Reunions and Local Weddings Highlight New Albany Notes
The Eighty first Indiana Regimental Association plans a Georgetown reunion on August 27, and the Thirty-first Indians Regimental Association schedules a Terre Haute gathering for August 26 and 27. Also reported are marriages of Fred J. Siegel and Rosa E. Mitchell, and Philip Kleinemz and Minnie Rakestraw. County business covers the upcoming county expenses estimate and the September budget, while street work advances on West Main and a Boonville sewer bid near $50,000. Local incidents include Joseph Lilly’s arrest for drunken street antics and the death of Masonic figure Martin H. Rice near Tipton. Chester Grosheider shows health improvement after treatment in Louisville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thirty-first Indians Regimental Association
Terre Haute
Fred J. Siegel
Granville
Ohio
Rosa E. ‘Mitchell
Golambus
Albert Hurlatone
Indianapolis
Funeral for Walter Jones Held in Chicago
Walter Jones, longtime resident, died yesterday in Chicago after a year of illness. The 48 year old was connected to the brokerage business in Louisville and held a railway company post in Chicago. He leaves a wife, two sons, a daughter, three sisters and one brother. His wife was Miss Fannie Hurley. The funeral will be at 1 pm tomorrow from his late home in Chicago with burial there. He was a member of New Albany Lodge No. 11 I O C F. He was born to William Jones, a noted steamboat builder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Jones
Chicago
Jones
Leaves
Misa Fannie Hurley
Johnn McDonald
Misa S. Ella Jones
New Albany Lodge
William Jones
Richard Zanone
Indianapolis
Zanone
Post Q
Bis Travel
New Albany
Chas
Martin
Nashville
Tenn
Evanaville
Auch
B. J. Thompson
W. W. Dixon
Julius Newman
W. G. Archer
John Reinsiog
F. J. Daub
F. W. Greise
A G. Sterns
O. M. Farrell
W. R. Thomas
Miea Margaret Sauer
Otto Sauer
Despondent man in ill health dies by carbolic acid
John O Nugent a 40 year old man in ill health committed suicide at his home in East Elm Street by ingesting carbolic acid. He was found by his mother before noon with an empty vial on the floor and a strong acid odor in the room. Coroner to hold an inquest amid funeral plans to Charlestown. He left parents Mrs and Mr George Nugent a brother Thomas and sister Mrs Robertson and Miss Nannie Nugent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John O. Nugent
George W. Nugent
East Elm Street
Nugent
R. B. Robertson
A. P. Hauge
W. L. Starr
Southern Railway
Mrs. Robertson
Misa Nannie Nugent
Thomas L. Nugent
Charlestown
Katherine Forester
Andrew Forester
Earl Pierson
Paoli
W A. Pierson
Katherine Murphy
Georgetown
Camp Meetings Draw Noted Clergy to Ohio Falla Holiness
The Ohio Falla Holiness Association camp meetings feature Rev. A. M. Hills of Oskaloosa Ta and Rev. O. A. Bromley of Louisville with Miss Versa Hyman of Newton Ill leading children’s services. Additional clergy arrivals and the prospect of a large crowd mark the events while Mrs Clarissa Sherrill dies at eighty two after a paralytic stroke in New Middletown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M. Hills
Oskaloosa
Ohio Falla Holiness Association
O. A. Bromley
Louisville
Versa Hyman
Newton, Ill
R. H. Craig
Upland
Ind
L. Milton Williama
Highland
Traction Company
Mia
Clarissa Sherrill
Mra
Addie Shack
New Middletown
Jefferson County Construction wins city street contracts
The board of works awarded Tenth Street from Spring to Oak and Fifteenth Street from Spring to Elm to Jefferson County Construction Company after a single competing bid from W C Sweeney. JCC bid $4.32 to $4.80 per unit on Tenth and $1.87 to $1.88 per unit on Fifteenth with various block types, with Sweeney's lower per lineal foot bids. Tenth Street will be 24 foot roadway with sidewalk, FIfteenth Street features curb and gutter, with five year guarantees and costs for street intersections charged to property owners, project times: ninety days for Tenth, sixty for Fifteenth. Company recently finished Eleventh Street and will begin Tenth immediately. other business minor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Worke Today
Tenth Street
Spring
Oak Street
Fifteenth Street
Elm Street
Jefferson County Construction Company
W. C. Sweeney
West Main Street
East Tenth Street
Peebles
Board of Works
Eleventh Street
Stotnenburg
The
Traction Company
Vincennes
Market
Personal news from the city and nearby towns
A flood of society notices lists visitors from West Baden Springs Corydon and Scottsburg visiting friends and relatives while Chautauqua attendance draws in Miss Bertha Hanger Annie and Mattie Cravas and other locals. Several residents are reported critically ill at home in Palmyra Georgetown and Elizabeth. A double wedding and a secret marriage in Jeffersonville are noted along with a tent collapse injury and a post office clerk’s marriage reveal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha Hanger
Scottsburg
Misa Florine Busenbark
East Thirteenth Atraet
Annie and
Mattie Cravacs
Hardinaburg
Loura Hartman
Palmyra
Katie Schepp
Vincennes Street
I. P. Leyden
White Sulphur Springs
Crawford County
Misages Theresa and
Chautauqua Tent Ravaged In Windstorm At Glenwood Park
A wind and rain storm last Tuesday wrecked the big Chautauqua tent at Glenwood Park, drenching the audience mainly women and children and injuring several as poles, ropes and canvas collapsed. Injured include Mia Ellis of Salem and several residents of Charles Town Louisville and this city. the tent owner, a traction company, values the ruin at 800 and will not be repaired. The piano and stage paraphernalia were damaged and the Chautauqua Association suffered losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenwood Park
Chatrs
Mia
Samuel Ellis
Salem
Misees Della Masmer
Grace Strut
Charlestown
Simon Sapinaky
Louisville
Margaret Seabrook
Bess Busenbark
Mattie McWqniddy
Ruth Tenny
The
Traction Company
Chautauqua Association
New Show Barn Planned at Fair Grounds with Brick Exterior
The outside walls of the new horse barn at the fair grounds will have brick and cement, red clay tile roof, and a two hundred by fifty foot front. The interior features thirty six stalls now, with space for hitching, offices, dressing rooms, and ample wash and harness rooms. A second section, one hundred seventy five by two hundred seventy six feet, houses three hundred forty four stalls in eight rows with wide aisles and a ventilated saw tooth roof. Also noted is the death of Mrs. Frank Davis, aged thirty one, of tuberculosis, whose body was moved from Beeler street to her home city after services in Louisville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mra
Frank Davis
Beeler Street
Ss. Joseph's Infirmary
Louisville
Press club urged to submit notices for weekly column
The column editor Samuel Hood urges members to send news for the post Q column. Directors Haas and Young note the need for cooperation as the press chairman contemplates resignation. Names of Post Q members in Indiana and Evansville are listed alongside dues and death indemnity figures, with updates on Zanone, Martin, and Sauers families and Post 1 aiming for 1,000 members before the next convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. S. Haas
Vincennes Capital
Poet Press
J. B. Young
Bvaneville Courier
Post
Tally
Bros. Haas and Young
Post Q
Columan
Jane
Indiana
Traction Franchise Deal Near Amid City Railway Talks
Amicable settlement appears likely between city officials and Louisville and Northern Railway and Lighting Company over a State street franchise. A Monday conference proposed granting the franchise for 1000 dollars, laying girders on improved streets, a 15 minute schedule, transfers on all lines, and extending Daisy line toward Spring street with pending litigation to be dismissed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville and Northern Railway and Lighting Company
State Street
Strack
Thorn
T. M. McCulloch
Board of Public Works
Samuel Sneall
Chicago
Real Estate Transfers From Tribune Listings
Anna L Hoffman transfers part of lot 34 and go on Market Street to Josephine Wehner. Lafayette Wood sells part of lot 19 and lot 12 on West Second and West Market Streets to Nicholaa Stein. John O Conklin transfers 15 feet of lot 4 on East Spring Street to Edward Sloemer. Benjamin Jackson sells east 26 feet of lot 5 on Market Street, plat 54 to Frank Klub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna L. Hoffman
Josephine Wehner
Market Street
Lafayette Wood
Nicholaa Stein
West Second Street
West Market Street
John O Conklin
Edward Sloemer
Spring Street
Benjamin Jackson
Frank Klub
Extinct Indiana towns Palestine Hindustan on White River
The Washington Democrat recalls Palestine and Hindustan towns once on the White River in Lawrence and Martin counties. Once county seats and promising, they faded due to sickness and unsanitary conditions. Hindustan appeared on the Vincennes road old records note it. smallpox drove residents away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Washington Democrat
Palestine
Hindustan
White River
Lawrence County
Martin County
Vincennes
Ruoff
Expenditures and Tax Levy for Georgetown Township 1908
The Trustee Gro. B Habreul of Georgetown township Floyd County announces the Advisory Board meeting to review 1908 expenditures and levies. Proposed totals include Township 1112 dollars and 35 cents per hundred, Local tuition 89841 with 20 cents tax, Special school 8224.6 with 0.? tax, Road 680841 with 30 cents tax, Additional road 449.20 with 10 cents tax, and Poor 44.99 with 1 cent tax. Taxable values listed: lands and improvements 461,030. personal 102,359. net taxable property 1,449,?. polls 191. Meeting August 4, 1908 at two o'clock p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgetown Township
Floyd County
Seneees Boss
Administrator's Notice to Heirs and Creditors
Notice by the administrator de bonis non with the will annexed of Mary S. Gale deceased. Final settlement and account will be heard in Floyd County Indiana at the October term 1904 on October ith day. Creditors heirs and interested persons must appear to show cause or prove heirship or claim to the estate. Mutual Trust and Deposit Co. Administrator Geo H. Hester Attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Hents
Mary S. Gale
Floyd Effeurt
Floyd County
Indiana
de Bonis
Saich
Mutual Trust and Deposit Co
Geo. H. Hester
Floyd Circuit
Annie B. Krisehart
Christopher Krischart
H. R. Jewett
Christopher Kerischart
New Albany
William F. Ruoff
Floyd Circuit Court
State of Indiana
Sci
Floyd Courty
John F. Meyer
Bertha May Meyer
George H. Hester
Hertha May Meyer
Trias
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NEW Albany Tribune
Eightyfirst
Indiana Regimental Association
Thureday
Philip Kleinemz
Minnie Rakestraw
Jeffersonville
Tarentum
Charles Rakestraw
County Commissioners
Johan Miller
W. O. Sweeney
Street Railway Company
West Tenth Street
B.M Sweeney
City
Boonville
Joseph Lilly
Laneaville
Sergeant Fess
Paris
Martin H. Rice
Tipton
Lake Maxinkuckee
Chester Grosheider
G. W. Grosheider
Colorado
New Mexico
John C. Nugent
Silver Hills
Misa May Dillard
West Baden Springs
George Ropp
Corydon
John Emison Baxter
Lewis Baster
Mionice E. Neff
Sellersburg
Justice Keigwin
Jefferville
Tere
Eliia
Albert Hopkins
Bank Street
Walter Monroe
Evansville
Catherine Weidman
John Weidman
Monroe
Evaneville
Indiana State Fair Grounds
Inotes
Samuel Hood
East Fourth Street
Traction
the Tribune
Tex
Township
Mort . Haze
Habreul
Nan Bank
Dceo Inr
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