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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1908
Page
16
Promotional lines advertise white linen jackets reduced from 5.00 to 1.98 and cloth jacket suits from 18 and 20 dollars to 4.98. Children’s drawers 25 cents and ladies’ muslin drawers with lace insertion flounce offered at 50 cents.
Northeast Indiana brief mentions J. P. Hale qualified to-day as administrator of the Mrs Wire ley Lamm estate with a will granting all property to her children. Additional items cover Fred Stahl’s six-month lack of contact, Wes Maggart's move to Springfield in the Connecticut league, Guy DeWitt’s bond in Crawfordsville, and local social events, school hires, farm moves, and various community notices across Bluffton, Angola, Albion, Kendallville, Mentone, Winona Lake, Sidney, Butler, Auburn, Columbia City, LaGrange, and surrounding areas. The blurbs note sports, deaths, and civic updates in terse paragraph form.
Two Valentine Sunday school classes at Lagrange Indiana headed by Miss Zena Paten and Miss Bertha Walb enjoyed a day at Oliver Lake. Gentlemen supplied five gallons of ice cream boats and other expenses while the ladies provided a dinner at noon. Boating and bathing were the main activities with about twenty five attendees.
Whitley county rural mail carriers will have a holiday on Labor Day September 1. The carriers and all post office employees from the county will enjoy a picnic at Postmaster John W. Bakers Fort west of Columbia City. Delegates J. E. Hess and Ed Voorhees were selected to attend the state rural carriers meeting in Marion in September.
Wayne township in Noble County boasts the smallest total tax levy for 1909 according to Trustee W H Hill. He notes the levy for other townships varies and that Wayne spends every cent within the township, reserving only funds for the poor. administration focuses on local welfare.
Depositors at the Kosciusko County bank, closed by the state for insolvency, condemn Trustee Warren Darst of Oxford for honoring $10,000 in checks drawn on the Kosciusko County treasurer. Many offer claims at 4 to percent discounts. Darst says no more checks will be honored until a dividend is declared, though timing is uncertain. The county still holds 27,000 in the bank.
J S Israel a Civil War veteran born 1844 Middletown Ohio died at his Auburn Indiana home from heart disease and dropsy He served in the 127th Indiana volunteers and is survived by widow Mrs Mary Israel and two children Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 oclock at the Church of God with Rev Thomas officiating
Mrs H S Gilliams, wife of TH S Gilhams, narrowly escaped serious harm when an open interurban car struck her horse and carriage near a cross road east of town. The horse broke its hind leg and the carriage front wheel was demolished, but she sustained no injuries. The horse, eight years old and gentle, was killed shortly after.
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