Madison Metropolis Briefs From Indiana
A brief item from Madison Indiana dated June 2 1900 notes local happenings and civic updates in the town.
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Newspaper
Indiana Madison Courier
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1900
Page
3
A brief item from Madison Indiana dated June 2 1900 notes local happenings and civic updates in the town.
Forecast issued at 8 a.m. for Indiana Ohio and Kentucky. Indiana expects fair and cooler tonight and Sunday. Ohio to be cooler and fair tonight with showers near the lake, Kentucky to be fair and cooler tonight with Sunday fair.
Couponing shoppers are invited to view window displays featuring quality ladies Swiss ribbed vests in bleached and unbleached finishes, taped neck and sleeves for 124c, plus Iron Clad Brand ribbed hose at 12c per pair. Silks and lawn fabrics including French Organdies and Persian Lawns offered at 1 1/4c per yard with various textures.
Daily notices show residents traveling for family visits and work, including Nicholas Harper returning to Anderson and James Omelvena heading to Delphi. births announce Mrs Steinberger’s daughter, while Henry Klein visits from Cincinnati. A First Holy Communion is planned at St Mary’s Church and a class of graduates debates expansion themes.
The DeLoste brothers druggists have formed the Joseph S. DeLoste Chemical Company to manufacture headache powders and other proprietary medicines. Joseph S. DeLoste remains secretary and treasurer at Madison, with Frank E. DeLoste as superintendent. Charles H. DeLoste handles sales in the East, George DeLoste in Indiana and Southern Ohio, and R. S. H. Moore in Northern Ohio, Northern Indiana, and West Virginia.
The Syracuse Lodge of Pythians conferred the second degree on Peter Lohrig Tsador Su Baer Elmer Frost Charles Mabrey Herbert Flora Jobo Webner Harry Hargan Franklin Weber George Daily Frank Wendel. The M H 8 Alumni honored Superintendent McDaniel with a laurel wreath. Local soda sales noted. Dr N A Kremer to Atlantic City for American Medical Association meeting. census warning issued.
Local ad promoting Crescent bicycles at 25 and 35 dollars with foot pumps at 38 cents and low prices on bells lanterns cement tire tape and related items. Edward J. Meyer signage appears with the listing.
Hanover College closes regular work after a year of solid effort. The Senior Preparatory Class exhibition opened the commencement with eight speakers including Tyler Oglesby and Fred Green presenting topics from Russia to South Africa. Judges awarded Green first prize and Mary E. Young second. The College Glee Club performed and Miss Fawcett provided piano. Tennis by J H Adams and Frank Burger may boost Hanover at Indianapolis tournament despite weather delays. Alumni arrivals hint at large attendance and reunions for classes of 70, 80 and 90.
Mrs John Lippett died at her Graham Road home after a short illness. Born June 22 1825 in Frankfort Germany she immigrated fifty years ago. She was a German Methodist Church member and leaves husband and four daughters Mrs Henry Rauch Mrs John F Bennett Mrs Sylvester Yonker and Mrs Wm Rauch. Interment at Olive Branch tomorrow at two PM.
S. Hurhoff & Sons offers a bundle of Cambric Embroideries in new styles priced at 10 and 12 1/2 cents, advertised as choice specials for tonight.
Tonight 7 e a yd 200 yards of India Linen extra fine our regular seller Tonight 11¢ a yd One lot of Valencienne Laces neat patterns elegant quality retail at 52 a yard You may buy them at less than makers price.
Fritz Bruner Ernst, Madison native aged twenty two, graduates from Purdue University with a civil engineering degree. He is one of six selected to speak at the commencement and has three job offers awaiting his return home.
The Feast of Shebaoth or Jewish Pentecost will be celebrated tomorrow wherever Jews reside. It marks Moses revealing and delivering the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai and recalls Jews gathering in Jerusalem during temple times.
The Jefferson Circuit Court May term grand jury reports 16 indictments from 81 questioned witnesses and notes county jail conditions and county asylum needs. They urge sewerage repairs, bedding, filtration, and furnace work, plus rubber bedtick for a bed-ridden patient.
Chicago cattle receipts at 100 with steers around 4.90 to 5.60 per hundredweight. Hog receipts 19 000 steady near 4.90. Sheep 2 500 steady around 5.00 to 5.50. Lambs 5.00 to 7.00. Cromnall hogs active near 4.35 to 5.15. cattle easing near 3.50. Sheep steady around 3.00. lambs higher around 5.00 to 7.40. Cincinnati grain mixed with wheat 0.72, corn 0.40, oats 0.24, rye 0.06. Provisions steady. eggs 10 to 11 cents, butter quiet. Chicago market notes and New York silver prices rounded.
Mr. Philip Kestner a Madison High School graduate studying dentistry at Ohio Dental College has been in the city for several days He attended the alumni banquet last night.
Sale of 94 unbleached sheets torn and muslin undergarments including 29 pieces of muslin underwear. Linen torchon laces 2 to 8 inches wide with new patterns. Window display features foulards new summer dress fabric priced 15 to 19 cents per yard.
Martin Moses died early today at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati after recent appendicitis surgery. Born and raised in this city, he had lived in Lebanon, Indiana, in recent years. He was unmarried and leaves three brothers and a sister. Remains will be brought here for burial. funeral arrangements not announced.
Paris June 2 In the French Senate the Amnesty Bill related to the Dreyfus affair passed by a 23 to 24 vote during today’s session.
List of towns in the circuit with dates in July to September. Osgood July 31 to August 3 chaired by Chas W Gray. North Vernon August 7 to 10 with F H Nauer as secretary. Madison August 14 to 17 under C R Johnson. Franklin August 28 to September 1 with W S Young. Shelbyville September 4 to 8 led by C E K Amsdeep. Columbus September 11 to 14 with Ed Redman as secretary. State Fair September 22 with Charles Downing as secretary.
Bank of New Lisbon owned by W. M. P. Cash was burglarized today with several thousand dollars stolen from the safe which was blown with nitro glycerine. The building sustained partial wreckage and no clue to the culprit was found. Hiram P. Wasson bought the adjoining property on Monument Place from Allen Hendricks. deed finalized after delay due to illness. price 51 900.
John Connolly of Madison owned a cat that killed and drowned kittens. The cat then captured two young squirrels and raised them to fry size. Conductor Miller and Brakeman Gaston of the Madison and Indianapolis line claim responsibility for the tale and stand ready to testify.
Recurrent small actions build lasting outcomes from water drops to stone statues. The poem links patient knitting, gnawing, printing, and saving to growth of knowledge, wealth, and state strength. It likens repeated labor to planks joining to form a river and coins forming bank fortunes.
Samuel Copeland returns to Moore's Hill College to graduate on the eleventh instant. He is described as one of the boys to be proud of.
A nostalgic verse cherishes a home print over metropolitan papers. It links the cherished newspaper to youth, countryside songs, bees, butterflies, and clover, describing the paper as a link to happier scenes and loved ones.
A San Francisco hotel owner married her elevator boy in a small ceremony. The couple tied the knot amid friends and family at the hotel where she operates.
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