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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1916
Page
6
Madison notes list residents arriving from Rushville Hoboken and Louisville travels. William McCracken returns to Carrollton Kentucky. John Clatfelter dies at Cragmont and is shipped to Terre Haute. Colts sell for 335 at Vaughn farm sale. Kentucky teachers rode excursion from Paducah to Louisville.
The Jefferson County 1916 graduation lists cover Dupont High School North Madison High School and Rykers Ridge High School. Notable names include Bowen Heath Howard Clashman Vinson Bovard Elsie Johnson Mabel Phillips Marjorie Lewis Paul Hilbert Ronald Horton Irene Jordan Annie Wilson Edna Delzell Lily Ryker Alberta Ryker and Bernice Waltz.
New Orleans reports a tornado near Mobile this morning killing one woman and injuring many others. Emergency crews respond as residents assess damage across affected areas.
At a Jefferson County Fish and Game Association meeting, Joseph M Cravens and W A Guthrie were named to work with the Commercial Club committee to secure a fish hatchery site. The Commercial Club panel includes E B Roberts Crozier C N Horulf W A Lyon and S T Boyd. The group plans to petition the state for a supply of smallmouth black bass to stock local creeks. Membership is growing and activity rising. Deeds recorded: William T Seburn and wife to Charles I Seburn 31 acres Madison township private consideration. Edward Jeffries and wife to James Atwell and wife Mulberry street north, private. Milo J Bowman and wife to Sophia Blackard Hammell West Main street residence, $2 000. Wesley Mikesell and wife to Earl E Sater 20 acres Madison township $825.
The remains of Mathias T Hand son were moved to Mt Byrd church Trimble county Ky for services and burial at Moffett's cemetery with five brothers and Richard Lemen as pallbearers. North Madison High School plans commencement tonight with Prof Woodworth. Ryker's Ridge High School graduation set for April 28 and Lancaster township on May 11 with both high and common schools. Charles Ferguson a 30 year old farmer near Clifty on the Hanover road died at 6 am survived by his mother sisters and a brother with funeral time undecided.
Scottsburg April 21 Hardy Robinson was found guilty by a jury of first degree murder for the killing of Ancil Phillips at Lexington. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Lynn Wager forty son in law of Mr and Mrs Zell Brown was placed under arrest as tensions rose. The prisoner likely to be removed from the county for safety. In Hartford City A D Stevensons bloodhound fell ill on its first job tracking thieves who looted hides from Ritter slaughter house.
Henry Lott of Leroy died at his daughter Mrs. Charles Green in Frankfort Indiana Sunday morning after a life spent with six children in Downs township. He served in the 94th Indiana Infantry during the Civil War and built a quiet later life, with burial planned in Leroy. His son in law Charles Green was seriously ill.
In Saluda township a lightning bolt killed four horses owned by Goodloe and Siegel Stucker while a Huckster wagon stood in front of Mrs. Margaret Reed's home. Siegel Cooper and bystanders received shocks but survived. The horses valued at about $350 were instantly slain as the wagon and people near it escaped major harm.
The Bart McCoy trial for alleged complicity in a Madison Machine Co. brass robbery and habitual criminal charge opened before Judge Griffith with a full petit jury. State counsel are Cotton and Deputy Hearing. defense by H. H. Cope. A final settlement report was filed in the estate of William H. Horseclaw. Memorial theatre admission during cleanup week will cost ten cans of oil tied on a string. Argentina produced 275000 barrels of oil last year.
In Pittsburgh a shirt dispute at Em de Santis shop sparked chaos when clerk gave customer a bright orange shirt instead of the requested green striped one. A fight ensued, the show case broke, and police were summoned. Magistrate Sweeney sentenced the offender to thirty days.
Miss Ma rtin Beecher of Puyallup saved a rare $700 old violin from a South hill fire that destroyed John S. Eylegood’s adjoining dwelling. She entered through smoke, rescued the iron trunk, lifted the lid, and carried the violin to safety.
Chicago police detain Keith Edward Dalrymple after flashy clothing draws attention. The 23 year old heir to a $400,000 fortune was identified following a four year dragnet. no charges filed. Dalrymple, who ran from Arkansas in 1908, had lived in New York Buffalo Detroit and Chicago in recent years.
In Litchfield Minnesota Mrs James Lowater keeps a piece of musty hardtack her brother Enoch Leavitt carried in a knapsack during his march with Colonel Buford against Morgan raiders. After Morgan's capture he was furloughed and sent the army bread home. The relic has rested with her for fifty years and remains fairly well preserved despite a green hue. Mrs Lowater is among the region's early settlers.
Racine, Albert H. Broden plastered his shop sidewalk with bright wallpaper to stop slips. Arrested as insane, he explained the paper would prevent accidents better than sand. He agreed to remove it when weather warms. He was praised for ingenuity.
Farmers in Sheboygan Wisconsin predict a revival of oxen use on middle west farms due to high horse prices caused by the war. One carload of oxen has already been purchased by local farmers. Take The Herald.
Elmer Imbler, 13, reported from Louisville to be alive and working on a flatboat on the Ohio River after several days away from home. In Frankfort, John H. Staley, a traveling salesman, killed in a Wednesday auto crash at Osborne Kansas. body to be brought for burial. A city note mentions Elwood where Mrs. King Leeson fainted when a revolver was pointed at her by 3-year-old son of R H Mossman, the shot from a falling vase. Indianapolis reports Walter Graham arrested for carrying carbolic acid amid death by own action concerns. he claims it was for bedbugs. The text also notes about 1,000 kinds of mosquitoes.
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