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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1910
Page
2
Officials of the Indianapolis trade association urge members to recognize the value of the forthcoming trade extension trip to the Terre Haute area next Thursday and Friday. The notice notes Chicago and St. Louis manufacturers and jobbers are actively seeking trade in the region.
A membership letter signed by President John N. Carey and Secretary W. J. Dobyns urges members to visit merchants in other towns and RSVP for a Terre Haute reception and smoker for Indianapolis wholesalers and jobbers. Dobyns and William A. Holt arranged the event, ordering a buffet luncheon and cigars with a concert by the visiting band in the Terre Haute house dining hall.
Walter James, a Tower Hill TL miners convention delegate, and Edith Freye of 524 East North street were walking near the Riverside bear pit when a stranger stepped from the dark and demanded surrender. He struck James with a stone after James complied with the pistol threat.
Lake county officials face scrutiny as state board of accounts charges Henry Scharge trustee of North township 1900 to 1904 with 28946489 in alleged disbursements and F R Schaaf trustee 1905 to 1909 with 3844.55. Report claims Schaaf drew excess salary of 2449 from township road special school and poor funds.
The American military band led by Gustave Kromme will perform at Broad Ripple Park this Sunday in two parts. The program includes marches Invincible Empire and New City Halle, a Fantasia, selections from Lucia and Cinderella, and pieces by Donizetti and Rimsky-Korsakov.
The band presents a Sunday program at Riverside bathing beach with selections including American Valor, Verdi Vienna Beauties, Nabucodonosor Overture, Curley Intermezzo, Garden of Love, Nightingale and the Frogs, Happy Nights, Screeching Eagle, Serpentine Dance, and a musician astray in the forest mock piece, among others.
Bertha Wakeland, an inmate at Clermont Girls Industrial School, is recaptured after being found at her father's home at 309 Union Street. Police Bicycle Officers Seblangen and Todd arrested her companion May Bowers at 308 Virginia Avenue. Bowers sought help at a grocery store to contact police, saying she wished to return to the school. An orphan from New Albany Indiana, Wakeland said she had been in the school eight years.
Mandery K T returned Friday afternoon amid cheers from thousands of knights and hundreds of spectators. A victory parade formed with bicycle cops, the Indianapolis military band, and jubilant families. The trophy, a 40 inch high silver and gold punch bowl centerpiece, traveled in an automobile and was displayed at the Masonic temple after the Chicago celebration.
Memphis, Tenn. Aug. 13 W S King and H McCourt implicated in the Illinois graft case have vanished along with more than $500,000 withdrawn from their banks ten days ago.
Summary of Sunday morning and evening worship across Meridian Street M E North Park Christian Capitol Avenue Grace Presbyterian First Presbyterian First Baptist Roberts Park M E Home Presbyterian Fourth Presbyterian Edwin Ray M E Second Presbyterian with pastors and sermon topics including Real Worship The Easy Yoke The Hamlet of the New Testament Knowing God and other themes Special music noted across multiple churches in the city on Sunday mornings and evenings.
Dr John P D John of Green Castle former DePauw president addressed Bethany park crowds on Saturday morning discussing The Hope of the Underman. Delegates call the season the most successful ever with talks by Misra Mattie M Boteler and a sacred concert to close the season. Officers announced for the Indianapolis Christian Woman's Board of Missions include President Mrs Frank Wells and others.
Fire near Sallie Hanna’s farm in Brookville caused about 2300 damage to a barn that stood for a century. About 650 dollars of the loss was covered by insurance. The timber barn was built from black walnut.
A community fair organized by Mrs Fairbanks and Mr Day highlights the Summer Mission for Sick Children. Special amusements operate Saturday night with thirteen features. Free band concerts, home cooked dinners, and a vaudeville lineup accompany rides and an auto show. Gate admission is 10 cents, advance four for 25 cents.
J. J. Lumley announces seven mounted aides from local unions for the Labor Day parade. Named are Bert Myers, William Frolinger, S. Kesler, James Jackson, C. Richards, Edgar A. Perkins, and Adam Weber. Bicycle aide selections include Thad Gurley, Frank Mockett, and Frank Johnson from carpenters, paper hangers, and iron molders unions.
A Franklin woman recovers after prior doctors declared she could not be cured. Hundreds of invalids praise these physicians and serve as testimonials to their success in treating chronic disease where others failed.
Con O Connell, 35, was found unconscious in the east yard of Kingan and Co plant Saturday morning. Rev Father Griffith of St John s church was summoned to administer the last rites before he was taken to St Vincent s hospital. He revived enough to tell Bicycle Policemen Drinker and Roach he had been struck by a train.
Mayor Shank reveals motive behind appointing Dr. Tra E. Dunlavy as police surgeon after Moses Thorner resigns. He notes his own prior approval came at the urging of the board member William E. Davis, and he did not initiate the appointment.
The Gilmer Medical Institute advertises permanent cures for deafness, lameness, blindness, rheumatic and paralytic conditions. Free consultation and examination offered at 46 North Pennsylvania Street Suites D and E. They claim rapid, lasting results with strict cure assurances and frank honesty about curability. They target longstanding, declared incurable cases and urge women to seek non surgical options for sex-specific disorders.
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