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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
7
The marshal warns residents to clean up within twenty four hours or face prosecution. The ordinance bans throwing ashes stones or rubbish in alleys streets or lawns and prohibits street play by boys with enforcement to be strict.
Help wanted for a branch office to be located in Goshen with attention to Morris Wholesale House Cincinnati Ohio. Also notices on cures for cold products and framing services. Advertising blurs include rental and hardware mentions and local business names such as Leidner Hascall War ren Berkey and McConahay Bros Electrical Wiring.
The Democrat launches a Christmas promotion with voters urged to prepay subscriptions to fund a prize contest. Young Elkhart competitor Ruth Shupurt joins 11 year old Raymond Assisx in the field. Subscriptions determine votes for a piano, bed set, range, suit, watch and other gifts. Contest rules detail voting power, receipts, and prize distribution with participants responsible for collections and credit. Local land transfers and a Miss Shaffer appearance are also noted.
Ira Marsh of Oglesby asserts he has located Mrs Belle Gunness and Jennie Olson and will reveal her identity once reward funds are ensured. He warns of danger to himself and asks Sheriff Smutzer to come to Oglesby with Jennie Olson’s Chicago sisters for identification.
A blaze at the Proshack apartment house in Gary forced seventy occupants to flee in scant clothing as flames swept a large frame building. Firemen battled the blaze starting at 3 a.m., saving nearby structures while residents suffered sprains and injuries from jumping to safety.
Sheriff Smutzer probes the mystery of John Kowenski missing from his employer Stewards bear Orvis. Ten weeks earlier Kowenski warned of debts owed by Wolford. Hoards and Wotford went hunting. A search found bones and a burned stump, with no trace of Kowenski amid confusing clues.
Sullivan County residents cheer a kitchen mishap as obituaries note a court inquiry led by Prosecutor Walter Wood. The report mentions Jags found in the county's Meen and South ends near Karmuersburg and Carlisle. Ole consumers of Lemon extract are widespread at Carlisle. A $1,000 reward relates to a heroine from Indianapolis, Miss Miesdlelen L. Stapp, saved by a girl during a factory fire at F A Rathburn Co. in Harding Street. A four-year-old, Everett Murtis, burned after falling into scalding tub water while mother did laundry.
In the next year 788 Indiana saloons have succumbed to the Moore remonstrance law. North Judson democrats plan a banquet on December 17 with Congressmen elect Barnhart and K. F. Shively to speak. The Rev Fr Arthur Gorter formerly of LaPorte has been assigned to Elizabethtown Kentucky.
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