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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1914
Page
8
A late Sunday storm struck Jeffersonville with drizzling rain turning to sleet and ice. Streetcars slowed or stopped and sidewalks became hazardous as temperatures slid toward freezing with a 30 degree reading at Y Gleek.
The Citizens Trust Company will launch their fourth annual Christmas Savings Club starting Monday December 21. Officials expect membership to grow beyond previous years.
Warren Read and Frank McCune faced a hearing in Police Court for habitual intoxication. Magistrate Benson M. Veasey fined them five dollars plus costs and warned they would be dealt with more severely on a subsequent offense.
The week ending December 19 1914 reveals unclaimed letters in Jeffersonville Indiana. Names include Beade C W Brenton Mise Ade 211 Mages Ave Jennie Brown Day Mrs Catharine Davis Will State St Emma Evans in care Benf Alexander John Godfrey 815 St 3rd Holloway Ruth 1014 Mo Ave Henry S Schmidt 222 Spring St Hal Skimerhorn 822 Watt St Mary Bather Sims Miss Stallings Mrs Wm 614 Mo Ave Frank Smith 930 W 2nd St. Postmaster Burke notes letters are advertised and asks recipients to state the date of list.
The township schools will hold examinations Wednesday and Thursday and begin holiday vacation on the latter date, continuing until January 4. The schools here were dismissed Friday for Christmas vacation.
The quail season closes yesterday and hunting remains unlawful until November 10, 1915. The rabbit season stays open until January 10.
At the morning service the Rev Michael Halpin announced that Christmas masses would begin at midnight December 24 at St Augustine's Catholic church.
Thompson and Smith engraved Christmas cards described as the finest in the United States at Chas. A. Schimpff & Son. Advertisement.
Jeffersonville Commandery No. 27 Knights Templar will elect officers for 1915 at its annual conclave this evening. The meeting is held at Masonic Hall located at Spring and Maple streets.
Judge James W Fortune overruled the motion by Alphonso Harris and Willie Harris to be authorized to borrow money on property held by their guardian Thomas H Stradley. The decision curtails the youths ability to leverage the assets pending guardianship action.
A transcript of the Brammell murder case will be prepared in New Albany by the Floyd Circuit Court Circuit Clerk Ballard's office. Judge Fortune gave ten days to perfect the change before Brammell, jailed since the October murder of John Jann, is moved back to the county jail.
Judge Jas W Fortune will appoint the Juvenile Court Probation Officer on January 1. Henry F Dilger has held the post for years and several applicants remain, including Dilger, a Clark County bar member.
Virginia avenue in Ohio Falls is nearing completion after street improvements begun under an ordinance by the Town Board. Other streets are also being upgraded as part of the project this week.
All Beauty Christmas trees priced 20c to 35c at Decker's Stores 72% Spring Street. Phone 836 F. Alec three room house and lot available for 6.00 per month rent-to-own option. Don’t wait, see Decker.
Do not take chances this season. join the Citizens Trust Company Christmas Savings Club. Become a memip of the club and be sure to have money when you need it most.
Fyfe and Orbison named to the charities board amid reorganizational changes. Cotbally not sos losers fe eens et Undies.
The Misses Walkup of Locust Street depart for Indianapolis to visit sister Mrs. Charles Smith and family over the holidays. Mrs. Frank Payne of Indianapolis is expected late this week to visit her mother in law Mrs. Katherine Payne and Mr. John S. Pennett. Mr. and Mrs. William R. Cheney of Redlands California will rent a city home and stay until March or April, longtime residents. Rose Allen to host the next Woman's Club meeting on Tuesday December 29 with no meeting this week. Rev. W. H. Wylie and family plan to leave Thursday for Paoli Orange County to spend Christmas with Mrs. Wylie's parents and other relatives.
Convicted of failure to support his child William H. Kelly was received at the Indiana Reformatory from Elkhart county to serve one to seven years. Frank Snider and Lewis Blender arrived from Elkhart county and ohn Aynerson from Koskicusco county, each to serve one to eight years.
Jeffersonville ad copy touts Doan's Kidney Pills for weak kidneys. Mrs J Dobson of 731 Missouri Ave. credits three boxes with ending back ache and lameness, urging readers to ask for Doan's at Doolittle's Drug Store and other druggists. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY. Ad.
Dan M. Link of Auburn, a member of the State Board of Tax Commissioners, appointed by Governor Lemuel M. Ralston to serve as Judge of the DeKalb Steuben Circuit Court replacing Frank M. Powell who moves to the Appellate bench. Link is a well known tax authority and familiar figure in the region.
Judge James W Fortune announces the six year reappointment of Miss Margaret E Hines as official reporter of the Clark Circuit Court. Hines begins her third term, first appointed in November 1904 with Judge Harry C Montgomery's election.
Lights burned out on a stretch south of Chestnut street Saturday night. New fixtures were installed in their places yesterday restoring illumination.
The police commissioner Charles A. Schwaninger will retire January 1 as his term ends. Other officials with January expiry were listed among those whose terms expire.
Following the holidays Thomas A. Dunlevy of Henryville will travel to Sheffield Alabama to spend the rest of the winter with his daughter Mrs Kete Hare. He is father to Richard and Fred Dunlevy of this city.
The Board of County Commissioners holds its last meeting of the current board at the courthouse on Wednesday to set the 1915 printing contract. On January 1 Peter Nachand succeeds Oliver Crone who has served six years.
James Yates of Howard Park, flagman on the Pennsylvania Dinky between Louisville and New Albany, fell from a rear coach while setting signal lights at a New Albany platform. He was found at East Ninth street waiting shed and transported home for medical care.
The notice describes ongoing mail delivery by free delivery service, outlining continued routes and responsibilities. It emphasizes persistence of mail transport even as service details evolve, ensuring residents receive timely correspondence.
The Indiana Reformatory plans its usual Christmas program with inmates to receive roast pork and sweet potatoes for dinner and a generous supply of other foods. Each inmate will also get a bag of candy.
Judge James W. Fortune approves final report for Edward Weber as administrator of Annie Gorman estate. The distribution totals 26495 dollars evenly among five heirs. The final report for Sallie E. Walk- may indicate next steps in settlement proceedings.
As the estate administrator Mary F Walkup was approved. The administrator accounted for receipts and expenditures leaving a balance of 28.26 distributed among the heirs.
Cyrus Roberts, a man about sixty, was found dead in bed at Lucy Reed's home on Indiana Avenue. He had not been seen since Saturday night. Coroner Coots will render a finding in the case.
The program features The Wrath of the Gods in two parts detailing the Sakura ship destruction and a second film titled How Heroes are Made on the same night.
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