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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1920
Page
1
Community program at Pisgah featured children performing songs dances and readings. Mareh credit went to Prat Bally of Degaty for sound and staging while speakers urged faith in community youth and moral uplift.
A bitter battle over whether to place the platform before nomination ends with a rules committee compromise. The convention will hear nominating speeches at 1 PM Wednesday, but ballots wait until the platform is adopted after key speeches led by Byrnes and Cruse.
A steering committee of nine from the resolutions group was picked to draft the platform by Glass after his chairmanship. The move, seen as aligned with Wilson policies, omits Bryan and Senator Walsh and questions Marshall's exclusion.
In San Francisco on June 24 Senator Robinson accepted the permanent chairmanship at the Republican convention briefing, urging the Democratic party to back the President's League of Nations position to spare future generations from waste and bloodshed. He criticized the Republican platform as a jumble of ambiguities and evasions.
National committeeman Love of Pesas says McAdoo will be nominated by the sixth ballot. The forecast follows a series of conferences to gauge McAdoo's strength and includes an assertion that McAdoo will not refuse service.
A San Francisco report notes Bryan’s frustration at missing platform drafting committee membership. He will not present a dry plank at today’s liquor question hearing and will wait for platform completion. Wet leaders announce they will act after Bryan submits his plank, risking no preliminary hearing.
Indiana did not vote on Reed as the Wilsonian administration machinery functioned through credentials committees. Three opponents Senator Reed Hoke Smith and Tom Watson were defeated. The committee voted 39 to 44 to dismiss the Smith Watson chums and seat the Palmerites from Georgia. The Ta forlorn hope takes cases to the convention floor.
Davis the Magician performs rapid hand movements and illusionary stunts that fool Pa Ma and Young America. He offers many feats including a trunk escape, water into wine, a guinea pig from a bottle, a card inside an egg inside a lemon, and rings bent and returned. The article praises his craft and crowd-pleasing skill.
The Philadelphia grand jury investigating the Bergdoll case announced capit imidictments. Indicted include Bergdoll's mother Fuegene Tstecher, the chauffeur who fled with Bergdoll, and Erwin Bergdoll, his brother.
The report shows 50,752 pensioners removed from the list with 8.68 percent added. The year’s changes are described as smaller than the prior period and efforts to protect existing recipients are noted amid broader financial concerns.
A spectacular blaze destroyed the freight transfer yards of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad in Chicago. The fire consumed freight houses a large warehouse of foodstuffs and hundreds of cars. Loss estimated over 1.6 million dollars. Sixteen people lightly burned by flames from exploding tank cars.
The article notes rising money in alligator farming with limited supply and high demand. It mentions quiet competition and feeding issues as hatchlings exhibit hibernation in September through May. Mr and Mrs Charles A Brophy their two children and Mrs Frank Botts travel by car to Chicago to visit relatives for several weeks.
Southeast railroad leaders wire the Democratic convention warning that labor votes in the South will bolt the party if the convention does not deal justly with labor.
Mrs Anna Wagner, longtime county resident and wife of Peter Wagner, died after a lengthy cancer illness. Born in Caermany on October 16 1832 she emigrated to the US and settled near Ching Jefferson County. Survived by five daughters and two sons with several grandchildren. Funeral details pending.
Mrs Julia A Culver widow of Franklin Culver died at her nephew Levi Danners home on Walnut street. Born near Moorefield Switzerland counts July 27 1833 she was 11 years 11 months and 2 days old at death. She left ten siblings the last survivor. Funeral services will be held at the Danner home and Macedonia Church with Rev Young delivering the sermon. Interment beside her husband at the church cemetery.
Louis C Friedersdorf departs by afternoon train for West Point to enter the U S Military Academy as a cadet after appointment by Congressman John Benham. He is the second son of Mr and Mrs Frederick Friedersdorf and graduates with the Madison High School class of 1920.
J A and A A Scheyer of Chicago finalize purchase of the Elm street brick building from W Trow Co and establish ownership of the Major Apron Co site. The Scheyers are major stockholders, boosting the Madison real estate presence. In another sale Bardaman S Brown and Minnie A Brown buy William Trabasco farm, 24 acres, one mile south of Dupont, for 12500 via A W Ford real estate agency.
Mrs Louis Sulzer announces the marriage of daughter Rachael Louise to Lawrence Bennett Hallenstein of Fort Wayne. Ceremony set for Wednesday June 30 at 6 P M in the Hotel Seelbach Louisville Ky. Best man Darrell Hallenstein maid of honor Gladys Danenbaum and flower girl Elaine Louise Grauman named. Adelaide Almond and Lucille Stewart left for Losantville Ind after visit with Mrs E J Scott.
Fire swept through the Highland Manufacturing Company electrical novelty plant in Muncie Indiana causing an estimated loss of 206000 dollars. The blaze left the business in ruins and officials reported no immediate word on casualties.
The statement condemns the late Indiana Legislature as reckless and dangerous in abusing legislative power. It urges the public to oppose further Republican control, labeling the party in power as a warning to the state. Danzig noted as a Baltic flour trade center in history.
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