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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1913
Page
8
The Red Men raffle for an organ to aid Roy Johann, son of Mrs. William Johann, concluded with number 3089 as the top prize. If unclaimed, a sequence of fallback numbers 3550 3064 3741 5941 5653 3056 5190 2017 3057 will be drawn over five days.
On petition of Robert Storie the Madison Safe Deposit and Trust Co was named guardian for Margaret Dow and Jeannett Dow both elderly infirm residents. The will of Anna Hanrahan was admitted to probate with H J Zearing as executor and Curtis Marshall as attorney. Walter Bacon named guardian for Albert Bacon in the afternoon proceedings.
Compromise in the Donlan will contest ends with a judgment upholding and confirming Bridget Donlan's will while awarding 82 000 in lieu of all interests to Anca Kelley et al. Plaintiffs, nephews and nieces of the decedent from Terre Haute and St Louis, would have shared two fifths of an estate valued around 420 000 if the will had been set aside. The will divested remainder to St Michael's Church with executor M L Guthneck. Doherty Yontz and Sulzer Bear led plaintiffs and defendants' counsel was S E Leland and Roberte.
The Silver Medal Contest drew a fine crowd with Miss Hazel Furbush winning for a strong speech The event featured Miss Florence Demarce and Miss Mildred Tibbetty in a piano duet Mr Louis Perry sang with Miss Gertrude Augustin The judges Rev Virgil Thompson Prof Homer Long and Byron Mouser agreed on the result in Miss Furbushs favor Also includes a loving remembrance poem for Jacob Eugene Cheatham dated March 18 1900.
Analysis from Prof. DuShane and City Health Commissioner McGlasson reports several Madison water samples show varying safety. Filtered samples from Eggleston and Grammar schools are clean, others from a pump and wells show high bacteria levels. Officials recommend hypochlorite lime treatment to render the public supply safe.
In a murder case from Jennings county last October four counties will be involved as jurors from Shelby county in the trial of J Rufue Clark for the Menard brothers killings. Clark's lawyers seek a jury from a neighboring county and Judge Wickens has ruled on the petition while the state presses the change of venue. Lewis A Harding of Decatur county leads the prosecution.
Mrs Nelson Martin sustained a broken left wrist a dislocated wrist and bruises after falling on stairs when heading downstairs. She is improving today after the accident reported Sunday.
Local notes record passenger use on morning trains to Arkansas and Indiana for visits and work. Obituary reports include Paul Reker of Hunter's Bottom and Henry Barter, 70, of Vincennes with cancer treatment noted. Court filings list Madison Safe Deposit trust settlements and an estate inventory valuing William H. Powell at about 220000 dollars.
Mrs. Cinderilla MacKenzie aged a1 longtime resident dies at 10:00 am at her nephew E R Tower home Michigan road after illness of advanced age. Widow of Alexander MacKenzie who died about 12 years ago. two children survive. Funeral Saturday Ebenezer Church Moorefield Switzerland County with burial in church cemetery Wyandotte Kansas City area now Wyandotte.
John Moses, longtime West Madises resident, died after an assault on a nearby street. Police cite the incident as the fatal attack with investigators from Hanover and another town examining the case. His wife had died years earlier and he was a longtime church member and valued neighbor.
Funeral services for William Weber were held at St. Chery Church on Walnut Street. Attending relatives and pallbearers included William Dakelt Kone Weller Andrew Jacobsy George Uegeder Brink Silkint and out of town relatives Frank Weber Matthew Weber Miss Long Keller and others from Vincennes Chicago and Louisville.
Chicago reports the Intere sty endorses a national eight dollar weekly wage for women effective soon, raising payroll by about twenty five thousand dollars. Discussion touches on the ethics of love and the press prints lines about gender and desire framed as moral debate.
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