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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
8
Community briefs report upcoming L A T excursion to Indianapolis at $1.25 round trip, Vandalia train outings for Studebaker staff, and a two day Detroit trip via Toledo. Local deaths, engagements, and visits are noted along with hotel and theater promotions and public notices.
The Seybold Dry Goods Co reports a bustling start to a June clearance sale at the Trade Palace with citywide interest. Attendees praised the bargains and management plans daily additions to push sales beyond prior events.
Subscribers are asked to leave the amount due for the Reporter with a family member tomorrow as carrier boys will make their regular monthly collections.
Spencer park hosts roller skating with live music by the Elks band. Patrons enjoy a casual evening as the band performs, inviting families and skaters to join.
A fire sale notice lists Ecoah-John Hedde, 43, at High Street, contact phone 1700 for sale of goods. The readable fragment shows sale action and location details.
A 5 620 foot train passed through the Panhandle city yesterday formed by 12 empty cars pulled by two engines. The long train was over a mile in length and headed back east. Railroad workers say business is picking up.
A meeting of the Eel Township Sunday School association will be held Monday evening in the Broadway M. E. church to plan a monster picnic. Teachers and superintendents are urged to attend and assist. Some favor Lake Maxinkuckee excursion while others prefer Spencer park.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness during our father’s illness and death. Adam Wecht and family express appreciation from Mrs. Adam Wecht and family.
Albert Mock of English Indiana has been selected as superintendent of the Oailand City schools. He will oversee district programs and staff, guiding the school system’s educational priorities.
Tomorrow with ladies items at cut rates including 25c tan hose for 15c and 50c framed pictures for 29c. Lotus lawns priced at 314c and $1.25 white parasols for 5c. Also bleached cotton vests 5c, walk belts, embroidered belts, and white Indian Head skirts priced low. Hundreds of other hot weather specialties offered.
Interest grows in the Logansport cigar industry as 350 residents rely on cigars locally. A new factory with 50 workers could spur large development with land, buildings, and thousands in investment from the Industrial association. If local smokers buy only Logansport cigars, dozens of families may relocate within a month, boosting population, housing, and weekly merchant sales.
Mrs D F Ramsey of Marion visits the city. Graves removal sale invites purchases to lay away. Miss Alice Statesman of Peru visits Miss Margaret Rogers. Loan Excursion to Toledo June 21 leaves Wabash at 5 15 am round trip 1 75. Busy Bee club meets with Mrs C B Fawcett. See new shirts at Trade Palace with 79c group. Charles E Jones at Long Cliff to Lankton S Dak for hospital post. Wa bash night operator Burke incubator hatches egg in 15 days. Market Street M E division E hosts coffee at Mrs George Fahenstock. Mrs James A Reid and Mrs Sarah Burgess of Rochester leave for White County to visit Mrs Caroline Hook. Delia Hipsher departs for Goodland for Thomas Watson surprise party after naval school furlough.
C D Billman offers about 49 small monuments priced from five to one hundred dollars as he discontinues yard and ships all work direct from granite quarries. Located near the Mt Hope cemetery entrance, phone 206.
Three hoboes aboard a Panhandle train refused to disembark. After a confrontation with the conductor, Detectives Bragg and Miller met the train, and the trio were jailed. Today they were ordered out of town.
City treasurer Ben Porter mourns loss of his bicycle left against a building at Market and Fourth streets overnight. It was missing when he returned.
The Reporter carrier boys will make their regular monthly collections tomorrow. Please have the change ready.
A West Market street car struck Cecil Baltzell's bicycle on the Market street bridge this morning. The bicycle, left against the bridge iron work while Baltzell watched boys swimming in the river, was demolished as the motorman did not see it on the track.
Superintendent S. J. Ryder reports the company received and unloaded eight carloads of ties today. The material will be used to repair city lines and the Valley traction line east of the city. The Laf ayette line built last year already has good condition ties.
A shed behind the property at 917 Race Street caught fire this noon from an alley bonfire. Alarm was rung in but residents had already put out the flames with a bucket of water. Loss is reported at nothing.
W A Purcell and T F Lowry have journeyed to Pennsylvania for a visit, reporting their plans to return soon.
A Minnesota school teacher nicknamed the Postum Preacher attributes improved health and steadier nerves to Postum. She recalls past coffee reliance, nervous prostration, and a conversion after trying the beverage with her husband. The letter promotes Postum with the slogan There’s a Reason and notes the publisher’s location.
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