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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1920
Page
3
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A 1920 Madison item set records: birth of Anna Marie to Mr and Mrs Andrew Wolfselilay on Walnut Street. Potter heirs sell Ful ton property to Bradley Potter for £900. Marshall Smith from Indianapolis visits family. marriage licenses issued to James Smith and Lucy Williams. King’s Daughters Hospital acquires Mrs Henrietta Rogers home as nurse dormitory in compliance with caretaking laws. local residents arrive or depart for various visits and conventions.
Marriage licenses issued to Paul A. Gover and Mies Jessie Jackson. Harry Walker and Nannie Miurtin married. Plies wed Rev W O Lagan and will reside in Columbus. Ralph Kickey wed Anna McGlate. John Lo Schaffer wed Sophia Elisabeth Hunter. Additional nuptials announced. licenses issued for George Hensler with Anna Montgomery and Glenn Sourbeer with Gladys Bear.
Mr. J. Ryan, aged 18, died after a year long illness of kidney and heart trouble. His widow Florence Caplinger and one daughter survive. Charles Hillabold and A E Ieverheart left by afternoon train for Louisville to attend the funeral in that city on Monday. Ryan was well known in Madison and had visited the area on several occasions, with many friends expressing regret at his death.
A one story frame school house at Five Points Lancaster township burned Saturday night between 9 and 10 o clock. Fire believed incendiary origin. shed and winter supply of coal for the school also destroyed. Trustee C. L. Rutledge planned to open the morning for the coming term. Loss estimated at approximately.
Frank L. White of Madison died in Indianapolis after a brief illness at Robert Long Hospital. He had run the White & Leland furniture firm, later worked for Taylor Carpet Co and a sewing machine agency. Survived by wife Lillian Asplanard and daughter Lucile, funeral plans to be announced after arrival of his remains. Mrs White and daughter were visiting Miss Sophia Asplanard when word arrived.
Funeral services were held for the late Mrs. Frank McKay who died Thursday after a long illness. Rev J W Turner conducted the rites at the East Main street residence with many mourners in attendance. Burial followed at Spring Hill Cemetery with pallbearers named including Drink Peek John Poulman Robert Danner and others.
Mrs. Wintse Cosby of North Mill Street receives notice from the War Department that Private Wolien Bitcamer Buckner of Company Seo Pioneer Infantry has arrived in New York after death at sea while en route to France. Buckner is the second son of Mrs Cosby to die in service. another son, Harrison Buckner, died of wounds in France and was buried here.
Oscar Hammel arrested by Policeman Henry McDaniels and brought before Squire Chapman. Hammel pleaded guilty to one public indecency charge and was fined five dollars plus costs. the second charge was suspended. Chief William Jones swore the warrant. attorney Harry Lemen defended.
The remains of Frank L. White who died at the Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis arrived by train Saturday night with his widow. Services were held at one o clock this afternoon at the home of Miss Sophia Asplanard on east Fourth street conducted by Rev. B Arends. Interment followed in Springdale cemetery. Pallbearers were William Roth John Schilling William Bodam Andrew Diederich Wasson Peters and Bert Antle.
Madison residents welcome visitors from Indianapolis Cincinnati Des Moines and Paris Texas. Notable events include a gas company incorporation with 50 000 capital and a Rexall convention in St Louis. Miss Gladys Bear wed Mr Glenn Sourbeer in a Dupont Baptist ceremony.
A. Luther Young and wife transfer North Madison property to Thomas J. Young for 750 dollars. Chauncey Strong and wife transfer property on Northeast Street to Agnes Graham for 350 dollars.
A series of yesterday's crashes in Madison involved James Firth and family on Brooksburg road where the Ford sedan rolled twice after a collision, the top saved occupants from serious harm and a child sustained minor injuries. Lowell Smith's braking incident damaged a wheel but no injuries resulted. At Mulberry street and Michigan road an auto hit a horse and buggy injuring the Sheets child with a severe head cut.
Madison welcomes a new baking company by Trampton Brothers. A soft cake machine arrived and is installed at Vine and Main, with three mixers and electric power driving about 200 cake varieties. Henry Johann wired the building using over 3 000 feet of wire as Bert Potter and Charles Kelly lay brickwork. Completion targets three weeks for bricking and two more weeks for the oven to dry before full operation.
Mr John M Sample received a telegram announcing his son John LaVant Sample has safely arrived in New York and will return home Thursday night. He spent three years in China with the Chinese government's forestry department at the University of Nanking and toured Europe on a world trip. He is a Purdue University graduate.
The late Charles Temperly died in Indianapolis and his funeral proceeded directly from the noon train in Madison. Rev. J. W. Turner led the services at Springdale cemetery where pallbearers Edward Dihammer Christopher Dihammer George Johann William McLaughlin Henry Kahn Peter Kloss assisted. The deceased's mother Mrs. Fanny Temperly, brother Ralph Temperly with wife and children Ralph and Thomas, and Mrs. Riley accompanied the remains from Indianapolis.
The Eiffel tower project received 700000 from Eiffel and 300000 from the French government. Horace Greeley arrived in New York with 10 dollars and, four years later, started a weekly newspaper.
Births announce a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Zearing and a son to Mr. and Mrs. John Shipley on West First street. Florence and Myrtle Farrell depart for Chicago to attend the Evangelical School. Several residents travel or relocate including Mrs. Kate McCauley’s property sale to Peter Kloss for 1300, and a 30 dollar monthly pension for Caroline Moore widow of William Moore.
Funeral services for the late Charles Holman who died Sunday afternoon will be held at 7:30 this evening at his west Main street home with Rev. D. C. Bear in charge. He was 73, survived by his widow, and was a former Cragmont hospital attendant and West Madison Methodist Church member. The body will be taken to Utica tomorrow for burial in the Utica cemetery.
The French aviation ministry approves plans to remove freight trains by air using Zeppelins. The ministry expects to deploy half a dozen German airships within two months for study. Maubeuge will receive the first Zeppelins to explore feasibility of a reserve fleet patrolling French borders.
Carry New, son of former Indiana senator New, serves time for Frieda Lesser murder. He is washing clothes in the San Quentin state prison laundry after a period making furniture. Deputy Sheriff Frank Cochran reports the transfer to the laundry.
Since 1913 the hourly wage of steel and iron mill workers has increased taa per cent.
A National Civic Federation report reviews profit sharing experiments in American industry. It notes many schemes show improvements locally, but a high rate of dubious results and worker skepticism about employer motives. Perkins argues for real, open profit sharing tied to earnings and long-term employee securities.
Attorney Jacob Gross files a dispatch from Philadelphia on behalf of Waldislaw Burdinsky of Warsaw to recover from Congress the value of land Chicago sits on, tied to Count Pulaski who was awarded fifty perches in northern Ohio in 1779. Two Chicago women, Mrs. Mardi Schuster and her niece Mrs. H. P. Booth, are believed direct descendants.
A West Fork Tennessee school board session ended with Alving Bolte, a woman member, using a stove poker on a male colleague to press her selection of a prospective teacher. A justice of the peace set Bolte under bond to keep the peace.
Mrs Josephine A Greathouse of Los Angeles files for divorce from Rev John W Greathouse. She recalls his remark about twelve women in a sermon and says he admitted hypocrisy, claiming betrayal in their marriage and accusing him of spiritual double standards.
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