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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1907
Page
3
Numerous ceremonies across Toledo area mark weddings of Eva Bowser to Leland Fox Johnson and several others. Lauderdale events feature elaborate decor, formal processions, and receptions at family homes with out-of-town guests from Crawfordsville Bellevue Bellevue and Kalamazoo.
A sequence of weddings from Bloomingdale features Miss Edith Moeller and John Schmidt at St. John's Reformed Church with a elaborate reception at the bride's home, plus Amelia Stock and Adelbert Rager planning Niagara and eastern trips. Emma Myers and William McDonald tied quietly at St. John's parsonage, with travels planned east and future home on Oakland Avenue. Additional nuptials include Henry Rager, Miss Margaret Stock, and Miss Maud Jackson in local ceremonies with guests from Cincinnati and Decatur attending.
Multiple marriages reported this week across city neighborhoods. Becker-Hoffman and Houk-Grodrian weddings note simple ceremonies and family gatherings. Montague and Nyboer nuptials describe quiet Cathedral and parsonage ceremonies with brief receptions. Vernacular details describe gowns, bouquets, and post ceremony trips.
A honey moon gathering at Canton Ohio features Mr. and Mrs. C L Taylor hosted by Mrs Taylor’s uncle William Prince. Other guests include Mrs Josie Morgan thall and friends from Bluffton Fort Wayne and Lake township. A separate Lake township gathering and a large Fair family reunion in St John Indiana October 15 draw many relatives from Indiana and Colorado.
The Toledo and Chicago interurban will revert to a two hour timetable when the Waterloo extension from Auburn opens on November 1. Cars now run hourly and a half. the change targets summer operation and will boost passenger and express business as the line reaches Waterloo.
In Auburn Indiana on October 22 Miss Ethel Wastler married Claude Parker of Garrett at Rev S F Slaters Lutheran church. The couple left for a wedding tour including Indianapolis and Fort Wayne. The bride is Mrs Wastler's daughter and Parker runs Garretts largest newsstand and music store.
The Presbyterian congregation of Auburn Indiana will meet at the church on Wednesday evening to vote on the next pastor. The pulpit has been vacant since Rev Branda resigned months ago with several candidates having preached here recently.
In Auburn Indiana on October 22 Judge Bratton granted Zelma Cramer a divorce from Solomon Cramer. The couple reside at Butler. Sydney Hardy of Garrett was also granted a divorce from Nellie Hardy.
Over one hundred ladies from Waterloo Lagrange Garrett Butler Ligonier Goshen Elkhart Columbia City and more attended the Twelfth district Women's Relief Corps meeting at Maccabee hall in Auburn. Officers for the coming year include Mary Simpson president J W Stoner vice president and Clara Zimmermann secretary.
Samuel B. Rathbone of the federal postoffice department visited Auburn Indiana to consider bids for a new city postoffice. Dr W H Nusbaum’s bid was accepted and construction began on a two story cement block building on Seventh street. The post office will occupy the lower floor with Company K Indiana National Guard using the upper floor as an armory. occupancy aimed for February 1, 1908.
The funeral of the late engineer Thomas Francis Haley was held with tributes paid to his memory by railroad colleagues and officials. The service honored Haley's decades of service and dedication to the railway community.
A large funeral service was held Tuesday at St Patrick's church for Mr Haley with Rev J F Delaney officiating. Pallbearers included Dr G M Leslie B W Cullen John Salmon and Locomotive Engineers members Jeremiah McCarthy Joseph Leeper and Joseph Harber. Interment followed in Catholic cemetery. Haley praised as exemplary and a strong temperance advocate who once aided a dismissed co worker to regain good standing. He married Florence Hoehen in Dixon Ohio on October 12 1898 and leaves four children W Karl John Norman Thomas Lester and Pauline Edith Haley.
Theodore D Griley of the Nickel Plate depot resigns and plans to sail from New York to Panama where he has a promised position as a government stenographer. His father Michael Griley, a former Nickel Plate engineer, has lived in Panama two years with son George also an engineer. Mrs Griley and several children joined them recently. Edna Griley stays behind a short time while Theodore departs next week and Edna will join later.
The Grand Rapids and Indiana road brought two train loads of excursionists to Fort Wayne Tuesday morning with 534 people aboard the annual trip from Grand Rapids and south of that city. The crowd, the smallest in twelve years, plans a day of shopping and visiting friends before returning home at 7 pm. An old brakeman was injured during the events.
George W Williams a veteran freight flagman for the Pennsylvania railroad lay in a Chicago hospital after a fall from a car in the yards. His back injuries are not serious but the physician advised rest and hospital treatment to speed recovery. Williams is 57 and has long service with the line.
The Pennsylvania Special struck a team of mules at a Conway Ohio street crossing early Thursday, killing one mule and injuring none of the driver or the second mule. The wagon and team were pushed to the roadside as rain pummeled at fifty miles per hour. Engineer George Kensill operated the engine.
Drase Moody, a Syrian shop yard worker in Ed Ehinger’s gang at the Wabash yards, had his left foot crushed Friday morning when he missed a foothold on switch engine 181. Amputation at the instep likely after bones were crushed and skin torn. Moody was taken to Peru hospital with Dr C F Kandt attending. He arrived in America three years ago and Fort Wayne two years ago. he is unmarried.
General Superintendent Harry Fisher of the Bass foundry received a letter from Roxie Farland a strike breaker leader who denies rumors he was murdered in Cleveland and says he is alive well and employed as a moulder in a large Detroit foundry sending regards to the workers.
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