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Newspaper
New Albany Evening Tribune
Location
New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1908
Page
3
An experienced pants maker lists a business location at 617 West Maine Louisville Kentucky and mentions a 120 West First street inquiry. A white hog weighing about 240 pounds and the firms Schuler and Enelinger are noted along with a reward.
The city council meets for December term as contracts are bid. Elks, Knights of Pythias, and Masons plan lodge sessions and degree conferrals. A civil and church event lineup includes fundraisers, bazaars, a turkey and oyster supper, a missionary meeting, and a Stone River survivors reunion. A marriage and a will probate are noted among daily civic affairs.
An executriz is named for the will dated August 19 1898 witnessed by James M Andrew and G W Harrison. The estate is large and widower Goodbab survives with two sons George F and William J Goodbab. James G Scheller, once of this city, disappeared from Louisville last Wednesday and his relatives fear despondency though hope remains. Clifton Scheller heads to Corydon and DePauw. Mrs Louisa Bland aged 79 dies at 1108 Beeler Street leaving daughters Mrs Schang and Miss Frederica Waverthley and son George Wuerthley. Charles C O Smith a Floyd County farmer dies after short pneumonia. funeral at 9:30 tomorrow from home with burial at Wolfe's Cemetery Georgetown Township.
Miesea Myrtle and Claudie Wiley of Edinburg visit Mrs. R Elli on Thirteenth street. Mr and Mrs Edward Montgomery depart for Brandenburg and New Amsterdam to visit relatives. Joseph Hicks, abroad in Bowling Green, is critically ill with pneumonia. Dr Alice Mane is ill with typhoid fever and moved to her parents’ home at 219 Bank Street. Lula Hublar, recently home on Corydon Pike, goes to St Edward’s Hospital for intestinal surgery.
Mrs Mary F Neely of Corydon reached a compromise divorce with Dr Isaae Li after alleging cruel treatment. Neely received a decree and alimony of 800 in the suit which she filed after leaving her husband months earlier. Attorney W H Roose represented her as she held a position as attendant at the eastern hospital for the insane in Richmond.
The state continued the George Davis grand larceny case in circuit court until January term on request. Davis has been jailed for weeks. The Thomas L. Fess personal injury suit against American Car and Foundry Co. goes to trial today before a jury. Fess, employed at the Jeffersonville car works, alleges injuries. represented by Hester and Weathers. defense by Stannard.
December disruptions due to temple occupancy by Masonic bodies push the Knights Templar Choral Society to resume rehearsals on the second Monday in January. Tonight New Albany Royal Arch Chapter No 17 holds its annual meeting for officers and reports.
Subscribers to the New Albany Tribune report irregular and late deliveries and are urged to notify the Tribune Company at home by telephone to resolve the service gaps.
The New Albany Presbytery calls a meeting for tomorrow at 1 30 pm at Second Presbyterian Church to receive Rev R F Souder from Indianapolis and Rev I F Simmons to Vincennes, with D O Simpson of Veron as moderator. Three Presbyterial conferences and institutes will discuss church and mission planning and finances with state officials and New York delegates.
Indianapolis reports that John W. Kern, the late vice presidential nominee, is favored to win the Republican senate nomination by the third legislative caucus ballot within six weeks. Opposition seeks a united retreat to defeat him. Jaywood Wilson contemplates party chairmanship while abroad. A senator-elect reportedly lost 6000 in a poker game at a leading hotel, details kept quiet.
New Albany Lodge No. 270 B P O E held its memorial at Second Presbyterian Church amid inclement weather. The roll of deceased members includes Edward D Mitchell Clarence B Dus ham Benjamin O Reynolds John Leiman Chester Grosheider and George Gouabab. A varied program featured organ and vocal solos a quartet and a principal address by Ruby Laffour of Madisonville. Reverend E A Neville and Reverend John P Moffat led prayers. The benediction followed by Reverend E V Poulson.
The Y M C A notes a Fatty Gilles League opener between the Keystones and the Louisvilles M U C A team. Keystones lineup includes Hammer Hendricks Scott Pentrich Willman or Young Herter Tyre. Lehman and Harding are added to boost the Louisvilles squad.
A selection of random specimens from Bailey’s Universal Etymological Dictionary first published in 1721. Entries include Man a creature endowed with reason Thunder a horse known by non deaf persons, Lightning a meteor, and other humorous or odd definitions such as Balloon a football and Eye an instrument of death.
The city marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the Y M C A reorganized on December 10 1883 with services December 10 to 15 at Central Obrian church 7 30 pm President Eimer Bryan of Franklin College to speak old residents to remark brief history by secretary Paigs music by two male quartets large attendance expected Friday night reception at the Y M C A program games and retrea etc Old members reunion next Sunday at Maennerchor hall 8 pm address by Hon H M Dowdig of Indianapolis on The Madness of Christ public urged to attend no fundraising solicitations at services
The December National reflects on Affairs at Washington a prominent department in National Magazine edited by Joe Mitchell Chapple noting its liveliness and the Washington reawakening with a new Congress as quoted in Harper’s Weekly.
A collage of quotes cautions about music's fraught influence and praises courteous behavior in commerce. Nietzsche cites Wagner and Tschalkowasky as dangerous to mind and nerves, while bankers are urged to treat depositors with kindness. A quip about church attendance and dog fights closes with a joke about societal decline.
An exchange quoted in the Catholic Standard and Times plays on the idea of soap and soap boxes becoming fodder for bonfires. The humorous remark centers on how absence of soap would affect people and objects used for burning.
A college youth quips about balancing athletics and studies while a companion mentions Pogo. The exchange hints at family dynamics and reader familiarity with light humor from newspaper prose.
A humor snippet from Chicago News shows a shopper asking why goods are costly. The clerk replies they are imported, but the clerk clarifies they are domestic. the proprietor raises prices claiming it is his duty to increase his bank balance.
A Detroit Tribune passage parodies a boy refusing a father’s whipping, arguing that earning favors shouldn’t create a preferred creditor. The mock dialogue frames a humorous clash between parent and child about payment of a debt.
A fragment from the Svening Tribune shows a quotation about listening to a friend’s counsel, presented as a short, literary item. The source text consists of a single line excerpt and lacks additional context or identifiable entities.
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