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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1915
Page
7
The entry records weddings and arrivals including Mr. and Mrs. Roeder of Madison, Mr. Warman visiting family, and Judge-elect Griffith. It notes a marriage license in Indianapolis and social visits in Madison with mentions of local officials and residents.
The remains of Mrs. Lena Kronenberger arrived from Cincinnati and were met by friends. Funeral services were at the depot and burial followed in the family plot at Springdale Cemetery. Pallbearers included William Traace, R Kronenberger, Louis Sulzer, and Charles Levy. Relatives traveled from New York and Washington, D C to attend.
The funeral for Misa Mildred Merril was held yesterday at 2 pm from her parents home in Brooksburg. Rev Fred Stacy led the service and burial occurred at Ghent Kentucky with pallbearers Mousara Charles Perry John Athiey Everetgon Ashley and Otis Reed serving.
Partial Kentucky returns reveal Stanley leading for secretary of state with 35 173 votes and McDermott, McCheaney, and others trailing. Democrats see Greene ahead of Sherman Goodpaster by over 5 000, with Terrell leading for governor and Edwards versus Black for lieutenant governor. Republicans nominate DP Morrow and Progressives back J F Drexler for governor.
In Crozier's court John Bumen paid five dollars and costs for assault on a guilty plea. Ab Anderson of Hanover pleaded guilty to intoxication and was fined one dollar with a stay. Sherman Stevens, jailed on a adultery charge, was fined five dollars with a stay. Visitors from Kentucky arrived to see Mr and Mrs George Stanley on East Main. George C. Forse won a contract for improvements to Attorney Curtis Marshall's home on West Second Street. Oliver Bear, formerly of Jefferson County, now in Cincinnati, visits relatives in town. Paris reports Mendeleschal Bartholdy bank in Berlin failed for about three quarters of a million dollars.
Report from Austrian field headquarters says Austro-German forces pierced the Wieprz river front north of Lublin. Russians retreat in disarray as 75 mile wide gap narrows. 10,000 Muscovites captured. Siedice rail center threatened. Lausanne Gazette estimates 3,000 Russian losses and two years to form a new army.
Rome reports the Austrian fortress city of Gorizia nearly razed after weeks of bombardment. Three quarters of its people fled. the rest hide in cellars as Italian artillery climbs the Tyrolean Alps to shell the town. London notes conscription begins with household registration for ages 15 to 65.
Berlin reports Novo Georgie vak the Russian fortress cut off as German forces push toward Kovno guarding the Niemen river and the Vilna to St Petersburg railway corridor. Government steamboat inspectors in Cincinnati exonerated officers of City of Louisville and Homer Smith after collision near Carrollton and Vevay on July 26. J A Lanham of Cincinnati, former Jefferson county resident, arrives on Vim from Vevay to visit brother Frank Lanham at Menville and to see his daughter Mrs Robert Simmons.
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