Madison News Briefs Highlight Local Visits and Transfers
Madison residents report a busy period of travel and greetings. Bedford Ky visitor Miss Mayo Hancock stays with Miss Mary Jackson, while Maud and Bessie Custer return from shopping in the city. Several locals depart for Indiana and Kentucky, including Mrs. Ben Williams to Austin and Will Hitz to Indianapolis for a florist job. transfers include the Captain Powers residence sale to John T. Prichard and carpentry work for a new two story home on Fourth Street. Local officials O S Joyce and wife shop with merchants amid ongoing real estate and construction activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mayo Hancock
Bedford
Mary Jackson
Maud
Bessie Custer
Davant
Ben Williams
Austin
Sarah Jane Johnson
Ada Wright
Louisville
L. M. Chaplee
Hopkinsville
Bailey Driver
Versailles
North Vernon
O. S. Joyce
Trimble County
Joyce
Susan Haungs
Henry Knaoebel
East Fourth Street
Louise DeBando
Jeffersonville
Daniel Finnegan
John Lehnert
Mary E. Dailey
John T. Prichard
Captain Powers
West Main St
Emerson Lemen
Spencer & Cooney—Meesrs
Orson Spencer
Robert Cooney
Irvin Lodge
Fourth Street
Fred Grebe
Indianapolis
Mabel Claire Grebe
Ray Goldsmith
Garden Street Baptist Church
Miss Grebe
Edward Kampe
The
Herald
Robert [Nel
Imel
Maxwell Automobile Factory
Newcastle
Herald Office
Amon
Madisonians
Michael Klein
Howard Wood
Charles Todd
Miss Anna Duncan Chosen Pres by Presbytery Delegate
The Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian Church met April 14 at Mrs M E Cogley home with high attendance and an engaging program. Miss Anna Duncan was chosen to attend the New Albany Presbytery in Henryville Indiana on April 27 and 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Church Missionary Society
Anna Duncan
The
Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian Church
M. E. Cogley
Sue Colgate
J. E. Reed
Evan Totten
India
Henry Edwards
New Albany
Real Estate Transfers from Adam Robbins to Charles C Lowry
Adam Robbins and his wife transfer 40 acres in Graham to Charles C Lowry for 400 dollars. Sheep function as beasts of burden in northern India carrying loads of twenty pounds. Pico Turquina noted as Cuba's loftiest summit rises over a mile high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam Robbins
Charles C. Lowry
Graham
India
Pico Turquina
Cuba
Final Settlement of Estates for William H. Holsclaw
Creditors heirs and legatees of William H. Holsclaw must appear in Jefferson Circuit Court Madison Indiana on April 21 1916 to show cause why final settlement accounts should not be approved and to prove heirship and receive distributive shares Executor Clarence Holsclaw Byron F Mouser attorney aprow3t
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Holsclaw
Jefferson Circuit Court
Madison
Ind
Clarence Holsclaw
Byron F. Mouser
Local notes of travel and life in Madison area
Residents and visitors pass through with trains to Noblesville and Indianapolis. Marriages, hospital stays, and funeral and obituaries are noted. Local workers and families, including the Maxwell plant and area farms, appear with brief city news and police actions.
Riley Returns from Florida for Centennial Films
Indianapolis April 17 James Whitcomb Riley sails back from his Florida winter home May 3 to take part in the Centennial movies. The famed poet plans to appear as himself and contribute readings during the event in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Centennial
Indianapolis
James Whitcomb Riley
British Steamship Herrovian Sunk By Submarine
The British steamship Herrovian, which left New York on April 4th, was sunk by a submarine. An additional dispatch from Berlin states Lt Bertholde shot down the fifth British aeroplane near Ypres in Belgium, with no new Verdun fighting mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Herrovian
Berlin
Bertholde
Perponee
Belgium
War Office
Verdun
Court News Highlights Guardianships and Trials
Judge Grif fith declares Isa belle Miller unsound minded and appoints Julian Grebe guardian with a $1000 bond. Winters vs Winters ends injunctions after agreement. Andrew M. Taff named administrator of Frank R. Taff estate. William McCoy faces burglary and habitual criminal charges with trial set for April 21. H H Cope to defend. Guardian petitions for Ida Comley. Walker found mentally incompetent. Madison Safe Deposit & Trust Co. appointed guardian. Multiple probate and property cases noted with lawyers Bear, Lemen, McGregor, Ford, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julian Grebe
Isabelle Miller
Guardian
Griffith
Ryker's Ridge
Emerson Lemen
Winters
Judge Bear
Andrew M. Taff
Frank R. Taff
State
William
Bart) McCoy
McCoy
Madison Machine Co
H. H. Cope
Ida Comley
William L. Walker
Madison Safe Deposit & Trust Co
John McGregor
Board of Finance
Lexington Township
Scott County
Joan McGregor
Supreme Court
Walter Kahn
Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Co
P. J. Bear
Sulzer & Bear
Mrs Catherine Steinberger Dies After Long Illness
Mrs Catherine Steinberger widow of Samuel Steinberger longtime county resident dies at home of her daughter Mrs J Clell Prenatt in Indianapolis after a lengthy illness. Born in Germany she was the last of her immediate family and survived seven children including Mrs Prenatt and John M Steinberger. Funeral likely Wednesday at nine at North Madison Catholic church. Nell Clements in hospital with pneumonia improving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Steinberger
Samuel Steinberger
J. Clell Prenatt
Indianapolis
Steinberger
Germany
This
Michigan Road
Prenatt
Mark Crawley
This County
Michael McNellis
Terre Haute
Daniel Hoffman
Laporte County
John M
Samuel T
Peoria
Joseph P
Unusual Big Four wreck near Deputy Indiana
A northbound freight train section crossed a bridge at Deputy and another section plunged into Big Creek. Twelve cars fell into the creek with another twelve plus the caboose left on the north bank. One man was reported seen on the cars but no confirmed fatalities. Traffic will detour via Columbus until temporary repairs or replacement bridge are built.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Vernon
Louisville
Big Creek
Deputy
Hogady
Thomas Crook
Columbus
Pennsylvania
Commiskey
Herald
Wanted to Argue. Duffey Arrested for Intoxication in Columbus
William Duffey aged 38 from Madison was taken from a Pennsylvania train by Patrolman Orange E. Whiteman and charged with intoxication. Arraigned before Mayor Wol land he pleaded not guilty but was jailed until sober after the mayor refused to try him in that condition. Duffey argued with the mayor about every point including his own identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Duffey
Madison
Pennsylvania
Orange E. Whiteman
Wolland Duffey
Duffey
Columbus Herald
Triple murder and arson shock Ripley County
Rumors confirmed as a triple murder robbery and house fire in Ripley County last night. Randolph Brown had sold his farm and planned to move with his family but stayed at the old home. robbers killed Brown his wife and child took several thousand dollars and burned the building. Bishop Chartrand will ordain three priests at St Meinrad's with Rev. Frank Hillen of Madison among them. Hillen to read his first Mass May 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ripley County
The
Herald
Randolph Brown
Brown
Chartrand
Indianapolis
St. Meinrad’s
Frank Hillen
Madison
Purdue figures cost to grow an acre of corn
Purdue extension reports the five-acre corn contest shows an average cost of 13.27 dollars per acre in 1915 across 408 contestants in 23 counties. Costs by category include plowing 1.61, seed bed 1.39, fertilizer 0.54, manure 1.33, seed corn 0.28, planting 0.30, cultivating 1.82 and rent 6.00 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette
Ind
Department of Agricultural Extension
Purdue University
J. D. Harper
Purdue Extension Department
Wife killed and husband fatally injured in home burglary
In Greensburg, April 17, robbers beat Mrs. Zell Brown 65 to death and mortally wounded her husband after breaking into their home near Napoleon. They set the house ablaze and escaped with $3,000 in checks, while neighbors pulled the injured husband and the deceased wife from the flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensburg
Zell Brown
Napoleon
Funeral plans pending for Graham road farmer
Frank Moore a well known and well to do farmer of the Graham road died at his home this afternoon after a period of illness. The time of the funeral will be announced later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Moore
Graham Road
Messenger Boy Delivers Message to Bluffton and Back
A seventeen year old Western Union messenger in Fort Wayne set out to deliver a message to J C J. He rode toward Bluffton twenty miles away after learning the recipient had gone there. An automobile driver offered a ride to Bluffton and back. He returned to the office by 10 30 PM and was marked for promotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Western Union
Charles Schlegel
Bluffton Road
Bluffton
Rowan
Garcia
Schlegel
Mr. J
Murder trial of Hardy Robinson to begin at Scottsburg
Hardy Robinson a 22 year old indicted for the murder of Ancil Phillips 17 will be tried in Scottsburg Indiana before Judge Cragmile on Monday Insanity defense reportedly to be alleged The shooting occurred at Miss Grace Huffman home March 26 with both boys suitors and Phillips visiting the girl moments before the fatal volley
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scottsburg
Ind
Hardy Robinson
Cragmile
Grace Huffman
Ancil Phillips
Robinson
Miss Huffman
Phillips
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