Northern Indiana high school superintendents meet in Logansport
Northern Indiana superintendents of high schools gather in Logansport for the second annual Northern Indiana Superintendents club meeting. They visit city schools and discuss round table topics on curricula, teacher relations, and school administration with a list of active members and honorary state superintendent Fasser A. Cotton.
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Superintendents’ Club
Northern
Indiana
Logansport
Barnett Hotel
Fasser A. Cotton
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Ground Gifted for Kokomo Park Land Stirs Street Plans
A 300 by 65 foot tract donated 15 years ago for park use by the Massey Land and Improvement Co is offered back to the city if taxes and street costs are paid. The boom brought factories and workers but the land remains rural with two factories built and burned. Residents seek street improvement along the southern edge, council halts action.
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Kokomo
Massey Land and Improvement Company
Park property deed ensures revert to owners if ground used otherwise
The Massey syndicate has ceased to exist and none of its members will take the ground. The deed provides that if the park land is sold or used for non park purposes, ownership reverts to the original owners.
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Massey Syndicate
Brakeman Snyder Seeks Revenge in Logansport Bar Fight
Panhandle brakeman M. S. Snyder enraged by a garnishee action by Martin McHale of Third and Railroad street. After discovering only two dollars due him, Snyder attacked McHale at his saloon landing in a violent confrontation, leaving with a badly battered countenance.
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Martin McHale
Third
Railroad Street
Snyder
McHale
Justice
Close Call Delays Wabash Fast Mail By Derailed Freight
The Wabash fast mail train No. 5, due at 7 10 last evening, was delayed thirty minutes near Andrews yard when the rear car and caboose of fast freight No. 93 derailed after a boy of about ten threw a switch as the cars passed. The boy fled in darkness. motive unknown. The fast mail usually travels at fifty mph and could have caused a serious wreck without timely flagging.
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Wabash
Peru
Andrews Yard
Project to Reclaim Vast Illinois Lands From Canal Basin
An Illinois improvement company aims to reclaim about 4000 acres in the Splunge creek basin once feeding the Wabash and Erie canal. Surveys seek the best drainage by diverting the creek into the Eel River, building a levee to hold back floodwaters, at a cost of thousands of dollars while the land could become valuable corn lands.
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Illinois Improvement Company
Suit Filed for Divorce in Fort Wayne Case
William H. Baker formerly of this city now residing in Fort Wayne has filed a divorce suit in the Fort Wayne circuit court against his wife Mrs. Baker. The case was moved here due to Baker being a non resident but was withdrawn and refiled in Fort Wayne. He accuses her of intoxication associating with bad people and cruel treatment and asserts she will not resist the action.
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William H. Baker
Fort Wayne
Phone Harrington Baker
Stolen Horse Found After Night Search
Jackson township farmer Jacob Somel believed his horse was stolen from the Galveston hitchrack on Wednesday night. A neighbor named Charles Daggett located the horse wandering near his home and brought it to Galveston, where Somel recovered the animal after leading a community search.
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Jacob Somel
Jackson Township
Galveston
Charles Daggett
Some
Man Sues for Fourteen Thousand Dollar Damages
David V. Smith a former Vandalia brakeman sues for sixteen thousand dollars claiming a September 20 1902 switch yard accident at Bates street left him with a fractured skull and impaired memory. He alleges a careless engineer caused the pole to fly from his grasp and injure him.
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David V. Smith
Vandalia
Larry & Mahoney
Smith
Bates Street
Miss Manette Taylor to Speak on Manual Training in Logansport
Miss Manette Taylor of Greencastle and president of the Indiana State Federation of Woman's Clubs will visit Logansport March 30. She will lecture at a private home on manual training and its use in Logansport schools, addressing club members and invited local professionals amid growing state interest.
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Manette Taylor
Greencastle
Indiana State Federation of Woman's Clubs
Mental Culture Club
J. T. McNary
Logansport
Taylor
Ada Monk Ill at Home In George Street
Miss Ada Monk employed as a messenger girl with Western Union is ill at her home on George Street.
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Ada Monk
Western Union
George Street
Straightening the Wabash Traction Line to Peru
The Wabash Plain Dealer reports a crew will shorten the Wabash Logansport Traction route to Peru by cutting an 800 foot segment from John Stouffer’s northwest farm corner. After completing the modification a curve near Peru will be removed and plans exist for a mill creek to Boyd park straight line, pending final approvals.
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John Stouffer
Law
Peru
Mill Creek
Boyd Park
Indiana Rural Routes Target Uniform Mail Service
Special Rural Route Inspector Ela revises routes in the county asserting within two years every county will have mail delivery as adequate as any city. The plan aims to unify service quality across Indiana during the summer months.
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Indiana
Ela
Plan to straighten road to Boyd Park proposed
A proposal aims to straighten the line to Boyd Park reducing hills and shortening travel time. If approved, cars would endure less wear and tear and the route would become nearly straight except for a single hill at Mill Creek.
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Boyd Park
Mill Creek
Insanity Cured Man Returns Home From Hospital
William Stine, admitted February 7 to Loneclif Insane Asylum after a sanity board commitment, was discharged yesterday. Dr. Rogers pronounces his temporary insanity cured and he will return to work at Uhl's mill on the West Side.
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Loneclif
William Stine
Stine
Rogers
Uhl’s Mill
Runaway Harry Gilpin Found in Gas City
Harry Gilpin the Royal Center boy who ran away last Monday has been located by his parents in Gas City where he has taken employment. He does not wish to return home and will probably remain.
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Harry Gilpin
Royal Center
Logansport
Gas City
Rural route expansion marks Indiana post office action
Porter representative reports that Indiana gains more rural routes than any state after a new law sets a five day window for road improvements on rural routes. The measure, signed by Governor Durbin, empowers rural carriers to push county officials to fix roads or incur fines. Cass county will implement the plan, with thirty three routes split between LogansportRoyal Center and Lucerne, aiming to cover isolated areas.
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Ela
Cass County
Logansport
Royal Center
Lucerne
Riverside Park to Install Decorative Fountain This Summer
The Woman's club will fund a decorative fountain for Riverside Park after a city council covenant. A home talent event funded most of the cost while the city provides the base. The fountain design is under review and installation is planned for the coming summer with water system improvements to support it.
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Woman's Club
Common Council
Woman’s Club
Dowling’s
J. B. Winters
Routes in Logansport Area Struggle with Weather Delays
Mr E la states he faces heavy weather hindering spring route work. Six routes out of Logansport have been completed and once the city is satisfied, work will move to smaller towns. County map shows only six men more than a half mile from a route, none beyond six-eighths of a mile.
Methodist Politics Hints at Episcopal Elections
As the quadrennial Methodist conference nears in Los Angeles, speculation centers on four or more bishops. Leading candidates include Rev. Dr. W. F. McDowell, secretary of the education society. Chancellor Day of Syracuse University. Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Berry of Chicago. and Rev. Dr. Henry Spellmeyer of Newark. Dr. Berry had been named as a possible candidate three years ago.
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General Conference
Los Angeles
W. F. McDowell
Education Society
Chancellor Day
Syracuse University
Joseph F. Berry
Chicago
Henry Spellmeyer
Newark
Berry
Young People’s Paper
Methodists North
Spellmeyer
Caught on Trestle Rescue on Panhandle Trestle
Galveston residents Sigmund Farland and W. A. King narrowly escaped death on a half mile Panhandle trestle near the village Tuesday as a noon train approached. King warned Farland and they leapt into a gully, escaping severe harm though with bruises.
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Sigmund Farland
W. A. King
Galveston
Panhandle
King
Farland
Just Missed Death In Elevator Incident In Chicago
Baer Kessler formerly of this city and briefly part of local newspaper circles narrowly escaped death in an elevator shaft at the Dowie hotel in Chicago yesterday afternoon. He had been relieved from duty and was leaving when Roy Waddell, who worked with him, was crushed between the cage doors and killed.
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Baer Kessler
Dowie
Chicago
Roy Waddell
Grass Fire on Wabash Tracks Near St. Joseph Hospital
Fire crews were dispatched yesterday at 2 25 pm to the South Side to extinguish a grass blaze along the Wabash railroad tracks west of St. Joseph hospital. The fire threatened nearby property. Chief Viney noted it was out of season for grass fires but said the season was remarkable anyway.
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Wabash
St. Joseph Hospital
Viney
Cadetship Appointed by Congressman Landis
Congressman Frederick Landis appoints Warren Cole son of Albert Colie to a cadetship at Annapolis in Huntington county.
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Frederick Landis
Warren Cole
Albert Colie
Huntington Couny Republican Central Committee
Annapolis
Horse and Car Collision on Market Street Bridge
Dr M B Stewart escaped serious injury after his buggy collided with a street car on the Market street bridge. The horse was wounded but will not be maimed. the buggy was wrecked and sent to a wagon shop. Motorman Spot Sellers tried to stop the car as the frightened horse reared into its path.
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M. B. Stewart
Market Street
North Street
Stewart
Hotel Clerk Falls From Window in Wabash
Miss Jennie Driver a hotel employe in Wabash slipped while cleaning second story panes leaned out and fell to the cement sidewalk. She escaped serious injury but was badly bruised and had to return home.
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Jennie Driver
Wabash
Supreme Court Refuses to Halt Terre Haute Vehicle License
The supreme court yesterday declined to enjoin enforcement of Terre Haute’s vehicle license ordinance against carriage owners for health and pleasure use pending appeal. It rejected no reason for action, upheld the ordinance as a whole, and did not address its effect on buggies and light carriages used privately.
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Supreme Court
Terre Haute
Deaths and Funerals Record in City
Multiple obituaries and funeral notices dated from this week report services for John Garrity at St. Bridget's Church with interment at Mt. St. Vincent, Samuel Hineman at St. John's Church and cemetery, Mrs. Rhodas Tutt's remains arriving from Philadelphia for services at A. M. E. church, Panhandle Engineer Charles Laing's funeral after a Remington wreck, with Knights of Pythias and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in charge and Elks' band assisting, led by Rev. W. E. Biederwolf.
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John Garrity
St. Bridget’s Church
Father Kroeger
Mt. St. Vincent
Samuel Hineman
St. John’s Church
Jones
St. John’s Cemetery
Rhodas Tutt
Philadelphia
Panhandle
Charles Laing
Remington
North Street
Knights of Pythias
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Elks’ Band
W. E. Biederwolf
Broadway Presbyterian Church
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R.A. Chase
Plymouth
A. H. Douglass
J. W. Hamilton
Monticello
R.J. Hamilton
Huntington
M. W. Harrison
W. H. Hershman
Hammond
W. A. Mills
Crawfordsville
Calvin Moon
South Bend
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Marion
T. A. Mott
Richmond
R. A. Ogg
W. H. Sanders
Rensselaer
J. F. Scrull
Rochester
W. R. Snyder
Muncie
J. N. Study
D. W. Thomas
Elkhart
G. L. Roberts
Frankfort
J. W. Carr
Ander
M. S. Snyder
Andrews
Ft. Wayne
Ravena
Fornoff
Owitchman
Vandalia Railroad Company
Wm. Stine
Lone Cliff Hosital
Riverside Park
Eel River
Tenth
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Council
J. Clyde Powers
Indianapolis
Methodist Politics
MB. Stewart
Jennie
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