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Newspaper
New Albany Weekly Tribune
Location
New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1908
Page
8
The issue lists church talks and gatherings including a temperance lecture by Rev. W B Grimen at Galena Methodist Church next Tuesday night. It notes Atkine Chapel debt free after a Sunday dedication in Lafayette township. Valparaiso University reports over 1500000 in new buildings and more planned.
At a Wednesday meeting the Board of Public Works ordered the Fifteenth street improvement from Main to Spring to include a 24 foot roadway 6 foot granitoid sidewalk with a 32 foot section to Beeler street where a granitoid sidewalk and center Monon track occupancy were noted. The petition expansion to Beeler street followed requests from property owners north of Elm street. An additional resolution accepted preliminary reassessment for Eleventh street sidewalk from Spring to Culberta on avenue at $1.20 per lineal foot with objections date set for September 9.
Property records show transfers including parcels on East Seventh Street West Market Street and Elm Street along with deeds between John Budd and William Apple hang, Edward Blast and Priscilla Blast, Louis Hammersmith and New Albany Trust Company, and Emma J. Martin with George P. Bir among numerous plat numbers and acreage details. Named entities include Indiana Leather Company New Albany Trust Company and Plat numbers 56 128 214 64 98.
J W Gleichman of Post J visits Evanville and plans for the state convention in Evansville. Post Q invites members to attend meetings and the annual picnic of Post U at Terre Haute. Several members travel or visit relatives while others suffer health issues.
John A Harvison a Louisville native and longtime cotton broker died yesterday in Colorado Springs after six weeks there for health reasons. Survived by wife son mother two sisters and two brothers, he was 58 and had been an elder at First Presbyterian Church. Funeral plans await Mrs Harrison’s arrival with services likely at the family residence on East Market Street.
Local brief s listing visits and travels of residents including Mr and Mrs J H Fawcett, Miss Bertha Klerner, Miss Barbara Klerner, Blanche Martin, Guy Nance, George McMahan, Mrs Joshua Wylie, Mr and Mrs James M Ganon, Garfield Gunn, Mrs R Thomas, Migael Anka, Lillian Holz, Carrie Schray, Mrs Lewie A Stoy, May Krentzer, Deputy County Clerk Edgar B Martin, Gladys Basenbark, Ethel Gray, Sallie Richards, Libbie Richards, Reuben Marby, William Kirk, Nellie Buckingham, W O Snyder, Mrs Paris, Sallie Paris, and Francia M Hedden with travel to Salem, Corydon, Floyd, Clark, Mulberry Flats, Jeffersonville, Orleans, Leavenworth, White Sulphur Springs, and a Salem fair and September 1–4 event.
Smith 928 Weat Seventh artest by Rev W H Geimes pastor Main Street M E. Mr R L Fenwick Floyd Knobs visited Tribune office. George Carpenter formerly New Albanian spends days here due to half brother Lafayette LaDuke’s death near Elizabeth. Homer Hawes Jeffersonville and Clara A. Lutz married June 18 by Rev Frank T Porter with disclosure delayed. William H Vetter and Misabertha Moore wed August 20 at Trinity M E parsonage. Vatter Brothers & Lewie member joins.
The State Fair opens September 7 with live racing and purses totaling 21900 dollars. Indiana's Board highlights a twelve ton steam roller and resoiled mile track praised for firmness and yield, plus improvements to the half mile. the aim is top quality racing and public enjoyment.
Eugene D Laughlin and Mina Mary L Weir were married at 2 30 PM Tuesday by Rev Charles Curran in the city. After the ceremony they head to northern Iowa then will reside with the groom's parents at 703 East Main. The bride is Mary Monahan's daughter of 41 East Fifth Street and the groom is a popular Pennsylvania freight office employee in Louisville.
Indiana state party committees refine sixty day poll plans to map voter eligibility and sentiment. The piece notes residency rules, candidates like Griffiths and Kern, and the push to harvest districts for gains while detailing Democrat Day at Fountain Park and party gatherings in Remington and Lafayette.
Lafayette LaDuke 52 died at his Elizabeth home sixteen miles northwest of the city Saturday. He left a widow and a 90 year old mother. He had lived in the same house all his life. Enma E Croxall seven months daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles W Croxall died Thursday August 20 at their home 1518 Charlestown avenue. Funeral was Friday at 4 PM and burial at Fairview cemetery.
Eliza Talbert died at her Louisville home and her body will be brought for burial. Frank Moyars aged thirteen died from a gasoline accident in Washington township Harrison county. Mrs Anos O Q Brown died at St Edward’s hospital aged thirty six. services to be held tomorrow. Adam Beuther manager of John Shrader Furniture Company buried at Cave Hill. he died of heart disease aged seventy five. Matilda Munchhof widow of Henry Munchhof died August 20 at her son’s home in Louisville. funeral at St Anthony's church and burial at St Mary’s Cemetery. James Manly, colored, long time city resident and janitor of Third Presbyterian church, died suddenly at age about eighty after a heart attack.
James Armstrong et al v Campbell et al in Floyd County Indiana. Delia M Campbell Wilbur Campbell Luella Moyle Martha E Watkins Clarence J Watkins Royal C Watkins Martha E Watkins guardian of Clarence J Watkins not residents of Indiana are notified of pendency of action to partition real estate. Trial set October 5 1908 at New Albany court house. Clerk William F Ruoff. July 21 23
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