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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1908
Page
9
A warm greeting frames Taft welcome events as Home Friends extend hearty hospitality. The feature highlights community hosts and newcomer reception styles. Residents share aims of friendly neighborhoods and shared traditions.
Secretary Taft arrives in Cincinnati at 8 10 am to a sea of admirers with brother Charles Taft and running mate James Sherman. A citywide welcome parade gathers crowds along central avenue to Taft residence as Sherman and Taft exchange greetings and praise after a long convention.
An advertisement touts Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills for quick relief from pain headaches rheumatism neuralgia and other pains. The ad claims fast effect pleasant tablets sold by druggists nationwide at 25 cents for 25 doses and warns against bulk sales. It cites endorsements from a station agent and mentions Battle Creek Iowa as part of the contact.
Secretary A. Thompson of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress and P. A. Randall spoke at New Haven town hall on Friday about the Toledo Fort Wayne and Chicago ship canal. W. E. Bowers of the New Haven Herald presided. A similar meeting is planned for Wabash next Wednesday.
Announcement of a civil service examination for rural mail carrier positions in Fort Wayne on Saturday July 18. Applicants must file by July 8. Finance Clerk W J Hess will provide further details at Fort Wayne.
Paris reports the banns of Madame Anna Gould and Prince Helie de Sagan published in Paris Arrondissements. The couple, ages 33 and 49, will wed within a fort night in a quiet ceremony with limited guests. Protestant rite planned. Count de Castellane may pursue custody but lawyers doubt success.
The sixty second annual commencement at St Augustine's academy filled the library hall as two graduates, Miss Marie Anne Noland and Miss Marie Margaret Kelly, received diplomas. Bishop Alerding praised the sisters and stressed devotion to duty, while the musical program featured a Rossini two piano duet and various vocal and piano numbers.
Bishop Alerding urges graduates to hold to right ideals and Christian principles learned in school. He stresses the need for religious teaching and a Christian home to shape future life and vocation.
Four boys under twelve faced the juvenile court on a petty theft charge for taking twenty five cents worth of apples from Aurentz grocery. The affidavit by Charles Haag aimed at curbing repeated raids, with Jesse Patton overseeing until facts are gathered.
Four Honeick children were placed in the care of their maternal relatives after a juvenile court hearing Saturday. Their mother is hospitalized at Lutheran Hospital where she underwent surgery and receives free hospital services. William Honeick remains in the county jail serving a $10 fine, costs, and a ten day sentence for failing to provide for his family. The case was ruled aggravated and the public was notified of the family taking charge.
Registered at Wayne hotel Friday night was a party of eastern republicans making the trip homeward from the Chicago convention in an automobile. The party included two of the original Taft men R F Wolf and H P Wolf owners of the Ohio State Journal and the Columbus Evening Dispatch, and a party of guests including Congressman Taylor of Columbus Congressman Barchfield of Pittsburg J L Vance J F Stone C Meeker and Edgar Wolf. Two Packard touring cars carried the gentlemen.
Ernst F. Bueker of Abbott township was badly hurt ten days ago when he was pitched from his carriage as it was struck by an auto buggy west of the city. He was in the city Saturday and still suffers head injuries, though he is recovering rapidly. He recalls little about the accident due to unconsciousness.
Laporte Ind June 20. Attorney H W Worden for Ray Lamphere indicted for the murder of Mrs Belle Gunness and others says authorities ignore signs she is alive. He urges subscriptions for a reward fund payable on Gunness’s capture alive and cites a Missouri tip. Dr Walter Haynes reports arsenic and strychnine in Andrew Helgelein’s stomach, the first victim linked to the private cemetery deaths.
President praises Gen. Luke E Wright for secretary of war appointment succeeding Taft. Wright, Tennessee native and former diplomat to Japan, is lauded for administrative skill and wartime leadership in the Philippines, Panama, and Cuba.
The Cincinnati meeting on June 20 adjourned without a chairman for the Republican national committee after discussing multiple candidates. An adjournment for further talks in Washington on July 1 was decided, with Myron T. Herrick authorized to release the official statement. Hitchcock confirmed health reasons prevented consideration, while Tawney Lodenslager and McKinley were floated as possible successors.
The article notes Luke E Wright declining public discussion of succeeding Secretary Taft as war secretary, while General Wright, former ambassador to Japan, is anticipated to join Roosevelt's cabinet. It recalls Wright’s career from Philippine commissioner to ambassador, and mentions his Democratic successor as attorney general of Tennessee.
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