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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1908
Page
8
Local brief items include Wise quotes on seating, Crystal shows, Red Cross offerings, ice cream specials, andCarnation sales. Reports cover car shop activity, court cases, marriages, excursions, and town births and visits among residents and travelers.
A local grocer advertisement lists fresh produce and staples with unit prices including beans tomatoes cucumbers cabbage lettuce lemons and flour. The ad credits M McCaffrey & Co. and urges shoppers to save with spot cash.
Charles Bevenita delegate and John Reinheimer alternate from the local lodge of Eagles left for Hamilton Indiana last evening to attend the state convention which convened this morning.
The Boston Store advertises a large lot of novelty hats with shapes in straws and braids in various colors. To move stock quickly, the sale price is 73 cents for a day or two, urging milliners to secure some of the lots.
Charles Reece announces his restaurant has relocated from 315 Fifth Street to 321 Pearl Street and will open tomorrow. He invites patrons to try the fresh, tidy dining room and promises to please customers.
The Sutton hotel at 525 527 Broadway Logansport Ind is for rent. The splendid family hotel includes a large office a dining room twenty two bedrooms and four bathrooms. For information call or address The Logansport Daily Reporter 625 Broadway Logansport Ind.
Local Post F T A delegates depart at 9 10 for Lafayette joining the post there and traveling to West Baden on the Monon to attend the annual convention. Delegates are Otto Shirmeyer C M Taylor John Kirkpatrick T P Van Horn and Frank J Bott.
A Springfield youth learns not to tamper with unfamiliar cars after a novice driver rollbacks into danger on a hill. While one occupant shopped, the other started the vehicle and steered it downhill untamed, prompting bystanders to halt the runaway machine before injury occurred.
Deventer the hatter and furnisher reports full stock of negligee summer styles in Manhattan. The ad urges customers to try the shirts, promising strong praise after wear.
The Otto Shoe and Clothing Company advertises a week long sale on tan slippers for women, misses, children, men and boys. Prices greatly reduced. Family invited to shop at the Tan Shoe Store.
Important notice states H A DeFord has moved screen door and novelty works from the South Side to 315 Fifth Street and is now ready for work.
Local items note Red Cross campaigns and a Honeymoon Trail event, with brief mentions of charity drives and related activities. The column lists individuals such as Claud Laughry in Monticello, Isaac Felker’s cottage project, and Ed Grotz resigning to pursue cigarmaking, plus travel and social notes from Logansport to Indianapolis.
Frank Morris led a Sunday school group at Ninth Street Christian Church with Mrs. Jay Simpson teaching. Attendees included Theodore Steinhart John Morris Charles Murray Frank Murray and others plus Ada Neal Mabel Maple Blanche Maple Lena Broderick Helen Shaffer Mable Turnpaugh. Ora Mackey celebrated a sixteenth birthday with twenty friends at 717 Thirteenth Street with games music and refreshments and a gift watch fob. Foresters Social Club met at Mrs. M Britton’s home with eighteen members. Miss Mary Justice hosted high school seniors at her home as they rode the interurban. Miss Harriet Planck entertained friends for Otha Kessling and Forest Prown. Mrs W L Fernald hosted her bridge club.
Mrs. Elizabeth Whipperman widow of Charles Whipperman died at her Washington township residence at age seventy four. The funeral for Hugh Victor Leasure, one year old, is set for 9 30 am at 531 Chicago street and burial at Blue Grass cemetery via Vandalia train at 10 30. Mrs. Lizzie Kraut’s funeral will be at 2 30 pm Sunday from 1002 Linden avenue with Rev. E H Stuehm officiating and Mt. Hope interment.
Alice Kennedy sues Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction for 25000 dollars claiming injuries after alighting from a car. The suit proceeds in the circuit court.
New York on May 15 Laura Jean Libbey announces she will retire from literary work after a highly successful career. She notes her intention to allow other writers a chance while pressing on with copyrighting eighty human life plays and her numerous novels. She only regrets not improving some titles, mentioning Dont Judge Her Too Harshly Until You Know Her Sad Love Story.
Miss Emma Bumgardner and Earl Appleton of Walton wed Tuesday evening at the bride’s parents’ home. Rev. Miller officiated. They will reside in Tipton.
The post office employees will not form a baseball team this year as interest is lacking. A team organized last year bought uniforms but suffered several defeats and disbanded, so they decided not to meddle with baseball this summer.
Royal Neighbors of America and Logansport Camp Modern Woodmen of America will meet at 8 PM in Ben Hur hall. Members are urged to attend. the social event has been postponed to Friday evening May 29. Doreas circle of Kings Daughters is also noted.
This afternoon the Golden Chain and Hand-in-Hand circles met with Mrs L J Pierson at the Logan House on Sixth Street.
A brief satirical note contrasts the failing Merry Widow hat joke with the lively Straw Hat joke capers. The writer comments on the feeble efforts to sustain hollow mockery of existence while the Straw Hat acts more spiritedly, like a spring chicken.
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