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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1901
Page
5
Commencing Sept 2 we offer last year garments at cut prices. Golf capes 100 at $10.00 value now $5.00 and $5.00 to $8.00 kind for $3.00. Cloth jackets $1.00 to $5.00 usually up to $15. Long plush sacques $7.50 long newmarkets $5.00 worth up to $20. 200 dozen flannel back wrappers 50c and 65c each. Goods never sold under $1.00 now 50c to 65c. Prices so low they may paralyze some.
A local retailer announces a new children line with dresses for ages two to fourteen priced 39c to 6.00 each. Ladies petticoats offered at 25c to 50c, mercerized petticoats in colors at half price. All wool flannel waists 1.00, silk and satin waists 2.75.
Catalog notes provide prices for French Flannels at 50c regular 75c, Standard Prints at 23c 3c and 33c, 32 inch Percales at 5c yd, red and white Table Damask 20c, Crash Toweling 2c 2 1c and 3c, and 5-4 Table Oil Cloth at 10c per yard.
Time table effective June 2 1901 shows trains running on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern routes between By trainge and from MlkHart with updated departures and arrivals as listed in the new timetable.
Jeffersonville's Squire John Hause, now with leisure, reports a letter from Berlin naming him the Marrying Squire of America and proposing a business alliance to find wealthy wives for broken nobility. The American figure is considering the proposal.
A 192 page ad offers $2 daily plus board for laborers near Omaha with guaranteed wages and rail work in western Iowa. It promotes rail jobs, transport back home, and a one year contract. Also notes Marion Henry Pingree, oil well pumper, found dead with head submerged in oil and water, believed to have fallen in and suffocated.
The piece traces Labor Day from New York demonstrations in 1882 to state legal adoptions beginning with Oregon in 1887 and spreads to most states by 1900. It notes varied dates for observance and quotes Samuel Gompers on labor's purpose, unity, and pursuit of justice amid industrial change.
In Pittsburgh on September 4 the steel strike showed mixed signs as 32 skilled new workers entered Starin plate works, 125 machinists returned to Pennsylvania and Continental tube plants, and 12 imported workers started at the Monessen hoop mill. Other mills operated normally. no disturbances occurred at gates, and rumors of peace or a pending conference circulated without confirmation.
Federal authorities prosecute the Know Nothing Club for illegal sale of intoxicants. Members claim beer is hauled from Kokomo after night to a barn and they place nickels in a box, drag beer in a glass, and remove without knowing who receives the money.
The green glass plant at Summitville built by the Flint Glass workers union at a cost of fifty thousand dollars has been closed as the need for the plant no longer exists. It was established at the request of the description branch of the union.
Seymour a handsome dog owned by T S Blish of the Blish Milling Company came home after a social night carrying a purse with several dollars in its teeth. The source does not explain how the dog acquired the purse.
Letters from Joliet tinplate workers urge Demmler and Star plant employees to quit the Amalgamated Association and join the Tinplate Workers International. A Demmler poll shows 90 percent favor returning to work. Joliet mills have run two months in the last year, while Clark plant resumes after night shifts and other plants operate by day.
One hundred workers at Standard Chain company plants in York Pennsylvania walked out after the firm refused to sign a new wage scale. Workers seek eastern factory pay levels matching western plants. The company operates facilities in York Harrisburg Carlisle Pittsburgh Trenton Columbus and Marion Indiana.
Traffic on the Pittsburg Ebensburg and Eastern railroad resumed after a week long strike as sufficient money arrived from Philadelphia to pay back wages. Regular schedule observed for the first time since the previous Tuesday. Summer residents along the line were inconvenienced by the tie up.
Workers at Standard Chain company plants in York join a broader walkout after the firm refused to sign a new wage scale. They seek parity with eastern facilities, with factories listed in York Harrisburg Carlisle Pittsburg Trenton N J Columbus C Marion Ind. all affected.
The Johnstown and Eastern Pennsylvania railroad resumed normal service after a week long work stoppage by all employees. Funds arrived from Philadelphia to cover back wages and the regular train schedule ran today for the first time since last Tuesday, easing disruption for summer residents along the line.
Mrs. S S Barney of West Bend wife of Congressman S S Barney and Mrs. W H Ramsey of Port Washington wife of a former state bank examiner were killed when a Northwestern train struck their carriage one mile south of Port Washington station shortly before 3 PM.
In Knox Indiana on September 4 18 year old Gustav Giles reportedly took morphine to kill herself after sorrow over the death in a fire of her lover Jesse Chance two weeks earlier She had recently returned from South Bend and told a neighbor she wished to surprise her father and that she had no desire to live.
Large Sunday school attendance noted as Y P C U meetings decline. An ice cream social is planned for Saturday at the U B church. Miss Alice Turner opened Adamsville school, with children hearing the bell. A dance is set for Steve Olds resort Saturday evening. Forty five ladies attended the Ladies Aid meeting at Mrs Vantill. Mesdames Tom and Fred Lybarker, hurt in last Saturday's runaway, are slowly improving.
Dr. Jos Burke will be away Saturday August 31 for ten days traveling through the east. He plans to obtain updated eye testing instruments and will resume office with Dr. Turner. Calls for free eye tests upon his return.
During a severe local storm high winds and lightning struck the hay and tobacco barn owned by Hampton Rogers, destroying the structure and its contents. The loss included twenty five tons of hay and eight thousand tobacco sticks. Cider barrels cheap, first come first served. Dr Miles Medical Co. dwtf
Marion The Krein chain works one of the largest plants of its kind in the country owned by Standard Chain Company was closed Monday due to a labor demonstration. Men may not return to work because differences have arisen.
John W. Boone reports alleged abuse of children at the Orphans Home run by Anderson and Mrs Theodore Hileman. The couple deny all charges and demand a full inquiry by county commissioners.
Advertisement style note recounts Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials and price, plus a Notary Public acknowledgment. Mentions J. Cooney & Co Toledo and sale by druggists for 75 cents. Also references Hall's Family Pills and a church dedication by Rev A C Willmore at a United Brethren church costing 2000 dollars with no debt.
R B Carson and daughter of Bristol leave today for the Pan American and eastern points near Buffalo. Muncie William N Swain, sheriff elect, is appointed sheriff de facto to serve until January when he will be installed. Thomas Starr’s term expired but he expected to remain until January, suggesting changes in other offices.
An exhortation on modern nerve strain and health dangers from overwork. It warns that stimulants can offer only temporary relief and urges Dr Chase's Nerve Pills as a blood building, nerve renewing remedy to prevent nervous illness and decline.
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