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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1901
Page
16
Fort Wayne hosts the thirty third annual gathering of the 129th Indiana Volunteers led by the late Col C A Zollinger. Officers elected, reports given, and a campfire program with remarks by Mayor Berghoff and Emory Melendy highlight a day of reunion activities and reminiscing.
The secretary’s register lists officers and soldiers present including Adjutant H. G. Melendy and Capt. Joan Cole, with many lieutenants and privates across Companies A to K. It also notes honorary members B. F. Seymour, J. W. Vordermark, and J. H. Graham. REGIMENTAL HISTORY recalls the 129th Indiana Regiment raised in 1863–64, mustered March 1, 1864, with Col. Charles Case and Lt. Col. Zollinger. Case resigned June 1, 1864.
The 129th Indiana Infantry Regiment left Michigan City March 80 1864 and, under Lt Col Zollinger, moved through Louisville to Nashville and east Tennessee. It fought near Decatur and Strawberry Run, pursued Hood, fought at Franklin, and manned provost duties in Charlotte before mustering out August 29 1865 at Charlotte, N C, returning to Indianapolis with 508 men.
Mrs. Lucinda Kintz of Fort Wayne was elected district president of the Twelfth district Womans Relief Corps at the Elkhart meeting. Mrs. Mary Aline of Nappanee named vice president. About forty delegates from twenty three corps in Elkhart Stuben Lagrange Noble DeKalb Whitley and Allen counties attended. A public evening meeting featured speeches by J. S. Dodge and R. J. Parrett.
Nickel Plate road offers low rate hunters tickets valid Sept 24 to Nov 15 for designated points in Wisconsin Michigan and the Southwest via connections. Contact C A Asterlin Fort Wayne Indiana for details. Justice Bullerman united Miss Cora Snyder and David N Marquardt of Monroeville in marriage last week.
Senator Beveridge returns from six months abroad and advocates a strong orient trade policy. He envisions a new company to unite principal salt producers in the United States Canada and Britain and outlines bond funding for a 50 year 5 percent gold bond mortgage plan with most bonds to be exchanged and much of the money kept in treasury.
Senator Beveridge and Marquis Ito are cited on America's eastern question and the opening of Oriental markets. Beveridge argues the Isthmian canal will boost U S trade with the Orient, requiring open ports to keep markets active and to relieve national surplus. Ito is praised as a pivotal figure in Japan's constitutional progress.
A pretty country wedding was solemnized last Wednesday by Rev. McCarthy of Leo, uniting Miss Lottie Ely and Frank Q. Current. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ely. The ceremony occurred at the family home with palm and fall blossom decorations. Attendants were Miss Unn Hunter and George Swain. A sumptuous repast followed, and the couple left for a bridal tour. They will reside on Rivermet Avenue, Lakeside.
The county commissioners recessed last Thursday without settling with Auditor William Meyer’s bondsmen. They demand his resignation as the path to retirement funds, but Meyer refuses to resign and cannot be found at his usual haunts. Legal action may follow to force his resignation, while the settlement remains postponed by mutual consent.
The schedule includes registration and social chats during the afternoon. In the afternoon there will be a program of addresses and a campfire will be held in the evening.
Rev Philip Wambsganss Sr a German Lutheran minister in Indiana dies at his daughter Mrs Schmidt home six miles east of Decatur aged 78. He served DeKalb Adams counties and Fort Wayne. survived by three children Rev Philip Wambsganss Rev Frederick Wambsganss and Mrs Schmidt. Funeral Friday at 2 pm from Union township Lutheran church with burial in local cemetery.
The board of school trustees will receive bids for the new public library building on Thursday evening October 31. Architect Grindle supervised completion of plans and specifications. more than three hundred blueprints are in the plan sets.
Miss Tracy Behrlinger domestic for Rezser McClure of 385 Washington Blvd was struck by a Nickel Plate train at St Marys avenues crossing last week. She was hurled about fifteen feet but suffered only a severe shaking and was taken home on Hendricks Street after treatment by Dr W D Calvin.
The speaker dismisses reports that a kinetoscope artist captured views of himself and Count Tolstoi for a U.S. lecture tour. He says he spent half a day with Tolstoi, did not discuss subjects, and did not participate in any films. Burton Holmes photographed Tolstoi in Russia, but the speaker is not in those views.
Abe Morehouse was bitten by a rattlesnake in Port Jervis on October 3. A Susquehanna doctor arrived after a bandage was applied to the leg to stop bleeding. Mosquitoes swarmed and fed on the venom, killing the toxin and leaving Morehouse lively when the physician arrived.
New York Oct 3 The World reports the International Salt Company formed in New Jersey with capital $30,000,000 to control global salt mines and issue bonds totaling $12,000,600. The new trust aims to dominate salt production worldwide.
Indianapolis News field correspondent notes Fort Wayne Democrats prefer Judge Hench over Robinson, while Allen County backs Hench but Robinson holds nationwide district appeal. No Republican nominee yet, Dr. McGoogan rumored to run, leveraging revenue-collector reach to campaign nationwide.
F Bowser and C A Dunkleberg spent three weeks in Newfoundland with a guide and hunted caribou. Bowser shot one buck and two does while Dunkleberg took two does and a calf buck, marking a successful trip.
Miss Hattie LaMar and Louis B. Auger were married at 5 o'clock last Thursday at the Berry Street M E parsonage with Rev H J Norris officiating. The couple will reside at 16 East Washington after visiting Buffalo.
The piece argues maternity does not ruin beauty and praises Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for preventing nausea soothing nerves improving appetite and easing childbirth. A Wisconsin resident Mrs. Orrin Stiles reports a painless birth 11 pound baby with rapid recovery and no uterine trouble. The ad notes thousands of testimonials for womanly diseases and warns against unknown substitutes.
President William H. Ringwall and Secretary Levi Craig call veterans to the fifteenth annual reunion to be held at the court house assembly room in Fort Wayne on Thursday at 10 o clock.
Nearly a hundred illustrations accompany a concise veterinary work describing diseases of common farm animals. It advocates humane treatment, rejects bleeding and blistering, and covers topics from cattle diseases and Texan fever to feeding and humane horse care.
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