City Council Disputes Water Contract Costs and Repairs
At a special meeting the Madison City Council reviewed two disputed bills from Johnson foundry and machine shops totalling 1,1071.41 and 292 for river valves. The Public Utilities report urged modifications. the council adjourned after debate. Separately, Orlando Flora, a longtime Madison resident and inventor, died at 85, leaving a widow and four children.
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Crozier
Feuerstein
Tater
Johnson Foundry
Messrs
Oliver, Niesse
Cisco
Johnson
Holwaver
State Board of Accounts
Niesse
Nichols
Oliver
Charles R. Johnson
McGowan
Johnson Sr
Moore
City of Madison Vs. Johnson Contract Co
Ohio River
Griffith
Oscar Oliver
Public Utilities Committee
Council
W. O. Ford
C. S. Tandy
Vevay
Mrs Eliza Hubbard Dies In Madison After Long Illness
Mrs Eliza Lodge Hubbard widow of Richard W Hubbard died at 3 30 this morning at her home on West Third street after a long illness. She was a native Madison resident with years in Cincinnati. Survived by sister Mrs R McKee of Indianapolis a stepson Richard Hubbard of Chicago and many nieces and nephews. A member of the First Presbyterian church she came from one of Madison's pioneer families.
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Orlando V. Flora
Madison
Presbyterian Avenue
Mr. Flora
Cedarville
Valentine
Fhira
10Th Ohio Field Artillery
Texas
Precspyterian Church
Flora
F. 5. Schafer
Franklin
Ellsworth E
Chicago
Herbert M
Clarence P
Panora
Eliza Lodge Hubbard
Richard W. Hubbard
West Third St
Cincinnati
R. §. McKee
Indianapolis
Richard Hubbard
Madison News Briefs Highlight Holidays and Local Moves
Madison entries show residents preparing for Christmas in nearby cities. Staff report shipping and transport notes, marriages pending, and a car sale by the Madison Automobile Co. A Christmas piano gift and a baptismal death are noted alongside river navigation suspensions on Lock No. 1 due to gate damage.
Wellesley Names Sparrow Catcher for Dissections
Wellesley College hires John F H Oakes as official sparrow chaser with a $40 monthly pay to trap birds for dissection. Formerly cats were used, but disallowed after a janitor faced theft charges involving a prize cut. President Ellen Fitz Pendleton faced a police summons after threats. Oakes operates multiple field traps near Wellesley.
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Boston
Wellesley College
Beauty and Culture
John FH. Oakes
Wellesley
Ellen Fitz Pendleton
Tiom Brown
Fined for drawing a deadly weapon in town fracas
Charles Payne a colored man was fined 100 dollars and costs for drawing a pistol at Albert Coffman a white junk buyer during a Fifth street scuffle today. A man named Tom Duncan fired at Coffman and escaped before police arrival. Payne faces likely 110 days at the penal farm. London reports the Japanese liner Yasuka Maru sank in the Mediterranean with one American aboard, W. J. Leigh, rescued by a French gunboat. the submarine was German.
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Crozier
Charles Payne
Albert Coffman
Tom Duncan
Kentucky
Coffman
Fifth Street
Payne
London
Mediterranean
Malta
W. J. Leigh
Gas flow at 95 feet lights farmer's well in Corn Creek
Drillers on Jesse Jones's property report a small gas flow at 95 feet during a water well dig in the old Bob Chandler farm area. The gas grows stronger with time and Jones lights the well nightly for illumination, planning to casing the well for home use. Neighbors plan to form a company to pursue further experiments.
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Bob Chandler
Corn Creek
Jesse Jones
Jones
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