Madison area notes include missing man and school start
Alexander Goff of Seymour is missing. Madison township schools reopen Sept 14. North Madison round house repairs near done. Peaches and apples shipment reached seven car loads yesterday. Plasterers Phibbs Bros. work on Judge Friedley's North Madison residence. Wills of Mary Robins Isaac Wheat and Samuel B Demaree probated. Licenses issued to Robert Gray Delia Gray Grant Chambers and Ida Waltz. New play Abraham Lincoln staged in Indianapolis earns praise. Burial for James Owens child at Springdale cemetery. Wood's Sarsaparilla marketed as tonic after illness. Ellwood groceries: two Madison men plan new shops next week.
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Alexander Goff
Seymour
Madison Township
North Madison Round House
Phibbs Bros
Judge Friedley
North Madison
Mary Robins
Tiaac Wheat
Samuel B. Demaree
Robert Gray
Delia Gray
Grant Chambers
Ida Waltz
Elwood Growth and Community Plans Highlight Local Notices
George FE Prow buys many Elwood lots and plans double Chicago houses. St Michael's Union and Ancient Order of Hibernians announce an October 1 ice cream festival at Odd Fellow's Hall. Daylight burglar chased in Eminence Kentucky. Dave Younger wounded hand but thief escaped with revolver and $10. Mace brothers near Lexington Indiana are major wheat producers with 4700 bushels on L FE Mace farm and 1700 and 1600 on adjacent farms.
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Odd Fellow’s
St. Michael’s Union
Ancient
Order of Hibernians
Dave Younger
Emiinece
Mace Brothers
Lexington
Scott County
Indiana
L. FE. Mace
Oliver
Cyrus
Branham and Schneider to Ellwood on prospecting trip
Messrs T. Branham and Fred Schneider left on the morning train for Ellwood to establish a large furniture and undertaking business as a Branham and Ritchie branch. Schneider stays in Madison. Dog tagging enforcement begins next Tuesday September 1 with fatal penalties for untagged dogs. Mrs Ramspott, widow of 82, dies at Walnut Street residence. funeral and Springdale Cemetery interment set. she was German Methodist church member.
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Messrs
T. Branham
Fred Schneider
Ellwood
Branham & Ritchie House
Mr. Sehneider
Madison
Springdale Cemetery
Sarah Ramspott
Turner
Trinity Church
Hitz
German Methodist Church
Springdale
Crawfordsville
G. W. Switzer
Methodist Church
Indiana
Switzerland County
Kentucky
Rising Sun Recorder
Widow’s pension fraud leads to arrest of Mrs. Miller
Deputy U S Marshal A W Moore arrested Mrs. Sarah Jones for falsely drawing a widow’s pension by using Edley Miller’s name. She claimed as his widow though unmarried to him and married to his father Edley Miller Sr. Evidence showed desertion before the war and her belief she was Miller’s widow. $51 was returned to the government. Preliminary hearing held in Circuit Court before Commissioner C A Korbly.
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Sarah Jones
U. S
A. W. Moore
Edley Miller
Miller
Circuit Court
United States
C. A. Korblyj
Treasury picks Hargan site for Madison public building
Treasury agent recommends the southwest corner of West and Third streets in Madison Indiana as the site for a new public building. The offered price by James Hargan is 8575 dollars.
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Wasnixctos
D.C
Treasury
Madison
Ind
Department
West
Third Streets
James Hargan
John DC. West Company
Chicago
Ill
E.G. F
Locomotive Boiler Explosion Kills Three At Oyster Bay
A railway locomotive boiler exploded at Oyster Bay Long Island this morning. The engineer and fireman were killed and a brakeman nearby was scalded to death, blown to atoms by the blast.
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Oyster
Cincinari
Oyster Bay
Long Island
Resigning school superintendent and divorce in Madison
The court granted Mrs. Clara Taylor a divorce from Harry Taylor and awarded custody of their child. Mr. F. D. Churchill resigned as city schools superintendent. trustees delay appointing a replacement, plan to let principals run schools while considering the matter. Churchill departs for Moore's Hill to rest, with medical certificate noting nervous exhaustion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Taylor
Harry Taylor
F. D. Churchill
Board of Trustees
Churchill
Mr. Churchill
Moore’s Hill
A. B. Ricuardsox
M. D
Circuit Court Nuisance Case Fined and Ordered Abated
In Circuit Court Nancy Woodfill and Ida Farrell faced trial over a public nuisance charge. The court fined both defendants ten dollars plus costs and ordered the nuisance abated. The report also covers inmates in Jeffersonville and Richmond prisons, noting long sentences and changes in custody and library access.
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Nancy Woodfill
Ida Farrell
M. B. Sulzer
Judge Allison
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George FE. Prow
Elwood
Pitcher’s Castoria
United States Court
Hargan
the Herald
Supt
BF. D. Covecu
A. B. Richardson
Garfield Plaace
Cincinnati, O
Louisville-Madison
Bellaire
Louisville
Lee H. Brooks
Mail Line
Kanawha
Carrollton
Jay Gould
Conrad Heck
Annie M. Richert
Andrew Jackson
Amelda Calvert
Rome
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Columbus
Gavin
E.G. Niklaus
Hood
Sarsaparilla
George O. Gill
Ida M. Short
Squire Allen
Hanover College
Hanover
John W. Sullivan
Jefferson City
Evansville
W. M. Amsden
Graham Allison
Jefferson County
Fair Play Company No.1
Tuttle
Wabash College
H. P. Dean
J. Riddle
J.C. Hill
J. K. Keane
Mr. Wood
Ed Hitz
Dennis McCarty
Fannie Rodgers
Leander Robinson
Indianapolis News
Church Street
South East Indiana
M. E
Aurora
Foster
Rushville
Fred Therwanger
Jeffersonville
Therwanger
Adam Liebel, Jr
Law and Order Club
George Martin
Richmond
James Wood
B. F. Thompson
Des Moines
Castoria
Casteria
HA Ancura
M.D
Oxford &J
Brooklyn
Murray Street
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Hindoo
Swarmstedt & Co
McKay Bros
Brooksburg
A. J. Hyatt
Haney's Corner
T. 9
Williams
Dupont
Rankin & Son
J.J. Arbuckle
M. Payne
Paynesville
Dean Bros
Otto
Jacob Thinnies
China
N. B. Rheinerson
Rexville
W. H.H. Bennefield
Barbersville
Gee
Wallace
Volga
J.R. Loud
Hicks
J. R. McConnell
Lancaster
Wm. Ball
North Maditorna
the Frank Medicine CO
Ohio & Mississippi Railway
Cincinnati
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Union
Washington
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New York
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M. Strader
M. R'y
Gen
Je, F. Harper
Main and Jefferson
Madison, Ind
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O. F. Watson
Gorgas’ Gallery
National Branch Bank, OF
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W. H. Powell
V. Prea
D. G. Phillips
Isom Ross
Chas. Y
Cornett
John Clements
F. L. Powell
Jamon Hargan
John T. Schofield
Jalyld&wly
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Jefferson Sta
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Maine
Anna Austin
Texas
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Portland
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Troy
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