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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1908
Page
8
Golden Rule marks opening day for its newest fall suit collection with in store displays and special promotions. Customers flock to browse tailored jackets and wool blends as fall shopping kicks off.
A busy column of local notices and ads includes shopping deals at McCaffrey and Golden Rule, travel notes, reunions, job requests, restaurant items, and missing items. several residents return from trips or journeys, and public notices touch on rail, charity, and city services.
A collage of items lists rent ads and arrivals around Pearl Street and Market Street. Local residents report illnesses, visits, travel to Milwaukee Marion and Delphi, and social events at churches clubs and parks.
Classified notice offering an eleven room house for sale describing it as suitable for single or double use. Terms include part cash and balance on time or exchange for a smaller home with balance cash or time. Address "C" care Daily Reporter.
School class 10 at Mrs. C. W. Schwartz home on Burlington avenue enjoyed lawn games and prizes with John Moore winning top honors and Miss Helen Bruce of St. Louis as guest of honor. Beth lehem township hosts guests including Nina Douglass and Albert Douglass among others. Ada Hayes hosts Double Six Pedro club with Katherine Hoff mann netting first prize and Lyme Imler second. Stag club hosts Otho Kessling and Lewisburg guests after a 6 pm ride. Thomas Haugh Jr. marks birthday with nearby friends. Elva Moon entertains guests from Logansport.
A department store sale promotes deep discounts across goods from wash belts to corsets. Items include union suits, dress goods, ribbons, gloves, talcum powder, napkins, and shirt waists with notable price drops and a broad assortment across departments.
Auction notice notes good stock mostly mares from Kreuzberger's lot presented by Kistler and Smith.
Short ends of percales and silks priced low with discounts on hosiery, table linens, underwear, and ready wear. Includes 9c percale ends 15c stockings 8c, 5c hose, 33c silks, 85c bargains, and men and women garments at reduced rates.
C A Eberline at 518 Broadway announces a clearance of all ranges and cook stoves starting Tuesday September 1. The sale offers Estate and Moore's brands along with other first class stoves and ranges, with cash sale and stock to be closed out quickly.
Cool mornings remind you to service the furnace now. Lysfield and Geyer offer overhaul work at 328 Fifth Street and can be reached by phone at 2233.
A meeting of Logansport Typographical Union No. 196 will be held in Trades Assembly Hall Sunday at 2 30 PM. Final arrangements for attending the Labor Day celebration at Lafayette will be made, and all members are urged to be present.
The funeral for George A. Hummell was conducted this morning at 10 o'clock at Plank Church with Rev. Miller presiding. Interment followed in the adjacent cemetery.
Charles D. Coleman and Essie E. Holmes of Royal Center will wed on Wednesday September 16. Earlier this afternoon Miss Mary B. Andrews and John J. Glaser were married by Squire James Reid and will reside in the East End.
Stockholders meet in council chambers this evening to approve by laws and corporate papers. Each subscriber is urged to attend. J J Long secretary.
Regular meeting of Logansport camp Modern Woodmen of America this evening at 8 o clock in Ben Hur hall. All neighbors urged to be present. Visiting neighbors welcome.
Harry Sortman of Williamsport Pa stole 130 dollars from a farmer and eloped with Lucy Hanford aged sixteen to Elkhart Ind where he was arrested and sent to the Pennsylvania state reformatory for one year. The girl remains at the uncle's home and will not return to her mother in Williamsport.
Joseph Howard and Mabel Barrison stage The Flower of the Ranch in the city Saturday evening en route to Boyd Park where it will show Sunday. Special traction rates for the performance are offered on the line.
The local American Steel Dredge company, occupying the former Dowling foundry site, staffs around the clock with a large force of men. Numerous dredge orders are being filled and one dredge is nearing shipment.
The executive committee will meet this evening at Trainmaster S F Johnsons office to settle finances. Much money remains in the treasury with $90 left over from last year to be used this year.
The teamsters hauling gravel for the Hillis road south of the city settled their strike yesterday after a dispute over load distance and price. The compromise restored work today with reduced hauling distance and lowered price per load.
Fireman Bragg ends his run due to a sore eye. Earl Stewart plans to quit the livery business next month. George M. Cheney of Indianapolis visits old friends. Miss Fressa Burr of North Manchester visits Mrs. T. S. Harshman on Burlington avenue.
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