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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1915
Page
8
Tonight at the Dream Theater a feature film Secre tacy of Frivolous Affairs will be shown alongside The Tide of Fortune advertisement screening.
Mrs Margaret McNamara of 1032 Missouri Avenue was found dead in bed at 7 in the morning. She was sixty two years old and wife of Floyd McNamara, lingering from chronic ailments and a night call to family members is reported.
Mrs. Margaret McKinney, wife of John McNamara, died at her bedside after a family awakening found her passing. She leaves three young children and a married daughter living in Indianapolis. The family has resided in the city for several years.
Dr Charles F Pangburn as trustee of Charlestown township filed a report with County Auditor George W Stoner detailing the management of the poor for October November and December. The total cost shown is 128 35 dollars.
Transcript of appeal filed in the Appellate Court by Bur dette C Lutz administrator of Bertha Stierheim estate. Stierheim of Charlestown killed by a train of the Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis Railroad Company. Circuit Court had found for the defendant.
The Board of County Commissioners calls a special meeting tomorrow to handle several important matters before year end. They will award a contract for furnishing books blanks and stationery for the coming year.
The Jeffersonville Chamber of Commerce extends the slogan suggestion period indefinitely because C F Dunn, long in charge of the project, is ill. Readers who submitted ideas are urged to try again for the prize. Robert F Leopold of Mc Read Service Co has returned to support chamber efforts.
Al fred Phillips and Mary E. Philip convey to Wallace McKay part of lot 116 on Wall Street for $1 and other consideration. The property is connected to an arson attempt by Jas. McNaughton, for which he was imprisoned, with McKay defending him. The grantors are both colored.
An advertisement urges readers to mail five cents to Foley Con at 2835 Sheffield Ave Chicago Ill for a trial package. The kit includes Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets describing their uses for coughs kidney pain and digestion.
Central Indiana reels from early week storm as snow and ice halt Pennsylvania and traction lines. Fort Wayne reports over a foot of snow while Franklin loses power and telegraph poles are toppled delaying trains and ticket sales. Officials expect lines to resume late today or tomorrow.
The Red Cross Christmas Seals sale closes tomorrow night. Committee chairmen in the city and Clark County will report to Rev. William H. Wylie, who managed the sale locally. He will forward results to State Headquarters in Indianapolis, with higher local proceeds expected than last year. Seventy five percent stays to fight tuberculosis locally.
Mrs Arthur Metz won a large candy stick by making the closest guess to its weight at the Spieth candy shop. The stick weighed 27 pounds 12 ounces and her guess was 27 pounds 10 ounces. Miss Stella Rod placed second and received a five pound candy box.
Local residents were told that Major Kensey J. Hampton, formerly Captain stationed at the Quartermaster's Depot about seven years ago, has been traveling from the Philippine Islands and is en route here.
Maj Hamp ton, recently returned from the Philippine Islands, shares the rank of Maj Theodore B Hacker the current Depot Quartermaster. Hamp ton is a native of Kentucky and formerly chaired Kentucky’s Republican State Central Committee.
Certificate filed with County Recorder shows Arthur Colvin and George Brende elected as trustees of Utica Lodge No. 12 Independent Order of Odd Fellows for three years and one year respectively.
Mr and Mrs George Ogden confined at home after grip. Violet King and Hazel L Norman of Port Fulton return from Oklahoma. Earl C Stoll Y M C A social secretary of Moline Ill after holidays returns home. Ma and Mrs George W Robb of Borden go to New York for winter. Old Ladies Home board to meet Saturday at 2 30. Edith Pease of Howard Park visits Cincinnati. Country Club New Year dance at Speth Hall for St Augustine school fund. committee includes Constantine Leonard Davis Thickston Cronin and Tracy. William H Larran of Borden marries Rose M Oster of Ployd Knobs at St Francis Monastery. Alma Siegel and Charles H Brown marry at Blocher Scott county. Siegel lives at Milway. Brown’s home in New Albany. Mrs F M Wells hosts next Tuesday for Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of Wall Street M E church. Mrs Charles Scheer in charge. J W Stratton and family back from St Louis over Christmas. Susie Thro visits northern Indianapolis then returns to Oaktown Knox county to resume school duties. Stauss Spieth, formerly with Granite City works transfers to Chicago after marrying Martha Little of Owensboro.
The Local Banks will not be open for business New Year's Day and Citizens Trust Co will remain closed for Saturday night.
An advertisement touts Dean's Ointment as quick relief for eczema itching. It claims the remedy costs 50 cents and is available at all stores.
Saturday is a legal holiday with banks closed and many businesses closing at noon, Jeffersonville follows the custom. The charity ball at Knights of Pythias Armory tops the social calendar. In Clark County William Long will become sheriff succeeding Isaac G. Phipps, Robert B. Kirk will succeed himself as county commissioner, and newly elected officials in Port Fulton Clarksville Charlestown and other towns will be inducted.
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