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Newspaper
New Albany Weekly Tribune
Location
New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1908
Page
8
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe, well‑listed medicine for expectant mothers and women's ailments. It stresses known composition, non secrecy, and endorsements by medical writers, offering a free little book on endorsements by mail. Also mentions Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for constipation.
News notes from New Albany: library closures at night June July August. John A Dodge named administrator of Patrick Conway estate. Clarence Reid and Effie McAfee married in Jeffersonville. county board of review meets for forty days. Rev W H Metastroll accepts Presbyterian call for English and Milltown churches. Linnie Briscoe files petition for final discharge after bankruptcy. Samuel Lee Wright and Mamie Feiock wed in Jeffersonville. Prof Harry Buerk to speak at Carr and Wood township schools commencement at Borden College. New Albany Vincennes Turnpike Company officers election June 19 at Merchants National Bank. Willianne Roan declared of unsound mind for hospital commitment. various damages and lawsuits filed involving traction and gas companies. Rev W E EdginFarewell sermon then moves to Martinaville. William R Agnew seeks divorce from Jennie L Agnew with custody request. Louis Ammeria injured in trench accident on Paoli pike.
A fragmented local column reports multiple items including a man recovering from injuries after being attacked in a trench, bankruptcy dispositions for Frank Hoffer and Louis N. Hoffer, Joseph Webb purchasing the old Presbyterian property at Greenville, and fire damage to Webb’s property. It notes land sales at East Fifth and West streets, a plan to create a Decoration Day memorial by Charlestown women, court actions against the Louisville and Indiana Traction Company, and a personal injury suit filed by Catherine Read against the L I Traction Company with Stotsenborg & Weathers attorneys listed.
State agents raided gambling rooms at French Lick and West Baden Springs after a tip from Indianapolis. Visited hotels found prior removal of apparatus. venues closed for the season. Raid ordered by Attorney General Bingham under Governor Hanly, with armed warrants. Local officials’ inaction blamed for the swearing in of agents. Also notes Liver and bowel stagnation remedy Dr King’s New Life Pills sold at Obas D Knoefel’s drug store.
In Brownstown the Democratic convention nominated George W. Long of Nashville for state senator over Varl E. Wood of Seymour and W C Snyder of Salem for Brown, Washington and Jackson counties. Ballots favored Wood in the end, with Washington breaking to Long on the 20th ballot. Foley Kidney Care is promoted as a remedy for kidney and bladder trouble.
In Crawford county court, both temperance and saloon interests won favorable rulings as judges voided the blind tiger search warrant mechanism. Key liquor decisions, including remonstrance outcomes for Milltown licenses, keep Milltown dry amid a surge of over sixty liquor cases on the docket. Local social notices list visits and engagements across Milltown and surrounding towns.
Mrs Maggie Hughes widow of Ed ward Hughes of 142 Locust Street died Sunday at 6 45 PM from heart disease while walking home after visiting a friend near East Tenth Street and Culbertson Avenue. Dr D H Neeley arrived but she died shortly after. She leaves two sons John E Hughes and James Hughes and a brother William Welch. She was a member of Holy Trinity Catholic Church.
Local grocers stock OUR PIE ready to use reparation in three varieties for making men Chocolate and Custard pies. The melts in the mouth pies are pure and wholesome, made from choicest ingredients guaranteed under Pure Food Laws. Each 10 cent package makes two large pies. Order today.
Residents of Georgetown township file a blanket remonstrance with County Auditor Miller to block liquor licenses after current permits expire. G Riley Fox and James Thornton loom as the two township saloons. The 220 signatures out of 339 votes cast exceed a simple majority. 170 were needed for validity. Names filed by Robert A. Kelly and Eugene Swift, with three days before the county commissioners meeting to withdraw signatures.
Catherine McBarron widow of John McBarron died Sunday evening at her home 12 East Elm street after months of illness. A resident of the city for many years she was 77. Survived by son Louis McBarron of Dayton Ohio and three stepchildren Rev Eugene McBarron Miss Sallie McBarron of Evansville and Mrs Jane Ward of Terre Haute. Funeral services were held at Holy Trinity Catholic church.
Dr. Thomas B. Love, a noted veterinarian, was kicked in the face by a mule owned by Louis G Pieisa and confined to his home on State street after attempting to hobble the animal during treatment. His lips were cut and eyelid injured. doctors Cook and Dash treated the wound. An Arkansas letter extols Foley’s Honey and Tar for coughs and consumption, shared by O. D. Knoefel.
The New Albany High School baccalaureate week began Sunday night in the auditorium with Rev. Dewitt Miller of Philadelphia delivering the address on The Christian Faith anchored by a program of invocations hymns and solos. The audience filled the seating and no chairs were allowed in the aisles under state rules.
United States Senator Hemenway of Hoonville secured passage in the Senate for a bill compelling railroad companies to install apparatus to allow firemen to clean ash beneath locomotives. The measure had faced attempts to kill it in the House and committee, but Speaker Osonon’s intervention brought it out. H.R. Fuller praised the legislation as substantial for the railroad workers. Meanwhile an herbal remedy advertisement by The Mother Gray Co. promotes a bladder and kidney tonic.
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