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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1908
Page
3
Thomas A Edison argues sleep is a habit and cites a two year test at Menlo Park where nearly 100 assistants slept four hours nightly with four meals daily. He claims work and mental capacity remained intact and agility improved despite reduced sleep.
The Nelson launched the summer with six acts including the Merriman Sisters and PeWitt and Ashmore in The Bold Mr Timid. The Buckeye Trio acrobatics and Hazel Good singing drew big crowds. Daily matinees at 3 pm with shows at 7:45 and 9 pm. Thursday brings The Majestic Trio in a new bill.
Manager Hardy brings a bustling program to the Crystal this week headlined by Charlie Hasty the Hoosier Boy and the Hallbacks in Go to the Reception, plus Walters & Canford’s sensational Western dramile Would You. Harry Jones sings San Antonio while the motion pictures are well received.
The school board met last night and selected the teaching staff for the upcoming term. Names include John J. Mitchell PF. M. Spraker Ethel Vaughn Mary D Torr Nina Douglass Mary A Putnam J P Hochhalter Lucy B Hessler Anna M Scholl Ora Cox Charles A Wright A J Martin Ea Martin Clara Rathfom Nora Scidetler Flora Shultz Grace McConnell Minnie Gibbard Bertha Kattman Kate Monahan Laura Hawkins Mabel Harrison Mary Hartz Edith Rotroff Kate Benica Anna Gibson Stella Quinn Elizabeth McGregor Martha Williamson Ellen Comingore Kate Flanegin Lucretia Skinner Faye Stiver Bessie Hornung Marie Kennedy Eleanor Williamson Margaret Gehring Bessie Bell Anna Laughlin Louise Richardson Singue Nelson Geneva Strain Sophia Dunn Margaret Gilman Veffa Banta Ivan Oliver Emma Linvill Flora Jackson Geneva Purkey J E Ludders Edna
The record lists names Gravel George B. Davis Lillian Burlingame Mae Estabrook Sue Blassingham Anna Hannegan Ida Covault Amelia Hartz Grace Buchanan Mabel Kemp Maud Gippinger Bessie Baker Kate Welch Anna Swadener Alma Shideler Winifred Bevan Emma Manders Adah Moore Kate Gross May Fansler Bertha Greensfelder Harriet Jordan Anna Covault Jessie Twells Jennie Mackintosh with supervisors of drawing Ralph Cotteral and penmanship.
Kansas City June 2 The Presbyterian church 120th general assembly created an executive commission after ten days of debate The panel includes ministers and elders from across the country and serves one two and three year terms Judge J M Gant invited the assembly to meet in Nashville in 1910 for the Cumberland Presbyterian centennial celebration The revised intermediate catechism was approved for simplification and a committee was named to finalize it.
Dr Robert Koch the German bacteriologist visits Molokai leper settlement as part of a world tour. He was hosted by German consul William Pfotenhauer aboard the Ke Au Hou and toured the camp noting conditions while avoiding comment on permanent cures.
T C Harter of Tecumseh Oklahoma arrived in the city yesterday to visit friends. He served in the war and carried a Panhandle engine postwar. Harter received a scabbard from Mrs Eva Peters on Third Street that was shot by a cannon ball. He recovered it from Will Berry, who had it from Judge Riddle.
May jail census lists sixty inmates with five women. Sixteen are held for intoxication and five for murder. The remainder face various charges.
An inspection with Supt. Loftus on May 27 1908 details the Farrel l Hetherton electric plant including four generation units Westinghouse Standard arc lamps and a 615 kW AC capacity. It notes high peak load December 19 1907 and recommends a 300 kW cross compounded engine and upgrades to improve efficiency and allow day and night operation.
Berlin report says Prof. Alois Brandt of Berlin University endorses American English instruction and urges hiring American teachers in Germany. He argues U S schools cultivate the mother tongue, contrasting with English classics focus, and calls for greater teacher exchanges between Germany and the United States.
Robbers cracked J H Droege store safe in Seymour stealing six dollars and leaving three hundred forty stolen unreadable. Evansville man Peter Lennert died after a bicycle incident. Hebron lawyer William King died riding to Valparaiso. Warsaw sees enough telegraphers to form a halt. Crawfordsville July 4th celebration under Elks. Richmond dairymen to be prosecuted for selling impure milk. Oil drilling resumes near Linton with several wells planned. Oakland City resident Stephen A Johnson died milking cows. North Judson man William Robertson drowned in Kankakee River. Ball Bros Ball Glass factory in Muncie worker Otis Fudge fatally burned. Marion contract for seven city water wells awarded. Major fire injures Linton business district. loss about 17500.
A Des Moines Iowa reader recalls inviting chaos as a newspaper loving father storms the breakfast table with the morning paper. He growls at stories shouting about scoops and sarcasm while his wife smiles patient and supportive.
Deputy County Clerk Sam G Guford submits a quarterly report listing civil 270.42 criminal 39507 estate 237.55 guardianship 123.509 marriage 126 ex cleric 4.05 ex sheriff 183.45 ditch 97.90 miscellaneous 30 docket 54 state fines 11 total 1147.37.
The board of trustees of a Baptist church seeks 350 dollars to purchase the annual fuel supply and to fund necessary repairs. The article notes a request for 200 and some additional funds to meet these needs.
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