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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1899
Page
3
A local advertisement lists prices for sugar flour coffee tea tobaccos cigars and pond goods. Included are fine granulated sugar 414c per bag, cut loaf sugar 54¢ per pound, package coffees 10c per pound, fine teas 30 40 and 50c per pound, tobaccos 22 35 25 cents per pound, cigars 90c to 2.50 per hundred, fish products in pails and kegs, machine oil neatsfoot oil caster oil, and stoneware jars and jugs priced per unit.
The Greatest Grocery's Fresh Meat Market has enlarged its space and is doing brisk business in beef veal lamb and pork roasts tender steaks fresh pork shoulders and chops spare ribs pork sausage blood pudding liver pudding and a wide range of cured and processed meats.
Advertisement offers savings on butter eggs poultry and other grocery items with a promise of lower prices in every purchase.
For sale the best paying retail confectionery business in the city cheap if taken at once. Call or address J. S. Batchelder, 29 West Main Street.
Former members of the Twentyeighth Indiana battery plan a first annual reception at Sons of Columbus hall on Wednesday evening November 22. The organizing committee promises a liberal program featuring dances and a successful social event.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles 8 Bash.
T E Ellison visits Indianapolis on business. Births report a son to Mr. and Mrs J H Foulks of 160 Webster, and a daughter to Mr. and Mrs William Strebig of 36 Marion. Various local events include church dedications, militia planning, medical procedures, marriages, and accidents around Fort Wayne and neighboring towns.
The last Indiana legislature raised counts of officials adults must deal with in public business. A compiled list should cover state officers and deputies, heads of institutions, judges, county and township officers, assessors, trustees, superintendents, and many others totaling about 10 000 names and addresses. UNCLE SAM Stamps. Remember.
Joseph Harris, a longtime city resident, died at 5 p.m. Sunday at his home 32 Chestnut Street near the east yards. He was 75 and had been ill for some time. The immediate cause was a liver abscess. A German native, he leaves a widow and five children. He was a devoted Catholic church member.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Turnbull of 87 John Street died Saturday evening. Funeral services were held privately at the couple's residence Monday morning.
On Sunday a police trail of blood started at Kellar and Braun's stone yard on Pearl street then moved through Main Street and Brackenridge to Fairfield and Taylor. Fred Gruer a bricklayer living on Home avenue was found bleeding and taken to hospital after being picked up Saturday night. he recovered enough to go home Sunday.
A Texas man, W. D. Street, launches a novel floating sawmill using a large vessel and a log lift to convert waterlogged cypress logs in the Sabine River into lumber and shingles. The plan requires machinery and labor only, with ample timber claimed to supply years of operation and no competing log claims.
A young man described as part of a respected Decatur family was visited Sunday in the city prison by his father and brother, highlighting family concern over his confinement.
Examinations at Wayne township high school show exceptionally high averages in both the first year and preparatory grades. Principal Methley commends the school as very successful with sixteen students in the first year and thirty in the preparatory division. Ida Fairfield won a special prize for best Latin exam. Trustee Schmetzer is credited for establishing the school, which offers higher instruction to local children.
Sunday morning near the Esmond mill the boy slipped and fell into the St Marys river. He was overcome by cramps and sank but was pulled from the water by George Gore and Ned Parks who were fishing nearby. He suffered no ill effects from the ducking.
Attorney Charles Eckart secretary of the Jeffersonian league issues a public challenge to the Soldiers Sons and Citizens Club for a joint debate on imperialism trusts or finance. Any designated speaker and time acceptable and the event open to all members and the public.
Eleven year old Frank Neerdale Jr the son of Mr and Mrs Frank Neerdale of South Wayne avenue was fishing when he fell into the river. Rescue crews were summoned as neighbors watched.
Claude Reiling admitted to the mayor that he stole an $12 shirt from Mrs. Masterson at the International Business College and stole $45.68 from a Holman Street boarding house landlady. He planned the theft, watching another boarder handle the money. The mayor bound him over to the circuit court in $500.
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