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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1908
Page
8
Various local items including social visits, upcoming excursions, market offerings, and community notices. Highlights mention Yale punch Red Cross, local sales, births, church services, travel to Indianapolis and Toledo, and upcoming baptisms.
Interest rises daily as June sale deepens with hundreds of bargains at Seybold Dry Goods Co. Customers flock to the Trade Palace for Saturday savings and year’s needs.
Brooklyn lecturer Frank H. Leonard to speak at the Broadway theatre Logansport next Thursday evening June 25 by invitation of the local Christian Science church. He is described as an eloquent and pleasing lecturer and the public is invited.
Prof. N B Eldredge of Minnesota will deliver What is Truth at Court Park Sunday at 2 30 pm. The outdoor lecture on the saloon question is described as carefully reasoned with unanswerable logic and exceptional oratory. Good music will accompany the meeting.
Hundreds of special values on white skirts waists and ribbons at the June sale. Prices include 25.00 white skirts down to 0.58 for waists and 0.19 for ribbons with assorted remnants and corset covers. Trade Palace advertises deep discounts and variety.
Harry Watts local agent for the Lambert Automobile company has organized an outing for Lambert owners in the city. The event will occur on Sunday June 28 with all Lambert cars in Cass county expected to participate. The riders will start at 9 oclock and tour the countryside including a lunch in the country.
A warm weather ad invites readers to “Relax” in comfortable attire including negligee shirts, invisible suspenders, velts, and loose caravats. The piece promotes latest style straw hats from Deventer the fatter and furnisher.
Mrs A M Benjamin of 416 Market street advertises hats at greatly reduced prices. Tomorrow only trimmed hats priced at 8 and 10 dollars drop to 4 dollars and 1.98 dollars respectively. A lot of 3 dollar trimmed hats sells for 1.50.
Latge and Jewel Rebekah lodge members urged to attend this evening with staff practice and dues payment. Pythian Sisters and Knights of Pythias wives asked to visit Mrs Moriarity at 300 Miami Ave tomorrow afternoon to make emblems for Decoration Day. Tipton Lodge No 33 F and A M calls a semi annual stated meeting this evening for dues. All members urged to attend.
Miss Fay Wiley aged fifteen, daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Wiley, near Young America, died yesterday after a long pneumonia. Funeral set for Saturday at 10 am from the Baptist church in Young America. Rev S W Tedford to officiate. Interment in Chanon cemetery.
Convention deliberations led to Cummins removal and Sherman chosen as the ticket's New York backed candidate. Sherman's fitness and New Yorker status promised strength. his nomination occurred on the first ballot and the convention adjourned.
A Lettiner hall program featured violin mandolin guitar and piano pieces by students of the Misse Henderson school. Notable was the H M S orchestra consisting entirely of pupils with Eva Traut Cleve Briscoe Mollie Tucker Blanche Cramer Thelma Ruhrmeister Edna Herrick Olive Downey Edith Philliphy Elizabeth Keener Rachel Hynes Margaret Herrick Fionia Wedekind Margaret Keener Carl King Thomas Jones Fred Herrick Harry Hildebran Herbert Condon Ernest Doyle Melvin Wilson Glen King Chiester Winn Leslie Hecht Lawrence Hensel Charles Wilson Clarence Bettcher Wilden Rockafield Everett Cook and accompanist Claud Beal.
Tom Farrell, bartender for Martin Bligh, was slated after eleven for selling beer past the legal hour. A farmer exiting the premises with six bottles of beer was stopped by an officer for questioning.
Mr and Mrs Charles Thurman entertained guests at Peotowat tomie Point yesterday. Miss Tillie Alford hosted friends for an afternoon of cards and a six o'clock dinner. Mrs Mabel Regan invites Royal Neighbors of America members for cards tonight. Mrs B F Southam hosted West Side ladies at Potto wattomie Point yesterday.
John Irish of Fort Wayne fell between moving Panhandle train cars at Kokomo yesterday and lost his leg. He was hospitalized. the local crew handled the train.
Frankie J. Bell files suit against Willard Hyman in Squire Reid's court. The charge is described as serious. An effort to compromise is in progress.
The Newby case continues in Miami county court at Peru before Judge Tillet. Newby has not yet presented all of his evidence and the trial likely extends into next week.
Miss Hazel Hurd daughter of Mr and Mrs W B Hurd formerly of this city will marry Mr Scott of Louisville Ark next Thursday. She now resides in Pine Bluff Ark and local friends plan a linen shower for the bride the first of next week.
The regular meeting of the B. of L. 5 will be held next Monday evening to elect the officers for the ensuing year. All members are requested to be present.
Local brief items list visiting relatives and travelers with several trips planned. Mrs D R McDermott and Mrs H G Williamson are visiting in Lafayette. Mr and Mrs Curt Wood return from California. Herschel Williams marries Nora V Henry in Kokomo. Lena Mathews visits Fourteenth Street. Dr D T Bradfield from Grand Rapids visits his brother S D Bradfield. Mrs B B Bellows and two daughters depart for Spokane. An excursion to Fort Wayne June 21 departs Wabash station at 9 18 am round trip 1 25. John Simon and niece Laurene Todd leave for California for a month. Julia Lang deeds part of lot to her son in Logansport. Robert Patterson returns to Seattle after visiting family.
A California night telephone operator shares how irregular meals and sleep harmed her health and memory. After four months on Grape-Nuts she gained eleven pounds, improved color, strength, and memory, crediting the cereal as the cause. The ad ends noting Postum Co. and a promotional slogan.
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