Rubber Factory Offered for Goshen Plant
A proposal from five outside investors seeks to locate the Hoosier Rubber Company at the Noble plant on Seventh Street Goshen. The plan calls for $13 000 to $15 000 in machinery with 30 initial jobs and growth, a trust deed pending location, and completion expected next week. The venture would produce mechanical rubber goods including vehicle tires and may attract nearby promoters and bankers.
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Goshen
Commercial Exchange
Noble
Seventh Street
Persos
Hoosier Rubber Company
M Bailey
Marion
Jonesboro
Connersville
Maron
Calf theft reported near William Hutters farm
Thieves visited the William Hutters farm in Benton township and stole a three month old Durham calf from a field near the home. Wagon tracks were seen, but no calf has been found. authorities watch shipping yards and markets. A top wagon with two suspicious men was noted nearby. Deputy Chatten seeks leads to catch the thief.
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William Hutler
Berton
Durham
Hutter
Butler Farm
Chatten
Wm. Butler
Benton Township
St Joe County Man Killed In Electric Car Collision
Charles Cole, 30, an old settler and follower of Voltaire and Paine, was killed when his carriage was struck by an electric car near Mishawaka, Meg. The incident is reported as a fatal accident in St. Joe County.
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Missawaka
Meg
Charles Cole
County
Voltaire
Thomas Paine
Asphalt paving talk reaches Fifth street debate in Goshen
Agent Jackson of Barber Asphalt Paving meets with Mayor Deah and city council to decide on paving Fifth Street. Residents pressed for improvement after prior petitions, with a spring 1900 contract plan. If approved, only top grade asphalt used, costs likely to rise from earlier bids, and past records on paving will be reviewed at Monday night meeting.
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Jackson
Barber Asphalt Paving Company
Deah
Fifth Street
Elkhart Council
Hkermudez Company
Second
Wigeon
Indianapolis
Detroit
Washington
Barber Company
South Bend
Avent Jackson
Lake Shore
Tower
Fifth and
Main
Goshen
Mass convention favored for 34th circuit delegates
Politicians expect a mass convention rather than a delegate system for the 34th circuit Republican judicial gathering. LaGrange County supports a mass convention, Elkhart County urged to follow, with calls for timely action and large delegation to back Capt Chamberlain. Chamberlain campaigns actively in two counties while Vail favors a delegate plan.
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Republican Judicial Convention
34Th Circuit
LaGrange County
Aass
Elkhart County
Lawange
La‘trange
Capt Chamberlain
Vail
Mr. Chamberlain
Dart Walker En Route to Kansas City Visits Goshen Friends
Mrs. M Jennie Walker reports her son T Dart Walker will travel from New York to Kansas City for the national Democratic convention on July 4th via Goshen for a brief home visit. He owns a fine home in New Rochelle and is friends with Francis Wilson the comedian who keeps a large poultry yard near his house. Windsor Park hosts flooded poultry, Walker keeps a fowl collection, and Wilson is often seen with a ke y under his arm en route to Walker's home. Hoosier neighbor Shaffer from LaGrange County is a trusted friend. Lincoln Cary, son of C W Crary, serves at Ft Slocum guarding two large guns.
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M. Jennie Walker
T. Dart Walker
New York
Kansas City
Goshen
Mr. Walker
New Rochelle
New York City
Francis Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Wilson Place
Becknell Infant Dies After Ten Day Illness
Mortuary notice reports the death of Mrs. David W Becknell, age four, at Milford after a ten day peritonitis illness. Survived by husband, two daughters and one son. Funeral Saturday at 2 PM.
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Beccknell
Milford
Inquest Held Over Harley Forrey at Brother’s Home
Doctors Bowsers Fleming and Justices Hrumbaugh Sadders conducted an inquest on Harley Forrey near Elkhart. Forrey disappeared while a telephone line foreman in Lafayette last summer, returned on foot after two weeks, and has since declined. officials fear mental instability and plan hospital admission.
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Wade
Mayor Deahi Addresses Elwood Speech at Municipal League
The Nappanee News reports Mayor Deahi defended municipal affairs after a harsh outburst from the Groshen Limes. He cited reports and statistics from the Goshen council and vouched that Goshen is among the best managed cities in the state.
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Deahi
Elwood
Municipal League
Nappanee News
Groshen
Deabl
Greshen
Goshen i
Staie
Judge Orders Attorneys to Prepare for Trial in Sixth Ward Case
Judge Hubbard of South Bend ordered Attorneys Meyer and Wair to prepare for trial after supper in the Sixth ward election cases. Unable to ready a trial, he granted a change of venue to Elk Hart county and sustained the Republican position in yesterday's rulings.
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Hubbard
South Bend
Meyer and
Wair
Elkhart County
Bicycle rider injured by loose saw on North Main street
About 6 o'clock last evening J. C. Yoder of near this city rode his bicycle on North Main street when a saw in his left hand became fastened in the front wheel. He was thrown to the pavement and the saw cut a deep gash on his left hand while the bicycle suffered slight damage.
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J. C. Yoder
North Main Street
Becade
Heavy load of poles breaks posts near Hat cave
A load of telephone poles along Lincoln avenue and Main street broke posts at the Hat cave causing several pies to fall to the pavement. Reloading took hours and the poles were moved to South Bend this afternoon.
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Lincoln Avenue
Main Street
South Bend
Ralston Shot in Chattanooga Jewelers Row
J Huss Ralston former Goshen jeweler is seriously wounded in Chattanooga allegedly after a dispute with Graham T Holtzclaw wife of Holtzclaw. Holtzclaw held on $1000 bond awaiting May 21 hearing. Ralston is at Erlanger hospital with uncertain recovery prospects.
Needle Removed From Infant In Nappanee
Doctors Price and Price removed a needle from the side of a year old child of Mr and Mrs John May after it had lain in the breast for nearly three weeks causing pain and fretfulness. The incident followed by onion crop notes and local town news.
Robbery in Lake Shore box car cited. Weshofer’s claim questioned
A man given as Eugene Weshofer says he is from Cleveland and was robbed of $20 and a gold watch by three hoboes in an Elkhart box car. Police and railway detectives arrested eight hoboes but found nothing on them and released them. Weshofer left town, and some doubt his story. Also reports include a woman rescued from drowning, three men jailed for insulting women, a band concert, and Timothy E B Howard of South Bend discussing gubernatorial bid prospects.
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Kinney
Supreme Court
LaPaz
LaPax
LaPsz
Elkhart County
South Bend
Eugene Weshofer
Cleveland
Chicago
Lake Shore
Elkhart
Weshofer
Indianapols Press
Timothy Eb, Howard
Whes
Shively
Missing Dr. T. A. Lancaster and Mrs. Barratt Spark City Urgency
Dr T A Lancaster of North Manchester reportedly traveled to Chicago for throat surgery and vanished with diploma license trunk and medical instruments missing. Authorities estimate he carried 25000. Mrs G R Barratt wife of a leading businessman also missing. no word from either in over a week.
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T. A. Lancaster
North
Manchester
Chicago
G. R. Barratt
Epworth League State Convention Set for South Bend
The Indiana Epworth League plans its 1900 state convention in South Bend from July 12 to 15. The South Bend arrangements committee is preparing for Methodist youth entertainment and circulars are being mailed to district and local groups to boost enthusiasm and attendance.
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Epworth League of
Indiana
South Bend
Young Methodiste
Night sighting on Sixth Street prompts police visit
Residents reported an unknown person seen peering into windows at the corner of Sixth Street and Lincoln Avenue last evening. No arrest was made. Weather shifted from 80 to 83 degrees above to below 6 degrees by morning, Indiana weather described as peculiar. Geo. W. Beers of Ft. Wayne elected to Indiana Mutual Telephone association executive committee at Indianapolis meeting.
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Sixth Street
Lincoln Avenue
Indianapolis
Geo. W. Beers
Ft. Wayne
Goshen
Indiana Mutual Telephone Association
Indiana
Mixed local notices and events around Indiana and Michigan
Mrs. George Tucker of Chicago died of puerperal fever after Dowie faith care. Michigan City plans 50 ft steel towers with 25 ft flagstaffs for electric signals. Jane W. Brown tours Indiana to urge bird protection laws. Pettit reports cutworm damage in Kenton Harbor fruit trees. Col W. P. Hargitt, famed tramp printer, dies in Wyoming Ohio. Four horses in South Bend killed for glanders. South Bend Greens vs Fort Wayne Shamrocks set for Spring Brook Park. Bill Atkinson dies at Cass county poor farm. Elkhart South Bend Kenton Harbor high schools hold triangular meet in South Bend. Indiana Children’s Aid Society meets in Mishawaka. Wm Michaels ends self harm attempt. Three Oaks hosts Northern Indians musicians for Dewey day. Fort Wayne sharks selling Confederate bills.
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Michigan City
Sox
Chicago Weather Bureau
Chicago Chronicle
Jsane W. Brown
Rochester
Indiana
Wabash
Huntington
Decatur
Brown
Michaels
Wabash County
Three Oaks
Mich
Fort Wayne
Geologist surveys marl deposits in Basa lake area
State Geologist Blatenley inspected Starke county and found about 40 acres of marl deposit at Basa lake. He says insufficient to support a large factory but gained data to aid his map of all lakes to the estate.
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Blatenley
Starke County
Basa Lake
Forty fourth regiment ordered home from the Philippines
Wayne Tilt of LaPorte and formerly Goshen reports from the Philippines that the Forty fourth regiment, largely recruited in Indiana, is being sent back to the United States after several engagements with few killed and some in hospital. Postmaster Cornell announces money orders may be sent to any Porto Rico post office as to U S addresses, treating Porto Rico as a U S territory.
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Wayne Tilt
LaPorte
Goshen
Philippines
United States
Tilt
Cornell
Department
Porto Rico
Union of States
Samuel Olinger Departs for Chicago to Oklahoma
Samuel Olinger left for Chicago this morning and will continue to Oklahoma. Friends outfitted him with a new suit, shoes, and hat and presented him a nest purse. The Tuxedo Minstrel Company advertises a rehearsal at the K of P hall tonight, urging all members to attend. George D. Lint is reported quite ill.
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Samuel Olinger
Chicago
Oklahoma
Mr. Olinger
Samuel
Tuxedo Minstrel Company
Tuxedo Minstrels
K. of P. Hall
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Farn
Johanna Wolfe
Sarah J. Cathcart
Washington Township
Harvey W. Kant
Bristol
Sarah FE Bishop
Laftaz Boy
Ernest
Ellen Keith
Marshall, Mich
John J. Stably
Latrange
Maude Harper
Clinton Township
Ida Miller
Joe County
Agent Jackson
Harbor Company
Norotestion
August Fauach
Justice Young
E. A Dausman
Sims
Cassie Horn
Minnie Adking
Davy Deardorf
R. H. August
August Fausch
August
Justice Courte
Steininger
Bartholomew and Carr
Fish Law
Syracuse
J. North
Thomas Cross
Bangor
Samuel J. Rowell
Duff Conrad
Ed Shannon
T. Dart Ralker
Im Goshen
Mortuary Record
Harley Forrey
Hall
Poles Feil
Fiat Car
Joan Wince
Pierceton
Warsaw
St. James
Peru
J. Huss Ralston
Chattanooga
Tenn
G. T. Holtzclaw
Chatnoogs
Ralston & Kessler, Jewelers
Graham T. Holtzclaw
Erlanger Hospital
Holtzclaw
Chattanooge
Ralston
Chattanooga Times
the Times
Cincinnati
Fayetteville
Holtzclaws
Huntsville
Dave Moore
Mr. Holtzclaw
Baleton
Tennessee
Nappanee
Arthur F. Griffith
Goshen Times
Miss Myers
Elknart
St. Joe
Stone Yard
Howard
Epworth
George Tucker
Ligonier
Dowie
R. H. Pettit
Michigan Agricultural College Experiment Station
Kenton Harbor
Martindale Farm
Col
W. P. Hargitt
Wyoming
Erwin Albert
Michigan Road
South Bend Greens
Fort Wayne Shamrocks
Springbrook Park
Bill” Atkinson
Logansport
Cass County
Fair Grounds
The
Children's Aid Society of Indiana
West Second Street
Mishawaka
Olinger
Geo. D. Lint
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