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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1908
Page
1
A stranger seeking the Johnston hotel rides with a crafty cabby through city streets. The cabman exposes a panhandle station mix up while a wary passenger questions the setup and pays a quarter for a supposed bunco. Rev Crum returns from Irondale praising prospects amid investor unease and Elkhart Truth criticism.
The New York to Paris automobile race altered its path and will pass Los Angeles. The American car leads and is expected Saturday morning arrival from San Bernardino. The switch adds ten miles but saves two hours. The Italian Zust rests near Granger, Wyoming for sixty hours.
Atoona March 20. Dr John Kinsel plans a round fifty foot diameter two story concrete home in Bellwood. He will use twenty years of extracted teeth to create a circular walkway around the dwelling featuring a coppered top.
Cass county farmers have started spring plowing and will plant corn soon. The wheat crop looks promising despite some concern that spring floods may have rotted it.
Mrs. Mable Woodham-Neeley, mother of Walter Woodham-Neeley, age two, was rearrested in Kalamazoo Michigan and charged with manslaughter for the December death attributed to pneumonia treated by two mental healers.
Mrs Edward Buel and Mrs A L Young of Biddies Island received $85 checks from Baldwin Piano Co Indianapolis for solving rebuses as a joke. Both were surprised and must satisfy a condition before cashing the checks.
Pearl Ray three, daughter of Mr and Mrs Miller Ray of 1810 Toledo Street, fell in the yard and was cut above her right eye by a fragment of broken fruit jar. Dr Harry Johnson washed the wound, stitches were needed, and the eye's fate depends on days to come.
George McClelland was arrested today on a warrant from Miami for jumping a board bill in Peru. He was taken back.
In a Miller divorce case, Leroy Turley asks the circuit court for a new trial while his wife Bessie E. Garrison pursues divorce and $6,000 alimony. Turley testified well on his own behalf after a sensational trial in Logansport with Carroll County connections and a bid to pin guilt on a railroad man.
Local hotels report their heaviest runs of the year with the spring drum season bringing crowds. Drummers are out with their spring goods and nearly all hotels are fully booked.
I. J. Miller, head of the Salvation Army social department in Indianapolis, will address a Saturday night meeting at the army hall.
A. M. Hearrell of Walton nearly severed his left thumb while using a rip saw. He previously lost three fingers in a past accident, leaving him with severe hand injuries.
Presiding Horace N. Herrick of Logansport district closes his six year term at the Mozansport district fourth quarterly conference. He will deliver the farewell sermon Sunday evening at Broadway M E church before his move to Seattle to join his son. Herrick has long served as presiding elder and earlier as pastor of the Broadway church.
New suits for local street car conductors arrive from the Singer company of New York. All employees will be equipped by May 30, Decoration day. Samuel Yund, conductor on the North Side line, wore his new uniform this morning.
Boosters head to Indianapolis Tuesday for Democratic convention with M B Lairy of this city expected to secure the Supreme Court judgeship. A solid delegation travels with delegates to support Lairy while others listed accompany the party.
Miss Helen Fitzer hosted a taffy pull last evening for area high school students. The group gathered at the library and was transported to her residence seven miles west of the city via hay rack.
County Assessor Harry Warrick sent notices to county and township assessors to attend a district meeting on March 25. State Tax Commissioner John C. Wingate will instruct on duties. Assessors from Cass Howard White Pulaski Fulton Miami and Carroll counties will attend.
Deputy Sheriff M F Kerr of South Bend arrived in the city yesterday with no patients for Longcliff. Names tied to the incident include John Y Slick and Josef Boaz. Both were adjudged insane by a two member commission in the city some time ago.
The congregation will burn the church mortgage Sunday March 29 after paying $1,200 of debt. Rev. Herbert Boase led the effort to raise the funds and retire the obligation.
Charles W. Chambers files suit in the circuit court against Jesse Dodds and others seeking a quiet title action to establish ownership of real property. The filing names multiple defendants and requests court judgment to affirm Chambers as rightful owner.
Indications point to Quincy A. Myers or Moses B. Larry as the Fifth district supreme court nominee. Both city men seek party convention support with Cass County bar endorsement and solid delegations. Republicans hold city-county primaries March 24 to nominate delegates for the April 2 state convention in Indianapolis.
Miss Cleo Campbell, a high school student living north of the city, was badly scared yesterday morning as a wagon upset when her family horse startled by a train bolted. She was thrown out and dragged briefly, then taken to the residence of B. B. Richards. Her injuries were slight.
A party of fourteen Loganport people departs for Lakota North Dakota to settle there permanently. They will travel via Vandalia to Chicago then St Paul and Wisconsin Central routes. All members have purchased land there and some have visited, expressing satisfaction with the country.
Sheriff Lewis J. Beckley forced the metropolitan police board to pay $32 for January and $17 for February for city prisoners. The agreement sets twenty cents per meal for inmates not yet sentenced, shifting costs to the city until sentencing, ending months of board and sheriff dispute over prisoner upkeep.
The Rev. Dr. Charles F. Aked urged the Fifth Avenue Baptist church Young People to seek a modern Bible. He mocked the King James preface and praised updating scripture, arguing Americans read little of the old preface and calling for a Bible in contemporary English.
Indianapolis March 20 Thomas Taggart chairman of the Democratic national committee declares William Jennings Bryan will be the convention choice for president He predicts Bryan will be nominated by the convention and Indiana will be solid for him He dismisses insinuations that he doubts Bryan and says Bryan will make a great race for the presidency
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