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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1908
Page
8
Overstocked silks including striped and checked taffeta offered at 43 cents a yard. Purchases from a supplier bring yardage valued from 65 cents to five dollars. See Broadway window for three thousand yards of diverse silks in multiple shades.
City notices and social news detail sales at Ward and Red Cross pharmacies, travel by Panhandle lines, church and parade events, illnesses and recoveries, births and marriages, and local visits. Readers learn of silk sales, reunions planned for Carrara Castile and Bynum-Cline families, and a string of cemetery and Decoration Day observances.
A stout boy is sought to drive a delivery wagon. Experience is preferred. Apply at the Reporter office, address X.
Police received a telegram from Winamac asking them to watch for William Rowe who was arrested here weeks ago with his nephew's wife. The couple appears to have run off again.
The Sutton hotel at 525 527 Broadway Logansport Indiana is available for rent. This family hotel features a large office dining room twenty two bedrooms and four bathrooms. For details contact The Logansport Daily Reporter at 525 Broadway Logansport Indiana.
Market street bank advertises four percent interest and claims the largest deposits per capita the greatest surplus and profits with the fewest overdrafts in the city. Investigate.
Deposit with the First National bank claiming the largest capital, largest surplus fund, and largest deposits. The bank offers 4 percent interest on deposits.
Local notices list shop ads and sales at Ward's Trade Palace and Crystal. It records visits, surgeries, travels, gatherings, and social events including a G A R meeting, a Burnettsville baseball social, and residents preparing summer plans at Royal Center and Warsaw.
Local representatives head to South Chicago for a three day state convention of the Daughters of Liberty. Chairman Mrs. Hannah Wilson and colleagues Mrs. Eva Korner Mrs. Alice Patterson Mrs. Madge Wall and Mrs. Emma Watts will attend for the community.
Julius Wagner and wife at Tenth and High streets celebrate the birth of a son. Neighbors report the baby and the family bring a broad grin to the community as the town salutes the upbeat arrival.
Governor Hoch appointed Mrs Levi Cooper as Mitchell county probate judge, the only woman in the state with that role. The piece notes many other female officeholders from county attorney to county treasurer and school superintendent, with few clerks of district or county commissioners and several women mayors. It mentions a Girard woman nominated for state superintendent by Socialists at Topeka.
In San Francisco on June 1 deputy public administrator W J Hines unearthed a fortune hidden in a carved table leg belonging to the late Mrs Jessie Fre mot Dietsch. A bank book shows 4200 dollars and a jewelry and wildcat stock collection once worth thousands. The sole heir is Mrs Anne Jemmim Sizemore of Georgetown Idaho.
London authorities report about a thousand tons of cat meat labeled as such arrives yearly at city rail hubs. Much of it ends up in East End neighborhoods and is bought by very poor women in small amounts. Inspectors suspect the meat is not for cats and is not meant for open sale due to its unfitness for human consumption.
About one hundred local Red Men journeyed to Peru yesterday afternoon led by a band and took part in the parade. They left at 1 o clock on the traction line and returned home last evening. Peru and Kokomo lodges will visit next Sunday for exercises.
The Fourth of July is expected to be quiet locally with few amusements. A baseball game at Spencer park is scheduled and an Auto club parade will run in the morning with many participants.
Frank Berndt aged seventy six died suddenly at the county farm after dinner. Grace Klein three months died yesterday. Martha A. Wilson aged seventy eight died yesterday at her North street home. Edward H. Lux aged twenty one died Saturday at his home. Jordan R. Tyner’s funeral held yesterday at Ninth Street Christian church. All interred at Mt Hope with services by Rev. White Rev. Crum Rev. Simon and the Masonic order.
Rev. W. D. Water of Attica will marry Miss Elizabeth Brey of St. Louis on Tuesday June 9. The wedding will unite local prominence with a Missouri connection in a simple ceremony.
Miss Nellie Hoppe and James Hipsher were married Saturday evening at the groom’s home 100 Hanna Street. Hipsher, a stationery engineer, plans to reside here.
A license was issued to Miss Pearl G Plank and Clifford Sprinkle of Lincoln this afternoon. They will wed tomorrow at high noon at the bride's home with Rev. Sick afoose performing the ceremony.
St Johns commandery No 24 Knights Templar holds a stated conclave Monday with work in the Temple order. Lorain council No 10 Daughters of Liberty meets Wednesday at 2 pm.
Jack Bernarda has resigned as operator of the Ark moving picture theatre. He owns the machine used there and intends to start opposition in the area.
The majority favors buying a new fire truck for Sixth Street Station No. 2 rather than ladders. The condemned truck risks injury to firemen. The council also supports building storm water sewer on George Street in the East End.
A brief exchange features Jinkins passing in a narrow street and another remark about the alley's impossibility for thoughts to pass each other. The line captures light whimsy on urban congestion.
Marion Swadener spent Decoration Day in the city and has now returned to Indianapolis.
Chief Charles Livingston reports seven runs in the past month with total losses of $250. Most fires came from gasoline stoves. two runs ended before wagons arrived.
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