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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1894
Page
10
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Local notes report Heldt ill and J Lion Smith in Weedaide while B C Bell rests at West Radian Springs. Hammond soldier Freak Alderman returns home. WW Myers back from Ohio with Dr Croek. Eerie Campbell visits. fisheries talk, Wheat crop hopes, and new water works contracts in Wayne. Social visits include Archer family builds a house. marriages, illnesses, and a gar bage crematory test failure are also noted.
The court grants Artilleszia Sircle a divorce from Emanuel Sircle after allegations of domestic abuse. The couple, once married in New Haven, lived in Fort Wayne where Sircle worked as a brickmaker. Alimony and property near New Haven were awarded to the wife.
In Eel River township Maxwell farm, twenty two year old Chester Chase drowned after joining friends for a swim. The party of threshers from Stephen Hathaway's field saw him vanish as they crossed the pond. Charley Hull recovered the body about eleven pm and Chase's family were shocked by the accident. Authorities note cramps and cold spring-fed water as probable cause.
The state militia encampment debate grows as officers and soldiers push for or against the gathering. Gov confirms a date not before August 15 and notes finances influence. With most troops returning from field duty within two weeks to twenty days, employers may not grant further leave.
The annual synod of the Middle district of the German Lutheran churches will convene in Cleveland on August 1 and run through August 7. Questions of interest to the denomination will be discussed, with Lutheran ministers from the city and a lay delegate from each congregation in attendance.
In five weeks the fall races begin at Fort Wayne driving park with a promising outlook. Purse total reaches 200 dollars. Top stables entered include C. J. Hamlin of Buffalo with Fantasy and Robert J. Alix 207, Saulsbury stables of Pleazanton, Cal with Alix 207, plus entries from M. E. McHenry of Freeport and Ketcham stock farm To.
The committee outlines events for Caledonian field sports on Saturday August 4 with prizes including three gold and seventeen silver first prizes, silver second prizes, and a silver third prize medal. Additional awards include an umbrella cigars baseball bat and ball and $10 in cash.
The English Lutheran Redeemer church held a mission service Sunday afternoon at Concordia College grounds in Hammond Indiana. Rev C Spannuth spoke English urging Lutherans to support English mission work while Rev C F W Meyer spoke in German on Macedonia churches as examples of missionary effort. A Democratic county central committee meeting was announced for July 28 with county officials invited. Nickel Plate Railway offered round trip tickets to St Paul on July 30 and Aug 7. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs James Southern of Hanna street.
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