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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1906
Page
8
Woodruff Place hosts a garden festival featuring thousands of lights. The illumination transforms the area drawing families and visitors to enjoy seasonal displays and community activities in the historic district.
An all girl Junior Service Club plans an outdoor garden party at Woodrum Place to benefit the Orphans Home. Miss Jean Fletcher Coffin and Marjorie Opie lead preparations with vaudeville acts, lanterns, music, and multiple food stands. Proceeds aid the Flower Mission and Eleanor Hospital, with tickets expected to sell fast.
Mayor Charles A. Bookwalter favors a permanent public bathhouse at Military Park with a swimming pool, estimated total cost around 50 000 and a new central location. The plan aims to replace temporary baths, with a brick structure about 24 000 for the basin. Board of Public Works supports location and water supply contract, while tent baths may serve interim needs at Falter Creek and Pleasant Street.
Lewis Mewe and Co makers of overalls host their twentieth annual picnic at Germania Park Saturday. Five special cars will carry picnickers from the streetcar line to the factory route, with races, prizes, a warm dinner and cold supper provided, and a baseball contest to close the day. President Henry Severin, General Manager C L Buschman, and Secretary Theo Bevel lead the event with traveling salesmen from Davenport and Peoria attending.
At the New York market opening investors showed irregularity with early selling pressure. After initial declines, prices recovered with several issues gaining, notably Delaware & Hudson rising to 2 1/4 from 2 1/15, while government bonds held steady and overall volume in the general list narrowed.
Market notes from Indianapolis show active cattle and sheep trading with prices steady to firm, demand strong from multiple sources, and a dull finish to cattle trading. Prices for wheat, corn, rye, and hay fluctuate with mixed quality, while Chicago reports grain and dairy movements with slight openings higher and later adjustments.
A local securities note reports small changes on the local stock exchange with stronger attendance and rising interest. A committee plans visits to Louisville, Cincinnati, and Columbus to gauge listing of local issues on those exchanges, potentially lengthening trades and moving securities to Indianapolis if listings align. New York commodities and livestock markets follow with mixed results across pork, lard, butter, eggs, cheese, cattle, hogs, and sheep prices in several regional reports.
Chicago livestock market figures show cattle receipts around 1,000 with steady trend. Prime calves and heifers priced from 4.00 to 6.60, stockers and feeders 2.74 to 4.16, cows and heifers 3.07 to 4.62, canners 1.19 to 2.00, mixed lots and pigs varied. Breeding receipts listed, with sheep figures in the low to mid tens, lambs and waning numbers noted.
Page ten reports the Presidents eye on the Packers with references to motives at the campaign and plans for a broad advertising effort to reach newspapers nationwide. A Washington State Grange telegram denounces corporate interests while supporting farmers and opposing meat packing remedies.
The hearing features Reynolds describing the Chicago meat trade conditions, noting lack of woodwork and cleanliness in German establishments and disputes with a representative of the packers. He criticizes statements about floor contamination and discusses inspection methods and conditions at New York slaughterhouses.
New York detectives search for Mat Harvey a messenger at Chase National Bank after he disappeared on Wednesday taking cash drafts and papers. Harvey a son of Louis Harvey and employed less than a year left without notice returning some items by mail. authorities and executives trace his movements amid tales of temptation and a pattern cited by prior bank messenger Leanard.
Themis Burk, 39 South Street, sustained a fractured thigh while at work on a new hitching at Michigan and Merhian. He was taken by ambulance to the City Hospital in the custody of JD Riesler. The accident occurred Friday, and details indicate a serious leg injury with two broken bones.
Chicago reports reveal Nelson Morris of Nelson Morne & Co holds millions of acres of range land across Texas Oklahoma and Indian Territory. As principal banker and part owner in Packington interests he hopes to keep holdings hidden while expanding wealth and influence over cattle country and packer policy.
Relatives of missing William Bishop travel to Muncie after a man matching Bishops description was seen in McCardsville last Tuesday. A letter to the police lists the home as 222 Rankeace, Muncie, and Capt. Asch in Muncie was notified. The Bishop family plans further investigation.
Eight miners are dead and several others missing after fire trapped workers at the Rocky Fork mine of the Gant company at Red Lodge Ment. The blaze, smoldering for hours, cut off men on the tower levels and a damp heat followed as rescuers fought to reach the corridors. Authorities believe more lives may be lost.
The long dispute between the brick trast and independent brick firms in Chicago ended with an agreement to raise brick prices from 150 to 6 per thousand. The decision was announced yesterday after negotiations among the war ting functions.
The administrator of the estate of Freant M. Schad deceased gives notice of a private sale of real estate Lot 88 and 60 feet off the south side in Nobles heirs subdivision Nobles County Indiana. Sale at 9 o'clock A M on June 16 at the Marion Circuit Court Probate Commissioner office Marion County Court House Marion Indiana. Terms: cash subject to court approval. Administrator de Bonis Non.
New York reports a mystery boy found abandoned in Bonneville Missouri. Aunt Lizzie Farris of New York claims the boy as her nephew Artie Willard from leadville Colorado. Farris says she cared for the boy since infancy and that his parents died. A letter said the boy and his guardians planned a Durango Mexico trip, but authorities doubt the plan and seek identification.
Special to The Saw reports Charlea Aridwell a 4 year? clerk in a clothing store in Bloomington Indiana shot himself three times through the head and died soon after. A love affair is suspected as the motive amid unclear circumstances.
The Farmers convention aims to form a national marketing association covering fruits, vegetables, poultry and more. Everitt of the American Society of Rantry urges a unified system to replace ad hoc local marketing, promising reliable, predictable prices for farm products.
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