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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1908
Page
1
Al Freimel attempted pancakes for all at Camp Rest along the Wabash river. He mismeasured flour baking powder and salt causing a colossal batter spill that overflowed a spider and forced him to flee to a restaurant. Campmates faced hunger while he escaped with his breakfast.
The Panhandle and Vandalia pay cars arrived in the city to settle pay for office men and road men. More road men will be paid this evening while Vandalia paid all employees today. City employees also received their pay and stores will stay open this evening.
Mary Bartin of Elkhart and Cyrus Fidridge of Royal Center were yesterday admitted at Longcliff, having been committed there earlier.
A sixteen year old boy named Frank Winters from Pipe Creek Falls vanished from home this morning. Police are asked to search for him and locate the missing youth noted for having the western fever.
More than 3,060 Panhandle employees and their families plan a trip to Lake Maxinkee for the annual picnic next Saturday.
The text notes an unusually slow summer for lawyers and the prosecutor's office with few city cases and no grand jury meetings expected. It highlights a lull in legal activity as heat and vacations reduce filings and courthouse bustle.
A burglar broke into Ludwie Stieple’s home at 130 Murphy Street early yesterday in Indianapolis. He searched the house, kissed an eleven year old girl in the room with Stieple’s four children, causing a scream and alarm before escaping. Witness described the intruder as short and heavy with a gray mustache.
In Stroudsburg Pennsylvania on August 18 Mrs Henry Everett died instantly while hanging clothes. A charged line created by a contact between an electric feed wire and a guy wire ran through the clothesline, delivering 2 500 volts. Niece Miss Felicia Butz found her aunt collapsed on the garden walk clutching clothespins.
Jacob Geggemus, once naturalized in Huntington and later in London, became insane after asylum years. He was sent back to Huntington and then to Long Cliff due to his prior naturalization.
Pathfinders district meeting held in Peru today with delegates and many lodge members from the area attending. The gathering focused on program planning and group activities for the coming year.
Big Company cancels dates in Logansport due to Indiana election heat. The Sunnyside of Broadway with Murray & Mack, and Wallace-Hagenbeck circus, all back away from September bookings and pledge to return after the election as managers avoid campaign events and torchlight parades.
Crawfordsville Ind August 18 A fresh water pearl weighing fifty seven grains was found in Sugar Creek near Thorntown by Peter Coffman northeast of Crawfordsville The specimen ranks as the second largest and has been sent to New York experts for valuation.
The Knights of Columbus in Logansport elected nine directors for a home association and reported a strong financial condition. A site for a new lodge home is anticipated soon with substantial funds already raised, though members prefer delaying construction until a premier site is secured. Directors named were John J. Sheerin James F. Digan Will F. Hanley John M. Waters Charles W. LeLegue William H. Ferrick Wilson B. Personette Urban OConnell and Nathaniel Floyd.
Prof. J Walter Esterline of Lafayette will report to the council on Thursday evening regarding plans for improving the local electric light plant. A special council meeting will be called to hear the report.
Stacy Williams of Washington township leaves for northern Michigan to avoid hay fever symptoms. Several Logansport residents have already escaped and more plan to depart for relief from the pollen season.
Democratic county committeemen of the Eleventh district will meet in Peru on August 27 to discuss campaign plans. Democratic electors will accompany them to the session.
Clifford Boyer has accepted a position again at the Chili parlor in the city. He previously left this spring to work on his father's farm near Walton and has now returned to the city for work.
The board met with little business approving two permits and a routine claim. A sign permit for the Fair store on Fourth Street and a building permit for Nancy A. Koon were issued. Coal contracts are nearing completion and Riverside park lavatories progress will finish by month’s end.
A night blooming cereus owned by Mrs Louis Luick at Ninth and Race streets is set to bloom tonight with fourteen flowers. Mrs Luick invites friends to view the remarkable plant.
The will of John H. Burrows filed in circuit court names two sisters, Mrs. Aletha J. Baker of Brooklyn and Harriet B. Gibson of South Bend, as equal heirs to real and personal property. Frank B. Gibson of Denver receives the John Wesley looking glass. The document dated December 1, 1898, was witnessed by Isaac Himmelberger and Elwood G. Wilson.
Mr and Mrs Larimore and their daughter of Fort Wayne were night driving in Delphi when lights failed and the car went over a twenty foot embankment at Dubes hill ending upright at the bottom. They stayed with a farmer overnight then left by train the next morning leaving the car behind.
Four year old Fred Riggsby of Anderson Indiana died after drinking nearly a pint of coal oil thinking it water. Playing outside he and others ran to the kitchen for water and he swallowed kerosene from a tin cup. His mother found him in agony and he did not survive.
William Cottingham, a U. T. agent from Tipton who stole $1,000 from the company, was captured in Ottawa, Canada where he had started a new business. His accomplice, Mrs. Jed Cravens of Tipton, fled with him and later directed Tipton authorities to his location.
Eight of fifteen workers at the Logansport Underwear Company quit yesterday as management switched to piece work pay. The remaining employees will continue under the new system, and more workers are needed to fill the positions.
The M. W. team defeated the Cabinet team in a fast ten inning game Sunday afternoon 5 to 4. Both sides played good ball.
Work on the Columbia school sewer started this morning on the West Side. A large force of men is employed and the sewer will be built as quickly as possible.
Forty tickets were sold for the Pan handle excursion that departed from the city this morning bound for Niagara Falls.
Former patrolman Charles C. Wylie says he was pressed to resign by Captain George H. Graham and Postmaster Johnston after pressure from city commissioners. The board allegedly wanted more active enforcement against saloons and aimed to replace Wylie and Campbell with tougher officers.
P. O. Smith, first vice president of the Indiana State Federation of Labor, will address a mass meeting in Fort Wayne on August 20 to organize a Woman's Labor league. The effort aims to encourage buying goods with the union label, with a possible fair in Fort Wayne to showcase union labeled products and educate shoppers.
W. F. Murphey of Baltimore, a former prize fighter, passed through town on his way to St. Louis. He travels on foot, covering fifty miles each night to beat the heat, and expected to reach Lafayette by this morning.
Cass county farmers left the city today to explore land opportunities in Texas Canada and the western regions. William Withers led a party to Canada and A W Johnson led a party to Dakota while others traveled to Texas for land prospects.
Contagious disease quarantine ended yesterday in the city as diphtheria at the home of W. H. Jones at 1626 High Street was cleared. Public health officials announced the area is now free of active disease.
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