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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1911
Page
4
Doris Eking named to the Senate seat left by the late Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia. The appointment lasts three weeks until a successor is chosen by the legislature.
News brief recalls a high profile homicide at the Palace hotel in Caney Kansas where Al O Truskett killed Titipac tion over an oil lease. It notes other items including Monaco constitutional changes and stock bank troubles in New York.
State Superintendent Greathouse sent to the state printer the January common school apportionment records. John F Hoffman prepared the figures from county auditors December settlements totaling 1 379.25%68 dollars, distributed to counties by population with 1.82 per person, up 1 cent from 1910. The December taxes and unclaimed fees shape the common fund with a 1325 457 deficiency to be distributed in February to needy districts.
Mishawaka prepares to dedicate a new high school building costing 850000. The three story brick and reinforced concrete structure features steel interior, sound deadening floors, thirteen classrooms, a gymnasium and a 500 seat auditorium. Superintendent John D. Nuner and trustees W H Tupper F J Partridge Isacoh C Wardner will oversee the event with Mary Wo Welsch as principal.
Richmond Commercial club pursues a bill to create penal farms or workhouses to address the county jail problem. Amos W. Shutler, secretary of the state charities board, will speak to the club on penal farms.
Wayne County recorded twenty eight violent deaths in 1930. Ten men died after being struck by railroad trains, eight of them foreigners. Three murders occurred, five cases cited personal crises, four were killed by ax or falls, and the rest by other accidental causes.
A rabid dog broke loose in front of the Orpheum theater biting five people who will receive Pasteur treatment in Indianapolis. Policeman Richard O'Connell, who fought the animal, was also attacked and later fell ill. The dog was killed, its head sent to Indianapolis for state health lab analysis.
Alfred Cain and Elisa beth Hasty, both of Mooresville, were married in the county clerk’s office. The groom is seventy two and the bride sixty seven. both had prior marriages. Judge Wil fita urged a kiss, but the bashful bride blocked the gesture, drawing mild amusement.
Lafayette reports a mastodon skeleton found by Guy Fisher, brother of Sheriff-elect John Fisher, near Battle Ground. Local geologist John Fewell notes the clay-embedded bones suggest a long-vanished river channel. floods may have preserved multiple specimens along the banks. In Nashville, farmer John Wilkerson Jr recounts killing a large wolf in Brown County and warns of dangers as a party of armed farmers corners the animal after dogs are harmed.
Justice J P Naragon of Linerty, weary of office, is persuaded by neighbors to serve another term. He cites low fees and few cases as reasons, noting the state fee of 60 cents and lack of litigation in Walker ton and South Bend. Naragon was reelected at the November 8 election but could not resign if he wished.
Civil war veteran Marlon Landess, 63, of Portland Oregon, meets his sister Harriet Parsons, 45, from Gas City for the first time this week. Landess illness follows arrival and he is treated at the Marion Soldiers home hospital.
W. A. Abernathy shot and killed a large eagle near Occident. The specimen, measuring 749 feet from tip to tail, is to be mounted.
Delphi Chester Garrison fifteen year old son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Garrison is dead after a fall in a field last week concussion of the brain. In Bum Mitville a sawmill owner E E Powell was fined twenty five dollars plus costs for failing to have his boiler inspected. Deputy State Factory Inspector Williamson fled the affidavit. Washington a well on Lodene Wright farm shows oil bearing sand at depth of a thousand feet with flow reported and good prospects for a gusher. Jeffersonville at the cementville siding north of town a rear end collision damaged freight car and smashed the caboose
The Weekly Review of Trade notes little change in major trades with iron and steel output cutting back. December saw 27 furnaces blown out and production drop to 67,252 tons daily, about 28,000 tons below 1909. Prices at leading centers show weakness, while rail demand improves and dry goods retailers push spring lines. Export trade in cut fore and footwear steadiness contrasts with price pressures in cottons and silks. Business failures in the U.S. for the week ending January 4 total 291, with Canada 27. Wheat and corn exports decline in the 27 weeks to January.
The market report lists grains, meats, dairy, fruits, vegetables, and poultry with varied price ranges. Wheat No 2 red at 1.02, butter creamery extra 32%o, eggs prime first 33c, apples fancy to 85.50 a box, potatoes 40–43c per bu, hogs good to choice packers 8.15–8.20, cattle values up to 6.50 for butchers steers, and miscellaneous Cincinnati prices for poultry and produce.
Reports from Fort William show large flax shipments to Buffalo with 241000 and 288000 bushels valued at 583220 and 720000 dollars respectively. The piece highlights flax as a profitable quick-return crop alongside wheat oats barley and cattle, urging readers to seek free Canada land offers and government literature.
Admiral Evans at a luncheon in San Francisco attacked a naval policy as mixed and illogical. He compared it to Hob Backstay who became an engineer on a submarine and noted the dangers of deep sea work, saying a man must do something to keep his head above water.
Mrs Farnaway recalls the anniversary of her wedding day as Professor Faraway fumbles for details. The exchange hints at shared memory and domestic humor in a brief vignette from Stray Stories.
In a Denver Times item a speaker questions how Blobbie made his money as he admits a long life of smoking tobacco without wealth. The note contrasts personal habit with financial success.
A doctor advises a man with stomach trouble and headaches to quit fried foods and meat at breakfast. He replaces meals with Grape-Nuts and cream and stops all medicines. In days the patient improves and reports being in better health than in twenty years at age 58.
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