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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1908
Page
8
Local items include births, illnesses, and injuries. police and railway news. entertainment and theater ads. car socials, church and fraternal notices. business openings, sales, and housing offers. and community updates from Logansport and surrounding areas.
Burglary insurance noted for S. M. Closson. Engineer Leedy resting. Ark show Tricksy the Clever Princess tonight. Hot chocolate season starts at Porter. Fred Augur of Peru visited Orvil Hines and Charles L. Stewart. Wesley Bailey from South Bend arrives for two weeks of flue lessons. Vandalia station heating by two carloads of coal. Fireman Moses travels to Terre Haute due to his mother’s illness. H D Dotson promoted to Camden office with higher pay. F J Kestler promoted to Logansport office. Miss Grace Marshall visits Peru, returns home. J. Lamont and son Allen from Fort Wayne visit. Lomont previously tied to local traction. Catfish catch noted after fishing trip.
The notice highlights Brotherhood Reindeer gloves and gauntlets as the most famous railroad gloves in America, sold cheaply at 75 cents, with a comparison to a dollar fifty price elsewhere. It mentions Mendel bankruptcy and the Otto Shoe & Clothing company as related details.
Sole agents John Hedde 422 High street Beaver Creek Kentucky offer the best coal in large or small lots with a fire sale emphasis. Phone 1760.
Lafayette shop promotes 680 men’s wool underwear for 1.50 dollars, advertising savings that could buy Sargent’s rein deer gauntlets valued at 1.50 dollars. Otto Shoe and Clothing Co. backs the ad as a merchant offer.
A newspaper advertisement invites readers to view the new Ivy green soft hat at Deventer, the hatter and furnisher, suggesting customers decide on their seasonal headwear choice.
Help wanted for an afternoon position seeking a middle aged woman. Contact telephone 611 or call 617 High street for details. Good wages offered.
In Pana Illinois a revival meeting turned tense when Frank Lemon of St Louis accused evangelist Albert Carl Atherton of luring his wife from home. The wife insisted her devotion to the mission and stayed. Lemon was escorted from the tent by a policeman and left for St Louis.
Delegates from Red Men lodge chosen to travel to the Indiana state meeting in Indianapolis on October 22 and 23. Weatreide, William Dunkle, William Fidler, Harry Bell, Harry King, and John Gang from Logan council No. 39 with Mrs. Abbie Cook and Mrs. Alice Grubbs of the Degree of Pocahontas. Minisee council No. 66 selects Mrs. Edward White, Mrs. Nancy Wright, Sarah Haney, Mrs. Dalrymple, and Etta Griffin.
Mrs Elmer Richards of Galveston received a surprise birthday tribute this week. Mrs Nellie Rumnell hosted G I A Vandalia division No 345 with Mrs Reynolds assisting. Miss Lillian Brown celebrated her 22nd birthday with friends, music, and cards at her High street home. Lew Wallace court Benmut lodge hosted seventy five couples for dancing with Grace Alder and Lincoln Surhey providing music. Companion Foresters Social club gathered at Mrs George Umbargers home 416 Miami avenue.
Carrington Alford aged seventy two dies suddenly from a stroke while setting up a stove. He lived at 425 Fifth Street and leaves a daughter Ida Ricketts and three other children. Funeral Saturday at 2 30 from his residence, Rev A A Mainwaring presiding, Mt Hope burial. Myrtle Axtell dies at St Joseph Hospital aged sixty eight from dropsy. Mrs William Howard dies at forty at her Lincoln home. Mary Buchanan, two, buried at Metea with Rev Bolton officiating. George Eli Byers six, buried Burnettsville Baptist church with Rev Alfred A Mainwaring. Maggie Thelian to be buried at St Vincent de Paul Church Mt Vincent burial.
Gustav Minx florist of Longcliff and Miss Guy Jones former student were married on Tuesday afternoon at the Broadway Presbyterian parsonage. Rev. Walter Johnson officiated. The bride recently moved from Weston West Virginia and the couple will live on Burlington Avenue in a home Mr Minx bought. They first met at Longcliff.
Logansport Prohibition club plans a meeting tomorrow night at Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bray 1824 Smead Street. After the business session a short musical program and talks will follow. It is the last meeting before the Chafin rally and all Prohibitionists in the city are urged to attend.
The Fleur de Lis club will meet tomorrow afternoon at Mrs. William Murray's home at 515 Eleventh Street. All members are requested to attend. The South Side section of the Christian church meets tomorrow afternoon at Mrs. Ida Detrich's home south of the city.
Fire department rushed to the McGaughey residence on High Street late this afternoon to extinguish a blaze reported in the afternoon. No injuries reported. cause under investigation by local fire officials.
The Watson Club holds its regular meeting this evening in the A. R. hall. Ward vice presidents have been ordered to notify members of the gathering.
Otto Shoe and Clothing Co markets Black sateen blue chambray and black and white daily work shirts and dress shirts at 28 cents as part of the Mendel bankruptcy sale.
In Palestine Texas October 8 a memorial to John H Reagan the grand old man of Texas was unveiled before a large crowd. The ceremony by the United Daughters of the Confederacy featured an oration by Congressman Jack Beall of Waxahachie. Coppini of San Antonio sculpted the base and statue with The Lost Cause allegory at the feet. Reagan long served as a Texas legislator judge postmaster general secretary of the treasury and U S senator.
The article describes a method for fattening the face using a cream made of tannin lanolin and sweet almond oil. It instructs melting lanolin, mixing in oil and tannin, then applying the cream twice daily for quicker facial fullness and improved complexion.
A whimsical dialogue shows a Martian father asking what the child cries for and a Martian mother answering that the youngster wants Earth. The exchange personifies cosmic parents arguing over a child's longing for a home planet.
A medical endorsement touts Vinol as the most valuable cod liver oil preparation and best body-builder for coughs colds bronchial troubles digestion and digestion related weakness. Dr J E Ennis and pharmacist W H Porter claim Vinol benefits the aged delicate children and those with chronic lung issues with a money back guarantee.
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