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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1916
Page
4
Daily items report travel departures and visits of Madison residents and guests including Meyer Bear Gordon Fehr Mullen Burcham, and court actions. Notables attend Hanover College events while others relocate for work, religion, or family reasons. Legal cases cover foreclosures damages and a street fight near the circus grounds.
At the last regular meeting Monroe Lodge of Odd Fellows elected officers for the upcoming six months with Past Grand Henry Herbig as presiding, Noble Grand Charles McIntyre, Vice Grand Albert Dew, and Corresponding Secretary Henry Hugeback. Madison Lodge officers were published previously with Frank Douglas named Past Grand.
Miss Marcella Keller hosted the St. Mary's commercial department graduation gathering at her North Church Street home. Assisted by her sisters Antoinette and Coletta, she welcomed Misses Mary Lucht Juniata Schmidt Loretta Kimmel Alene Stottlebower Florence Roeder Eleanor Bierck Margaret Mullen and Messrs Lawrence Seiwert John Rahe William Eckert Frederick Lucht for games music dancing and refreshments.
Relatives report an auto accident yesterday afternoon near Lawrenceburg in which Mr and Mrs Andrew Augustine Sr their two granddaughters Helen and Frances Connett sustained painful but not serious bruises. The car was badly damaged and may have run off the road.
Mrs Emma Coleman Marsh died Saturday at her home above Brooksburg. Aged 24 years 1 month 1 day she left husband Gabriel Marsh and three young children. Funeral yesterday at Morris Chapel with pallbearers D B Scott Leslie Scott Roscoe Lewis John L Muret John Reed Frank McKay.
Herman Joseph and Andrew John Anger celebrate their eighth birthday with a surprise party at their Tele graph hill home. Guests included numerous friends and relatives. Miss Ella Stuart helped. yellow and white decor set a festive scene. an elegant supper marked the close of the fete.
Helen Skinner eighteen daughter of F C Skinner Pine Knot Lodge Big Bear valley skied 15 miles through three feet of snow from Pine Knot to Dobble then married Wesley P Turner in Los Angeles. The party traveled after roads over Big Bear area were closed by rain and snow and met a stage from Victorville Alaska in 1915.
Sunday services at Pleasant Point were led by Bro. Hall with 107 in Sunday School. Evening attendance faltered in poor weather, prompting postponement of children’s exercises to two weeks from last night. Other items include weddings, visits from Franklin and Madison residents, and local social news.
In the May 28 death, Robert P. Lyon left an estate valued at 75000 to his wife Grace I. Lyon and two sons Robert D. Lyon and Arthur S. Lyon. The will demands tests to prove death and a cut across the radial artery after apparent death, to prevent burial alive. He also requests his body be placed in a receiving vault until a sarcophagus is erected, with funds provided for the vault.
At a Lyceum service in Pocantico Hills John D Rockefeller and his son John D Jr attended with grandchildren. Winthrop, the second grandson, asked for a kiss and Rockefeller produced a nickel from his pocket. The boy kissed him, drawing smiles from the congregation.
National League games saw Cincinnati lose 1 to 3 at St. Louis and Philadelphia beat Brooklyn 3 to 2. In the American League Cleveland fell 6 to 7 to New York. American Association results had Louisville 4 over Milwaukee 2. Toledo faced St. Pauls.
In New York hundreds of Federation of Women's Clubs delegates heard speakers urge individuality in dress while Mrs Thomas A Moison called for modesty, condemning abbreviated skirts and bare shoulders as harmful to youth. She recalled her father’s advice and echoed Mrs Edison who noted few women are genuinely well dressed.
Grain buying prices for oats per bushel and Timothy hay per ton, with mixed hay and straw values. Seed selling prices list alfalfa and clover per bushel, Timothy seed, and notes on wool prices by J Schofield & Son, plus orchard and blue grasses, vetch, rape, and sunflowers. Also coal prices from Middleton Wymond Co including Pittsburg lump and coke variants per ton and yard delivery.
Albert O llarra sheriff faced a stubborn inmate Frank Mc Laughlin who would not leave the county jail after his eleven day sentence. A friend paid the fine but Mc Laughlin stayed for the full term praising the jail as a fine dwelling and meal source. The Brazil nut tree note appears as a separate trivia line.
Hogs receipts reach 6000 with heavy, medium and mixed sales. Cattle receipts around 1100 with steady tone for steers cows and heifers. Wheat and corn prices ease with varieties listed. oats and hay prices also noted. Dr. Thomas Eclectic Oil ad promotes finger injury relief.
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