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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1908
Page
8
The column lists local items: illnesses birth in the city, visits by residents to Chicago Findlay and Indianapolis, social events and sales at Crystal and Golden Rule. It notes housing for rent, a fire sale, weddings and excursions, and staff changes at Vandalia with travel to Niagara Falls and Lake Maxinkuckee.
Weekly sale at Trade Palace with white waists trimmed in embroidery from 58 cents, parasols at 5 cents, slip over gowns from 35 cents, corset covers at 19 cents, drawers and drawers sets priced low, children’s dresses from 58 cents to 98 cents, and two-piece dresses down to 9 8 cents.
Residents discuss flats for rent on Pearl Street and Market Street while several locals travel to Milwaukee and Canada. The town reports fairs, theater folk, a mussel investigation, Greenville and Lake Maxinkuckee outings, and a large Cass county gathering paying extra ditch assessments.
Logansport riders offered a day trip to Dayton with passage over Pennsylvania lines. The round trip costs $1.75. A special train will depart Logansport at 6 a.m.
Regular meeting of Lorain council No 10 Daughters of Liberty Wednesday at 2. The Broadway Presbyterian Missionary society meets tomorrow at 2 30 in the church parlors. Bridge City lodge No 305 K of P meets tonight to confer Knight. Christian church Section 7 meets Wednesday with Mrs John Banta 425 Wheatlawn avenue. Hand in Hand circle King’s Daughters meets tomorrow at Mary Jackson’s home to sew and share comforts.
Funeral for Samuel Mullendore held at Rockfield church in Indianapolis this morning. Cortege departed city at 8 o clock with interment in the adjoining cemetery.
Fire department extinguished a brush heavy fire at the east end of Riverside park last evening. Boys are suspected of setting the blaze but no damage occurred.
Phillips Bros who run the elevator at Walton display a five legged lamb that possesses six feet. The animal is several days old and in good health.
Frank Muckglefuss, a stranger, was picked up by police last evening after getting lost seeking his room. Officers helped him locate the rooming house and return to safety.
M. J. Cahill and wife returned from St Wayne and Washington township. Mrs Will Quigley is ill at her mother’s home in Sweet s. Mrs Nellie Hines and baby Juanita visit W R Frazier and family in Winamac. Catholics of Woodville hold an all day picnic in O Donnell’s grove with a big dinner. George Crawshaw and Miss Ina Grae return from Lake Maxinkuckee after a week. Ed Flory near the city to market 200 bushels of free stone peaches. George Wecht and Dennis O Neal and wife came back from a four week Michigan outing. Brennan at the East End drug
A stranger event follows a jail birth as Mrs. Pierre Carnie and her husband from Washington Pennsylvania were in a buggy crash on a Sunday hill. Rescuers arriving after the wreck found Mrs. Carnie had just given birth to a child at the scene.
The Panhandle Railroad company was exonerated from blame in the death of Levi Weaver killed by an engine. Coroner G. D. Miller filed the verdict yesterday with the county clerk. The other three accident victims are improving.
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