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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1908
Page
8
Local items include visits by J M Barton and W M Croan from Marion, flights of social calls, sales pitches for Porters and the Trade Palace, a double-header by the South Side Cubs, and notices of births and marriages. An oil news flash from Bremen Ohio hints at local wealth. A Toledo excursion offer and various small ads fill the page.
A liberal reward will be paid for the return of a twenty dollar bill lost yesterday. Return to the Reporter office.
The Sutton hotel at 525-527 Broadway Logansport Indiana is for rent. The property includes a large office dining room twenty two bedrooms and four bathrooms. For details contact The Logansport Daily Reporter 525 Broadway Logansport Indiana.
Charles W. Castle of Sixth and North streets unveils a complete sash register in his shop. Each clerk has an individual drawer and time stamped sales. The machine prints sale tickets, tracks errors, locks idle drawers, totals daily sales, and pays customers a four percent dividend on purchases.
C M Cordell is erecting a new residence on Ninth Street beside the German Lutheran church parsonage. The existing parsonage will be moved back to allow construction of a new one.
Promoters announce all towns along the Logansport to Marion traction line have been granted franchises and construction will begin soon.
Congressman Rauch of Marion came home yesterday with his secretary Carl Houston. He has completed his first term in Congress.
A Letter urges Logansport residents to boost local growth by buying cigars made in Logansport with the union blue label. It notes eleven factories, fifteen proprietors, seventy-five cigarmakers, and eighty-five families totaling 344 people, all earning good wages and spending locally. The author asks merchants to hire more families and expand housing to attract additional residents.
The Trade Palace promotes a silk sale claiming the largest of its kind in the city with new patterns and high quality at low prices. Items include 32 inch silks at 58c, 19 inch silks at 38c, 85e silks at 48c, and peau de soie varieties with discounts up to 12½ percent on non advertised silks.
Miss Ruby Murphy of Kokomo visits friends here and Esther Hines of Butler is visiting Helen Ryan of Miami Avenue for a few weeks. Trade Palace Silk sale promises more silks tomorrow while contractors signed arches and bridges contracts. Mrs Howard Johnson left for Columbus Ohio to visit relatives McDonald Knapp families. Ground-level coal info offered by phone 8 and 7. Anasbacher Paris Green touted at Porter's. Adah Dykeman of Anoka attended Eastern Star meeting. Sole-Proof floor coating advertised by Flanegin Hardware Company at 310 Market. Crystal Night in Old Indiana continues.
The Longcliff baseball nine defeated Royal Center 4 to 0 Saturday afternoon on the hospital grounds. Longcliff played a strong defensive game and will face the local high school next Saturday afternoon.
Wilson Searight of the west side reports the birth of twin fawns in his deer woods. The event adds to local wildlife observations and may interest neighbors tracking local fauna.
The Home Missionary Society of Market Street M E church hosts tomorrow afternoon at Mrs George Cogleys 1619 Smead street The Hand in Hand circle of King s Daughters and Sons meets tomorrow afternoon at Mrs D Jackson 171 Smead street All members urged to attend Regular meeting of Court Laurel Foresters tomorrow afternoon with important business Harmony Court No 304 meets this evening at Ben Hur hall with business of importance on the agenda.
Dialogue shows a puzzled excursionist asking why the boat is named Baby. The park boatman replies that foals feel they must be rocked, implying a playful reason behind the name.
Ammons warns Congress will adjourn with no major bills and theater life will shift to another season before tariff or live issues are settled. He argues patrons spare dollars during hard times while a ten cent vaudeville ticket still funds the theater, predicting revival in two years. Crystal in Logansport thrives under Tom Hardie with better shows ahead.
Miss Mable Grace Henke hosted fourteen friends for a picnic yesterday at Spencer park. Attendees described the gathering as delightful. Mrs W L Fernald plans a bridge whist event Thursday afternoon. Mrs Quincy Myers hosted forty-eight ladies informally Monday afternoon. Mrs Walter B Lewis hosted a five o'clock tea today.
A marriage license was issued to Miss Rosa Michael and George Rupe this afternoon. They were married at 3 o'clock by Squire Reid and will reside here.
Martha J. Barr and George W. McCollum married by Judge W. C. Hanawalt this afternoon. The couple plans to reside near Wolcott where McCollum operates a farm.
Miss Roma Rockafield daughter of Adam Rockafield and Carl W Tudor of Winamac married today at noon at the bride’s parents home in Miami township. Rev Ted Ford officiated. A dinner followed and the couple left for Winamac to establish their home.
Mrs. Mary Riley wife of James Riley died at 601 West Broadway at 5 20 this morning aged 74. Funeral Friday at 9 from St Bridgids Church Rev Father Quinn officiating burial Mt St Vincence. The funeral of S M Linquist will be tomorrow at 2 from Kililan McCloskey parlors burial Mt Hope. The funeral of Settinio Mussoni was held this morning at 9 from Kroeger Strain parlors burial Mt Hope.
The Elks B P O E asserts single lodges per city and notes the fraternity forms its strength through inter lodge ties. It credits fraternal roots and social friendships for political influence, spanning members from diverse walks of life.
Miss Hazel Izor departs today for Cincinnati Ohio for a short visit. She plans stops in Dayton and Eaton before returning home.
Mrs William Lehman of 31 Twentieth Street thanks friends and neighbors for kindness shown during his illness and after his death.
A fragment hints at social reform discussions in Paris fashion circles. The line about cutting papa's trousers and Willie’s sister Bet suggests satire on gender roles and sartorial norms in society.
Randal, who has painted scenery in Kokomo’s Sipe theatre, will come next week to redecorate the scenery in the Dowling theater.
Samuel Behrman and Michael Sullivan attended the Elks state gathering in Indianapolis yesterday to participate in the statewide meeting and activities.
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