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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1925
Page
6
The business men of Linton announce that next Friday will serve as Saturday for this week to accommodate Decoration Day closings. Stores will stay open Friday night and make deliveries Friday afternoon. If successful, a similar shift will occur on Friday July 8th. Daily Citizen carrier boys will collect on Friday instead of Saturday.
Three members of the Whittle family, Clarence 25 his wife and Velma 5, were killed when their car was struck by a Louisvile & Nashville passenger train at Rock Hill 15 miles north of Bowling Green Kentucky. The couple's car was wrecked and the bodies were dragged about 100 feet by the train. The Whittles were en route from Brownsville to visit friends in Cave City. Clarence Whittle was a cousin of the president of Ogden College.
Mrs Florence Dunn 19, separated from her husband, waited for him in Cleveland Ohio then saw his brother Lawrence Dunn approaching. In grief she collapsed and died en route to hospital. doctors cited heart disease.
The Chicago Daily News reports 15 armed gum chasers under James T. Brereton are ready to patrol 110 miles of Great Lakes coast near Detroit to combat bootlegging. Detroit is chosen as the starting point due to perceived highest prohibition activity.
Banks in the city will close Wednesday afternoon May 27 so local bankers can attend the District 8 bankers meeting at Sullivan. FIRST NA. BANK. LINTON: TRUST CO PEOPLES TRUST CO. 2315c
The Royal Neighbors will hold their regular meeting tomorrow night. All members are asked to be present.
Washington reports that over 25 000 skilled farmers from northern Europe are likely to join the U S farming population this year under the selective immigration law. Germany leads with 10 000 admitted so far, while Holland Denmark and Switzerland show strong quotas. Britain shows few farmers due to emigration to Canada Australia and other dominions offering cheaper transport and land.
The Frankfort municipal light and power plant asks state officials for a 16.4 percent rate reduction citing annual earnings of 370000 over expenses and 10000 yearly sinking fund bond retirements. If approved, users would save 33035.50 annually in lighting and power bills plus bond retirement, with earnings expected to rise to 50000.
In Terre Haute on May 26 Judge A L Miller in probate court determined the inheritance tax on the estate of late Crawford Fairbanks to be 174698.46 the largest ever assessed in the local court and possibly in the state. The tax is based on a net estate of 3449580.68.
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