Weather Report for Indiana Fair Tomorrow
Forecast from Washington predicts fair conditions for Indiana tomorrow. Temperatures likely mild with light winds and no precipitation anticipated. Readers are advised to plan outdoor activities accordingly.
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Newspaper
New Albany Evening Tribune
Location
New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1908
Page
3
Forecast from Washington predicts fair conditions for Indiana tomorrow. Temperatures likely mild with light winds and no precipitation anticipated. Readers are advised to plan outdoor activities accordingly.
The Jeffersonville city council last night elected J. E. Glosabrenner to the board of school trustees. John Allen Graham, a prominent Jeffersonville businessman in retail drug, died suddenly at his home at age fifty five. The will of Elizabeth Borkenheim was probated designating the family residence for her youngest daughter Lestie and dividing personal property among four children. Alexander Priest was acquitted of an assault charge in a case arising two years ago in an attorney's office.
Judge John M. Paris of Memphis and Miss Lucille Denton of Nashville wed Sunday night at First Methodist Church in Memphis. The couple, now visiting the bride’s parents in Nashville, plan to reside at 1727 East Elm Street.
An old health ad claims liver and bowels stagnation cause trouble and headaches. It promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills as a reliable purifier that eases billousness and jaundice without grinding or gripping.
Earl Gwin president of the Second National Bank is re-elected to the city school trustees board for a term starting August 1, 1908. The council adopted the resolution unanimously after debates over a substitute candidate and various appropriations including street slasher and board of works bills.
The second annual recital at the high school auditorium drew a large audience and featured over one hundred chorus voices under Anton H Embs with solos by Rath Rough Scott Leach and George Day. The orchestra performed pleasing selections and received favorable reviews. Tonight grammar school commencement exercises will graduate about ninety pupils into the high school with diplomas from Superintendent Charles A Prosser.
Defense for Samuel Carpenter argues temporary insanity in the case charging him with shooting and killing Clarence Jackson at the United Gas and Electric Company power house on East Water Street. Attorneys BrotSenberg and Weathers and Charles D. Sites are representing him.
A historical page lists an orchestral program featuring invocation chorus Out on the Deep and An Old Sweetheart of Mine. It includes piano solos Valse Caprice and Skylark Morning Song, pieces like Farewell to the Forest and Love's Old Sweet Song, and performances by Ruth Clark Ruth Brown Mary McDonough Bennell Gilbert Hoffman and Beatrice Blackiston with conductors and a diploma presentation by A Prosser superintendent and Rev F C Beck offering benediction.
A 7:30 o grand fire destroyed a half block in Scotteburg, starting at the Bank Hotel and reaching the Jezra Thomas residence and several Martin estate properties including the post office, meat shop, express office, shoe store, and barber shop. Losses run around 15000 dollars with 1500 and 2500 insured on the hotel and Thomas residence. The town lacks firefighting equipment beyond a bucket brigade and wind aided spread. Floyd Montgomery collapsed from heat but recovered. A County Bank room will serve as a temporary post office.
Dr and Mrs Frank O Greene hosted a dinner for a group of Indiana University professors and students at 317 Bank Street. The walkers had traveled from Paoli by train and walked about 100 miles visiting Wyandotte Cave and Moerengo before finishing with a 20 mile trek to Bloomington yesterday. The group included Professors Beabe Cummings and Zelmey Librarian Jenkine and students Tucker Scott and Greene with Dr P T Greene joining at dinner.
Mrs Elizabeth Beck faces trial in Jeffersonville on a charge of shooting her son in law Daniel Schellers at Schellers skating rink in Sellersburg last December. Beck contends she was insane at the time. Witness Robert Whittinghill described being near the pair as the shot fired. Schellers injured with bloodied jaw.
Catherine McBarron and Maggie Hughes died within minutes of each other on Sunday night. Both devout Catholics will be interred tomorrow at Holy Trinity Church with a single Mass by Rev. Charles Curran.
Mayor Best trimmed the fire department to sixteen firefighters by dismissing Frank Dudley and Otto Helm and appointing Bennett Rater as relief for sixteen days each month. Salaries expenditures have fallen by over 200, with Featheringill also cutting other costs.
A Louisville and Northern trailer derailed on a curve near Port land avenue last evening and struck a telegraph pole. Passengers felt a severe shake but none were seriously hurt. one man suffered a head cut from falling glass. A man and his wife and daughter were thrown from their seats but were spared major injury as the trailer detached and passengers rode on.
O. 8. Woolever of LeRaysville NY touts a twenty year health cure from Bocklen's Arnica Selve claiming it healed bleeding piles years ago. The ad asserts the salve treats sores boils burns and wounds rapidly and mentions Okas D. Kacofel's drug store as a supplier.
A large Indiana Republican delegation travels to Chicago to back Captain Harry New for re election as national committee chairman. Indiana delegates are instructed to vote for New and expect his June 15 confirmation. Elks of Indiana hold their seventh annual reunion in Indianapolis with parades, receptions, and a grand parade led by Captain William B. English. Congressman Watson plans a Spencer speech focusing on the state platform.
W E Cox of Indianapolis now with Company C Second Regiment Indiana National Guard arrives to inspect equipment. Old rifles will be discarded and new ones distributed next Thursday night. Cox served in the Philippines with the 150th Indians Infantry at Chickamauga and later in the Fourth U S Infantry. He fought in fourteen engagements and was near General Lawton when he was killed.
Monday notice lists letters remaining at the New Albany post office. The brief states a single mailbox of letters and asks recipients to call or visit for pickup, with a closing note from Morris in the afternoon.
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