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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1908
Page
8
Local items from the city note visits by firemen and workers, travels to Indianapolis, Kokomo, Lafayette and Chicago, plus births, house listings, rental offers, and shopping deals. Readers are urged to see the Red Cross window and enjoy a Crystal show.
Various updates from Delphi include Dr. Joseph Hall’s presence, tradesmen at Murphy & Fleming, and career moves at the Vandalia shops. Social notes cover weddings, visitors, carnation shipments, a church ice cream social, and a band practice ahead of a public event. A wedding is planned for June 21 in Galveston between Miss Blanche Thomas and Prof Elbert Day.
Spencer park hosts a Sunday skating event with music by the Elks band. Local skaters and families invited to enjoy a communal afternoon of music and motion.
Sidney V. Kaufman, buyer for Otto, has shipped the Columbia shoe store stock from Lima, Ohio to Logansport and will place it on sale next Saturday. He paid 33 cents on the dollar and calls it the best bargain he has ever secured. details to follow after his return from Lima early next week.
C D Billman advertises about 40 small monuments priced 5 to 100 dollars. He will sell at a big discount as he closes his yard and ships all work directly from granite quarries. Phone 206 at Mt Hope cemetery entrance.
A fragmented listing shows prices for white cloth, parasols, waists, collars, silk, lace vests, umbrellas, and other small apparel items. Contains numerous misspellings and illegible segments, but indicates a general sale of textiles and fashion accessories with varied prices.
The Columbia Shoe Store, purchased by Otto Shoe & Clo thing company at 33 1/3 dollars on the dollar, is en route to Logansport and will be placed on sale next Saturday.
A brief historic style advertisement urging dental hygiene in hot weather. It promotes tooth brushes as the best made and invites readers to see the window display at Red Cross Pharmacy.
All engineers, their wives and families, all members of the G I A, are invited to attend memorial exercises Sunday afternoon at 1 50 in the Silks hall. B V Pitman C E division 20 B of L 3
Cecil Etnire and Jean Barnard hosted a Spencer Park picnic Thursday with Mabel Ryan Mitchell Brown Lelah Williams Velma Cann Frank O Mor Willie Kraut Viva Thompson Margaret Cann Jean Barnard Coral Robinson Willard Smith Raymond Anderson Pauline Vane Ruth Chase entertained guests at 82 North Street with five tables of cards for Harriet Sewell ahead of her wedding next Wednesday. Edith Alexander hosted a kitchen shower for Harriet Sewell on North Street. Mrs Fred Murdock hosted a cards party for Harriet Sewell as well. The Young Married Folks Dancing Club plans a final dance at the Stettiner Monday at 8 20 p.m.
P Sowers aged fifty four died at 12 50 PM at 1201 Miami Avenue after a lingering illness. Born December 31 1853 in Pennsylvania he moved to the city years ago and belonged to Bridge City Lodge No 65 R of P and Woodmen of the World. Salvador Totaro died this morning at 9 at St Vincent de Paul Church with interment at Mt St Vincent. Thomas W Hutchens funeral set for tomorrow at 11 from Crooked Creek Christian Church with interment nearby. Frederick C Bennett funeral tomorrow at 2 from 600 Wabash Avenue with interment at Mt St Vincent.
Regular meeting of Trades Assembly Sunday morning. All members of lodge No. 52 B of L F and E urged to meet at 1 50 p m. to participate in railroad men events. Ex soldiers invited to Frederick C Bennett funeral Sunday at 2 from 600 Wabash Ave. Vandalia division 345 G I A to B or L E to meet at 1 50 p m in Ben Hur hall to receive badges and assist in grave decorations. Mizpah lodge 26 L A to B or R T to meet at 1 in Ben Hur hall to take part in Charity division. Ladies Auxiliary to B of L E will assist in memorial at Elks hall. cars to cemetery. A R E of P entertainment group meets 9 30 a m Sunday instead of 2 p m. Harry Fidler pres.
Lodges 20 and 612 and others of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen Engineers and Helpers and related groups urge members to assemble by 1 45 Sunday afternoon on Fourth Street north of Broadway for a parade. The memorial exercises follow at Ellis Hall at 2 o'clock and are open to railroad members auxiliaries families and the public, per marshal F C Murphy.
Lincoln J Steffens argues that public discussion of questions is essential to accountable governance. He warns that detaching voters from discourse risks autocracy by a powerful political machine and a well meaning leader in control.
Cumberland Presbyterian West Broadway hosts Sunday school at 9 45, morning worship at 11 on The Seven Churches with Miss Florence Lanham present. Baptist Seventh and Broadway holds Children's Day diplomas at 5 and evening sermon on That Heavenly Chariot. Evangelical church reports strong attendance and plan baptisms and communion Sunday evening. Broadway Methodist on Highth/ Broadway conducts Educational Day and Church and the Child sermon at 11. First Church of Christ Scientists Newark Ninth streets offers God the Preserver of Man at 11 with 9 30 Sunday school. Dunker Mission North Side holds Sunday school 10 and preaching 11 with Christian Workers meeting at 7.
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