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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1908
Page
2
Local notes report preparations for a church fair at McKinney hall December 16 17 and 18 with calls for community help and Christmas gift shopping. Social and church activities include a Christmas Eve sacred concert and a Ladies Aid effort for comforts for the fair.
Deer Creek residents report visitors and family news as Emma Lenon entertains kin from Iowa. Meetings proceed at U B church and Lutheran church. Charles Campbell handles public butchering. Ross Kusmaul returns from Valparaiso to attend Deer Creek High School during winter break. Douglas Lenon leads City restaurant. Tom Wright works in Chicago. Rock Creek Lutheran to hold Christmas entertainment. Harve Meade sells farm and plans Texas move. Roy McKinney recalls Arkansas trip. Miss Mahaffey visits Miss Zartman. Wheeling teacher guest.
Invitations announce the marriage of Joe Fickle of this place to Miss Goldie Hoover of Bunker Hill at the bride’s parents home on December 22 at o’clock.
Readable items show Aubrey Stock Company on December 7 and a boxing match Demetral versus Lewis on December 14. December 16 features The Talk of New York in the schedule.
Broadway hit in George M. Cohan’s The Talk of New York stars Victor Moore and opens at the Nelson Wednesday December 16. Cohan Harris tour a strong musical and dramatic company with twenty songs, praised for wit and energy, drawing strong amusement audience response.
A large Nelson audience praised the Aubrey Stock Company for A Midnight Marriage praising its acting and staging. Upcoming offerings include Why Girls Leave Home today and When the World Sleeps tomorrow with The Sheriff of Silver Creek to follow. 10 cent matinees continue all week. A 20 pound turkey will be given away Saturday night.
At the Broadway Theatre an all hit bill features Harry Spingold and Co. in a mistaken identity playlet praised for group comedy and a mixed quartet’s singing. LeCcompt is noted as a living phenomenon for his performance.
Onward Lang Andersen returns home after a three week stay with her children in Logansport. Earl Guard and wife visited her parents Mr and Mrs William Hopper. The Ladies Aid will sew at the church Thursday. Mr and Mrs Gore and daughter visited Chester and wife Sunday. The truant officer was in town on Monday. Rev Hoover preached a revival ready sermon at the M E church Sunday evening from Come. Grandma Sagester stays with Mrs Otto Grandstaff near Walton. Harvey Fetro visits Denver. Mrs Fetro stays with her parents James and Mrs Benson. Christian church members meet tonight to plan a Christmas program inviting Ah church Sunday school to attend. Max F Mertz and family visited Barnettsville Sunday to see his poorly father.
Demetras known as the Greek Demon will face Martin Lewis nicknamed The Strangler in the opening high class wrestling match at the Nelson on Monday night December 14. Both fighters are training hard and fans are promised a genuine treat.
The new legislature's makeup favors lawyers who outnumber all other professions. Burford's list shows 24 lawyers in the Senate and 23 in the House, followed by farmers with 22 in the House and 3 in the Senate, physicians, merchants, manufacturers, and other occupations represented. Governor Hanly's secretary is Luman K Babeacek.
Henry Brookmeyer of Indianapolis was in the city yesterday as a business caller.
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