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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1908
Page
8
A collage of public notices and short items from Logansport Indiana includes local opinions from Josh Wise, sales pitches for a billiard table and Wardrobe items, employment asks, church lectures, social events, births, illnesses, moves, and railroad notes. Many residents and local businesses are listed with names and addresses.
Matthew Keller and Harry Galla of this city attended a leap year matinee dance in Marion Saturday afternoon hosted by local society girls. They returned home this morning.
Mrs. Benjamin invites the public to a mid-summer opening with a display of the city’s finest dress hats. Event runs Thursday and Friday, with an emphasis on stylish headpieces and a cordial welcome to attendees and friends.
The Sutton hotel at 625 Broadway Logansport Ind is for rent. It features a large office dining room twenty two bedrooms and four bathrooms. For more information contact The Logansport Daily Reporter 625 Broadway Logansport Ind.
Sunderlin leaves May 24. If you want wall paper or fresco coping cleaned send in your order at once. Stop at 421 High street or call 450.
Al Bringhurst of this city has been confined at St. Joseph hospital in Indianapolis under Dr. Cook. After twelve weeks with limited improvement a change for the better occurred last Saturday and his condition is improving gradually.
Paints Red Cross. For coal just phone 87. Harry Ward returns from Cincinnati business trip. Wabash hires another train crew due to slack business. Mrs Charles Lee visits Walton relatives. W C Routh buys Lake Maxinkuckee lot for cottage. Lost Saturday bunch of keys. Return to Reporter for reward. Mrs William Richardson and Miss Carrie Haney leave for Washington DC. J K Baird back from Crown Point amid his father’s illness. J K Hood returns as Judge Gamble goes to Pulaski county court. Simon Cohan, C W Wells, George Bauer visit from Lafayette and Indianapolis. A & Fall on Fourth Street installs city’s only electrically operated cash register. Purdue students George Eliott and George Hoffman return to campus. Miss Hazel Bennett of Kokomo visits East High Street cousin Hazel Lee, returns home. Mrs Mary Franklin improving at daughter C D Goddard’s home.
Mike Paloa an Italian man who shot another Italian at Ken neth last week returned to his room Saturday night. Police and deputies planned to arrest him but he had fled with his clothes before arrival and no trace has been found. He claimed he shot his countryman thinking he was a tramp.
Mayor George P. McKee has returned to the city after a week in Alexandria where a relative was ill. His absence generated gossip and rumors of a possible intoxicated state at a circus opening, which he denies. He explains signing as G. P. McKee is not unusual and is glad to be back in harness.
Tourist club will meet this evening at the home of Mrs. Carl Keller. Miss Lora Shultz will read a paper on The Balkan States. Mrs Keller has arranged one on Modern Art. Miss Martha Williamson has prepared Carmen Sylvia and Miss Margaret Magee presents A Glimpse of Bohemia.
John W. Thomas died at 2 AM in Chicago at 83. His body returns to Clay township for a funeral at Bethel church Wednesday after a 10 AM procession from his daughter Mrs. Swigart's home. Julia A. Hallam dies at 46 at 1809 Toledo Street. funeral tomorrow at 2 PM from her sister Mrs. Winters home. Grace Howell funeral held at Skinner church in Twelve Mile. interment nearby. Sarah Galloway dies at 9:30 AM at her parents home 403 Clifton Avenue.
The Kokomo White Sox lost to Harry Hankee's club on Kokomo grounds yesterday afternoon. A score dispute arose with Kokomo claiming a tie in the ninth inning and claiming fifteen innings were played, while the official tally shows 7 to 5 for Hankee's team.
Rev. J. H. Craig of Ninth Street Christian Church preached on child labor titled The Reign of the Child. The sermon drew a full house as Mrs. Florence Kelley’s gathered facts and advocacy for children informed the address.
Regular meeting of the W. R. C. tomorrow at 2 30 in the G A R hall. Logan chapter No 2 Royal Arch Masons holds a stated meeting this evening. Henry Tucker secretary.
If you want your nall paper or fres coing cleaned, send in your order at once. Stopping at 421 High street. Phone 450.
Indiana delegates led by Walter Uhl attend the state telephone association in Indianapolis to push a movement for a clearinghouse to manage toll line business. Local and district officials including M. B. Lairy J. H. Foley and others from Delphi Twelve Mile Peru Wabash North Manchester Monticello and more will participate.
A family scene recalls a friend who suffered dyspepsia from coffee and switched to Postum Food Coffee. The writer notes improvement, weight gain, and a physician husband endorsing Postum as healthier, with the letter urged as genuine and timely.
The rhetoric targets the possible vegetarians among the "damnable imps of pelf and greed" and notes they would reject Jeff Davis's invitation to devour flesh despite his flattering self view.
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