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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1908
Page
2
A barn belonging to John Wharton near Deer Creek burned Tuesday night with the origin unknown. Fire trapped worker John Perdue inside until he awoke amid flames. The blaze consumed the structure and its contents including 700 bushels of wheat 300 bushels of corn and farming implements.
At the county commissioners meeting next week a petition will seek an extension of Eel township. Petitioners include Henry Unger Thomas Deweese Richard Ayers Walter A Moore B F Staley and Charles E Kreider seeking eastward and southward expansion on the Southside.
James M. Cree, trustee, announces proposed 1908 expenditures and levies for Deer Creek Township Cass County Indiana. Details include township expenditures 1014.43 and 10c tax per hundred, local tuition 2738.97 and 27c tax, special school 192.42 and 19c tax, road 2536.03 and 25c tax, additional road 1014.43 and 10c tax, and poor 101.44 and 1c tax, totaling 9332.77 and 92c tax per hundred. Dated July 28 1908.
The Trustee of Eel township Cass county presents estimates for the year at the Advisory Board meeting on September 8 1908. Total expenditures 10478 12 with total tax 1 03 per hundred. detailed by department including township school and road taxes. Net taxable property 666860 in Eel township with 198 polls.
Fire on a culvert two miles east of Ridgeville on the Logansport division of the Panhandle was spotted by Engineer Tucker. The blaze, likely started by engine cinders, burned the structure so badly it could not be used. Trains 41 3 and 10 were detoured via the Big Four and L E W routes through Red Key and Union City as crews extinguished the flames.
An order restores locomotive shops at Vandalia to near normal with a fifty hour week starting Monday. Back shop boiler shop and blacksmith shop workers gain ten hours. Car shops had ten hour basis earlier and are slightly increased. Most furloughed trainmen are recalled and two more ordered back for Monday.
A traveler remarks that the train schedule sparks lasting fascination as he has conducted similar mind tours for twenty two years, finding the activity as satisfying as reading the main article. He compares subjective reflections to the formal journey.
W T Burkett, brother-in-law of F E Smith, died suddenly in Atlanta after a Thursday afternoon illness. Smith, chief despatcher of Vandalian, rushed to Cincinnati to meet his sister Mrs William T Burkett with the remains. Funeral planned in Frankfort on Sunday. deceased was a jewelry merchant in Atlanta.
Passenger traffic runs heavy but dining cars lack patronage. A conductor attributed the shortage to too few traveling salesmen on the road, noting their absence hurts dining car business while many travelers cannot patronize the cars.
Dr J H Talbott surgeon of the Pennsylvania lines Indianapolis division headquarters in Indianapolis has examined sixty men in two days to join the Voluntary Relief Association of that road. Seventeen were rejected for not meeting physical requirements.
Culvernavalist School will close in September and run a special train to carry students home. The Vandalia line, with engineer R. I. Conkle on the Swill Tun to Chicago, is on vacation as Carl Snell visits Camden.
GO 10 KOKOMO Maple Camp No. 2 Woodmen of the World accepted an invitation to attend unveiling exercises in Kokomo on Sunday, August 2. Members will meet at the interurban station at 12 30 o clock in the afternoon.
The late William N. Wilkinson died Wednesday as the oldest factory employee in Logansport by service and age. He began work for the predecessors of American Steel Dredge Works in 1858.
The Shideler Neff family reunion will be held at Spencer park Wednesday. Several other family reunions are planned for the week with the Scott reunion on August 16.
About 150 engineers conductors and train crew members laid off last fall have been reinstated on the Pennsylvania and other lines. Reinstatements are ongoing with many workers returning daily, signaling steady employment ahead. Vandalia officials F H Worthington W C Arp and F C Crawford are in the city to oversee department affairs. J H Campbell of Brokaw Co is securing orders for new uniforms. Assistant Trainmaster C C Arrick and family plan a two week Niagara Falls and Great Lakes trip. Superintendent Littleton Neff of the Panhandle Richmond division is en route with family to Island Park near Chicago for a brief stay.
An Anoka resident visits the railroad ticket office every two to three weeks asking for a time card to check connections and route options. He announces plans to travel, receives a time card, and leaves, often to do further planning before his next visit. The routine suggests he would be highly traveled if actual trips occurred.
The board of works informed Jesse Morgan, operator of a shine stand near the Tucker house, that he has been granted a permit. The decision was handed down yesterday morning after review of the property owners concerns and location compliance.
A resident may construct an extension to his street stand pending approval. neighbors are advised not to object as the project proceeds under local permit rules.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mahan and companions include F A Hartman Mary Mehaffie Mabel Sidler John Kertz Charles Chambers and James Kimbrough who will depart for a two weeks outing at Lake Maxinkuckee. They will lodge at the Chadwick hotel.
In a lively exchange between His Limit and Printer's Devil, they praise the new foreman Jimmie. The Printer's Devil quips that he could print all he knows in display type on a postage stamp without canceling the stamp.
A sharp exchange notes Howell’s many warts, while Powell retorts most are missing. The brief dialogue captures a taunting, light banter tone between the two figures.
A Colton saying notes that beyond gaining friends the greater gain is acquiring good books. It frames reading as a valued companion alongside friendship.
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