coast. It claims a quality experience for "Merely Men and women of good sense" who wish to save money. Also advertises Lake Shore By train schedule from Elkhart to Grand Rapids with a $2 round trip.
Lake Shore Ry offers Sunday excursions starting May 27 and continuing weekly until further notice. Train No. 175 departs and returns on No. 176 with round trip fare 1.75 dollars. Low rates apply to intermediate stops along the line.
A travel notice invites readers in New England to take advantage of low rate excursions to Boston. The offer emphasizes affordable travel and timely opportunity for a trip east.
A historical discussion argues proprietary medicines are a general blessing with good products slowing market exit for the poor. It suggests reliance on physicians and druggists would be costly and inconvenient, especially in rural areas, highlighting Boschee's German Syrup as a long standing remedy.
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