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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1908
Page
8
Local notes include visits, travel, and errands around town. Notables: Dr. Ford chiropodist in town. Mrs John Beamer visiting relatives. many residents traveling or visiting Detroit Indianapolis Chicago Butler Lafayette Peru and Richmond. births listed Harley Benner and Kessling families. News item highlights include entertainment at Crystal theater and strongest picture at the Ark.
In Arkansas Go to the Ark The Reporter sold at the Interurban stand. Fireman Pierpont Edwards reports for duty. Crystal shows this week. Fireman G L Hendes off duty on Panhandle for a few days. Walter Byers says clover day cheaper than six months ago. IL A T excursion to Indianapolis next Sunday $1.25 round trip. Evening Star club meets with Miss Lara Mayhill. Frank Swigart in Rochester on trolley line business. Mrs L L Truman and niece Iva Truman visiting Princeton Indiana. W J Becker back to work after illness. Berry crop to be light due to late rains. Mrs B E Underhill recovering from stroke. Dan Brown ailing yesterday, better today. Miss Gertrude Clark and family to Tipton a few days. Watts sisters attend grandmother Maria Watts funeral. New steel fire escapes at St Joseph school operate. A M Pritchett Ira Cotner Max Grable trip to Tramping Lake Saskatchewan. Scott Brown leaves for Canton Ohio to visit relatives. Revs Judd and Miller to Winona Lake for Mid-Summer Civic revival. Joe McNary offers farm or city property loans at 5 percent. John W Rush at Rushville Jersey cattle sale. stock imported. Dr J F Nolan to New York to study subjects in hospitals. M W Mansfield leaves for Petosky for health. Trustee Irwin pays dog tax. $120 for $105 collected. Ed Fettig’s dray horses respond to “ged up” only. Italian criers fail.
A special train on Sunday July 26 departs Vandalia Station at 6 30 a m for Terre Haute excursion, operated by Pennsylvania Lines.
A musicale at 1915 High street hosted by Miss Maude Milburn features a program including violin solos by Roy Keplinger and S. Larson, piano solo by Mrs. L. Q. Enders, vocal solos by Mrs. C. H. Brown and Dr. H. G. Stalnaker, clarinet by E. K. Brown, and additional performances.
The Japanese navy will rearm existing ships rather than build new ones. Mikasa type vessels will swap fourteen 6 inch guns for four 10 inch guns and Retvizan style ships will receive four 12 inch and four 10 inch guns. First class cruisers are planned with 18 650 tons, 14 000 horsepower, 25 knot speed, 450 feet length, 80 feet beam, and 26 feet draft.
Three day outing Wednesday to Friday July 22 23 24 via Wabash Valley Route. Sixty cents round trip includes theatre admission. Matinee Thursday. Third Regimental band concert 7 to 8 50 p m.
George Etters age twenty seven died at St Joseph hospital after illness. His father from Chicago to arrange remains. Mrs John Pearcy sixty eight died at home one mile north of Galveston funeral held at Methodist church with Rev Herbert Boast and burial in Odd Fellows cemetery. Mrs Lena Ray funeral held at 4 pm from 1403 Spear Street with Rev Walter Johnston and burial at Mt Hope. Stella Bingaman funeral tomorrow at 1 pm from Georgetown school house with burial at Pisgah cemetery.
Mrs Flora T Neff hosted Mr and Mrs F M White at dinner in the Barnett hotel Monday The Christian church Sunday school class led by Miss Hazel Archibald held a Spencer park picnic with about fifty attendees Miss Letha Collins and Miss Vera Krieg hosted twenty two young people at Mrs C N Seybolds home three miles south of the city Games were played and refreshments served Mrs P J Koones hosted a box party from G IL A No 345 at the Broadway theatre vaudeville show last evening
Chairay division No 4 G I A to 8B of L E holds a regular meeting tomorrow at 2 30 PM in Ben Hur hall. The ladies of the Christian church host an ice cream social Wednesday evening at the home of George K Marshall 123 W Edwy. Everyone invited.
A marriage license was issued to Julius Lupton and Miss Slvira Heiden of this city this morning. They were married later by Rev. H. E. Stuehm at the bride’s West Side home. Lupton is a traveling salesman for Uhl Bros. They will reside here.
Manila Harbor reports confirm the American battleship in the harbor belongs to the Marion club of Indianapolis. A Filipino spy climbed aboard to observe a rehearsal of A Night Aboard Ship and asked why the chicken crossed the road, hinting at a joke tied to the crew and forthcoming performance at Fair Bank from July 27 to August 1.
Montclair residents petitioned the town council to curb crowing roosters ducks and geese. The group seeks mufflers for automobile horns and other anti noise measures citing nightly disturbances from midnight to 6 a.m. A Beverly Massachusetts tip suggests roosters on high roosts to stop crowing.
San Francisco dispatch reports Lieutenant Gordon A. Dennis of the Monterey Perfidio was fined 50 dollars and sentenced to 30 days confinement for making eyes at Monterey social women. A court martial upheld the judgment, with President Roosevelt and military authorities endorsing the ruling that such acts violated army regulations.
J M Yomant found thirteen boxes of jewelry beside an oak in a wheat field west of Kalamazoo. Sheriff Shean collected the boxes, believing they might be loot from Dearcy store robberies, but jewelers declared the items fake and dropped under the tree by careless thieves.
In New York a twenty month old gymnast named Helen Graf fell from a fifth floor fire escape but saved herself by grabbing a bar two stories below. She is the daughter of William G. and Annie Graf of 1357 Webster Avenue Bronx. Her siblings are also gymnasts and her father trained them in early physical development. The child survived the fall after hanging on the iron fence bar until rescue.
James Masters, while picking blackberries near Snakey Point in the Patoka bottoms, claims two copperheads about six feet long and four inches thick appeared in briars. He fled after the snakes showed a combative stance, noting copperheads are rare in the area and bites are nearly fatal.
The annual city expenses report shows Captain George Graham of the police department spent $25 on bicycle repairs amid secret service work. The Detective monthly subscription and railroad and foreign board totals appear, with four imported detectives’ expenses listed as $40.95.
The article notes high wheat yields across the region. Walter House near Galveston achieved a record 4714 bushels per acre, while C S Sarng of Jackson township harvested 1659 bushels from 44.5 acres, averaging 37 bushels per acre.
The Vandalia railroad ran a fourteen coach excursion today to Lake Maxinkuckee. The trip began at Flora and stopped to pick up Sunday schools at Camden and Bringhurst. More than seven hundred passengers rode the train and it will return through Flora tonight.
The Reporter is on sale at the Roy al Slave cigar store located at 411 Fourth Street Porter's cigar store at 324 Market Street and at the Interurban news stand.
Rev. H. E. Stuehm and daughter Ferdinand Grahs and daughter Miss Louisa Englebrecht and Miss Etta Shu man and Carol Warnke left Sunday to attend the annual Wastelr league convention in Cleveland and expect to return home tomorrow.
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