Metzner and Schwartz Wed in Sep Wedded Home Ceremony
Miss Adele Schwartz and Mr Ralph Metzner wed Thursday afternoon Sept 12 at the bride’s home 2528 South Calhoun in a Lutheran ceremony. Rev Luebro officiated with Ella Beverforden playing Lohengrin and Melody of Love during the service.
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Niagara
Harrison Street
Metzner
Eagle Laundry
Bowser—Kickley
Ida Pearl Kickley
Albert F. Bowser
Charles M. Kickley
Hoagland Avenue
J. F. Vichert
Baptist Church
Willard—McDowell
Mary J. McDowell
George Ellsworth Willard
North
Webster
A. Rowand
Wedding News From Fort Wayne Social Circles
The passage recalls numerous local weddings and engagements in Fort Wayne area society, with ceremonies, receptions, and family gatherings noted. It names brides and grooms, their families, and attending clubs while detailing decorations and venue specifics at various homes and churches.
Navy Ensign Willson Wedding Plans Surprise Guests
Wedding timing shifted from next spring as Ensign Willson completes a fleet cruise starting October. The couple will depart for Boston after the ceremony. Benny is noted for homemaking tastes. Willson hails from M. 8. Willsons and is Annapolis educated with active naval service.
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Willson
Boston
Benny
Mr. Willson
Annapolis
Navy
Autumn Leaf club gathering and Osian social at Paris home
Miss Ethel Wilson hosted the Autumn Leaf club two and a half miles west of the city with twelve members enjoying music by Florence Ohneck Grace Blake and Goldie Weaver. The group will meet next week at Miss Lucile Brown’s home in honor of Miss Gertrude Felts who heads to Denver Colorado.
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Helene F. Siemon
Herman H. Brauer
Henry J. Meyer
Madison Street
Carl Brauer
Chicago
St. Louis
Lydia Brauer
Clara Schmidt
Anna Scherer
Theodore Siemon
Miss Brauer
Miss Schmidt
Brauner
Siemon
Henry J.meyer
C. F. G. Meyer
Semper Idem Club
Henry Berghorn
Washington Township
Frieda’ Berghorn
Ethel Wilson
Autumn Leaf Club
Florence Ohneck
Grace Blake
Goldie Weaver
Lucile Brown
Miner Street
Gertrude Felts
Denver
Col
Miss Wilson
Miss Brown
Ellen Forney
Lulu Lichtsinn
Etta Gombert
Lulu Vatrie
Bessie Carlisle
Valette Taylor
After Long Absence J Harkenrider Visits Friends After Thirty Years
J Harkenrider brother of Sergeant Henry Harkenrider and Jo seph Harkenrider arrived in Fort Wayne for his first visit in thirty years. He left in 1877 for the west and has lived in Estacada Oregon for twenty five years, farming wheat and hay. He noted wet fall prevents corn and visited his aging mother and sister Mrs Anna Palmer in Sheldon who is ill with typhoid fever.
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J. Harkenrider
F. J. Harkenrider
Henry Harkenrider
Joseph Harkenrider
Fort Wayne
West
Estacada
Oregon
Portland
Harkenrider
Sheldon
Anna Palmer
Lakeside Improvement Force Extends Riverfront Work
Lakeside citizens who started river front beautification have expanded operations and placed two crews at work along the east bank of the St. Joe north of the Lakeside bridge. The Maumee front at Edgewater Avenue has also seen a pleasing transformation.
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Lakeside
St. Joe
Lakeside Bridge
Maumee
Edgewater Avenue
Allen county schools in session with few openings
All public schools in Allen county are in session except Jackson township and Monroeville which will open next Monday. County Superintendent Felger reports the year’s work starts promisingly. Monroeville schools have a new principal from Holly, Michigan.
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Jackson Township
Monroeville
Allen County
Felger
Ed Will
Ww. J
Holly, Mich
Ettinger Named Master Mechanic for Wabash Middle Division
Harry C. Ettinger is appointed master mechanic of the Wabash Middle division succeeding E. Needham who becomes superintendent of motive power for the entire system. Ettinger will take the duties September 15 with Springfield as headquarters. He has 25 years with the company rising from fireman to engineer and air brake instructor. Fort Wayne friends welcome the promotion. His successor in the middle division is not yet named.
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Jessie Hanna Heckman
William C. Heckman
Chicago
Roscoe Vinton Wood
Virginia N. Wood
Barnesvile
Hanna Homestead
Lewis Street
Miss Heckman
Fred J. Haydden
Fort Wayne
Hayden
Harry C. Ettinger
Wabash
BE. F. Needham
Ettinger
Motive Power Department
Springfield
Returns to Railway Work
J. S. Tyler is back on the Wabash payroll as a switchman in the yards under Yardmaster W. E. Rowe. He left a similar yard position years ago for the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction, which he now resigns to return to his former post. The switching job pays $8 to $12 more per month than before due to recent salary increases.
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J. S. Tyler
Wabash
W. E. Rowe
Tyler
Yards
Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Company
From Shop to Pulpit A. W. Irelan Resigns Local Post
A. W. Irelan resigns from his positions with Pennsylvania and will move with his family to Sault Ste. Marie Michigan to take a Free Methodist pastorate. Born in Mercer county Ohio, he came to Indiana at age nine and has been active in temperance and religious work while employed in lumber yards and a car building department since 1895. He is thirty three years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Irelan
Pennsylvania
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Calvary U
Irelan
Mercer County
Ohio
Indiana
Pearl Street Factory to Open for Gaunt Inventions
A factory for F. G. Gaunt inventions will open next Monday in a Pearl street leased building. About twelve men will be employed at start. Products include mortar mixers cement and concrete machinery shipping tag hooks and shirt gauges. H. O. Boosman of Decatur will run the works with Gaunt remaining in his real estate business.
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F. G. Gaunt
Pearl Street
Gaunt
H. O. Boosman
Decatur
American Railway Earnings From 1906 ICC Report
The Interstate Commerce Commission released an abstract of its 19th statistical report for year ending June 30, 1906. It shows railway capital outstandings at 14.05 billion dollars with $2.26 billion in stock and $641 million in bonds owned by railways, 977.5 million passengers carried, 1.641 billion tons of freight, and 10,618 killed with 97,706 injured. Net earnings totaled 788.9 million. per mile earnings averaged 3.548 dollars.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Two Men Injured At Bags Shop Incident
A fragment notes two men injured at a Bags shop where Martin and Hengschler, a blacksmith, were involved in an incident a few days ago. Further details are unreadable in the clipping.
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Martin, Hengschler
Foot Injuries From Shop Accidents Cause Short Downtimes
A worker's foot wound worsened from a minor injury and left Mr. Hengschler off duty. John Clem, a machine operator, dropped a piece of iron on his foot causing bruising and a few days off work.
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Hengschler
John Clem
Machinist Receives Scalp Wound At Pennsylvania Round House
At the Pennsylvania round house Friday morning a machinist named Conrad Brown suffered a severe scalp wound when a chisel he was handling slipped from his grip and struck his head. The injury will disable him for several days.
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Pennsylvania Round House
Conrad Brown
Brown
Two Machinists Hurt in Pennsylvania Shop Accidents
Two accidents at a Pennsylvania machine shop occurred on Thursday. Machinist Fred Geerken injured his right thumb when a wrench slipped while removing a chuck, crushing it against the machine frame. Machinist M. Ellis suffered an eye injury from flying metal.
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Pennsylvania
Fred Geerken
M. Ellis
Italian laborer suffers foot injury in steel accident
Joseph Hasin an Italian laborer had metatarsal bones of the left foot broken Thursday when a sheet of fire box steel fell on him. Dr Kaadt the company surgeon treated him at his home. Italians object to hospitals and prefer staying at home when injured.
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Joseph Hasin
Dr. Kaadt
Old Employee Hurt at Bass Foundry
Gottfried Biedenweg a gang foreman at one of the car wheel rooms of the Bass foundry was struck by a ladle Thursday and sustained bruises on the hip and leg that have disabled him. His injuries are not serious and he will soon be at work again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gottfried Biedenweg
Bass Foundry
Fireman Hurt in Fall at Kalamazoo Yards
Chester G. Grout a fireman on the G. R. & I. road suffered painful injuries in a fall from his engine at the Kalamazoo yards last Wednesday. Doctors say his injuries will keep him at home for several days.
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Chester G. Grout
Kalamazoo
Soap success for former Nickel Plate conductor Doc Henry
Doc Henry once a Nickel Plate conductor based in Bellevue and later with Hocking Valley built a soap business after an injury. In two to three years his profits bought a 156 acre farm and he now plans to move his family there while improving the property.
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Henry
Fostoria
Bellevue
Hocking Valley
Hought
Pushing the New Foundry on Wall Street
Wahrenburg and Busching, building the Fort Wayne Electric Works foundry on Wall Street, have the foundation set and are pushing rapid completion. Both the Electric company and contractors aim to finish before snow flies and have it equipped and operating before the holidays.
Wabash Promotes Mechanics In Fort Wayne News
L K Smith and Charles Branch receive promotions in the Wabash mechanical department recapping their career paths from Huntington Erie and Garrett to Fort Wayne Butler and Landes. J F Green moves from Landes to Springfield replacing Smith in the Springfield shops.
Oldest Fort Wayne Machinist Keeps Working at 78
Charles W. Dwelley of the Wabash shops, born September 16, 1829 in Springfield Mass, is believed to be Fort Wayne’s oldest actively employed machinist. He began as an apprentice in 184? and worked for the Pennsylvania company in 1855 before moving to the Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago shops in 1857. After seventeen years there he joined the Wabash shops thirty three years ago and remains at his bench daily, also a musician in early days.
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Fort Wayne
Charles W. Dwelley
Wabash
Mr. Dwelley
Springfield
Mass
Pennsylvania Company
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Chicago
Dwelley
Cal Organizations At Work Today
An unnamed worker remains at his post as usual, with no disruption reported at the workplace. The brief note confirms routine operations continue despite unspecified circumstances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cal Organizations
Will Be Fruit Growers Party Heads to Manistee
A Matmee township party of farmers led by Mr. and Mrs. Juergens and including Hans, Keller, Keiler, Woebeking, Fahlsing, and Keller sails for Manistee Michigan to buy land and pursue fruit growing after inspecting lands formerly pine forests with timber mostly removed. The group is the largest yet among young farmers venturing northward.
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Matmee Township
Morday A. m
Manistee
Mich
Louis Juergens
Herman Hans
Miss Keller
Henry Keiler
Louis
Iré
Henry Juergens
Henry
Theodore
Paul Woebeking
Charles Fahlsing
Otto Keller
Michigan
Hand Crushed In 1000-Pound Engine Crank Incident
Jerry Clem, a helper in the Bass blacksmith shop, suffered a severe injury to the left hand Monday morning. While guiding an engine crank weighing 1000 pounds, it slipped and pinned the hand between the crank and the truck bed, punching a hole in the back of the hand and lacerating the flesh between the thumb and the main finger.
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Jerry Clem
Bass
Macedonian Injured In Crane Accident
Cole Phillip, a Macedonian on Holman Street, was left hand lacerated when he touched a crane lever and the cogs crushed flesh between the thumb and fingers Friday afternoon. The attending surgeon believes the hand can be saved.
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Cole Phillip
Holman Street
Man Injured After Fall From Ladder at Pennsylvania Store
W Voiz of a Pennsylvania store room sustained bruises to his side and hips when a ladder gave way as he reached supplies on a high shelf. No bones were broken, but the injury will keep him from work for several days.
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W. Voiz
Pennsylvania
New Assistant Foreman Named for Pennsylvania Shops
H A Diem of Cleveland Ohio named assistant general foreman of the car department at the Pennsylvania shops here. He fills a vacancy created by Frank Sweringen's resignation three years ago. Diem formerly led the car repair yards at Cleveland and has extensive car work experience.
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H. A. Diem
Cleveland
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Frank Sweringen
Mr. Diem
Surprised by Friends Welcomes New Mr and Mrs Kelker
Mr and Mrs Samuel Kelker recently married at Roanoke arrived in the city Monday and hosted a surprise reception at their Third street home. Fellow workers from freight departments of the Lake Shore Lake Erie and Western and Wabash joined the celebration with speeches gifts including a Morris chair and music.
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Kelker
Pequignat
Roanoke
Fort Wayne
Agnes L. Pequignot
Abcoite Township
Samuel G. Kelker
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Celia Hines
Frank J. Kelker
Samuel Kelker
City
Third Street
Morris
Mrs. Kelker
F. H. Starkel
Willard Duglay
B. C. LeRoy
P. Eggeman
G. E. Campbell
G. A. Medaris
B. Starkel
William McDonald
C. R. McLain
B. J. Spanley
O. M. Ramey
H. L. Bowman
G. E. Bell
L. Griffiths
E. Forsythe
H. Koepp
J. Dalton
H. J. Pinninger
W. Dauglay
O. A. Miller
W. Lappenfield
W. T. Worcup
J. McLain
F. E. Aiken
S. J. Stokes
E. Voiland
C. Porter
John Mains
H. E. Allison
W. L. Gebert
Lake Shore
Lake Erie and
Fireman Near Killed On Pennsylvania Track
William A. Grayless a Pennsylvania fireman was knocked down by a car carrying east track shop workers to and from the shops. He regained consciousness at the depot and was taken home 318 West Lewis street with a head contusion and bruises. He had ridden to Winter street on the car, alighted near his engine, and was struck as the car started again. This marks the third serious injury in his railway service.
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William A. Grayless
Pennsylvania
Grayless
West Lewis Street
Winter Street
Unfortunate Roumanian Worker Severely Injured at Rolling Mills
Michael Haggerdish a Roumanian laborer at the Rolling Mills had his hand ripped open by a sharp iron projection while pushing a wheelbarrow. He recently recovered from typhoid fever and is now permanently incapacitated for his former duties though may be assigned lighter work after recovery.
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Michael Haggerdish
Maggerdish
Rain Missed East End After City Shower
A brief shower Tuesday covered central and western parts of the city for about ten minutes while the eastern sections received no rainfall. The event showcased an unusual, uneven distribution of the rain.
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East End
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Smith
Moberly
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Landes
J. F. Green
Huntington
Erie
Branch
Baltimore and Ohio
Butler
George W. Mudd
Green
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