Lagra High School Commissioned and New Elevators Open
Readable items report Lagra High School being commissioned, Wolcottville grain elevators entering operation, and multiple local events including deaths, crimes, and public works across northern Indiana. The list notes Peru merchant Henry Graf dead, Ossian line extensions to Nine Mile, and other regional incidents.
News and Gossip from Indiana counties including births deaths and notable events
A digest of local items from Lagrange Huntington Wells and surrounding counties notes Rev Zeigler accepting Grace Lutheran Columbia City pastorate Dr Shaffer age 80 drives six miles for a birthday, a deconsecrated baby with limb loss, divorces court actions and arrests, a Garrett postmaster obituary, school fund apportionments, bank officer elections, vaudeville and circus news, fatalities, marriages anniversaries and community incidents across multiple towns with names and places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Zeigler
Lagrange
Grace Lutheran Church
Columbia City
A. H. Shaffer
Huntington
Moses Sweezey
Wabash
J. H. Holcomb
Wells County
North Carolina
Garrett
Wells
Noble
Steuben
Jay
Kosciusko
First National Bank of Lagrange
Katharine R. Williams
Lima
Leon Rose
J. I. Morris
George P. Robinson
Samuel Shepardson
J. J. Gillette
Frank Regisser
Steuben County
France
Prince Napoleon
Frank Richards
Decatur
Michigan
S. J. Risen
Risen
Richards
Methodist Book Concern
New Odd Fellows
Logansport
Longcliffe Asylum
Huffman
James H. ‘Veed
Kokomo
Weed
Rush County
Howard County
Taft
B. E. Wallace
Wallace
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Mel H. Summy
Warsaw
William Gunter
Zachariah Gunter
Jackson Townships
Attorn v
Sammy
Death in Pennsylvania Railroad Yard Accident
Levi A L Bixler a passenger car repairman for the Pennsylvania company was fatally injured when a backing engine struck him in Fort Wayne on the No 6 track near Clinton and Lafayette streets He died at St Joseph hospital at 6 45 am The incident left him with a severed leg and severe head injuries He was 34 born October 5 1864 and survived by wife Mary Koehnlein and three children Harry Marie and Dorothy plus siblings and parents all noted with Mennonite church ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angela Wil
Emmett W. Waltman
Noble County
Wolf Lake
C. G. R. Waterhouse
Kendallville
Ignatius Meyer
Avilla
Col. B. E. Wallace
Wallace & Hagenbeck
Peru
Carl Smith
Decatur
Verna Shipley
Chicago
Culver
D. D. Dykeman
Indiana
Logansport
Laura Hunlinger
Marion
Philip Wambsgauss, Jr
New Orleans
Philip Wambsganss
Fort Wayne
Gustave Schmelling
South Bend
Albert Fowerbaugh
Polk Township
Huntington County
Mary Vernerder
Huntington
W. H. Cottrell
William Richardson
Union Township
Whitley County
Mary C.norris
Denver
Miami County
Longcliffe Asylum
Isaac Jenkinson
Richmond
William Mitchell
Congress
A. A. Chapin
Angola
Robert Routledge
First Baptist Church
el Cristo
Cuba
Santiago de Cuba
Charles Hartley
Bluffton
R. Q. Taviner
James Nickerson
Troy City
Nickerson
James A. Cross
Cross
Ernest Chaney
Hartford City
Old Town
Monroe Street
A. R. Richhart
United Brethren Church
Atwood
Warsaw
Stephen A. Powers
Anagla
Steuben
DeKalb
Steuben County
Clarke Powers
George McConnell
John Graves
Koscinsko
Francis Bowser
Kosciusko County Bar Association
Lemuel Royse
Graves
Arbuckle-Ryan Harvester Company
Toledo
Plymouth Chronicle
Lee Harris
James Harris
Wabash
Jerry Wallace
Columbia City
George Shields
Garrett
Reform School
Plainfield
Oliver S. Greenwood
Goshen
Michigan City
David Drecsler
Scott Township
Cline
Elizabeth Eberhart
Warren Township
Frederick H. Ferguson
Nappanee
Frank Schumacher
Matthias Johnson
Theodore Johnson
James H. Stone
Mary Walker
Inez Case
Elkhart
Abba Barnhart
Waterloo
Sim’ Barnhart
Cincinnati
Wells County
Arch Waugh
Lucy Terrell-Wolfe
Melvin Wolfe
John Terrell
Part
Ati
L. A. L. Bixler
Wall Street
Pennsylvania Company
Pennsylvania Special
Round House
Bixler
Clinton
Lafayette
J. W. McCarthy
F. W. Bandt
St. Joseph Hospital
Levi Abraham Lincoln Bixler
Abraham Bixler
Allen County
Gar Creek
Beaver
Broadway
Electric
Mary Koehnlein
Harry
Marie
Dorothy
J. Ensch
John Fedderspeil
Nancy Lowrey
Samuel Bixler
Wakalusa
Pennsylvania Voluntary Relief Association
Mennonites Church
Rev
B. B. Kane
Wreck Near Dotsero Devastates Colorado Train
Twenty three people die and many are injured when Denver and Rio Grande passenger No5 collides with a freight near Dotsero Colorado. The crash kills most in the chair car and a four year old girl survives under her mother. Relieved crews aid the injured and extinguish a post collision fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver, Colo
Denver and
Rio Grande
Dotsero
Glenwood Springs
Gleenwood Springs
Glenwood
Colorado
Olson
Edward McCurdy
Alice Williams
Towa
John Anderson
Gus Olson
Sig Olson
Harry Jeffries
Hammond
Fraser
Pueblo
Spraint Ankle Slows Passenger Engineer at City Line
Passenger Engineer C. J. Pearson of the Pennsylvania slipped while alighting from his engine as he prepared to take the Manhattan limited on Wednesday afternoon. He severely sprained one ankle and could not make the trip. Pearson is one of the road's veteran workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. J. Pearson
Pennsylvania
Mr. Pearson
Machinist Injured In Locomotive Roundhouse Incident
C. H. Skillman of the Pennsylvania erecting shop was injured Friday while removing an equalizer from a locomotive at the roundhouse. A released spring struck him a terrific blow, threatening possible lasting injury over several days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Skillman
Pennsylvania
Round House
Initiation Ceremonies Set by Ancient Order of Hibernians
The Ancient Order of Hibernians will initiate a large class Friday evening with degrees to be conferred on listed candidates including Rev. BE Mungovan Patrick Cleary Henry Beckman Thomas Robert Edward Brennan Andrew OMeet? Patrick Callahan and others. A social session will follow the degree work with Joseph Brennan giving the first degree and Samuel J Errington directing the second and fourth degrees by Harry G. Fligan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ancient
Order of Hibernians
BE. J. Mungovan
Patrick Cleary
Henry Beckman
Thomas Robert
Edward J. Brennan
Andrew O’meara
Patrick Callahan
Thomas Finan
Timothy McCarthy
Edward Reddington
M. J. Reilly
John >. Raidy
Martin Racht
Joseph Monahan
Hugh P. Hogan
Prescott Brothers Commemorate 85th Birthday in Vermont
O O Prescott of Middlebury celebrated his 85th birthday on Wednesday in company with his brother A S Prescott who is nearing his 80th birthday. They are the last surviving brothers of a family originally six. All others have died, most in Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. O. Prescott
Middlebury
A. S. Prescott
Vermont
Ater. Ae Pty Ana
O. Prescott
Also Mentioned on This Page
Northern
Lagra
Wolcottville
Henry Graf
Ossian Telephone Company
Nine Mile
Simon Boesinger
Girls of
Ellis
W. C. Pearse
Geneva
Benjamin Burkett
Kosciusko County
C. W. Koehlinger
William Stedman
Miami
Orville Whitford
Loransport Asylum
George Simmons
Elmer McDaniel
North Manchester
Wyfells County
Daniel Quinn
Lancaster Township
W. M. Howenstine
Geoblesville
Butler
Herman Tabbert
Mishawaka
Hartington
Goitre
Judge Cook
Kenny Hockensmith
Goldie Broom
Dora
Ned L. Baker
Indiana University
Indiana Union Traction Company
Ella LaPointe
Florence Besancon
Court’ of Claims
Washington
Omer Fodge
Levi Fodge
Gertrude Wilkin
Paul Meyers
Leesburg
Myers
Wil
Richmond Insane Asylum
James Long
Berne
John Fretz
Washington Dustman
Knights of Pythias
St. Joe
Auburn
Margaret Wilsey
William Pence
DeKalb County
William Fox
Albert Reynolds
Reynolds
Fred Griner
Wilbur Dotts
John Basinger
Manchester
Glenn Harshbarger
Burge
George Bucknell
Middlebury Township
C. H. Good
Warren
Ralph K. Barr
Longcliffe
Living Church
Protestant Episcopal Church
Arthur Clark
Chicago, Lake Shore
South Bend Interurban
Clark
Jacob Weaver
Weaver
Rigney
Hel River Valley Creamery Company
Silas Holloway
Henry N. Slater
Albert V. Holloway
William Pleanitz
Herman Scheerer
Eaton
Muncie
H. G.hampton
James Atkinson
Fred Gust
L. A
Hibernian
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