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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1915
Page
4
From Vincennes comes a complaint by automobile drivers about speeding empty trucks along the Lawrenceville Vincennes road. In Kansas banks face a strange cap on deposits under state law, limiting deposits to ten times capital and surplus, causing concerns as crops returns improve and deposits rise.
The Philathea Class elects six month leaders with Mable Heitz as president and Ruth Land as secretary treasurer. Local social events include Thanksgiving gatherings and an oyster ice cream social planned for December 4 at Red Men’s Hall in Wirt. Married couple updates and community visits are listed along with upcoming musical entertainment and preaching at Wirt.
An old advertisement touts Sloan's Liniment for rheumatism and allied pains. It claims to ease congestion and improve blood flow, reducing body warmth and pain, urging readers to keep a bottle at home. It markets both 250 and 600 size bottles.
Washington Nov 3 Indiana Democrats unveil tentative but practically set committee seats for the new Congress Licb joins rivers and harbors Cullop interstate and foreign commerce Cox post offices and post roads Dixon ways and means Moss banking and currency Gray naval affairs Adair war department expenditures immigration and pensions Morrison patents insular affairs revisions of the laws Rauch appropriations Cline foreign affairs Barnhart printing roads.
A snow storm blanketed the vicinity Sunday night. Community figures like Mr J Ivin fixed a worn well pump for Mr Wm Lockridge, improving water supply. Roads work by Mr Enoch Corya praised, while social gatherings included Thanksgiving visits among local families. Honeys and helpers from Dupont to Middlefork shared Thanksgiving joy and fare.
Thanksgiving day births report George Lee to Mr and Mrs Will Brother. Mr Rudd Craigmyle bought a piano for his daughter. Fred Wooten remains ill at Kings Daughters Hospital. Elsworth Peters family visited Omar Brother and kin. Guy Copple returned from Circleville Indiana after shelling corn. Pauline Tull at Indiana University spent Thanksgiving with homefolks. Glen Short and Franklin College friend visit Mrs Mabel Peters. Mrs Mary Perrent of Indianapolis visited her parents Frank and Shannon.
Representative Lincoln Dixon, dean of Indiana’s delegation, says he will back the President on national defense but cautions that defense spending should not be inflated. He expects possible changes to sugar duty status and income tax exemptions, and possible reenactment of the emergency revenue tax with modifications.
Archy Dilk and George Kirk visited Madison on Monday. J D Johnson and grandson Clyde Johnson of Need, with Mrs. Cripe and Zeffis Manning, traveled to Versailles on Thursday. Misa Florence Donovan went to Craigmont Thursday to work. Wildman Brothers hauled bay to Dupont this week. Lewis Thomas Andrew Farran and Ezra Thomas returned from Benton County after shucking corn. Frank Lurber visited with his uncle James Hash in Middlefork.
The late constitutional convention approved making April 30 a legal holiday commemorating George Washington's 1789 inauguration. Delegate Peter Donovan pushed the idea citing unity, backed by journalist George J. Clark. In January the Bronx senators Hamilton or Dunnigan or Assemblyman Vertig will sponsor the bills.
Report from the commander to Washington details several attempts on the Rock Island Illinois arsenal with a strong guard surrounding the facility. Incidents are described alongside the safety measures and the need for vigilance.
Local social notes mention Mrs Hugh Cravens visiting her mother Mrs Wm Borcherding in Indianapolis. Raymond Jones and Willie Dunlap, Pennsylvania lane men, visited home folks over Sunday. Charten Stites of Minooka Illinois visits his mother Mrs Emma Stites. Mrs Bailey Jones and Mrs Irvin Crim and daughter Evelyn spent Thanksgiving with Mr and Mrs Chas Jones at Oakdale. A corn show is set for Antioch Grange Hall on December 3 with baskets to be brought. Mr and Mrs Tom Smith host Mrs Smiths aged uncle and aunt Bartie and Becky Haskell of Braytown. John Jeffries and family spent Sunday with John Crim near Lancaster.
Mrs Annie Yeisla and daughter Lillian spent Sunday with Mrs Joe Ralph. The Misses Ella and Ida Garling returned home after a few days with Mrs E E Stucker. Milton Carson came home yesterday on the noon train after several weeks in Rush Co. Blanch Smith has a cold. Maggie Bodam spent Sunday with her brother Peter and family. Lizzie Schnell and children of North Madison visit aunt Mrs Maranda Smith. Frank Balph and family from Madison visited his parents, Mr and Mrs John Balph, Sunday. Earl and Earle Weise returned to school after a week of illness. Ed Ellett and son Edwin visited Clemens Stucker family. Vernon and Guy Brooke of Butlerville visited grandmother Brown recently.
Mr Harry Underwood nears completion of shredding corn in the neighborhood. Rev Ferris conducted services at Hopewell Sunday morning and evening. Mr Wilber Oidaker and wife visited his father below Kent on Thursday. Mr M C Marehall of West Newton Indiana spent part of last week with his ill parents James and wife. James Officer shows improvement from a past injury. Neighborhood attendees visited the Kent corn show last Saturday. Local youths attended a party at Lawrence Fewell's Saturday night and plan to move to Mrs Janie Sullivan's farm soon. Mrs Wm Joyce visited her parents near Brooksburg last week.
A Kent farmers institute drew a large crowd on Saturday. Items mention Esther Kloppher returning from Georgia to visit Charley, Ella Bare visiting Della Lowry in Lexington, Ava Deputy losing two horses, B O Berry visiting daughter Minnie, Elsie Berry ill at Minnie Bair’s in Kent, Pete Chasteen and family visiting Bealer for Thanksgiving, Will Cravens in poor health, Charney Stonehouse’s house burned and George Baker rebuilding nearby. The piece ends with reflections on prudence and exercise, attributed to Canadian Courier.
In Petrograd the czarina and her daughters Grand Duchess Olga and Grand Duchess Tatiana have joined Red Cross nursing at Tsarskoe Selo. Their patient devotion from 9 am to 2 pm daily, often staying late, is credited with easing the czarina's anxiety. The trio organized a court hospital for 200 soldiers, under Princess Gedroy, and inspired nobility to volunteer. Olga is 20, Tatiana 17, and both hold colonelcies in elite cavalry regiments.
London eight patients with cancer reportedly cured through dietary regulation and therapeutic agents, according to Dr. Robert Bell head of the cancer research department at Battersea General hospital. He stated the healing power of nature, aided by diet, can overcome the disease and lead to complete recovery.
The ashes of A Ninomiya a Japanese resident who died here days ago were mailed to Ehima Japan by parcel post. He had requested cremation and the ashes were sealed in a hermetically sealed metal receptacle before shipment.
Washington December 1 Representative Stephen M Sparkman Florida chairman of rivers and harbors committee urged a slim bill to fund only already underway river and harbor work saying no time for a big pork barrel measure He noted public sentiment could back limited action while opponents push omnibus public building legislation to spread pork across towns and districts.
The Herald reports a 49 pound monster pumpkin on a volunteer vine in Peter Hertz's yard on East Main. The vine stretched across the yard with huge leaves and an estimated potential length of 100 yards. It produced seven other pumpkins near 40 pounds and several smaller ones, totaling over 820 pounds of pumpkins in all.
Ad counsels that colds linger unless treated and promotes Dr King s New Discovery for bronchial and lung ailments. It claims the remedy aids the body in fighting germs and has been tested by all ages. Also notes fresh supply of Mrs Austin s Pancake Flour at grocers.
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