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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1906
Page
5
Ladies wear navy blue imported cheviot suit with tight back jacket and box front collar trimmed in black silk braid. A gray checked all wool Prince Chap suit features a knee length velvet collar jacket and a nine gore skirt with matching bottom fold. Priced at 15 dollars.
A large group of medicine manufacturers have applied to the New York Rules and Regulations Commission to be heard at hearings on the Pure Food Law. Elkhart residents will watch the contest as patent medicine interests push for the broadest possible interpretation while others accept the law’s requirements. The commission has found food product makers cooperative, but hearings aim to refine regulations with input from all parties.
In Elkhart County Indiana the case State of Indiana v Cook et al Cause No 11686 Quiet Title is filed with August 1906 notice to nonresidents Walter H Strong Frank Dorsey James Strong and Della Strong to appear or demur by October 19 1906 at Goshen Court House. The clerk Martin H Kinney and State’s attorney Jas H State oversee the proceedings.
Readable text urges purchase of tickets for an upcoming automobile ride event. It emphasizes securing entry and enjoying the ride, without detailing date or location.
Antique ad notes a home for sale with conveniences and a fine lot of 50 feet frontage shaded by young fruit trees. Bargain price listed at 2850 dollars. Inquiries directed to 506 Vistula Street. Also a wanted ad seeks a good secondhand item via phone 221 Bristol Ind.
The LaPorte baseball club asserts the championship of northern Indiana, boasting the foremost semi-professional squad in the area. It defeated Hammond Chesterton the South Bend Reserves Mishawaka Elkhart and Peru to stake its claim.
John Ganzel, manager and part owner of the Grand Rapids team in the Central league, says he will not be tempted by major league offers and will remain with the Central league.
The Ganzeloids finished with 10 wins 5 losses and 2 ties across 17 games. John Ganzell spent 4500 dollars on players this season including payment to the New York American League for his own release. Poor attendance in Indiana towns may cost Terre Haute Evansville a place in the 1907 Central League. Fort Wayne and Akron are also discussed.
Twenty six new members were admitted at a B P J Elks regular session. Architect W K Johnson who designed the Elks temple was initiated for the Chicago lodge. The group included Roger Magnuson David B Condon J vdorris Owen Shelmadine Carl Coleman William Newman Charles Miles A A Elliott Melville Sanford John M Cummings Allen B Martin Arnold G Miller George J Manning Robert Rowe Frank Brumbaugh Ethan L Arnold M L Aldrich EB A Fisher R G Kemmerling William A Harper Milo W Stark Vernon W VanFleet Fred Poole William J Rieber Frank H Brown and Dr B F Kuhn. The ticket and program committees were updated and bids for plumbing wiring and healing work were to be sent to Secretary Sawyer with bids opening next Thursday at 7 30. Initiatory sessions continue monthly next on October 17. Adelaide Thurston’s The Girl from Out Yonder presents under Elks auspices at The New Bucklen on October 20.
Nomination is reported to be readily accepted by O L Ballou after strong showing at LaGrange. Delegates to the joint Democratic judicial convention included Geo A Briggs R E Proctor William H Winship and John Bristol.
General Buckner charges Bryan with growing radicalism and danger as he campaigns on the gold Palmer ticket. Source notes medical mention of Mrs Stafford with tonsillitis in Louisville.
Department budgets listed include Police Salaries and Miscellaneous totals, Health and Charities with salaries, books, and stationery, and Emergency Contagious Diseases. Net figures show a substantial overall city expense total of 1275 dollars and negative adjustments.
Benjamin I Watson, a prohibition leader, writes Gov. Hanly alleging liquor law violations by several city corporations. He names the Columbia club and Denison hotel, run by Charles E. Coffin, as blatant violators with excessive liquor sales and no licenses. The governor says he will investigate and urges prosecution steps.
C. G. Struble, Harry Miller and Samuel Winer organize a corporation in this city to manufacture a computing scale patented by the former. Directors include Struble Miller Brodrick Winer and Moran. Production to begin within 60 days, location of factory to be decided.
The market shows rapid daily changes with wheat prices rising on domestic demand and the Russian famine outlook. Minneapolis cash wheat gains four cents over September while Kansas City and St Louis push higher on shipping and milling demand amid a world supply tightness.
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