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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1909
Page
7
The merry month of May opened with snow flurries and cold winds eclipsing spring. Citizens endured a wintry day as coal orders rose, city workers postponed cleaning up as Mayor Hosey urged, and forecasts warned of continued cold with frost and more flurries expected tonight and Sunday.
Weekly report cites Fort Wayne bank clearings of 777,398.43 this week versus 1,018,184.88 last week and 949,223.06 a year ago. Daily totals are listed, and a Sentinel comparison to 25 years ago notes banks’ deposits and loans have surged, with CDs now eighteen times and individual deposits about three times higher.
An ad for Mother Gray's Australian Leaf offers relief for back pains urinary bladder and kidney trouble and female illnesses. It claims a safe regulator that relieves inflammation ulcers and female weaknesses. Sold by druggists or by mail 50 cents sample free The Mother Gray Co Le Roy N Y
Andrew Jackson Hodgins,habing walked most of the way, was picked up on Walton avenue by Patrolman Joseph Golden. He claimed his parents died in Oklahoma and that he aims for Montreal. Judge Skelton postponed to Tuesday to allow rest. Other cases include Emil Miller fined for drunkenness after chasing girls with a revolver, Frank LaDuke fined, Jacob Miller suspended fine, and two drifters Connerty and Jones ordered to leave town.
Within four or five months B F Pettitt will begin a six story reinforced concrete warehouse on East Columbia street. The site between Lafayette street and Nickel Plate tracks is owned by Mrs E H McDonald and exchanges about 8000 dollars. Pettitt plans to invest about 30000 dollars more and aims to have the building ready for business by mid fall. The frame structure now on the site will be razed to remove an eyesore and improve the square’s appearance.
Gary Indiana May 1 William Rose his wife and two children were killed when their buggy on the Chicago Lake Shore and South Bend interurban line was purposely stopped on the track by a drinking driver. The family from Tolleston Indiana perished in the crash.
In Indianapolis on May 1 William J Dodd and his son Ernest were instantly killed when their buggy was struck by a fast Chicago bound train on the Monon railroad at East Twenty fourth street crossing. Wife Anna fatally injured and two other Dodds children were at home.
A Fort Wayne reader notes a local parallel to an earlier Sentinel item about three Perry sisters marrying three California brothers. In Fort Wayne, Henry Herman and Hubert Berghoff wed Theresa Bergie and Hannah Myers, while Gustave Berghoff married a Myers cousin. All are living except Mrs Herman Berghoff who died years ago.
An advertisement touts a medicine labeled as a famous health builder that will cleanse the bowels and restore them to proper function unaided. It claims to preserve health and strength better than any tonic or remedy available.
President J Levering Jones of the Fort Wayne and Wa bash Valley Traction announces ten new city cars at four thousand dollars each and a Lafayette power plant at a total outlay of about one hundred twenty five thousand dollars. He said no extension of the interurban system will occur in Fort Wayne for the foreseeable future and that the city may buy a controlling interest at cost if desired.
Evansville Indiana May 1 Fort Wayne was selected as the next meeting place by the state convention of the Travelers Protective association at the Grand Opera house this morning. Delegates planned to watch the Evansville Fort Wayne Central league game this afternoon. Elmer E Lebo of Richmond was elected president by acclamation with W D Chambers of Terre Haute as secretary and treasurer. Other officers include John Watt Fort Wayne and F O Rudy Anderson as vice presidents. Directors named from Terre Haute Indianapolis Frankfort and other cities. Committees appointed for Railroads Press Legislation Hotel and Employment.
Indianapolis April 30 Letters to Governor Marshall from Judge Walter Funk and Prosecuting Attorney Cyrus Pattee said he will not be required to obey a subpoena to testify about alleged prize fights in South Bend. Funk noted he learned of the subpoena only from a newspaper account and the matter was deemed a useless use of time.
Three Perry sisters married three McCuen brothers in a rare family match. The latest wedding on Grand avenue occurred April 24 at 11 a.m. between Lewis McCuen of Stockton and Jennie Perry Frost of South San Francisco. Earlier, another brother and sister wed at the same place by Rev. Dr. E. B. S. Kizer, completing a triple family marriage.
Mary E. Rose, wife of Firmin Roze, a former Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction conductor, sues for divorce in Huntington circuit court alleging abandonment for six weeks with no support or provision for their five year old. Roze was said to have left the city.
Edward F Schellmann compiles Fort Wayne bank data from 1884 and 1909 showing national banks rising from 3 million to over 13 million in deposits and discounts quadrupling loans. The piece notes no savings banks or trust companies in 1884 and lists 1884 bank officials, of whom Bond Hamilton and McCulloch survive.
C W Lawler, once well connected with Hartford connections and eastern railroads, died of throat wounds in Columbus Indiana after a lifetime of losses. At seventy, he had come to his wife's home years ago in his private car and served as a streetcar conductor.
Catherine T. Dodge widow of Captain Charles Dodge U S A was declared sane by the probate court in Indianapolis restoring her 20000 estate and discharging her guardian. Depositions from Justice Brewer Senator Gallinger and Dr. Arthur supported her sanity. She had been declared unsound mind after her brother had her daughter placed in an asylum. She escaped the Oxford Ohio asylum and returned to Washington. Also reported Kendalville banker John Mitchell died in Paris at 78 and will be returned to America May 6. He helped found Kendalville and leaves a daughter Mrs Archy Campbell and son Rev William Mitchell. Eli Klink noted as a pioneer resident of Snekomane township.
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