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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1909
Page
3
The Meridian Heights Presbyterian church at Park Avenue and Forty seventh Street was dedicated Sunday afternoon with the debt wiped out after more than $700 was raised. Dr. C D Odell spoke and Rev. Claud RK Shaver of Seventh Presbyterian delivered the sermon. Rev. I M Houser is the pastor.
San Francisco date line reports actress Margaret Illington Frohman formerly married to Daniel Frohman has wed B J Bowes of Tacoma Washington. The ceremony occurred in Reno on Saturday night just before the couple departed for San Francisco.
Dutch contralto Miss Tilly Koenen arrived in Indianapolis yesterday to perform at Maennerchor hall. She has enjoyed strong American tour success, with large audiences in every city. An English song closes her program, and she is billed as leading in a Chicago concert featuring Schumann's Ruth, a work now in the United States.
Evansville businessman Arthur Gross, owner of the Evansville baseball team in the Central league, announced plans to pursue several good players for next season and stated a new manager will soon be revealed to replace Punch Knoll, who was sold to the Dayton club.
J. L. Heider, a Pratt and Illinois streets druggist, was held up by two armed men who demanded the cash register funds amounting to $22 and a diamond ring. Heider fled through a rear door after shouting for help. a neighbor tossed him a revolver as he ran, but the robbers had departed.
Maud Rochez presents A Night in 2 Monkey Music Hall a week at Grand Opera House featuring a monkey orchestra and acts from card boys strongman trapeze foot jugglers and more plus acts like Millman trio Pat and the Genis and kinodrome pictures. The Park Empire Majestic theaters showcase Graystark Alice of Old Vincennes burlesque and other dramatic vaudeville offerings with notable casts and lavish productions.
In Terre Haute Indiana a three year old boy Leslie Fuller, son of Lee Fuller, wandered across streets and along Wabash avenue for two hours after disappearing near Sixth street. Police and city transportation crews searched stores and tracks. Patrolman Percy Garrett found him on Thirteenth street safe and sound. mother expressed gratitude to officers.
A string of high quality productions at the Park theater has drawn local crowds with top prices previously reserved for larger venues. The lineup includes Gray Stark opening a three day engagement, followed by The Girl Question Beverly School Days Cole and Johnson Mrs Wiggs of The Cabbage Patch The Clansman Classmates Checkers The Squaw Man The Newlyweds and Their Baby The Man of the Hour and The Lion and the Mouse among others. All such attractions were once seen in $2 houses.
Mrs. Edgar H. Wilson of Twenty-second and Illinois streets was slightly injured Saturday night while riding in her husband’s electric runabout on Meridian street near Eighteenth. A brewery wagon driven by John Baker of 49 Oxford Street struck her when the tongue swung forward as the two vehicles moved in the same direction.
Evanston Ind November 15 Francis Joseph Reitz president of City National bank announces plans to build two additions to the home of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Evansville at an estimated cost of about 100000 dollars.
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