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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1900
Page
11
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Local notes report births in Huntington with Mc Cuen and Eingleben families on John and Dawson streets. Drayer to occupy vacated Sie men offices. Conklin moves within Calhoun street. he runs a music store. First Presbyterian board of trustees reelects old officers. George Levine recovering after cancer surgery in St Joseph hospital, now back home. Neizer family returns to Monroeville after visiting Eggemann and Rundell families. Neizer sells farm implements there. Wagon wheel mishap near the St Joe river injures a Springfield township couple. Charles Stults plans in Colorado. notes from Huntington Herald about Briants’ 1870s visit. Hoffman and Miss Annette Rosenbaum marry at Barr street home with small reception. Architect Riedel drafts Colonia dormitory for I S F M V Y farm to house 200. brick from local brickyard. Colonia to begin after last year’s wing. two-story brick, basement, similar size to Sunset Cottage. Fort Wayne Commercial Club committee studies county fair plans. vote set for Feb 22. Club supports county fair. final formation depends on citizen interest.
Mrs. D. W. Stoner of the east end is confined at home after a pan of boiling water scalded her right fast. Charles Benton a lad at Gage's broom factory on West Main street lost part of his index finger when his hand was caught in a strawcutting machine Wednesday afternoon. A main shaft at Bloomingdale mills broke Wednesday afternoon and the engine hurled broken machinery about the mill, though no one was injured.
Adjutant General Corbin confirms receipt of $250 in Fort Wayne subscriptions for the Lawton mortgage fund. He notes citizens’ regard for General Lawton, his widow and orphaned children, and promises individual acknowledgments to subscribers as Captain William F. Ranke transmits the gifts from Fort Wayne.
The Olds Wagon Works held its annual meeting electing H G Olds as president W H Olds as vice president and treasurer Noble G Olds as secretary and directors H G Olds Charles McCulloch W H Olds N G Olds and J A Shepard The past year’s business was greatly increased and the firm reports strong domestic sales and growing shipments to Cuba and Porto Rico.
A 6 o clock Tuesday wedding took place at the bride’s home on Cass street. Arlon B. Himes and Miss Gertrude McKee, both of the city, were joined by Rev. F. T. Simpson of the Fort Wayne M. E. church. Guests witnessed the ceremony and a lavish supper followed. The couple will reside at 138 Cass street.
The Fort Wayne club considers a reorganization with Auditor William Meyer collecting signatures. Proposed dues drop to 50 cents monthly from 2 to 3 dollars to fit income. The plan includes using the club building on Harrison street to streamline operations.
At the annual meeting the Fort Wayne Freie Presse Publishing company elected Louis Curdes C J Scheimann Theodore Thorward A C F Wiechman George Motz Herman Mackwitz and Dr W C Gross as directors. A directors meeting will be held next week to elect officers.
Mrs F G Olds grand district deputy of the Daughters of Pocahontas and thirty of forty members from Minnewa council will travel by the Findlay train to Baldwin Indiana to institute Tioga council No 130 with thirty one charter members. The group leaves early to perform their mission in Baldwin.
A banquet will be held after the lodge exercises to honor visiting members of the Baldwin Red Men auxiliary Tioga council is to be formed as an auxiliary unit to the lodge with the banquet serving as a welcome event.
On Wednesday the architecture firm Meyer and Stock dissolved with M. J. Stock retiring. Henry Meyer will continue the business at 108 Calhoun Street. Stock has not decided his next move, but may enter another line of work.
A dilapidated house east of the City Trucking barns along the Nickel Plate railway burned Thursday afternoon. The landmark building owned by L. P. Stapleford had housed several families recently.
Hon James M Barrett answers William Kaough on county and township elections. He details that at the next general election three councilmen at large and one from each of four districts are to be elected, with eligibility rules for voters and residents. He also outlines township advisory boards of three freeholders and road supervisors elected by township voters.
In Bridgeport on February 7 William J. Bryan reported after his New England swing drawing 45 000 listeners in eighteen cities that democratic sentiment is rising. He contrasted Lincoln era Republicans with today noting wealth and restricted opportunity curb the young. He warned the young must aim higher than clerical roles.
Within a week the offices of Readmakers' Supply in the Bank block will be closed as the firm rapidly liquidates its affairs and goes out of business. The move followed Fleming Manufacturing's withdrawal from the organization. Manager Landenberg will return to the Indiana Road Machine Company works.
Directors meet to fill vacancy from Professor Duemling's resignation extend formal invitation to Rev. B Dorn of New York. Dorn is expected to accept the position and begin duties soon.
City Clerk Manning reports Mrs. J. H. Wilder now resides in Wyoming Ohio and will inform her sister Mrs Hop son in the east of the latest whereabouts. E W Groves signature appears on each box. Five cents with mail to March 1.
Indiana state board of commerce adopted a resolution to appoint a commission of nine to twenty five members from smaller cities to draft bills for a reform charter using a federal style government. The board also noted the county reform law cuts county tax levies by over 80 thousand dollars and reduces county expenses by about 2 million compared with the previous law.
Help wanted by The Paul Mfg. Co. at the corner of 6th and North Calhoun Bloomingdale seeking butts or small timber of any kind.
C F Pfeiffer rooms in Bass Block advertise loans from 500 dollars upward at 5, 533 and 6 percent depending on loan size and security. Swayne & Swayne at 2411 promise prompt money and allow interest payments of 100 dollars or multiples on date. Also notes on Codex Sinaiticus in St Petersburg library and a medical claim about epilepsy cure by Dr. G Thain at 273 West Washington St.
G Scheffler, longtime tailor at 43 West Main, retires due to age. H W Kruse, formerly at 170 Calhoun, moves into Scheffler’s former Main street shop.
Mayor Scherer received a letter from Daniel J. Downing of No 239 Fifth Street South Boston asking for his brother John J Downing whom he has not seen for thirteen years and who is believed to live in Fort Wayne.
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