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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1901
Page
3
A local store advertises a week of money saving offers with June sale themes. Consumers are invited to shop undermus lins products including White Crockery Carpets and Draperies as part of the annual carload sale.
Edward C White will tour his Two Little Vagrants company headed by Neva Harrison to the Booth next season for the first time. Milfred Helland and Annie Russell named among American stars with strong drawing power. Franklyn Roberts may succeed John Drew in Richard Carvel. Hasgard Sharp to join Charles Frohman’s stock company. Julia Marlowe plans include When Knightwood Was In Flower at the New York Criterion and a ten city tour with a modern life drama by a prominent English playwright, ending with a Romeo and Juliet revival. National theater advocates push for American plays and Town Topics offers 1000 for the best new beer play. the winner to be printed in the holiday issue, not affecting copyright.
The Episcopal Diocese of Indiana begins its sixty-fourth annual convention at Grace Cathedral at 7:30 pm with Bishop Francis delivering the address. Principal business includes the new constitution, tenets, and missionary work. Delegates are 31 clergymen and about six laymen with social events at Kenicherbackoe Hell and the One Hotel. The convention includes the annual meeting of the Women's Auxiliary.
The event includes a communion and sermon by the Rev Frank Du Moulin of Chicago, followed by the auxiliary’s business session.
Miss Ethel Spring of Olney visits Miss Clara Hawkins in the Surrey. Mrs May Wright Sewall plans a six week California visit. Mrs J A Sutcliffe returns from Connersville. Dr and Mrs Gundelfinger sail to Chicago. Mrs Helen A Eaton visits daughter Mrs Elias Jacoby. Numerous gatherings at Propylaeum, Columbia Club, and homes. weddings, receptions, and teas mark a busy social week with notable guests from Indianapolis and surrounding areas.
President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers, visiting California, will return Saturday and head to Scranton, Pa., where he faces a libel suit against a local paper over claims he took a large tribe during the anthracite strike. Two of Hopkins county Kentucky deputies, tried for shooting two miners, were sentenced to the penitentiary for manslaughter. UMW officers praised the trial outcome, noting miners aided in the prosecution.
Frank J. Turk, Terre Haute lawyer, appointed chief clerk in the office of Statehouse Custodian Krietenstein with zero annual pay. Alten retained. Delbert S. Musser named decorator of the State Capitol, from L. B. Root & Co. in Terre Haute, paid only on special decorating occasions. praised as a skilled Indiana decorator.
The Indianapolis Ministers Association held its last summer meeting at Meridian Street M E Church and passed a resolution supporting merchants closing shops Saturdays in hot weather. A proposal for free newspaper church notices was defeated. Rev. H Halstead presented a paper on The Philanthropic Side of Christianity.
John Wocher acting for clients of his agency has taken an option on one eighteenth interest in the Yohn block owned by Mrs. Winnedge and others. The option price is $10,000. This marks the start of a possible full ownership transfer. The Yohn heirs have resisted selling their interests for some time.
The annual meeting of the Indianapolis Dramatic Club was held at the Country Club last night. Officers elected include President Walter B Grover Vice President Mrs Clarence Winter Secretary Edson T Wood Treasurer Laz Noble and directors Judge James M Leathers Mrs Jacob F P Dunn Mrs William Coburn Mr Gordon Varney and Mrs Harry Brandon. After the business portion there was a dance and supper.
County officials granted 100 liquor licenses amid no remonstrances from applicants. They also paid interest on county bonded indebtedness, with 310.00 due on bonds maturing this year.
Professor Frank L. Jones replies to a reader query comparing Indiana and Massachusetts on schooling. He notes illiteracy statistics vary by basis and argues Indiana excels in administration, reading circles, and high school count, while Massachusetts leads in supervision and longer compulsory attendance. He cites land-endowment gains funding schools and praises Indiana for encouraging young teachers.
Mr J K Lilly president of the Y M C A will host a reception Friday night for seniors from Shortridge High School Manual Training School and the Indianapolis Academy. The aim is to unite primary and academy students planning to attend college next fall into a fellowship that grows during college years. A musical program and refreshments are planned with brief talks from Yale Princeton De Pauw Purdue and Butler representatives addressing the prospects of a college course.
A committee including Emmerich, Noyes, and Joe Miner has selected the baseball squad and track team to receive school sweaters with the monogram for commendable season work. Baseball players: Ross Cooper, Thomas Quinn, Martin Quinn, Robert Sweeney, Jack Cullen, Frank Walton, James Gilchrist. Track members: Earl Minor, Louis Conde, Vernon Bowers, Charlies Davis, Harry Wheeler, Joel Barlow. Most track runners are first-year members.
The All-High-School baseball team, chosen from the best from the two schools, includes Allen catch, Gibb and Walton pitch, Robert Sweeney first base, Whiley second, Cullen third, Thomas Quinn shortstop, Diddle right field, Gil christ center field, and Duckwall left field. A game is set for next Saturday against the Franklin College club on their grounds. On June 18 the club faces Spiceland Academy at Spiceland.
Tomorrow morning at 10 o clock Manual Training High School students assemble in the auditorium for a gala occasion presenting a silver cup bronze shield and twenty six gold and silver medals for the track teams big victory at Newby Oval last Saturday. The program includes music by the school orchestra and speeches by the donators and track team members.
The MT H eight grade school literary club held its final meeting of the year yesterday after classes in Room 6. A detailed musical program entertained members before the closing minutes reflected on the year’s work.
The third joint meeting of the State Dental associations of Indiana, Ohio and Michigan will be held at the German House today tomorrow and Thursday. Three sessions will be held today at 1 o clock 2 p m and p m. Papers will be read at each session. Clinics will be held tomorrow morning and in the afternoon papers and discussion will be resumed. There will be three sessions on Thursday.
Mr Julian W Perkins resigns from the office of assistant secretary of E C Atkins and Co saw manufacturers of this city He was also a director and stockholder in the firm and had been associated with it for the past years He managed the hardware trade and was well known for his work with the firm and industry
Friends in the trade considered Perkins a successful salesman. He has made no new connection yet but is weighing Beevers propositions as he contemplates future opportunities.
The Pattern Makers' Union met last night and voted to strike if demands for ten hours pay for a nine hour day are not granted. Signatories include Atlasen atse works and Sinker & Davis, with several firms yet to sign. Negotiations continue with some firms, but a walkout is planned if no agreement reached when workers report.
City Council postponed the Negley districting measure due to Councilman Megrew's absence. The majority backed the ordinance 10 to 7 after committee approval, while Perrott led a minority bid to defeat it. Absentees returned, read through minutes, and adjourned after rapid reading of the Tenth precinct. Annexation and public improvement items were also acted on or defeated in separate actions.
James McNulty, a nonunion molder at Chandler & Taylor, says he was assaulted last week by Iron Molders' Union sympathetic members. He returned to work guarded, then quit this morning. George Custer, agent for the iron molders, escorted him home and promised protection if needed.
Chandler and Taylor Company boiler makers met with firm representatives yesterday but could not agree. President Taylor offered a small wage increase far below demand. Hours were discussed but no signed agreement was produced. The firm refused to recognize the union or meet Business Agent Miller or other union representatives.
The Globe and Indianapolis reports note the machinists won their demands and will return to work. The overall strike situation remains unchanged besides this settlement.
The Western Association of Writers holds its annual convention June 24 to 28 near Warsaw at Winona lake. Speakers include S W Gillilan Coates Kinney J A Wickersham Judge Ridpath and Will Cumback with poems readings and memorial tributes. A novelette in six chapters and a Shakespeare lecture cap the program before a farewell banquet Friday night.
Adjutant General Ward will mail circulars to Indiana National Guard units outlining a coordinated effort to field a regiment for Indiana day at the Pan-American Exposition next September. Funds may come from unit subscriptions and minstrel shows, with tents and equipment provided by the state and rail rates arranged by railroads. The plan envisions pay from Harrigan funeral duties and a July camp of instruction contributing toward travel costs, while Pennsylvania also plans a guard turnout for the exposition.
A dispatch from Chicago reports Newton Todd, an Indianapolis broker and Chicago Stock Exchange member, suspended for three years on charges of uncommercial conduct. Todd denied notice and questioned the dispatch, noting it may originate from former correspondents Finley Barrell & Co. in a bid to force a compromise.
The Indiana Voting Machine Commission will meet tomorrow morning in the Statehouse to resume and complete the Columbia voting machine examination. Powell Daugherty and Thompson are expected to attend, with Powell delayed in New York preventing a last week's session.
Judge Hines at Deaconess Hospital is described as critically ill with physicians predicting death within a few hours. The report notes the gravity of his condition and the imminent outcome.
Property holders on North Meridian street appeared before the Board of Works to ask when a decision on paving Me ridian street north of Fall creek would be made. Chairman Sahm indicated a resolution this week should satisfy all, while Linton A. Cox presented a petition for wooden block paving signed by twenty one of twenty nine residents.
The Board of Works yesterday adopted a resolution to make Northwestern Avenue a uniform fifty foot street. The plan would narrow the improvements along three blocks with the row of plane trees to be kept in the gutter until paving is completed amid ongoing contention.
Park superintendent grants R. H. Mctrea a permit to remove dead limbs from a tree at the northwest corner of Sheldon and Twenty-second streets. This marks the first permit issued under the city’s new forestry law.
The city paid the last temporary debt of 40,000 dollars yesterday, clearing outstanding obligations. City controller reported the settlement ends the city’s short term borrowing.
A series of street openings vacatings and improvements are recorded with actions deferred or petitions filed. Projects include widening Cooper Street to 60 feet from Feraway to Laurel, Olive Street from Naomi to near Minnesota, and a curved section of Twenty Fourth Street. Capitol Avenue part vacated. Meridan Street paving. alleys bricked. water mains on Miley and Eleventh. cement walks and curbing on Spruce, Twenty third, and Illinois streets. gravel roadway and curbing on St Clair Street. and local sewers on Madison, Mulberry, and Ohio streets along nearby alleys and avenues.
A series of contract actions related to street improvements is announced. Daniels Foley wins bricking on the first alley east of Alabama from Market to Wabash at $1.15 per lineal foot. Francis M. Lackey awarded for gravel roadway cement walks and curbing on New York street from Dorman to Pogue's Run at $1.95 per lineal foot. Henry Maag awarded for cementing the west walk on Drover street at a low rate. C M Kirkpatrick awarded for cement walks on Ringgold and Senate avenues at specified lineal foot rates. Final action taken on asphalt pavement and brick gutters on Illinois street from Olive to Jackson Place costing about $23,500. Contracts deferred for Birch avenue east walk. Action rescinded for Palmer street work and for opening Raymond street to fifty feet wide.
Regular monthly meeting of the Indiana Ranching Company directors in Room 12 at the Statehouse. Y M C A junior department plans its annual outing at Fairview Park under Mothers Circle guidance. Doctors Thompson and Woolen depart for the American Medical Association convention in St Paul. A class play Julius Caesar staged by School No 11 under Miss Cordelia Foy. Broad Ripple Park diving horses perform tomorrow as schedule. Retail Grocers plan June 26 picnic details at Board of Trade. Senator Johnston of Crawfordsville in town on private business. Indiana party to Y M C A jubilee in Boston June 10 to 16. includes President Lilly and Secretary Noweser. T H Kohn resigns as state evangelist. George A Taffe at city police for thirtieth year. William O Bannon arrested for robbery at West Vermont home. Y M C A members buy Broad Ripple houseboat for a floating gym. Weather bureau May mean temperature at a record low. frost absent. precipitation varied. Funeral of Mrs Matilda Wolf today at home and St Marys Church. Manual Training High School exhibit slated June 7. New York Association of Railway Surgeons asks Dr J N Hurty to prepare a paper on Car Sanitation. Hurty may attend New York meeting. Foster C Shirley in Philippines sends pen once used by Aguinaldo. Charities J Gardner of this city challenges Frank Compton of Kansas City on dressing sheep record.
The Indianapolis Bar Association yesterday debated allowing law students to use the library. A committee will solicit proposals from the Law School with rules that limit member access, to be acted on at the July meeting. A bald eagle found east of Irvington with a broken wing died, likely killed by a farmer after days of weakness. Mrs. H. McCall Travis and Secretary Downing discussed floral parade plans for the State Fair, with transport concerns over distance and road conditions.
After about a year of peaceful activity at the fair ground clubhouse Gus Rahke was arrested again last night and charged with running a gambling house. Captain ar Scheigert Patrolmen Dolby Wool and three other men were in the place. Visitors named Horace Wilson Albert Berger and Scott were present as patrons.
Bicycle police responded yesterday afternoon to 0 Indiana avenue after Anna Brummell a colored resident reported being assaulted by Anna Brown also of Indiana avenue. Brummell sustained gashes on her forehead from brass knuckles amid reports Brown had recently become involved with Brummell's former sweetheart.
A Laurence Indiana woman credits Grape-Nuts Food and Postum Coffee with reversing a months long decline from overwork and poor diet. After a friend’s sample meal, she ditched narcotics for the two products, regained strength, resumed heavy study and writing, and declares her mind and body now robust.
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