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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1908
Page
1
Marion hots up for the Republican congressional convention with seven candidates listed from Grant to Huntington counties. George B. Lockwood is favored, while Dr Charles H. Good is noted as a strong rival. The big colosseum seeks 3,000 seats as hotels buzz with visitors and locals.
Loganport delegates to the Eleventh congressional convention leave at 7 am aboard a boom train via the Ft. Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction line led by the Elks band and Mayor McKee followers. Tickets are $1 round trip with a ten day price rule affecting Panhandle plans. Delegates will assemble at McKee's Spencer hotel in Marion after transfer.
Twenty six unemployed men from Chicago were hauled away by rail to be dropped in other cities to seek work. Police say railroads will ship the jobless to various destinations, with some sent south and others onward, amid mixed public opinion and concerns over crime and burden on smaller towns.
Democratic county and city precinct committeemen met in the courthouse and re elected Frank V Guthrie as chairman Frank Polk was chosen secretary and Fred Boerger treasurer The group voiced optimism for a win in the fall and set April 25 for the next meeting to fix primary times for delegates to several conventions
Cass, Pulaski, Howard, Carroll, and Miami counties will hold a joint meeting here on March 25. State Tax Commissioner Wingate will preside over the session.
At the request of Professor Latta all members of the farmers institute township chairmen and chairmen of the womans auxiliary are asked to meet at the courthouse at 1 p m on Saturday March 21 1908 to fix places dates and subjects for the following year T H Beck president Willard C Fitzer secretary
Plans for the new factory buildings of W. Routh & Co are nearly completed and construction will begin soon. Architect Gurkee of Indianapolis has drawn the plans and the project will cost about $20,000.
Ananias Baker writes to an Indianapolis newspaper denying he was at the capitol recently to secure a hundred dollar bill he turned over to the Marion county prosecutor after exposing an attempted bribe by Cigarette Baker. He accuses former Attorney General C. W. Miller of political manipulation and questions why the previous prosecutor did not turn over the money and documents to his successor. He urges Republicans to nominate nonpolitical candidates at their state convention.
Peoria county Republican convention endorsed Joseph G. Lannon for president and named Taft as second choice if Lannon cannot secure the nomination. The hall erupted in cheers at the mention of Secretary of War Cannon, while endorsements also went to Senators Cullom Hopkins, Congressman Graff, and the state administration.
Benjamin Wallace a Peru circus man failed in a Valparaiso court action seeking 19000 dollars and was awarded 4400 dollars to the father of a boy killed in a Michigan wreck years ago.
Readers are invited to imagine being out of work during a financial crisis and starving. The editor and Taft are cited, then readers are urged to write two short articles or a single piece detailing resourceful responses to dire poverty. Emphasis falls on community voices and personal choices instead of sensationalism.
Col. T. W. Scott from Detroit and Major William E. Scott arrive to present The March of the Salvation Army at eight o clock in the city court house. Captain Frank Swigart will introduce. Everyone is invited to hear the talk.
S. E. Symmons and wife are visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Alexander on North street. Symmons is a brother of Mrs. Alexander.
Farmers along the Lafayette line filed complaints with Fort officials accusing the traction company of causing field floods by undersized drainage tiles under tracks. Water backed onto fields, washing wheat and flooding several acres while the eastern division avoided the issue along an old tow path.
Twenty unemployed men were assigned a few days of work building a sewer from the rear of the Dowling theatre to Eel River avenue. The project began yesterday and will take several days to finish.
James Coleman, a Dunkirk man, has been captured in Newell Illinois after slashing Scrappy Pryor. The capture followed a telegraph tip from a Wabash railroad operator who identified the suspect from a description in a newspaper. Deputy Sheriff Ellen Stanley will escort Coleman back to Danville for trial. Pryor remains hospitalized.
Mesdames Simmons Rariden and May will represent the Golden Chain circle of King’s Daughters at the district convention to be held in Madison in April.
In a heated campaign McKee routed Landis backers in Cass county and Logansport, winning all but Jefferson township delegates. Boone township backed Sweet who remains indecisive, while Clay and Clinton held night primaries with McKee gaining key wins and shaping the Marion convention slate.
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