City in Brief highlights local social and business notes
A digest of names and moves around the city includes Ad Shank visiting friends in town, purchases and relocations at the Trade Palace and Market Street, barber and beauty services, housing ads, excursions, and upcoming club and church events. Numerous residents travel to Petoskey, Chicago, and Detroit areas, with several returning from trips or starting new jobs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ad Shank
South Bend
Alfred Anderson
St. Joe
Mich
Fornes
4Th St
Market St. Hallimah
Weber Sisters
the Crystal
Charles Elpers
Trade Palace
Benjamin
High Street
Pacific Ex. Co
Catherine Honic
Bates Street
Decatur
Republican Headquarters Opens in Dolan and McHale Building
Republican headquarters will open Tuesday in the Dolan and McHale building with County Secretary Kahler and a stenographer handling office business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican
Dolan and McHale
Kahler
For Sale: Eleven-Room House Ideal as Single or Double
For sale a good eleven room house in a splendid location. Can be sold for part cash with balance on time or exchanged for a smaller home with balance paid in cash or time. Address "C" care Daily Reporter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Care Daily Reporter
Stove Stock Blowout At Actual Cost
Beginning Tuesday September 1 the firm will sell all ranges and cook stoves in stock at cash price. Favorite Estate and Moore's models included. They plan a rapid close out to move inventory and urge customers to shop quickly. C A Eberline 518 Broadway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moore’s
C. A. Eberline
Broadway
Furnace Overhaul Suggested By Local Advertisers
Don’t wait for the rush to overhaul your furnace. Losfield and Geyer at 328 Fifth Street offer prompt service with phone 2233.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Losfield & Geyer
Fifth Street
Special Dance for Galloways Crowd Friday Night
Mr and Mrs Galloway invite their usual crowd to a dance starting at 8 30 Friday September 4 for those leaving for college Admission 50 cents per couple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Galloway
Real Quartette at Crystal and Local Rentals This Week
Local page lists The Real Quartette at the Crystal this week and various rental notices. Furnished rooms available at 606 Market Street. Casual notes include Fred Powell visiting Chicago, J H Winters of Indianapolis visiting Grace Morrow, and other social trips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giants
Mackinac Island
Wabash Railroad
City of
Alpena
Mabel Beard
Harry Barker
Washington Township
Hartford City
H. O. Barker
Onward
Educator Journal Publishing Company
Phil Ramp
Leland
Richmond
Ramp
Cincinnati
Lodge and Club Meetings Announced in Local Notices
The Woman's Missionary Society of Broadway M E Church meets tomorrow at 2 p m in the parsonage to open mite boxes and seeks full attendance. Division D of the Ladies Aid Society meets at Mrs George Cogleys 1619 Smead Street Tuesday evening. Court of Honor elects officers next Thursday night and Pythian Sisters Penny Club meets Tuesday at Mrs Lane 84 Race Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Missionary Society of
Broadway M. E
Ladies’ Aid Society
Market Street M. E
George Cogley
Smead Street
Court of Honor
Pythian Sisters Penny Club
Social Circles Spark Spencer Park Picnic
A group of young people gathered at Spencer Park for an afternoon and evening picnic. Attendees included Charlotte Crismond Ina Kinney Cath erine Crismond Mildred Dykeman Grace Kinney Leslie Allman Charles Benica Forrest Brown Edwin Bus jahn and Charles Smyser. Mr and Mrs J D Timons Monticello hosted Miss Clara Treanor from this city and Miss Clara Treanor from Remington last week. Florence and Rose Gibson from this city also joined at Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spencer Park
Charlotte Crismond
Ina Kinney
Catherine Crismond
Mildred Dykeman
Grace Kinney
Leslie Allman
Charles Benica
Forrest Brown
Edwin Busjahn
Charles Smyser
J. D. Timons
Monticello
Clara Treanor
Remington
Florence
Rose Gibson
Social club of the W. R. C. hosts gathering Tue afternoon
Mrs J L McMackin and Mrs C D Billman will entertain the Social club of the W R C Tuesday from 2 to 5 at the home of Mrs Billman located at 2111 High Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. McMackin
C. D. Billman
High Street
Deaths and Funerals Notice
Mildred Irene Hoover five months old child of Jacob C Hoover died at the Washington township residence yesterday. Funeral held today at Rock Creek Lutheran church with interment in the church cemetery. Almira Adams Culbertson Street Shultz town died this morning from old age. Funeral tomorrow with burial in Mt Hope Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Irene Hoover
Jacob C. Hoover
Washington Township
Rock Creek Lutheran Church
Almira Adams
Culbertson Street
Shultztown
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Taft Speaks at Gallipolis on Republican Unity
Judge Taft traveling from Hot Springs to Middle Bass Island delivered a political address to a large crowd at the Gallipolis station. His train detoured via the Hocking Valley and Baltimore Ohio Southwestern due to a wreck on the K and M at Langsville. Taft appeared in good health and urged capitalists workers and farmers to back Republican principles and vote the Republican ticket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Taft
Hot Springs
Middle Bass Island
Lake Erie
Hocking Valley
Baltitreore
Ohio
Athens
Langsville
Roosevelt
Haunted tales and small-town misadventures spill forth
A humorous narrator riffs through a string of local oddities. Ghosts at a hollowware factory, cemetery whispers, a buggy shaft accident, a fox hound weighing, a vet’s flea cure, a powder mill bid, insurance foreman talk, and a sunlit nutty sendoff as a hotel bus arrives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fellows
Shad Tubbles
Tobe Dillwanger
Tobe
Judg
Shoover
Sid Lousehoofer
Sid
Suffragists Lose at California Republican Convention
The California Republican state convention adopted the platform endorsing Taft and Sherman while backing tariff reform and strong immigrant enforcement. It approved a direct primary law and pledged legislative action, but rejected a constitutional amendment for full women’s suffrage, though a school vote exception was debated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Cal
Committee On
Taft
Sherman
California
Battered barge found ends missing rowers search
The battered rowing barge of five South San Francisco Rowing Club youths was found on the Berkeley shore. The five boys aged sixteen to eighteen Bert Fry Frank McGuire Owen Healy Parker Ashford and Robert Haslett were last seen Wednesday morning heading across the bay from Yerba Buena Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
South
Berkeley
Bay
Bert Fry
Frank McGuire
Owen Healy
Parker Ashford
Robert Haslett
Naval Training Station
Yerba Buena Island
Ball Rout The Pioneers And Clinton Athletics Go To Ground
In Jacksonville New Jersey on August 31 the Pioneers and Clinton Athletics played at William Hampf field. The farmer Hanpf refused game, released his bull from the barn, and charged the red uniforms sending the ball into the fence. Boland suffered scratches bruises and a ripped uniform while others fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
N. J
Jacksonville Pioneers
Clinton Athletics
William Hampf
Hanpf
Devlin
Giants
Michael Boland
Kennedy Case Compromised In East End Court
The case against Harry Kennedy brought by Hattie Muller was compromised Saturday night. The girl withdrew the charges in Squire Reid's court today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Kennedy
Hattie Muller
East End
Squire Reid
Nabisco Sugar Wafers Promote Gentle Refinement
The passage promotes Nabisco Sugar Wafers as a refined dessert gesture after meals. It suggests guests enjoy the wafer's delicate flavor and indicates keeping several tins at home ensures a popular, attractive dessert option.
Four Arrested Vagrants Ambush at Rosa Blake Home
Frank Williams George Wilson Grace Clarke and Pearl Clarke were arrested about 1 a m as they approached Rosa Blake's residence. The men faced public indecency charges while the women were charged with prostitution. All paid five dollars and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Williams
George Wilson
Grace
Pearl Clarke
Rosa Blake
Vaudeville bill at the Crystal delights audience
The Crystal theatre crowded this afternoon as Joe Bowman led a sang and dance act. The Hallsman and Webber Sisters followed with a strong number, then the Lamants banjoists performed skilled stunts. The Real Quartette closed with top notch comedy. The show earns strong praise and big crowds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crystal Theatre
Joe Bowman
Hallsman and Webber
Lamants
Thief Hit to Open at The Theatre Nelson Sept 23
Fred Smythe manager of Theatre Nelson received a telegram from New York announcing The Thief, the big hit of the dramatic world, will be here September 23. Lo Sansport will bring the company led by Rkyrie Bellew and Margaret Hainington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Smythe
Nelson
New York
Lo Sansport
Rkyrie Bellew
Margaret Haiington
Seed yield report from Pleasant View farm near Rockfield
Joe Studebaker of Flora reports from town that 80 acres on Pleasant View farm yielded 80 bushels of clover seed while the same field averaged 43 bushels of wheat per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Studebaker
Flora
Pleasant View Farm
Rockfield
Lake Cicott team defeats M. and W. in Sunday baseball
The Lake Cicott aggregation beat the M. and W. team Sunday afternoon while in morning action the Cicott players were defeated by the Rough Necks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Cicott Aggregation of
Cicott Boys
Rough Necks
Westlakes Visit Marion Guests of Louw tham
Mr and Mrs William B Westlake from Marion stayed in the city yesterday as guests of Mr and Mrs B F Louw tham. They spent the day at Potto Wattomie Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William B. Westlake
Marion
City
B. F. Louwtham
Potto- Wattomie Point
May Dress as She Likes in Mount Joy School Case
Judge Landis rules the assembly act of 1895 unconstitutional for banning a teacher Miss Lillie Risser Mennonite garb in class. Mount Joy township school board faced indictment after refusing to suspend her, with the court sustaining the demurrer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Landis
Mount Joy Township
Lillie Risser
A. W. Garman
Sunday Fire Destroys Couch in Powell Home
A Sunday morning blaze damaged the residence of Mrs. Elizabeth F. Powell at 716 Linden Avenue, destroying a couch. The fire cause remains under investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth F. Powell
Linden Avenue
Feared the alternative in a humorous restaurant exchange
A waiter and customer exchange a wary joke about the soup being “selly” and the feigned fear of having to eat it. The line showcases playful dialogue and a touch of Victorian cadence.
Masters Slated For Liquor Law Violation
Patrolman Wedekind entered the rear of the saloon yesterday and found a half filled bottle of beer being used by another person while Earl Masters, bartender for Dennis Sullivan, is alleged to be responsible for the liquor law violation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Masters
Dennis Sullivan
Wedekind
Rooster Herds Escaping Chickens at Kansas City Poultry House
A Kansas City poultry house trains a rooster to round up and feed chickens that escape during the day. The bird herds the flock back inside at night to roost, making capture easier the next day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Sister Ann Question Turns to Billboard Bill’s Hidden Marks
Dialogue snippet shows Sister Ann asking Bill about marks at school and Bill revealing they are hidden where not visible. The exchange hints at quiet embarrassment or mischief without specifics. No further context given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sister Ann
Bill
Wreck on Wabash Bridge Delays Rail Traffic
A Saturday wreck on the Wabash bridge above the shops derailed a caboose and several freight cars. With a single track, trains were halted until the line was cleared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wabash
Advertised letters at Logans Port post office 1908 list
Letters addressed to men and women remain at the Logans Port post office for the week ending August 31 1908. Recipients urged to call within ten days or they will be sent to the dead letter office in Washington D C. Names include Everett Berryman Clint Casio Donaldson H G Gable J C Galbreath Bart Locke Carrie Anndress Jennie Kelly C H Levan Clara Nickerson F M Sowers Marie Swartz Zion Thompson Rena Wilkin and others. Date requested when calling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logansport
Washington, D. C
Everett Berryman
R. R
Clint Casio
Fourth St
FF. Donaldson
H. G. Gable
J. C. Galbreath
Bart Locke
Carrie Anndress
Broadway
Jennie Kelly
North
C. H. Levan
Market
Clara Nickerson
F. M. Sowers
Marie Swartz
Zion Thompson
Rena Wilkin
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Josh Wise
Bon Bon Sundae Se—Red Cross
Lon Snyder
Bert Smyser
Martin Carl
Harrison Township
Day Street
South Side
Ada Me Fie
Rock Island
Lil
Burker
St. Mellinger
East North Street
Deer Creek
Ethel Forean
D. Dillman
Young America
Oscar Seybold
Astrakhan Fisheries
Hayden Quartette
Jake Hubler
Henry J. Stansbury
Lake Wawasee
Robert Green
Petoskey
Fred Green
Dayton
E. M. Howard
Robert Weir
Panhandle
Colorado
F. L. Butler
Daisy Morris
W. W. Richardson
Pennsylvania Limes
Pittsburg
Indianapolis
Ethel Murphy
Mary Brown
Golda Nichols
Nora Watts
Hame
Marion Normal College
Richard Henderson
Anna Henderson
Watseka
Ruth Springfield
Lafayette
Dodds
Market Street
William H. Dale
Michigan City
Dale
Red Cross
Frank Cruthers
Fulton
Robert
Wilbur Henderson
Elkhart
Mary Mulcahey
Lake Maxinkuckee
Edith Moore
Flora Shultz
May Thurston
Chicago
Edith
Rosina Herrmann
St. Louis
Emma Jasch
Porter's Cigar Store
Clarence Jones
Sidney
Joseph Ford
Walton
Carl Wise
William McCain
Main Street
Ruth Miller
W. H. Miller
Ruth Carhart
West
IL. U. T
McCrea
Otis McCracken
Kokomo
L. A
B. of
R. T
Riverside Park
E. R. Perry
Jack
Caroline Wise
Gulf Lake
Charles Neff
Eva Hildebrandt
McClelland Saylor
Summitville
C. C. Murphy
Ollie Ashbrook
J. Y. Wood
Paris
Mary Wood
Estelle Houghton
Clarksville
Tenn
Arthur Fisher
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Hanna Street
Republican Headquarters
Gallipolis Station
Fred Schaefer
Kennedy
News OF the Diamonds
Westlake
Court
Hooley & Tucker
J.B. Kingery
Dykeman
White & Son
Miss Passe
G. W. Cogley
Foley’ S Grocery
K. of P
K. of P. Building
J. P. Ridgway
United States
Western Land and Irrigation Company
Anderson, Indiana
Indiana Loan CO
Ith
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