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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
5
Local brief notes document numerous residents in nearby towns on business visits and social calls. Names include A. W. Perry J. E. Jump and J. E. Jump along with families visiting Hartford City Muncie and Montpelier.
Receipts show 35.46 from Tag Day and 1.25 expenses, leaving 44.21 for the general relief fund of the corps to aid those in need in Montpelier during winter. The W E C thanks participants in the musical program and all contributors for a success beyond expectations.
Clarence Cole of New York City arrived for a short visit with Dr. Coover this afternoon. Cole, a grand circuit blacksmith, is noted for his skilled craft and may demonstrate his work during the visit.
Last Wednesday evening about fifty guests gathered at Mr. and Mrs. S. 8. Buchanan for a turkey roast and oyster supper. The party included Charles Harris and family, J. S. Lockwood and family, Amos Sawyer, several Oswalt and Lockwood relatives, and neighbors with local notables listed among attendees.
Carmel Delbert Morrical and family of Kan spent Saturday night and Sunday with Jasper Morrical and family. Dan Garringer and wife visited Lewis Blount and wife. Robert Sterling bought a new graphophone. Jeff Markins and wife spent Friday night with Jasper Morrical. Various neighbors called on families including Blount, Fogle, Bedwell, Samp Simonton. Cal Loeb and wife welcomed a baby girl. Jeff Markins and wife plan to leave for Kansas soon. Ben Markine called on Lewis Blount.
Mrs S Kuttler visited Mrs Mary Hiser last Thursday. Lewie Schwartzkopf and family attended Ada Schwartzkopf and Guy Strait wedding last Thursday evening. Jake Kuttler called on parents Wednesday. John Adams and L Schwartzkopf helped haul hogs to Hartford City last Saturday. Mrs M Huser spent Thanksgiving with sister in Hartford City. W H Sills and wife visited sister last Sunday. Chris and Carl Huser busked corn for Jake Kuttler and Jake Schwartzkopf. Chas Cale and wife were Hartford City visitors last week. L Schwartzkopf and wife entertained relatives from Hartford City.
Mr Hulls class of the M E Sunday School will entertain Mr Weaver's class at a banquet a week from Friday in the church basement. The teams competed to recruit the most scholars by rally day and Weaver's class won. Any young man in the city may attend the elaborate affair.
Students from the public schools will hold an art exhibition in the library basement next Friday and Saturday. The Horace K. Turner company of Boston will provide the display, with proceeds funding new pictures for grade school rooms. The exhibit promises to be the best yet with about two hundred works on view.
A fragment discusses the removal of the appendix by a surgeon. It mentions Dr King and a product named New Life Fills 18 in a vague medical context. The text is incomplete and lacks clear events or outcomes.
Washington December 2 Friends of Speaker Cannon report strong replies from Rep James R Mann indicating the Illinois delegation will nominate Joseph G Cannon for speaker of the Sixty first Congress. Mann says a majority of Republicans support Cannon though not yet a true majority. one member opposes. Attention shifts to House rules amendments including a Senate style calendar to speed bill passage by unanimous consent.
Washington reports November receipts of 48.0 million dollars while outlays reach 57.9 million, pushing the year’s deficit toward 112 to 135 million dollars. Customs receipts rise to nearly 25 million. internal revenue gains about 2.6 million, while miscellaneous receipts fall by 1.1 million.
Pittsburg reports that about 124 bodies have been recovered from the 500 foot Marianna mine shaft of the Pittsburg Buffalo Coal Co with two still missing. The debris has been cleared and final removal may reveal more bodies as undertakers gather remains in improvised morgues at the site.
A track man on a speeder was ditched near the Toledo Peoria Western line between fewer and Sheldon stations. He flagged the heavy passenger train carrying over sixty aboard after an attempt to wreck it by removing spikes and spreading rails. An investigation followed.
At a December 2 conference in Springfield Illinois forty seven Republican lawmakers signed a pledge to organize the January legislature to place the lower chamber under Governor Deneens influence. A parallel move to align the Senate with the administration has already occurred. The report notes a monthly statement from the director continues.
The joint postal investigation commission reports a reform bill to abolish four assistant postmaster general offices, create a director of posts with seven assistants, and divide the U S postal service into fifteen districts. The director would serve on good behavior, while the postmaster general remains the executive head.
Delegates from across the United States converge in Pittsburg for the American mining congress opening session. Speakers include James J. Hill Edward Harriman and John Hays Hammond as governors of mining states prepare to attend. The event aims to promote uniform mining laws protect workers and investors and curb waste.
A plot to overthrow President Figueroa was discovered and frustrated. Martial law is proclaimed, the Sonsonate based movement crushed, many political figures implicated and imprisoned, and tranquility now prevails nationwide.
Knox county votes dry by 2,485 in a statewide move as twenty two saloons are affected. Walter A. Dane of New Hampshire is named confidential clerk to the new secretary of the navy.
Grain and livestock prices across markets show mostly steady values. Wheat No 2 red 1.08 at Indianapolis and Chicago. Corn 62 65c. Cattle 2.25 to 8.00 Indianapolis range. Hogs 3.35 to 6.10. Sheep 2.25 to 4.75. Lambs 2.00 to 7.25. Receipts reported 11 508 hogs 1200 cattle 250 sheep. East Buffalo receipts not large enough to establish a market.
Paris reports the French government debating how to treat Venezuela's President Castro upon his Bordeaux arrival. With Castros illness and prior Caracas upheaval, officials may send a port official to board the Guadeloupe to ascertain intent, allowing him to stay in Bordeaux if desired.
Springfield Tl December 2 Thirty five defendants from fifteen to twenty five defense attorneys and three or four public prosecutors plan to consolidate all cases against participants in recent riots. If approved by the court the grand jury may indict all alleged conspirators. Individual trials are seen costing about ten thousand dollars, while a consolidated case could be disposed of in two or three weeks at a much lower cost.
Philadelphia reports indicate State Senator James P. McNeil, Pennsylvania Republican leader, was indicted by a grand jury for criminal libel at the urging of Max Kauffmann, former mayoral secretary. Kauffmann was indicted for perjury as the political conflict of 1905 broadens.
An abutment of the Wheeling and Lake Erie lift bridge in Cleveland flats was badly damaged by a dynamite blast. Traffic is halted for inspection. The bridge was built by non union labor. Within a year several similar explosions on bridges in Cleveland and vicinity have been blamed on labor troubles by police.
Archibald Kerr of Pittsburg filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in the U S District Court. He lists liabilities of 254,5460 and assets of 182. Of the liabilities, 229,500 is accommodation paper for the Old Dominion Brewing and Ice Company of Newport News Virginia, now in bankruptcy.
The Kentucky Supreme Court requested faster action from the U S Supreme Court on railroad rate disputes. A motion argues to advance the hearing and prevent consolidation of cases against multiple roads, with all railways except Louisville and Nashville reportedly uniting behind the request.
Danville December 2 38 freight department workers strike claiming a 10 percent wage cut. Company officials deny any reduction and refuse to disclose the absence of cause they say prompted the walkout.
Berlin reports the government will examine the matter as part of a formal inquiry. Officials have announced an investigation into the ongoing issues affecting public administration and health policy.
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