08 Jan 1909
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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1909
Page
1
Royal Centre superintendent A L Frantz criticizes absent or irregularly brought children, urging parents to value early and regular attendance to boost high school records. Local items note residents moving, store changes, private skating party, visitors, and upcoming travels.
The Magee Block blaze prompted the Board of Public Works led by President Charles Ringleben to order basement cleanouts in downtown merchants. Chief Charles K. Livingston will inspect basements with furnaces and heating plants to reduce fires from neglected packing and rubbish.
Clinton Beecher of Twelve Mile buys the Howell restaurant in Fulton last Tuesday and plans a full stock overhaul. He will offer canned goods candies cigars fruits nuts and oysters and is regarded as a hospitable, capable new proprietor.
The petition to pave High Street from Third to Twenty-fifth has been temporarily withdrawn to allow reconstruction. The project aims to pave the street and address street conditions.
John Benefield received a prison sentence ranging from one to fourteen years after a court decision today. The judge rejected repeated attempts to grant him another chance.
A Vandalia freight train left tracks near Nutwood when rails spread on the main line. Train 45 was diverted via South Band and Lake Shore to North Liberty and the Wabash to Lakeville, arriving three and a half hours late. No injuries reported. Wreck crew summoned.
Logansport Post 14 G A R and local leaders issue orders for the one hundredth birth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln. A meeting at Library Hall on Monday January 11 1909 invites church fraternal and commercial groups and citizens to arrange a fitting public observance. G P McKee J E Crain D J Forgy presiding.
Two basketball games are set for the M. C. A. gym on Broadway. Walton high school girls meet the local girls, while Walton boys play a mixed team of local commercial college and high school players.
The Logansport post office may qualify as a first class office by April 1 if current trends continue. 1908 totals show receipts of $40,150 with gains in stamp sales and newspaper postage, while money orders rose overall despite fewer issued.
The Happy Youngsters musical comedy acted at the Nelson theatre last night to a sparse crowd. Several members departed for Chicago after the show, others wrote home for money, and many faced unpaid hotel bills. The production mirrored Henderson's School Boys and Girls with catchy songs but weak chorus.
Daniel Petty son of Charlies V Petty former manager of Northwestern Mutual Life in this city was chosen as local editor of The Mirror the daily paper published by the juniors in the Manual Training high school at Indianapolis Petty is well known locally with many friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Green Sr. have moved back to Logansport from Richmond Indiana after months away. He will resume his former role as engineer on the railroad and the couple plan Logansport as their home in the near future.
William Kistler gathers and prepares timber for construction of a new residence and barn. The work focuses on sourcing suitable logs, cutting, and staging materials for early building phases.
Fire last evening choked a furnace in the Magee building on Fourth Street damaging stock at J. W. Swigart Co and Palace of Sweets. Ed Dunkle saw smoke around 12 39 this morning and notified firemen who fought the basement blaze. Loss estimated at 159 dollars, covered by insurance.
Dr Charles H Good of Warren plans to relocate to Kansas City Missouri to practice medicine. He was defeated for Congress by George Rauch the Democratic nominee and has disposed of his Warren residence and farm near t
A stock barn owned by J H Miller near Peru burned yesterday destroying forty six head of stock. The fire started when a cow kicked over a lantern.
Notices posted in Pan handle shops state all departments now operating full time will be reduced to forty five hours per week.
Lundy Andrews, night express agent at the Panhandle, will accompany a carload of valuable horses from the area to New York on train No 20 Saturday. The animals travel from North Manchester to Liverpool, England, with shipment from New York to Providence, Rhode Island, where they will board the Leland liner for Liverpool.
Announcement today reports the Pana Illinois Daily News suspended publication. The paper was started by politicians with Judge P. Hodge and several local business leaders involved, aiming to build a business enterprise after the election.
Dr Joseph Hallanan lies critically ill at his home at Fourth and North streets. Attending physicians fear he may not recover.
Senator Frank M. Kistler retained key Senate committees after a coin toss decided the minority leader race, with Stotsenberg choosing caucus chair. Kistler joins Judiciary, education, prisons, executive appointments, constitution revision, and swamp lands. House Speaker Honan delays committee appointments, promising fit members.
Officials warn residents of daily water loss exceeding four million gallons pumped to city mains. Leaks as small as one thirty second of an inch waste hundreds of gallons per day, while larger leaks push losses into hundreds of thousands. Taxpayers fund the waste and coal costs unless consumption is cut.
Nearly all of the T. H. Wilson Printing company's plant has been relocated to Chattanooga Tennessee with the Wilson family planning to move there next week. Only a few employees accompanied the move.
Westinghouse Electric inspected the construction. payment of 4468.80 was approved, bringing eighty five percent of the contract price to the supplier. The board of public works will inspect again in a few days as city line motors are readied for downtown installation and power in the area.
A large fertilizer factory in Chicago burned last night, endangering the stockyards district. The blaze delayed Panhandle trains by three to four hours as fire crews stretched hoses across tracks near Forty-fifth Street. Chicago fire department worked to control the blaze, narrowly avoiding a repeat of a past great disaster.
Newark facing a projected 49000 annual revenue loss due to county dry laws cut the police force from 25 to 15, reduced salaries, and raised market licenses to 25 and 75. Firemen salaries were trimmed. Saloons closed as of Wednesday and liquor sales shifted to last minute sales, with farmers buying liquor in wagons and raffles common. A parade of unemployed followed, with 1490 jobs reportedly lost.
A. D. Harshbarger Panhandle switchman lost his arm while coupling cars last evening at about eight o clock. His arm was crushed off above the wrist and he was taken from the local yards to Panhandle station then to St Joseph hospital after first seeking aid from Dr J P Hetherington.
Special U S Agent Boaser from Washington attended a city event this afternoon and naturalized several residents. Applicants who had filed first papers were tested on United States history and civic knowledge.
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