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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1905
Page
4
The Weekly Truth published by Truth Publishing House in Elkhart Indiana is issued every Thursday with the latest foreign and local news. Subscription is one dollar a year for delivery to any U S post office or Canadian address.
The Elkhart Truth notes that the Chautauqua faced mistrust and slander from a minority, but overall enthusiasm carried the project to success. Officials expect stronger backing next year as fabrications are exposed and genuine supporters rally.
A Henry Labouchere essay in London Truth argues opinions vary on wife chastisement. He notes risks of over or under punishment and warns that misjudged correction disrupts home life and may invite police attention.
Bristol town conducts Harvest Jubilee on August 30 as Sheriff Manning of Goshen visits. Elijah Banker and bride depart for Air Line Junction to establish housekeeping. Preaching by Rev Good at Zion. Rev Graves of Valentine leads M E church services. Union Sunday school picnic draws nearly 400 on Indiana Lake shore. Samuel Pease breaks all fast-service records as rural mail carrier journeys to Elkhart.
The remedy for dyspepsia comes as pleasant tasting tablets with vegetable and fruit essences and pepsin. They claim to digest food fully, cure indigestion and related symptoms, and differ from cathartics by aiding digestion rather than irritating the bowels.
Curiosities of literary worship describe relics from Shelley Newton Hugo Sterne Pope and other figures. A Eng ishman wears a skull fragment necklace while Hugo's tooth in a glass case draws visitors. Newton’s tooth sold at auction in 1816 for 3650, the wig Sterne wore fetched 2000 pounds, and Pope’s chair sold for 1000 pounds in 1822.
The article contrasts breakfast in Java with Dutch habits, noting breakfast as poor in hotels. It highlights the main meal, tiffin, featuring a rice table or rystafel with ten to twenty dishes, including fish, fowl, curried eggs, shrimp fritters, and chutneys, served with rice and eaten with a spoon and fork, followed by beefsteak and dessert.
The Paris frotteur polishes oak floors with urbane condescension and tact. He chats about customers and their lives, sharing admiration for his craft while earning amiable distrust through his intimate knowledge of clients and their friends.
A Lancet writer cites evidence that mosquitoes are the deadliest creature and that fillies also cause thousands of deaths, especially among infants, each summer by contaminating food with diarrheal germs.
A Bangor News piece explores the hen as both wise and foolish noting ancestral instincts, fear responses to strangers and predators, and the puzzling judgment shown in feed choices like corn versus gold dollars. It contrasts learned animal behavior with human attempts to understand poultry minds.
A Welshman sued a fellow countryman for money owed. The debtor offered to settle in trade, but the creditor refused. When asked why, the plaintiff said the man was an undertaker.
At a directors meeting on October 4 the board granted an indefinite extension of Joseph Ramsey Jr s leave of absence. Ramsey protested the move and filed suit in the St Louis circuit court seeking an injunction to bar the annual meeting in Toledo Ohio where Gould and associates would elect a new board and president to run the Wabash road.
Three men carried out the Great Northern overland hold-up five miles from Ballard. Two youths on the blind baggage joined and aided in robbing passengers after dynamite exploded the baggage car door. Express messenger Charles Anderson was injured. the robbers dynamited the safe and fled eastward. The youths claim no prior involvement.
The Goshen District M E church sub district convention opened with Rev. Dr. Light presiding. Speakers addressed duty to superannuates, national prosperity, missionary fields, world for Christ, Christian education, and urban deaconess work. Dr. Winchester spoke, and a pipe organ duet preceded an illustrated lecture. The convention’s results are expected to be effective.
General Jose Miguel Gomez governor of Santa Clara province Cuba and former Liberal candidate for Cuba's presidency has arrived in New York seeking about two weeks of rest. He rejected reports that he came to ask American intervention in Cuban politics saying No.
In St Louis on October 4 Herbert MacCartney aged 40 killed himself by poison after giving a fatal dose to his seven year old son Lon. Despondency over separation from his wife is cited as the sole reason.
The National Wholesale Druggists association meets in New York. Paris bankers discuss a new Russian loan. Moravia remains tense amid Czech German quarrels. The Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association opened its 33rd annual meeting in Lexington. Hearst declines a bid for New York mayor from Municipal Ownership League. Nevada revokes New York Life Insurance license. Wiliam T. Jerome nominated for New York district attorney with 4000 signatures. Barcelona dispatches deny a duel between Generals Lopez Diaz and Menentz. Berlin electrical strike shows no settlements yet with 38000 workers affected.
Addie Pardee, previously at Clark hospital in Elkhart, was today accepted for admission at Longcliff. The move marks a transition in care as officials finalize placement.
Suffering from undigested food poisons, C. G. Grayson of Lula Mississippi reports a cure after using Dr King s New Life Pills. The ad touts their tonic laxative effects and claims all stomach and bowel disorders yield to them. Available at Houseworth Bros drug store for 25 cents guaranteed.
Twelve Filipino students attend Notre Dame University in South Bend. Seven have been in the United States for a year while five arrived in San Francisco just last week. They are bright and quick to adapt to American life.
The Equitable Building and Loan Association through Conley and Frank filed foreclosure actions against Martha J Shirley and Willard Shirley for 1500 dollars and against Oliver P Shirley and Ella Thom for 1000 dollars.
A Columbus man reports Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured a deep foot wound after an accident. The salve is praised for soothing burns and speeding healing. Sold for 25 cents at Houseworth Bros., druggists.
The Hikhart Water Co. has 8 500 feet of new six inch pipe en route and will be used to lay mains on Aspenwold avenue and the citys south side.
George Butzbach of South Bend sues Esta J. Gardner of Elkhart livery in replevin to recover a $200 white horse with a pink nose after a disputed horse trade. The action seeks return of the animal and resolution of ownership.
Capt. Orville J. Nave, army chaplain and author of Nave's Topical Bible, is compiling a revised Bible described as a unique, one of a kind edition.
Reports state Henry Cook left no will at his passing, prompting probate actions. Heirs and estate details are to be determined as the court oversees asset distribution.
Notice records Charles T. Greene as administrator of Elizabeth Weaver deceased with Perry L. Turner as attorney. The estate is described as probably solvent. The report appears in Edwardsburg items.
Zion updates include Mrs. Fred Baking of Lansing visiting local friends. The Ladies Aid met with Mrs. Replogle. Guests of the Kegerries included Mr. and Mrs. Lanforg and Swinehart pairs from Elkhart and Mrs. Samuel King and daughter Lottie from Bristol north. Rev. McLaughlin of Millersburg visited last week. Washington township school opened last Monday. Mrs. L. S. Beck hosted guests from Bristol last Friday.
School will start Monday with Boyd Thornton as teacher for District 1 with Miss Geraldine Johnson in District 2, Henry Teeter in District 3, and William Daly in District 4. Farmers are busy gathering fall crops and seeding. Local residents visited, relatives traveled, and revival services were attended at Elkhart. Andrew Zigler works on the Edwardsburg road telephone line.
Lloyd Keene of Elkhart visited friends Monday. Ed Miller and wife of Elkhart visited Mr and Mrs A C Adams last week. A A Martin and family visited Grant Thompson at Simonton Lake last Sunday. Richard Turnock Jr and friends of Elkhart were at Hosterman's Garver Lake Sunday. Mr and Mrs Frank Bement entertained relatives from Howard Sunday. Mrs Fenton Riggs of Battle Creek visits her parents. Warren Kingsley visited friends in Elkhart Sunday. E F Rhodes of Granger in South Bend to see Sis Hopkins. Samuel Meredith and daughter Anna visited relatives in South Bend Sunday. Herb Schock in Niles Saturday. Lemuel L Coates of Sparta was in town Thursday. Lena Barbier of Granger was in town Saturday.
Myron E. Cole transfers part of Strong's third add to George J. Duncan for 300 dollars. Forest E. Hughes sells three Oakwood add lots to John B. Carman for 200 dollars. Harden D. Markel conveys a lot in Ellison's add to J M Brubaker for 155 dollars. Maria B. Simonton widow sells lot and part lot in South and Western add to Melvin D. Demarest for 7 650 dollars. Charles A. Chapin and trustee sell six lots in Elkhart Hydraulic Company's add to Valley Realty Co for 1 dollar. William McGill to Mary E. Slusser for 350 dollars. Marion F. Washburne sells land in Concord township to George R. Rogers for 3 500. John W. Fieldhouse deeds land in Concord to Herbert E. Bucklen for 5 000. Lusher McCoy transfers part of two lots in Leitch's add to Mary Oakes for 1 300 dollars. Henry R. Jeffrey sells 160 acres in Washington township to Harlan A. Stauffer for 1 dollar. John Roth sells land in Middlebury township to Susan Schrock for 2 000 dollars.
John W. Fieldhouse transfers half lot in Chapmans West Hickory add Elkhart to Leona T. McCluen for 1200 dollars.
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