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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1910
Page
2
Indiana shows a net gain of 5,668 in school age population 6 to 21, totaling 154,972. Marion county lists 59,127 children, up 4,773. St Joseph with South Bend has 28,029, up 2,013. City counts rise by 11,877, rural township losses total 5,663. white and Black counts provided.
Newton M. Taylor defeated candidate for Democratic nomination for superior court judge withdrew his recount petition filed Friday. Attorneys argued on court jurisdiction while Judge Remster took the matter under advisement for a few days. The petitioners contended that a 190% law on ballot preservation warrants a recount.
A page lists Sunday morning and evening sermons at First, Second, Third, and other churches. Topics include The Upward Look, The Meaning of the Lord's Supper, and Four Christian Paradoxes with choir music and baptism follow ups. Elders to be installed and diplomas presented at some services.
The article describes Walter S. Brookins and a Wright brothers method to measure altitude during a record flight. Orville and Wilbur Wright use a tin gauge with a yardstick to sight the aircraft wing span and compute height, boasting simple accuracy.
The American Military Band directed by Gustav Krumme performs a two part afternoon and evening program at Broad Ripple park with marches, waltzes, selections and chimes by multiple composers. Riverside and Fairview park also host bands with varied programs including overtures, selections, and marches led by Mayer Klausmann and H W Klausmann respectively.
In a topapple tree Harry Russell used a pruning knife to jab Bicycle Policemen Trick and Glenn Friday evening. Russell sat on a camp stool playing a violin near John Ferguson’s home before threatening officers, then crawled down after being held by three officers with a long ladder. He is placed in the insane ward at police headquarters.
Miles Avary defied gravity soaring nearly 5000 feet above Riverside park then gliding to a plowed field near the Speedway as onlookers crowded the scene. Arche Hoxsey and Ralph Johnstone, Wright pupils, performed maneuvers nearby while Brookins mingled with spectators and avoided injury.
A vivid account describes Hoxsey and Johnstone performing extraordinary dodging feats around a course. They skim inches above ground for hundreds of feet, weave around trees, buildings, and Speedway structures, then rise and dip with graceful curves over the crowd.
In San Francisco on a practice flight, 17 year old Eugene Speyer fell 50 feet from an aeroplane glider tied to an automobile. He died from injuries sustained in the accident. Speyer’s mother is described as a wealthy widow of the city.
Paris dispatch reports Comte Jasques De Lesseps, among passengers leaving Cherbourg aboard the Deutschland, says he will fly in America and may take part in the forthcoming international meeting.
Governor Marshall will speak at Terre Haute on Wednesday June 22 for the twenty fifth anniversary celebration of President Parsons at the State Normal school. He will address graduates at the Knightstown Soldiers and Sailors Orphans home on Thursday June 23.
The Sunday school of North Park Christian church and the Business Men's Bible class announce a June 24 excursion to Michigan City inviting all local and state Christian churches. The trip includes a refreshment car on the train and a steamer side trip on the Theodore Roosevelt. Committee members are C. D. Boyd R. P. Kirby and George E. Brewer.
The Department of Indiana G. A. R. will present each of the 25 Knightstown graduates with an inscribed gold medal. The event reflects a commemorative honor by the veterans organization for local students.
Local committees from the Board of Trade and civic groups met at Gov. Marshall's office with the State Board of Charities to plan entertainment and arrangements for the International Prison congress delegates visiting Indianapolis and Indiana next fall. Committees will meet often and assign detail work.
The Indianapolis Maennerchor plans weekly summer concerts on the roof garden with refreshments offered at each event.
George Moranetes a foreigner of S01 East Market Street was stabbed by James Sader in Pete Browns saloon at 541 Fast Washington Street Friday night. Police learned of the affray Saturday morning when Bicyclemen Stewart and Hartsell summoned an ambulance to 431 East Washington where the wounded man crawled, suffering internal hemorrhage.
Buy one of the two hundred new and secondhand wagons offered by the John Guedelhoefer Wagon Co at 202 Kentucky Ave. All kinds available for purchase with emphasis on variety and value.
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