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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
8
The ad urges buyers to choose stoves by economy and safety. It touts two burner Oj stoves at $3.48 as a practical relief for households. The message contrasts gasoline stoves as dangerous and appeals to housekeepers facing cooking heat.
Two services are planned at St. Joseph church Sunday morning at 7 and 9. Thirty communicants are listed. Local pastors will oversee the ceremonies as the two other churches skip first communion this year, holding it every other year.
Local items record piano tuner Reinhardt and others, guests including Miss Sarah Ryan of Delphi visiting Miss Mildred Bussard, and Miss Laura E. Ingersoll visiting her son. Also highlights sales, bids, a push for iron fences, a 11 to 6 Panhandle game win, and moves of All Furey family to Laporte.
Mr and Mrs Howard Cox of Miami Avenue entertained twenty five guests Wednesday evening in honor of their sixth wedding anniversary. An elaborate supper was served and music and dancing formed a later diversion.
A collage of small ads and notices includes sales for cobs and screens, fresh fish from Dunkle & Stocks, room rentals, and various visits. It also notes hospital bids, millinery sales, upcoming excursions to Danville and Indianapolis for Lutheran events, and local residents returning from travels or schools.
Perry Newer of Bright Metal Farm is constructing a up-to-date hog house eight miles south of the city on the old Michigan road. The building measures 104% feet by 30 feet with a central driveway, cement floor, troughs, and fresh water piping. It follows Illinois Experiment Station plans and will have seventeen brood sow compartments. Cost upon completion is projected at $800.
Republicans nominate local officials at a Saturday convention in Walton. June 27 at 2 oclock, trustees, assessor, two constables and two justices of the peace on the ballot. Committeemen listed as H. O. Flook Frank Jack Jas Campbell Jr.
A bully targets a boy on Sycamore street but shifts attention to a gold watch and a clever deception. The boy with the watch lures the aggressor by inspecting the timepiece, distracting him until he withdraws. onlookers disperse as the fight ends without violence.
Deputy pestmaster Frank Amos completed a city wide inspection of mail boxes noting eleven in bad condition and likely to be replaced. He reports current pasteboard time cards weathered by rain and sun, recommending steel time cards with ink resistant to weather to display collection times.
Special tickets offer $1.25 round trip to Indianapolis on Sunday June 14. Trains at 5 00, 4 5 45, 7 00, 9 00 a m depart with return on any train the same day.
Local aeronaut Ellis Hance will perform a balloon ascent at the park between 5 30 and 6 30 with a morning ascent at Bunker Hill. He promises a safer showing than the Addison Giants and hopes to set a height record.
Thomas Hitchens a pioneer resident of Jefferson township died at his son Ellsworth Hitchens home after a brief illness. He was 77 and had lived in the township for over 70 years. The funeral will be held at Crooked Creek church Sunday at 10 o clock with interment in the adjoining cemetery.
Mrs. Benjamin announces relocation to 416 Market Street and requires moving all hats from the current site by Saturday evening. Prices will be cut and customers urged to arrive early for best selection.
Ed F. Leanard, No. 1632, provides coal coke and wood in response to the burning question. The obscure correspondence clarifies the supply and delivery method for the fuel.
Miss Ora Cox of Logansfort was a guest of Mrs. E A McFarland at Camden last week, according to the Delphi Journal.
A dealer announces public sale of about 40 small monuments priced from 5 to 100 dollars as the yard is discontinued and all stock will be shipped directly from the granite quarries. Co D Billman near the Mt Hope Cemetery entrance offers phone 206 for details.
Water users are informed sprinkling is allowed from 5:00 to 8:06 a.m. and 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Sprinkling is forbidden during fires and the ordinance will be strictly enforced. D Seegers, Superintendent.
The Murphy family thanks neighbors and friends for sympathy and assistance during the illness and death of Catherine Murphy.
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