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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1908
Page
12
Page fragment advertises table damask 44 inches wide at 65c heavy bleached. Towels large size extra heavy fringed ends at 29c. Remnants of crash toweling half price. Boys pants 4 to 15 years reduced to 38c. Various small prices listed 63c and 75c.
The Independence party nominates Col. Charles G. Conn of Elkhart for governor. Neal states Conn will galvanize labor support, run Indiana like a business, and win with over one third of the vote. Conn, a Civil War veteran and strong orator, is urged as a national leader if needed.
The Anti-Saloon league faces a political turn in Indiana as supporters from Republicans Democrats and Prohibitionists back a remonstrance against liquor. League leaders risk undermining Moore remonstrance law if they overly align with Republicans, threatening nonpartisan temperance aims and potential local option legislation. The saloon lobby views league activity as a boon if it keeps voters off lists, while temperance advocates warn it could kill the remonstrance’s effectiveness.
At Fairview park on Thursday evening the Indianapolis Military band conducted by H. W. Klausmann will perform a program including marches and selections such as Spring Song, Mask Ball, Southern Patrol, Wandering in the Forest, Festival, The Time the Place and the Girl, Parting, Reconciliation, Roly-Poly, Semper Fidelis, and Sousa works.
The funeral of Mrs Julia B Pettit mother of U S Marshal Harry C Pettit was held here this morning She died at Akron Colorado where she made her home with her daughter Mrs Clarence Bruner A son Otto B Pettit of Indianapolis
Marion club members present the first grand dress rehearsal of A Night Aboard Ship at the club gym tonight. The performance, to be staged during the week of July 27 to August 1 in Fair Bank, portrays a night with the Atlantic squadron in Manila harbor and promises a unique conception and treat for audiences after two months of secret rehearsals.
New York stocks opened lower onLondon selling, with Reading and Union Pacific leading declines before recovering. Reading surged past 9, a new yearly high after large buys. Brooklyn Rapid Transit rose, third avenue up two points while steel issues showed profit taking and later partial recovery. Chicago grain hovered with wheat and corn prices closing mixed as city grain markets reported varied bids and bids on No. 2 red wheat and white corn.
Auction catalog notes bids on steers in several weight classes. Prices range from about 6.50 to 7.00 per hundredweight for good to choice steers 1100 to 1350 pounds, with common to medium categories around 6.00 to 6.50. Small readable entries focus on weight and grade descriptors amid sporadic figures.
Chicago market report shows hogs receipts 13 000 with mixed and light qualities trading around 5 to 6 75 per hundredweight. Cattle receipts at 2 000 higher with Texas steers around 33 70 to 47 80 and cows and heifers 2 10 to 6 00. Sheep receipts 15 000 lower with natives 2 75 to 4 50 and yearlings 4 40 to 5 70.
Pittsburg cattle receipts were light and slow with prices ranging for extras from 6.60 to 6.75, prime cows and heifers at 16.00 to 53.00, and fresh cows up to 3.00. Hog receipts totaled 12 loads, with heavy and medium weights at 6.90 to 6.95 and pigs 6.20 to 6.50, while rough stock brought 5.25 to 5.90. Sheep and lambs saw lower demand with prime wethers 4.60 to 4.70 and lambs 3.0 to 6.25.
Grain quotations from Toledo describe cash and futures for wheat corn and oats. Wheat ranges include July September at 92c December 94 1/4c May 97 1/2c. Corn shows cash 77 1/8c July and September 77 4c December 81/2c May 81? 1/2c. Oats cash 59c July 55 4? Sept 44 1/2c May 45c. Clover seed October 8.05 December 7.97 44 March 8.00 Alsike August 9.10 bid. Rye cashAs listed.
Forty five firemen five from each regiment began the shooting drill at Fort Benjamin Harrison today under the auspices of the Indiana National Guard.
City births list includes Heber Trimbley and Lulu Trimbley a girl at 734 Concord Street William and Mary Owens at 2320 Burford Street have a son and many more couples listed. Deaths note infant Gehring age 1 hour and several adults with diseases or causes including organic heart disease tuberculosis and whooping cough. Marriages include Edgar Claypool and Edna Wil Face Jams James Carter and Maud Gaunt and others in fragmentary entries.
A reader listing of grocery prices from Indianapolis Produce and local wagon market items. Prices cover produce such as asparagus greens beets beans cabbage cucumbers eggplant peppers lettuce mushrooms and tomatoes, plus fruits like bananas blackberries dates plums citrus melons and oranges. Also includes butter eggs poultry and various meat cuts with per unit or per quantity pricing.
Delegates from Terre Haute South Bend Fort Wayne Lafayette Marion Muncie Anderson Richmond Madison Kokomo Jeffersonville New Albany Whiting Elwood Hammond East Chicago Peru Washington and other places gathered for the AOH national convention session in Indianapolis. The procession featured the Fourth and Fifth divisions with numerous mounted aides and floats while mass was held at St John's church and sessions opened at the Knights of Pythias hall.
The Indianapolis Florists' club will hold its annual picnic at Germania park on Thursday with athletic events for prizes, a ball game, and a prize bowling contest. To include all employees, stores and greenhouses will close for the day. Committee: Herman Piel chair, Sidney Smith, Ernest Rieman, Theo Woerner.
The Board of Public Works in Indianapolis invites sealed proposals by July 1 1908 at 10 am for several city street projects. Plans cover Rural Street widening and paving with brick, curb and gutter work on Roosevelt Avenue, and water gas sewer connections. Additional improvements include Twenty Fourth Street paving with asphalt, Belmont Avenue sidewalks, First Alley east of Layman Avenue grading, Bismarck Avenue alley work, Washington Boulevard blocks, Orleans Street Minnesota to Beecher, Eden Place Susquehanna and Delaware Streets paving, and Vermon t Street area brick paving. Bids require contingent liability insurance and a 2.5 percent bid guarantee with minimums.
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