Burt House at Decatur Destroyed by Flames
Fire at the Burt house in Decatur Indiana on December 24 1920 destroyed the leading hotel and contents with an estimated loss of 20000 to 25000 dollars. Guests escaped as flames spread aided by frozen hoses and delayed water supply. The blaze started in a room with a gas jet and the structure suffered heavy damage while other nearby buildings were saved.
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Burt
Decatur
Sentinel
Ind
Burt House
Paris
Ill
Enos Peoples
L. C. Waring
Westinghouse Electric Company
Estimation of Decatur Fire Losses
The Burt hotel at Decatur valued at 25 000 dollars with 10 000 dollars insured. Hotel effects 12 000 dollars with 5 000 dollars insurance. City news stand 1 000 dollars net. Wells Fargo Express office a total loss. Bell Telephone office also a total loss. Many Christmas packages lost. Knapke hardware store damage slight. Hotel ownership traced to Link brothers of Paris. Fire total projected loss about 30 000 dollars. Water shortage saved adjoining buildings with citizen help. It will probably never be rebuilt.
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Decatur
Ind
Burt
Wells Fargo Express
Knapke
Bell
Link Brothers
Paris
Indiana bank chief charged with embezzlement
William H. Roney publisher of the Noblesville Times and former Cicero bank president, was arrested in Noblesville on embezzlement charges with bonds set at 8000 dollars. Authorities say he took 4147 dollars from the bank. A suit alleges Cicero bank was a four partner venture with 4000 dollars capital, of which only one note was paid.
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Noblesville
Ind
William H. Roney
Noblesville Times
Cicero
Roney Bank
Farmers and Merchants’ Bank
Roney
Cicero Bank
Farm topics at the Farmers Institute discuss crop, soil and hog care
About one hundred farmers from Allen County attended the annual Agricultural and Horticultural and Allen County Farmers Institute meeting in the county courthouse assembly room. Purdue University organizer A O Lockbridge spoke on Clover crops and Growing 100 bushels of corn per acre. Rev Harry Mead replaced the absent Bertha M Miller speaking on Restoring soil fertility. Albert Bush spoke on Potato Culture and other talks covered family food and care of brood sows. Officers C F Hubler H H Roberts and William Kennerk were re elected.
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Allen County
Agricultural and Horticultural and
Allen County Farmers’ Institute Association
Court House
Maysville
Monroeville
Poe
Fort Wayne
Purdue University
A. O. Lockbridge
Greencastle
Frank Hubler
Marion Township
Harry Mead
Lopshire
Lockbridge
Bertha M. Miller
Franklin
Ind
Mead
Lopshire Orchestra
Albert Bush
Columbia City
Marie Spiegel
George B. Kell
Valentine Shaffer
William J. Esterline
Theodore Sarg
Samuel Mills
Rev. Mead
John
Poe News Highlights Local Socials and Obits
Rev Dougherty led services in Poe Indiana at the M E church. Local residents hosted visits and gatherings including Essigs Mercers Treneries and Shookmans. The funeral of Susan Beck was held in Poe with interment at Bethel. Pearl Miller wed Walter Rayner in a Poe celebration.
Fisher and Freel wed in Huntington at home ceremony
Miss Cora B Fisher and Mr Louis Freel, both of Huntington, were united in marriage Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the home of Mrs Buz. The brief notice confirms the couple’s nuptials in a small private ceremony.
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Cora B. Fisher
Louis ‘Freel
Huntington
Buz
Golden Medical Discovery promoted for blood cleansing
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for impure blood and related skin and glandular conditions. It urges use with All-Healing Salve for open ulcers and claims the product has known ingredients and reliability. It also advertises Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for stomach liver and bowels.
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Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Main St
Buffalo
N. Y
Golden Medical Discovery
New Bill Aims at Juvenile Court in Fort Wayne
Indianapolis reports a plan to establish juvenile courts in Fort Wayne and other cities like Indianapolis. A committee outlined bills to empower juvenile courts, punish contributing parents, and introduce a parole style system for first time offenders to ease prison overcrowding.
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Fort Wayne
Logansport Squire to Marry in Verse Next Year
Logansport Indiana December 25 Squire Reid known as the marrying squire will begin offering verse weddings starting January 1 1907 He will give each marrying couple a small volume of his own poems on matrimony and love and the ceremony will be conducted in verse Elopements may use couplets as a convenient device He expects strong interest from brides and grooms and says they will display the poems with their license on the wall.
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Logansport
Ind
Squire Reid
Squire
Jane Clematis
Ezekiel Brown
Felicity
Roosevelt braces to quit the message habit
President plans to end the message habit after two anticipated messages to Congress. Critics, including elder senators, teased him for unread speeches as he weighs a plan on ship subsidies and a car shortage. The White House says he will swear off once these topics pass. The Whitley County Grange election lists officers.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
George Ade
White City
White House
Harris Tells Confessed Murder of Bedford Woman
Goshen Indiana December 19 George W Harris in jail reports a confession alleging he killed Sarah Schaefer in Bedford in January 1904. He says Asa White of St Louis recruited him for the crime offering $500 and paid with five hundred dollar bills after the deed.
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Goshen
Sarah Schaefer
Ind
George W. Harris
Bedford
Harris
Asa White
St. Louis
St. Joseph
Mich
White
Harris a Fiend or Big Liar in Schaefer Murder Case
Frank Berger alias George Harris claims a written confession proves he killed Bedford schoolteacher Sarah Schaefer. He describes Bedford locations but his tale conflicts with autopsy findings of skull fracture from a blunt instrument. Police call Berger a dangerous, unrepentant figure and doubt his account.
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Goshen
Ind
Frank Berger
George Harris
Sarah Schaefer
Bedford
Schaefer
Authorities Skeptical Follow Bedford Probe
Bedford Indiana December 19 Prosecuting Attorney Pletcher left here today for the scene of a case as authorities expressed skepticism about the strength of the charges and potential outcome of the inquiry.
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Bedford
Ind
Pletcher
Goshen to Probe Harris Confession in Schaefer Case
Goshen plans to examine George Harris who allegedly confessed to murdering Sarah Schaefer. Authorities express skepticism. Fletcher cites a man named Asa White in the confession, not known locally. Chief Gratzes notes some points appear reasonable while others do not.
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Goshen
George Harris
Sarah Schaefer
Fletcher
Asa White
Gratzes
Young Man Led To Wedding Altar By Lost Photo
South Bend Ind Dec 25 Walter E Metz of this city married Elsie M Edwards of Berrien Springs Mich after a five year romance sparked by a photo she lost on a train between St Joseph and South Bend Metz found the picture while in a train car and later met the original of the photo in Berrien Springs Their engagement followed through mutual friends and an engagement ring was worn soon after the reunion.
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South Bend
Ind
Walter E. Metz
Elsie M. Edwards
Berrien Springs
Mich
Metz
St. Joseph
Young Metz
Miss Edwards
Elks minstrel show for charity on New Year’s night
Local Elks plan a New Year’s charity minstrel show in Decatur. Auburn Junction sold the old public school building to Mrs. George Werntz for 135 dollars.
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Elks
Decatur
Auburn Junction
George Werntz
Luckey
Churubusco
Mary LeBrun
Adams County
LeBrun
John Reyher
Garrett
Huntington County
Logansport
Niblick
Adams County Bank
R K. Alison
M. Kirsch
EB. X. Rhinger
Frank Weinhoff
Maude Shannon
Peru
Marriage Licenses Listed for Numerous Couples
A notice lists multiple marriages with partners including James E. Broxon and Eva E. Garrier, David F. Greider and Minnie Grace Bailey, Harry G. Catshall and Cora Reed, and others such as Thomas Adams with Minnie May Fifer. Additional pairs include Bilis Cox with Lucy Gaylord, William Hilliary with Mary Van Sweringen, and several other couples like Charles Auer with Elise Kiessling and William Vachon with Theresa Degitz.
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James E. Broxon
Eva E. Garrier
David F. Greider
Farmer
Minnie Grace Bailey
Harry G. Catshall
Cora Reed
Harry Wilbur Herring
Jennie Olin McClelland
Perry E. Miller
Cora Parker
John Sachreiter
Martha Fenner
Thomas A. Go
Theresa Degitz
Oliver G. Baird
Neva Baird
Charles E. Childers
Katherine Hartman
Wiliam T. Daffern
Olie J. Frazier
George W. Hull
Clara A. Jones
A Country Party Hosts Festive Dec 16 Sunday Gathering
Miss Loretta Hoevel hosted a merry company four miles southeast of the city on Sunday December 16. Music was provided by Esther Neidhart George Hilker and Jacob Lauer with games and an elaborate dinner following. Attendees included Mae Crimmons Marie Cahill Anna Schultz Clara Diedrich Esther Neidhart Elsie Rohiman Carrie Sorg Nellie Noonan Mary Noonan Odelia Reed Mae Voorse plus George Hilker Jacob Lauer Gregory Lauer Albert Neidhart Albert Demnheimer Willie Sorg Gerald Reed Carl Mieter and Ben and Hoevels. Maple Grove U B church six miles east of Plymouth burned that evening from an overheated stove during a Christmas rehearsal. all inmates escaped.
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Loretta Hoevel
Esther Neidhart
George Hilker
Jacob Lauer
Mae Crimmons
Marie Cahill
Anna Schultz
Clara Diedrich
Elsie RohIman
Carrie Sorg
Nellie Noonan
Mary Noonan
Odelia Reed
Mae Voorse
Gregory Lauer
Albert Neidhart
Albert Demnheimer
Willie Sorg
Gerald Reed
Carl Mieter
Ben and Ho -Hoevel
Maple Grove U. B
Plymouth
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W. H. Roney
Wells County
THE
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Allen County Association
POE News
John Trenary
George Spangler
O'Rourke
Florence Deel
Gideon Ake
Farmers’ Rural Telephone Co
Henry Neireiter
George Shookman
Susan Beck
Christian Church
Combrick
Altheanan
Bethel Cemetery
Marl Trenary
Trenary
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Charles Clark
John Fenner
Preston Snider
Ethel
Marion Smith
Wayne
Jason Archibald
Floyd Ayres
Perry Ayres
John Sterling
Hoagland
Opal Miller
Janie Harrod
Callie Ruhl
Evelyn Drage
Anna Harrod
Adah Ruhl
Katie Drage
Lulu Ruhl
Rollo Uirey
Alfred Daugherty
Everett Hubler
Frank Colville
Earl Drage
Arthur Mullen
Thomas ‘Mullen
Mary Springer
Mary “Worley
Freel-Fisher
Legislature
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Evansville
Terre Haute
W. H. Whittaker
Indiana Reformatory
McClure
Madison County
Julia Harrison Moore
Children’s Aid Society
Helen Rogers
State Conference of Charities and Corrections
Allen
Vanderburg
Vigo
Whittaker
Muncie
Marion
Grand Jury
Board of Children’s Guardians
Jeffersonville
Justice Reid
Roosevelt
Whitley County
MM. Smith & CO
Strc
Iof
Goshen Jaiibird
Kraut Cutters
Columbia Street
Indianas
Perth
Dreier & Bro
A. E. Carroll
Indiana School
Fitch & Sons
Real Estate Bulletin
Eee
Monroe W. Fitch & Sons
Opp
P. O
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
George S. Fowler
Harriet W. Fowler
Douglas Ave
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