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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1913
Page
8
Miscellaneous local notices and updates from Madison Indiana and nearby towns. Items include probate administrator appointments, travel of residents, a school dedication speech, a bride’s bridesmaid trip, a horse accident, hospital discharge, and an Underwood Simmons tariff bill signing. Also noted are license applications for hunting and fishing and local officials elected.
Mrs Mary W Niklaue is elected a member of the National Geographic Society of Washington DC with full privileges. Notable members include Robert E Perry Ronald Amundsen A M Greeley and Col George W Goethals. Also noted are tributes to the late T B Triplett and ongoing factory work by Anton Wahlman and Peter Grady at the Graham factory in Cleveland Ohio.
Local society items list travelers visitors and delegates from Hanover and nearby towns. Among the entries Dr and Mrs Armand Roua Irft head toward Anderson and Chicago, and many residents attend meetings or return from trips to Indianapolis Peru Newport Hartsville and Louisville with several wedding and anniversary notices noted.
Watson N Brown aged 77 of Madison died at 7 30 this morning at his home after an illness from age. He served in an Indiana regimental band during the Civil War and worked as a machinist before retirement. A lifelong Democrat, he was a township trustee and a Knights of Pythias member. Survived by a widow. Funeral two o clock Wednesday from the house, Springdale cemetery burial. No flowers per Mrs Brown’s request.
The circuit court convened with Judge Francia presiding and the jury under Prosecuting Attorney Curtin Marshall. The docket includes civil cases of great importance while the William Gries murder case prompts numerous subpoenas. bailiffs and clerks are named and noted. Also reported are a local teacher resuming work, a fatal dance hall shooting in High Bridge, a Memphis wedding, and a disturbance leading to arrest of Mrs. Bert Hunter.
George Leineweber of Alder Montana reports Frank Leineweber died of heart failure at Boulder Montana while en route to his mine job. He was 48 or 50, born August 20, 1880s, never married, identified Sept 24, buried in Boulder. Relatives here mourn his loss.
In Stonington Connecticut two men halted a paymaster from a bank to a mill for the American Velvet Co. and escaped with over 34000 in the nexi monthly payroll. A later search found the money and bag behind a stone wall. robbers fled into the woods.
Harry Rasino, the wife and child murderer, arrived from Terre Tlante to Michigan City seeking deliverance from death. An electric chair will be installed this week under Governor Ralston's orders.
October 46 Mexico City reports the Congressional Committee plans a report recommending postponing the presidential election due to nationwide conditions. If adopted, Huerta is seen as likely to assume a dictatorship.
Claud Bennett taunts Kansas Progressive leader Claud Murdock about his red hair at the eighth international congress of students in a University Club smokeroom. Murdock replies red hair denotes vigor and is better than no hair, defending his appearance amid jokes.
Advice on home dental care from a historic period notes uses for baking soda salt and vinegar paste pumice and hydrogen peroxide to clean teeth prevent decay and reduce dentist bills. It also recommends daily flossing to prevent decay between teeth.
An English inventor patents talking bank notes that use perforated edges to create sound waves in a phonograph. A note placed in the machine would pronounce its own value and claim to be genuine, offering a new anti forgery measure.
The text warns of a harsh winter with famine and freezing dangers. Prophets claim rising living costs will force choices between coal or food. Observers cite signs like heavy corn ducks and well-clothed fowls as evidence of extreme cold, predicting polar weather ahead.
From the derelict Norwegian barque Glenmark, 500 miles off Plymouth, a cat was found alive after the crew had been rescued by the ship Dunhholme. The Glenmark, dismantled and abandoned for over a month, was to be searched and sunk by HMS Donegal. The cat, driven mad by fright, bit a bluejacket who stroked it.
Mahlon Bell and others transfer 94 acres in Monroe township to Guy Alspach for $5,000. Also notes French supply of Mrs. Austin's Bag Buckwheat now on hand at your grocer.
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