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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1915
Page
1
The Chamber of Commerce invites slogan suggestions for Jeffersonville. Submissions are due Thursday night at the Spieth Building campaign headquarters. A prize was $3 and may be increased. the effort seeks a short catchy phrase reflecting community spirit.
Joseph Underwood formerly of Billings Montana on a 160 acre homestead claim says he would obtain insurance to guard against hail storms that have caused substantial damage in his area.
Jeffersonville friends learn of the death of Thomas W Longsdon last Thursday in Philadelphia from pneumonia. He served years ago as chief clerk to Capt Addison Barrett at the Jeffersonville Quartermaster Depot and later at the Philadelphia depot. He was married to Verna Johnson, a well known falls cities figure. The funeral occurred in Philadelphia.
Mrs William Snyder of 408 Missouri avenue received a telegram announcing the death of her brother Henry Clune thirty six at Elgin Il Clune a Jeffersonville native was well known though absent from the city for years Funeral and burial will be in Elgin He was married but left no children The telegram did not reveal the exact cause of death
The law requires the County Commissioners to meet on the last day of the year to approve salaries for the last three months. Historically officers draw pay on the first Monday of the new year. On December 21 in Clark County the County Council will be asked to appropriate funds for this salary allowance in the future.
An installation of officers for Jeffersonville Post No 86 Grand Army of the Republic will be held January 17 1916. The post with 33 members expresses interest in the work. Officers to be installed include Benjamin F Howell commander Isaac Hendrix senior vice commander John M Kistelmark junior vice commander the Rev E B Youmans chaplain William Fawcett quartermaster Lemuel Long officer of the guard Christian Russ officer of the day William Norman surgeon B F Howell and Christian Kepp representatives to the State Encampment. J McClure was appointed adjutant.
A winter storm dumped heavy snow across northern Indiana. Jeffersonville saw a thick lead, Fort Wayne reported nine inches, and Kokomo measured eighteen inches paralyzing rail traffic for hours last night.
Schimpff & Son offers supplies for new businesses promising to meet requirements and save money. Phone 73.
Miss Annielee Fraser will recite at St Pauls Episcopal Church as part of the Christmas program. At First Baptist Church tonight a program titled Santa Claus's Advance Man features costumed children in the entertainment.
Township Trustee Chas. W. White arranged an all day inspection tomorrow of the new school house west of the city near McCulloch's. Light refreshments from the domestic science class will be served and several speakers will present. The school resumes next Monday and the building cost $12,000, noted as one of Clark county's most complete schools.
Automobile owners are filing applications for licenses due January 1 1916. In 1915 the state issued 96915 licenses up 30 365 from 1914 receipts from the auto department were 592 775 with 728 decensed auto dealers 3099 chauffeurs and 11220 motorcycles
In Norfolk on a Friday, Albert Dixon shot Police Captain W P Ford in the breast and was later found in a Saterstreet house Sunday morning. He wounded Officers W J Strawhand and John F Russell before being killed as police closed in. Strawhand suffered multiple wounds while Russell had a shattered index finger as Dixon fled to the street. Other officers surrounded the house and Miller fired, ending Dixon’s escape as he died amid the group.
George Nanz, longtime Spring street saloon operator next to the Dream Theater, saw his license expire at 11 last night and will shift to a soft drink stand with other goods. His retirement marks the fourth Spring street saloon closure recently as profits wane and patrons increasingly seek nonalcoholic beverages.
Clark county voters prepare for a statewide March primary that will nominate county officials including joint senator representatives sheriffs and prosecutors. The contest pits Democratic infighting against Republican organization with legality of the new Australian ballot law under challenge and potential Supreme Court ruling.
This week basketball dominates with a main event Apollos facing a Bowling Green Kentucky Athletic Association team. A preliminary Hot Rocks vs Broadway Stars precedes. Thursday night games also include local High School at Charlestown and Presbyterians vs Charlestown Seconds.
Emery Noe filed a claim for 4 dollars in the office of Circuit Clerk Ballard against the estate of John Weaver. Weaver was killed while working at a grock quarry. The claim cites meals served to the deceased as the amount due.
Plaintiff Middleton Koons requests an order of sale in Circuit Clerk Ballard's office to satisfy a judgment of 744 dollars plus costs against Mary Josephine Morgan in the foreclosure proceeding.
The November term in Clark Circuit Court ran up jury trial costs totaling over four hundred dollars. The highest expense item was the trial of Wilbur Miller for murder, which cost 449.35 to conduct before he was freed of the charge.
The notice advertises GASO-TONIC with a claim of gasoline at 3c a gallon and a dollar profit per hour. It asserts elimination of carbon and guarantees sales by White Mfg Dept 16.
In Indianapolis, Wilmer T. Fox and Jas E Taggart argued before Judge Albert B Anderson on an appeal from Referee Albert Rabb in bankruptcy. They represent creditors of the defunct German Savings & Loan Association as to its affairs. Trustee Levi N Reeder reports progress in liquidation but matters remain unsettled.
County Assessor Erasmus T. Sage will travel to Indianapolis next week for a meeting of county assessors convened by the State Board of Tax Commissioners.
Wall Street Methodist Episcopal Church will host its second quarterly conference Friday evening followed by a social gathering. A meeting will feature Dr Festus A Steele district superintendent as one of the speakers in a planned watch meeting.
Nicholas Lentz a leading Utica township resident celebrated his eighty fifth birthday Sunday. The prominent farmer remains at home after an attack of grip on his large farm between Utica and Bull Creek.
Samuel W. Taflinger, chief deputy to Sheriff Isaac G. Phipps, retires this Saturday and will relocate to Oregon Township in Oregon. Phipps seeks renomination in March and Taflinger may move back to Jeffersonville in two years.
Fire escapes contracted for by the Jeffersonville City School Board have been erected at the Junior High School and at the East Chestnut Street school. The Rose Hill escape is assembled but not yet installed.
County Commissioners will hold a special meeting on Friday to wind up the year and let the final contract for blank books stationery and printing.
Barbara Kilgus widow transferred parts of lots 227 and 228 in the city to Conrad Able and Anna Able for more than 3000 dollars as shown by the attached revenue stamps.
The War Department reassigned First Lieut. Harry L. King now on temporary duty at the local Quartermaster Depot to the Twelfth Cavalry. He came here to assist Maj Hacker in certain retail work.
Mason ic Notice announces Jeffersonville Lodge No. 340 F and A M M will hold a regular meeting Tuesday evening December 28 at 8 o'clock. Work in M M degrees. Herbert Huckelberry W M W S Thornley Sec.
Plans for a city wide New Year celebration include watch parties with horns bells and whistles at factories steamboats and locomotives. The Knights of Pythias Armory hosts the annual charity ball January 1 with invitations issued by a committee led by Mr and Mrs Claude T Lindley and others.
The board of directors declares a 3 percent semi annual dividend and transfers 1205 to surplus and undivided profits. Old officers re elected: Thomas A. Pass as president George T. Jacobs as vice president and L. E. Hanger as cashier. Hanger had succeeded Ottis W. Scott who relocated to Barden.
James Gorsuch of the Indiana Hollowware Company has returned after a two week visit with his parents in Chester Ill. Miss Anna Marie Davenport and her mother Mrs. Charles Donport return from Martinsville Ind after two weeks of rheumatism treatment. She has not fully recovered but came home today.
Judge John M Lewis of Seymour seeks Lieutenant Governor on the Republican ticket and once headed the Jackson-Scott judicial circuit. He has distributed campaign buttons statewide. Judge Oscar H Montgomery of Seymour also seeks the Supreme Court nomination, with one term on the Indiana bench and election on the Republican ticket.
Snow is likely this afternoon and tonight for Jeffersonville and vicinity with cloudy Wednesday. Tonight's low near 20 degrees. In Indiana expect snow in the far south, then partly cloudy tonight, Wednesday mainly fair and warmer in the north and west.
Ground floor proposition from big company promises 20 percent advance on Nov 27. Stock valued at 6 cents with $10 buys $200 of stock. Claims 90 day high dividends and quick action on money. Limited shares remain. address Amalgamated Oil Co 1700 Colcord Bldg Oklahoma Okla. Adv 1%1%.
At the Indiana State Fair an Overland car was started every five minutes by a wireless spark from Indianapolis five miles away. A complete wireless outfit powered by 110 to 16 000 volt transformers operated the starter and magneto via an automatic time switch with no human hand needed.
A fashionable hostess favors a Japanese guest room in a country house. The cool dim space uses blue green tones, bamboo prints, wicker furniture, a Fuji backdrop screen, and natural elements like pine or ferns, avoiding bright lanterns or cherry blossoms.
A brief Tit Bits note explains how a German submarine tangled in a deep sea fishing net off Dover could be immobilized. The author argues nets could force subs to surface or stay submerged, risking crew safety and exposing the vessel to enemy fire.
Early records suggest shaving began because beards offered a grip to enemies in battle. Greeks during Alexander’s era adopted it, and in other lands soldiers first took to shaving. Historians note Roman emperors feared barbers could threaten them, and Hadrian wore a beard to conceal a throat scar, bringing the practice back into fashion.
A London doctor states there is little ground for the idea that war years produce more boys. In a district heavily affected by war he saw 55 percent girls and 45 percent boys in six months of births.
A brief note states a U S demand denier seeks severance of relations and awaits full information. The item reads as a terse diplomatic update with minimal context or dates. No names or places are provided in the readable text.
Washington reports indicate Austria will not meet U S demands in the forthcoming reply to the Ancona note. Diplomats in Vienna are said to be preparing for a severance of relations, with a possible bid for arbitration though no official forecast from Ambassador Penfield.
The State Department holds there can be no discussion over official Austrian admiralty admissions unless Austria denies them. The admiralty statement was forwarded by the Foreign Office to the United States for information, a step considered unlikely to be reversed.
London reports a renewed Austro German submarine push with five Allied vessels sunk and a sixth at risk. The Ville de la Ciotat and Ministre Beernaert are named among losses with crew and passenger casualties. Ratios of saved and missing vary, while other ships including Yeddo Cottingham Hadley and Arlanza are listed with uncertain status. Embla was beaconed at the Thames mouth. Details cite incomplete official confirmation and mixed survivor counts.
An advertisement offers a printing plant complete with equipment for sale at a bargain price. The closing amount is $150.06 and additional information can be obtained by calling the provided number 943.
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