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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1908
Page
8
The Jefferson Theater starts a summer run featuring the dramascope and the Camera-phone, with three daily exhibitions at 3, 8, and 9:15 p.m. Admission costs 10 cents for adults and 5 cents for children. The venue markets cool comfort and calls the season a likely success. Also notes a local cigar salesman opening and an ad for the Smith-Clark company Home Outfitters.
LaPorte County debates a proposed 70000 jail as part of county infrastructure. The district weighs costs and needs while local officials consider location and funding.
Transactions show Francis N. Grabill to Sam Bontrager for land in Middlebury township at 480 dollars. Samuel B. Kauffman to Charles C. Cripe for Clinton township land at 1900 dollars. Jacob J. Ganger to Duffy DeFrance for Washington township land at 4060 dollars. Mary E. Sears to E. J. Kunkel for a lot in Elkhart at 1300 dollars. Sterling-Hudson Co. to Nills Peter sen for a lot in Elkhart at 350 dollars. J. W. Fieldhouse to Ervin C. Award for a lot in Elkhart at 300 dollars.
Middlebury brief notices show DeForey Cordrey visiting his father for a week and Grover Boger returning from Ohio. Several families visit others nearby, with travel to Iowa and Colorado planned. Local improvements include a cement porch on Main Street and nursing graduates at Battle Creek. An advertisement promotes prosence digestive tonics and Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as health aids.
A June 8 explosion at the Prest-O-Lite plant in Indianapolis injures fourteen, with several in critical condition. The blast tears through the building and breaches St Vincent's hospital, while a nearby fire engine house roof is torn off. No fatalities reported.
Dr William W Mitchell a prosperous dentist and lodge man who deserted his family is in the county jail for failing to pay a $50 fine and court costs. He pleaded guilty to wife desertion in March 1904 and was fined under the old law. He was returning to Anderson from Angola to join his mother for her eighty fourth birthday celebration. The People's Party of Indiana met in Indianapolis and nominated a ticket including F L Robinson and O L Rose among others. Sheriff Cox led a posse pursuing Jasper Lewellen through the White river bottom after meat and lard theft. two shots were fired but no hit.
Professor Carl Barns former director of the Indianapolis Macmercher and conductor of the first saengerfest in the city died here aged eighty four from heart disease. He was a leading musician and leader in the west.
Reports from Morocco Indiana indicate a blast in the Iroquois river near Rensselaer destroyed many fish with six to eight pound specimens floating dead on the water. The incident was observed on June 8.
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