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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1902
Page
4
The Park Theater has filled its seats during opening week with smooth performances of Not Guilty. Two performances are scheduled today and will feature Railroad Jack and No. 8 em, continuing the first week of the new season.
A long list of local residents and guests traveling or visiting relatives in Indiana and neighboring states and abroad. Among names are Mr. and Mrs. Alfred T. Rapp at Lake Wawasee, Miss Minnie Scholz to Evanston, Senator and Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks in New York, and many others visiting Picqua, Elkhart, Chicago, Minocqua, Walloon Lake, Ontario, and European cities. Several engagements and planned trips to Thousand Islands, Charlevoix, Asheville, and Switzerland are noted, with dates and hosts.
The piece notes a summer trip to Maxinkuckee to visit Mrs Gates and Mrs Howland before returning to Minneapolis. It reports on a Maennerchor Ladies euchre party at Maennerchor Hall with host Mrs Emil Steinhilber and helpers. It also covers the upcoming wedding of Miss Helen Smyser to Russell Hawkins from the Diamond Match Co Chicago, with ceremony by Rev Dr Moffat and London-bound honeymoon plans. Additional society notes list numerous local visitors, visits, and travels among Fort Wayne residents and friends, plus upcoming church events and a park picnic for Sunday school classes.
The piece notes summer play near water and introduces waterproof drawers for children to keep clothing dry. The designs, cravenette serge originals in dark blue, are roomy and practical, offering protection and ease for both parent and child during wet outdoor activities.
Instructions describe sewing regulation clothing drawers for children with elastic casings at upper and lower edges and sizing for ages two four and six. Material requirements listed as 1% yards of 27 inch wide or 1% yards of 36 or 44 inch wide. Pattern coupon offers 18 cents postage and a request for name address and size with return of pattern from Pattern Dept The Journal. Panapolis, tha. Allow one week for return of pattern.
Irving W. Doolittle describes a painting behind the Midland Hotel desk. A couple, apparently wealthy, admire a corn motif praised as one of James Whitcomb Riley's best farmer paintings. The work, similar to a Nebraska artist's piece, draws attention in the hotel office.
The Indianapolis Journal advises travel wardrobes for mountain trips emphasizing durable wool walking suits, cheviot and mohair fabrics, and practical jackets. It details skirt and coat styles, hats, belts, and sturdy shoes, plus light coats for weather and dust protection, aiming for functional, period-accurate mountain wear.
Alice George filed a suit against Vernon George seeking $2,000 for support claiming abandonment and that she is an invalid from his treatment. She owned $200 in real estate in Oregon and a Marion county farm valued at $75 an acre. asks sale of one quarter of the farm.
In Police Court two men and two boys faced assault and battery charges. George A. Carson pled guilty and was released. A defendant named Jones and sixteen year old John Simpson were fined one dollar plus costs. Simpson, initially not the aggressor, was later released on suspended sentence after Judge Stubbs noted the misreading of the case. William C. Denny filed an appeal in the Circuit Court challenging the Board of Works assessment on his St Paul street property, arguing no benefits and insufficient damages.
Howard Young as receiver of the South Indianapolis Improvement Association filed suit against Charles H. Hohit seeking the replevin of 1000 bushels of oats recently threshed and unlawfully detained in a barn. The complaint also requests $1000 in damages.
Richard Roberts yesterday filed a petition in the Circuit Court seeking appointment of a guardian for Mattie Morgason who is described as of unsound mind and unable to manage her property.
List of cases across circuit and superior courts including replevin between Sen Luis Flieu and Howard Young versus Charles H Holt. guardian appointment for Richard Roberts. mortgage foreclosure by State Life Insurance Company against John J Johnson et al. multiple divorces for Lida Lineback Frank C Lineback Bessie A Desmond James L Desmond Elizabeth Ziegler. support case Alice George Vernon George. vacate judgment and damages Nelson Wells John Graham. and damage assessment increase against City of Indianapolis in Superior Court Room 3.
A dense catalog of appellate court minutes and case briefs from Indiana and surrounding counties dated 1924. It lists disbarment notes, appellant and appellee briefs, notices, assignments, and new case entries across Knox Jasper Montgomery Shelby Laporte Tipton Miami Marion Madison and other circuits, with references to specific cases such as McElwaine-Richards Company vs Gifford and American Plate Glass Company vs Nicoson, among others.
In Indianapolis visitors George W. Self and George W. Applegate of Corydon explain the Third district hopes to field a strong Republican challenger to Representative Zenor. They note a district Democratic margin near 4,000 and discuss possible candidates like Dr. W. R. McMahan of Huntingburg, with a convention likely in New Albany the first week of September.
D F Allen and J P Gray, Frankfort men traveling to Louisville, boast 4000 Frankfort race crowds this week. Allen, a McKinley appointee and Philippine veteran, backs government policy and the island retention while opposing a broad Filipino withdrawal. He critiques Filipinos, supports Glenn’s warnings of a future uprising, and notes his political shifts and Lebanon convention plans.
John D. De Witt of Cincinnati, a member of Senator Foraker's law firm, met at the Hotel English. He helped organize the Independent Brewing Co which will become Cincinnati's twenty eighth brewery. He estimates Cincinnati's total annual beer output at two million barrels across twenty seven breweries. Foraker, resting at Hot Springs, Va, will return for the Ohio legislature session to address city law reforms and potential abolition of the Board of Public Service.
James F. Statesman of Peru, attorney for the Wallace circus proprietor, is en route to Danville LiL to discuss a U S court suit brought by a London perfumery company alleging breached contract and seeking heavy damages. An answer is expected this week. The company claims perfumes would be advertised via spraying audiences by Leon the clown. Nearby, George Townsend announced Shelbyville line completion and delays due to missing rotary transformers arriving next week. Work on the Lebanon line proceeds with eight miles graded. H and Floyd Palmer of Washington DC visit to set up a concrete block plant on Twenty sixth Street near Riverside Park. a company will operate the plant.
Delegates headed for the Golden Jubilee convention of the International Union arrive in Indianapolis. About 250 delegates from East and West will be entertained by Typographical Union No. 1 with a Grand Hotel welcome, trolley ride to Broad Ripple Park, a steamboat trip, banquet, dancing, and evening at Fair Bank. Speakers from Scranton and Wilkesbarre discuss Pennsylvania coal strike support and arbitration finding.
Two concerts at Fair Bank today afternoon and evening will close with the engagements of Olof Valley and Miss Ola Hayden. crowds have gathered this week despite cool weather. Edith Helena and George Austin Moore sing next week. At Spring Lake Park minstrel and vaudeville continue drawing crowds. A matinee is held this afternoon introducing new features in the first part.
Answers filed in the Chicago Board of Trade suit against Indiana bucket shop proprietors. Case now at issue. to be heard this fall. Arguments mirror those used in injunction hearing, centering on the quotations at issue.
A small frame building used by Van Camp Hardware as a trash receptacle burned this morning causing a loss. Merchant Policeman James Breen saw a red glare near the alley behind the store, chased a fleeing man to the first alley east of Illinois street, but lost sight of him and reported the fire to the Grand Hotel.
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