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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1919
Page
2
Madison residents and visitors are listed in a roundup of social notes. Guests include Miss Mary Hughes from Pineville Virginia and Mrs Barbara Lewis from Alliance Ohio visiting local friends. A property sale on West Fifth Street to Stroceco M Gains and wife is noted, along with various travels and civic items.
Harrison H Athey died at his home on West Second Street at 12 30 PM after a prolonged illness. He served Madison as a Sixth Ward representative in the City Council from 1844 to 1898. He was a cooper by trade and leaves two sons Alfred and Richard in Madison and a daughter Mrs Dyke of North Vernon. His wife and three daughters and one son preceded him. He was a member of Ion Lodge F and A M and Madison Lodge IO O F. Funeral services were held at his residence with Rev S R McAlpin officiating and Masonic pallbearers including H J Zearing Charles Geile John t Schott McGuire Howard H Schofield Harvey Rutherford Charles Cox.
At a meeting last night Walnut Street Fire Company No 4 voted in new officers for the coming term. Albert G. Winter is President Nicholas Schultz Jr Vice President John Kalb Secretary Frank J Schram Treasurer Peter I Hoagland Chief John Schroeder Asst Chief Michael Quinn 2d Hose Director Chas Bersch Pipesman Frank Voelker Asst Pipesman Edward Johann Messenger Peter I Hoagland. The Knox resolution to separate the League of Nations from the Peace Treaty was abandoned by Republican Senators.
Fragments describe a ceremony at St Marys with choirs and altar scenes, highlighting a gala day that stands as a landmark in the lives of the 1919 graduates.
Sheriff Monroe and Deputy Kremer arrested Frank Devore for unlawful possession of liquor after finding 99 half pints of whisky at his First street home between Mulberry and West. Nine bottles were in the house and ninety were buried in the yard, dug up with a shovel. Six gallons and one and a half pints seized.
The cases of Louis Perkins and others versus John Neal and Louis Helck on tobacco contracts were called at 10 a.m. Attorneys were given until 1 p.m. to prepare. Several witnesses were summoned. Plaintiffs live in Ripley and Trimble counties, Ky. Connelly of Milan and Sulzer and Bear represent plaintiffs. Judge Bear and Ford defend. An effort to compromise was pursued this afternoon.
Miss Edna Mersdorff and Mr. Frank Selleck married at St Michaels parish house by Rev Mob Guthoeck. Bride attended by Miss Kie Mersdont and Ar Dell Steiger wald. After breakfast they left for Washington D C to begin their life together in real estate work.
The state outlines a four section plan to connect all county seats totaling 3006 miles. Routes include Indianapolis to Shelbyville to Greensburg to Napoleon then Versailles and Madison with several feeders to Aurora Rising Sun Vevay and other towns. Louis P Scheik and guests Grace Graves and Louise Schwaninger joined a Columbus trip return.
A stream of named individuals travel from Madison to Indianapolis Cincinnati Marion and Seattle for family visits school conventions and work. Notables include Miss Tillie Magers Mrs Wm Pullem Mr Clarence Pullem Mr Fred Chace and Mrs A J Means Mrs J S Mills Mr Shannon Walker and Miss Clara House. Private Hayden Walters returned from France and several others head to Port Arthur Greensburg and Seattle for vacations work or study.
A Madison advertisement warns many women suffer pains from kidney weakness mistaken as female troubles. It promotes Dean's Kidney Pills with a testimonial from Mrs. FE. oD. Willick of Madison who reports back pain, dizziness, swollen feet, and irregular kidney action relieved after using the pills. The ad notes price 60c and availability at Rogers' drug store. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
At Western Fire Company No 3 regular meeting officers for the next six months were elected. Thomas Lockard is president with Clark Stuart as vice president and Charles A Bowman as secretary. Louis Layton serves as treasurer and William Winter as chief with Samuel Steiverwald as assistant chief and Fred Friedersdorf as engineer. William Marx is assistant engineer James Cavanaugh hose director and Martin Cassidy assistant hose director. Pipesmen are John Murphy Joseph Schofield and William Bierck. A device resembling a typewriter was built for marking linen.
The exhibit includes HEE helmets claimed to have belonged to Kaiser William II and General Laidendorf. Collected by explorer Lowell Thomas, the items will be shown in Columbus during the June 20 to July 13 centenary events. Thomas reportedly entered Germany during the revolutionary period without passports, hiding at the border, and later witnessed riots and the city’s upheaval. He will also present Palestine photographs from Geneva era and recount this expedition with the British troops.
Hilary Herbert will lead the cast as the central character in The Wayfarer during the Methodist Centenary celebration in Columbus Ohio from June 20 to July 3. Nearly 100 costumed performers will present the pageant nightly in the Coliseum at the exposition grounds, with a chorus of 1,000 voices enhancing the production.
ISS HIELM NEWITT will be the dramatic lyric soprano soloist in The Wayfarer, part of the Methodist Centenary in Columbus from June 20 to July 13. Henry Herbert and Mine Blanche Yurka will have speaking parts. Viola Ellis sings. The pageant will be staged on America’s largest venue at the Coliseum, with about 2,000 performers and a chorus of 1,000.
A Methodist column urges a United States centenary celebration as a unifying effort to inspire a new era. It promotes a world tour, volunteer worker mobilization, and accelerated plans for the coming four years to energize mission work and future projects.
July events honor John Stewart founder of the Missionary Movement with trips to Upper Sandusky Oberlin and Wilberforce. Monday July 7 designated as Negro Day with a pageant The Star of Ethiopia by Dr W E B Dubois and a 500 voice chorus at the Coliseum.
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