03 Apr 1909
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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1909
Page
1
Dated local notices and short updates from Angola and nearby communities recount firings, insurance changes, school movements, and residents’ comings and goings. Names like Eugene Cuneamith and Mr. Baileys are tied to incidents, while Auburn, Lima, Warsaw, and Milford appear in scattered notices about meetings, illnesses, and local happenings through the period.
The Northern and Southern Indiana teachers’ meetings ran through last night with a joint canvass of attendance and plans to consolidate or dissolve divisions. Reports will show findings and next steps as debates loom over state alignment. Attendance reached around 7,000 in city schools while northern and southern halls heard talks by Arnie Hans Johnson and Dr. Brander Matthews on Renaissance and spelling reforms. Mina Wilbur of York Wayne elected secretary. N. C. Acomas named president of Rich mond. Elsi Brown highlighted as performer.
The report details the Wabash district under HS Hole highlighting health, debt across 25 of 35 charges, and 1520 conversions with rising membership. It mentions new church work at Point Isabel, salary concerns for young preachers, and conference events plus the forthcoming address by Bishop Anderson and a late afternoon lecture on church labor rotation.
Real estate transfers and entries recorded in Angolia and surrounding townships. Transactions include multiple properties in Pleasant and Fremont townships, with buyers such as Campbell & Co, McConnell and others. Notable sums listed include $4,400 in Siem Township and $2,500 for Angola additions, reflecting widespread activity in the quarter and indicating a busy period for local property transfers.
The jury finds William Wertz a stone cutter guilty of inducing a blind tiger at his residence. He is fined five dollars plus costs and sentenced to thirty degrees in jail. Total payment estimated near one hundred fifty dollars. A second related case panels Mel, Sarat Anderson, and Williams Hite for another tiger operation near the harbor. Sheriff Haunt attended the proceedings but was excused.
A petition bearing about 2 500 signatures seeks an option election in Kosciusko County. The Kosciusko County Civic Defense circulated it, led by Joseph P. Dalan of Syracuse and others. In Brookville, Franklin County, signatures on a petition push for a local option election with county leaders backing it. In Arburleon City, a meeting voted to favor prohibition constitutional amendments pending committee action Tomorrow.
Members of Company D drill under officers in advance of a state inspection and government examination. Major A W Kublmah and Capt Driesbach plan to travel to Auburn for promotion exams. An official inspection is contingent on suitable weather and a business meeting debated charges against drivers.
Backache and other pains in a woman's belly are blamed on a vague female disease. Symptoms vary by person, and treating symptoms yields little benefit. The advised remedy is Cardui, claimed to treat the underlying cause. Mrs. ME Allred of Hartford endorses it.
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