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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1908
Page
8
A dense collection of short items notes sales and services, visits, travel, and community happenings. Mentions include Crystals theater show, Panhandle employee outings, various visits from Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, and Chicago, plus farm for sale ads, loan terms, and neighborhood social events.
John Hedde advertises a fire sale of all kinds of coal at 432 High Street with contact by phone 1700.
Walter J. Ball acting for Lafayette Loan & Trust sold Mendel clothing stock auction in Lafayette to Otto Kraus of Logansport for 4575 dollars. Bidders included Chicago and Hicksville, Ohio broker John Miller. Kraus will run the store with Sidney Kaufman as manager for the foreseeable future.
The notice promotes family footwear at Rauch's with prices 48c 68c and 1.28 and 1.48 dollars. Subject to approval. Located at 420 Broadway.
A collage of small items: a flat for rent at 319 Pearl St. local business notes on Thresher Dayton oil, Pennsular cement, and Red Cross Pharmacy olive oil. residents traveling to Bing hampton New York Lake Maxinkuckee and Chicago. social visits among Mrs Esther Rumell Mrs W T Wilson Bert Bloom Mrs Anthony Grusenmeyer and others. Ira A. Baker sues Fort Wayne Wabash Valley Traction for 5000 over an eye injury from turbine blade removal. community events and banking promotions referenced.
The seven month old son of Mr and Mrs Eugene H LaReau died yesterday at the family home in Clay Township. Funeral held this afternoon at Metea Baptist Church at 2 o'clock with interment in the adjoining cemetery.
Social Circles notes invite the Ladies Social Circle to a picnic at Spencer park on Wednesday with members urged to bring families and baskets. Mrs. Harry Thompson hosted her card club yesterday at Ninth Street residence. Neill Rise from Circleville,O. visiting the Gremelspachers entertained boy friends with piano selections yesterday afternoon.
Eighteen thousand gathered for the Hamilton county old settlers’ picnic in Eagletown yesterday. The report lists incidents and local happenings including injuries, crimes, and notable moves such as Michael Horan securing a federal building contract for $80 000 and Jacob F. Denny relocating to Portland to practice law.
Regular dance at the Country club this evening. Logansport aerie No. 323 F O E holds a regular meeting Wednesday evening. Knights of Pythias Bridge City lodge No. 305 meets tonight at 9 for Esquire work. Cumberland Presbyterian church Ladies Social circle meets Wednesday Aug 12 at 2 30 at Mrs Richard Dykeman’s home 17 Seventh street all ladies urged to attend. Universalist church Ladies Aid meets Wednesday afternoon in church parlors money barrels open election of officers and dues to be paid. Good attendance is desired.
The marriage of Miss Adda Dritt of this city and Fred Taylor of Berwyn Nebraska will take place this evening at the old Dritt homestead north of the city. The couple will reside in Berwyn where the groom is in business.
The regular monthly meeting of Logansport Typographical union No. 196 will be held in Trades Assembly hall this Tuesday evening at 8 o clock. Members are urged to attend due to important business.
Miss Mary Frances Day of Clarksville eloped with Harry W. Brennan of Memphis after inviting her Philadelphia fiancé George D. Wilson to wed. They married at Nashville with Day’s brother helping, avoiding the planned June 23 ceremony and bridal tour. Brennan and Day planned to marry previously. Day chose her childhood sweetheart over Wilson.
Miss Bessie Wilson of Delphi and Janet Polish of Kansas, members of the cooking club, fell ill Sunday after dinner at A. B. Crampton's cottage at Pottowattomie Point. Editor Cramp ton of Delphi denies the illness was caused by the cooking.
The Panhandle pay car arrives next Tuesday at 2 o clock and stays two days paying employees at scheduled times including passenger station, yard, and shop workers. The Vandalia pay car comes Tuesday morning to pay all employees from the station during the day.
Frank Enyart Hubert Clarke Claude Oram Fernando Beck William Burgess and Aute Porter announce a new camp three miles west of the city to open August 24. The camp, named Camp No Soap, was missing from the commissary list during preparation.
W H Richeson and family Frank Berndt and family Rudy Berndt and family and Little Jimmy the cigar maker opened a camp on Kienlys island and will stay there for two months.
London reporters recount how Thomas Fletcher a Cleveland flour merchant used a queen carriage snapshot at the Franco British exhibition to identify his son among riders. Advertisements drew nineteen responses fourteen appeared at the fair but his son was absent leaving hope he may still be found as Fletcher sails home.
Word received here announces the death of Elza Dipert a former Vandalia employee who left for Chickasaw Oklahoma for health reasons. He was buried two weeks ago.
Dr. Charles Ballard reports he treated a woman who accidentally swallowed tincture of iodine after a mishap near Brown's poultry shop on Sycamore street. The patient’s identity remains unknown to local residents.
The Mothers' association of the First Presbyterian church invites all mothers and children to a picnic at Spencer park tomorrow August 12. The event encourages families to attend with dinner plans provided.
The eight year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Vance living west of the city fell from a tree weeks ago and sustained a concussion that may prove fatal. Her condition remains critical.
Members of the Freshour and Michael families plan an annual reunion at Spencer Park on August 28. Officials expect over a hundred attendees and urge all relatives to attend.
A fragment notes cold weather with temperatures around ten degrees. It recalls last winter's low temperatures and a nostalgic sense of the era.
A Indiana state group declares its non political stance while urging defense of personal liberty. It resolves to back the Democratic party in state and local elections to gain candidates favorable to liberty, and to authorize its executive board to enforce the resolution amid charges of ties to brewers or saloon keepers.
A passerby jokes about profits in the stock market while a trader responds that gains are not guaranteed and explains that losses are avoided by selling shares. The exchange highlights skepticism about consistent profits in investing.
The Reporter is on sale at the Roy al Slave cigar store, 411 Fourth street, Porter's cigar store, 324 Market street, and at the Interurban news stand.
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