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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1915
Page
5
Madison and surrounding areas see a flurry of visits and travel notes as residents attend G A R Encampment in Merion and await arrivals from Columbus and Pittsburg. A 84,960 pound tobacco sale posts $9.30 average while a storm damages trees and a telephone pole.
The term opens with Margaret Kemper granted a divorce from Calvin Kemper and restoration of her name Margaret E. Fisher. Martha Benson sues Henry Lee for 4500 damages over a Hanover auto collision injuring her face and causing a nervous breakdown. Grand Jury visits Poor Farm jail and reports 43 witnesses, 7 indictments. Several juvenile cases assign sentences to reformatories.
Funeral services for the late Mrs Elizabeth Ramsey were conducted at her son Verne Ramsey’s home on West Main Street by Dr Turner of Trinity Church. Pallbearers named in two locations. burial in Ramsey Cemetery near Hanover. Weather notes report May rainfall above average but not a record, with 5.96 inches so far this month and a ten year normal of 46.3 inches.
A thief or thieves broke into Rogers drug store at Main and West streets last night through a cellar grate and window. Nothing appears stolen though burglars may have fled frightened. A rear alley gate at Little Grand theater was opened and intruders moved about repairs but caused no major damage. Police are investigating.
Local brief mentions include travel by Madison residents to Chicago Indianapolis and New Orleans and births and deaths in the community. A church convention in Madison June 3 and 4, ambulance arrival from Carrollton Kentucky, and a baby born on East Street are recorded along with social club travels and a discussion of Indiana author Edward Eggleston and his works.
Judge FE G Henry learns his brother Dr J Henry died at the National Soldiers Home in Marion. The Civil War veteran and longtime New Albany dentist with Elks ties was buried with military honors after funeral services at the Soldiers Home. He practiced here from 1870 to 1895 before moving to the home. He was 89 years old and survived by relatives including Capt A D Vancadel and Harry Heary of Colorado Springs.
Graduation exercises for a class of twenty seven in dentistry at Vanderbilt University Nashville Tenn take place Saturday May 20 at 5 pm in University Chapel West Campus. Among the graduates is Dr I Allie Kasper son of Mr and Mrs J J Kasper of this city who will travel to Nashville to attend the exercises. Dr Kasper may locate in Florida and friends wish him success.
Worcester based Dr Mas 2a a psychologist and former Chuark university fellow says incompatibility in marriage can be measured with more than a tape. He cites Governor David Lo Walsh as an example and lists a detailed ideal wife profile including height weight tact cheerfulness ambition singing and a mezzo soprano voice.
In Sheboygan Wisconsin during a local baseball game on the Walters farm on the Upper Falls road a cow owned by Mr Walters was killed when the bat slipped from the batter and struck the animal at home plate. Value set at 75 dollars with the team members agreeing to compensate the owner.
Pierre South Dakota reports Fred Hanson earned 500 dollars for a single day of work tracking a female gray wolf to her den along the White River. He captured the mother and nine whelps, with a contract price of 50 dollars per wolf.
In a gale last night the battleships Georgia and Nebraska collided in Narragansett Bay near Newport Rhode Island. Both ships sustained damage with loss of side gear. Nebraska also lost part of her bridge and some guns. Three other naval vessels were slightly damaged.
Logansport police arrest local jeweler John E. Wood who will be taken to Vernon Jennings County to face charges of passing warrants.
Snow and frost hit eastern cities with temperatures around 30 degrees and a record cold for the time of year. In New York the day marked a seasonal low while Youngstown Ohio reports heavy frost damaging fruit and vegetables across northern Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Thirteen persons are dead and fifty injured as storms and floods sweep west and north of Kansas City. Six drowned in Oklahoma, five in Nebraska, and a tornado killed two in Colorado.
Mrs Phasbe Funk aged 76 was discovered dead in her bed in Vevay Indiana. Neighbors found $725 in a trunk neatly stored in small denomination bills filling a basket. The money reportedly will go to a local brothel at the Soldiers' Home in Johnson City Tennessee and to a sister in Corinth Kentucky.
Secretary Garrison directs deduction from pay of officers and enlisted men for rifle and government property losses. The orders aim to curb rising losses as the armed forces safeguard equipment. The article notes a British empire population figure and comments on earthquake severity where quakes are frequent.
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