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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1914
Page
6
Reports from Brussels and Paris detail renewed bombardment at Liege with Belgian defense holding. Germany reports heavy losses and claims forts remain intact while Belgium vows not to surrender, as war expands with rumors of Japanese and Italian involvement and Austria deportations.
War office reports German forces were held back after pushing near Tonres and Muelhausen while French troops, praised as brilliant, maintain control in northern Alsace. In Meurthe et Moselle Germans push near Blumont, Hannon Villere, repulsed by cannon fire. Italy, citing shelling of Antivari and damage to Puglia buildings, demands Vienna explain the bombardment as tensions rise toward war with Austria.
Wreckage washed ashore near San Francisco is believed to be part of the British sloop Shearwater. A German warship was sighted about sixteen miles from the Golden Gate today.
New York Aug 11 America faces an unparalleled advance in food stuffs as a result of the European war. Prices of many necessities have already jumped up a hundred percent and are predicted to double or triple in the next month if the war continues.
On August 11 1915 President Wilson rests after a quiet night and attends to his late wife Ellen Louise Wilson whose funeral train travels from the north to Georgia. Bells toll across Rome and Augusta as the procession heads to the First Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. The funeral party continues on schedule through Atlanta.
The August 1914 session of the Jefferson County Indiana Board of Commissioners outputs a long slate of per diems salaries and expenses for sheriff surveyor county superintendents coroner jail roads and bridges including payments to the Atlas Mills Madison Telephone Co and Madison Light & Fuel Co among others. The document is certified by Auditor A M Taff with official seal.
Trustee W C Dawson of Saluda township Jefferson county schedules the yearly expenditures and tax levies to fund township, local tuition, and road costs at a September 1914 meeting. Totals show expenditures 657.00 tax 135 cents per hundred dollars. net taxable property 376,400. valuations listed for lands personal property railroads and other items.
The 1913 budget shows township expenditures totaling 4,410.00 with a 10 cent overall tax per hundred dollars. Local school funds amount to 2,400.00 with a 2 percent tax. road taxes and special school taxes are listed with various rates. The report includes personal property valuation of 73,530.00 and overall township valuation around 277,540.00 with 112 polls. Signed by Harry Under World, Trustee, August 1, 1914.
Government report shows Indiana ranks second to California in 1912 road and bridge spending. Indiana allocated 8.88 million dollars, while California spent 9.00 million. The Agriculture Department’s Office of Roads projects 1913 expenditures to be about 10 percent higher than 1912.
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