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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1902
Page
2
The governor issues a Memorial Day proclamation urging citizens to abstain from usual business and honor the nation’s defenders. He highlights sacrifices, patriotism, and unity, calling for display of national colors and a day dedicated to fitting tribute to veterans and war dead.
Butler College will appoint H L Rietz of Cornell University as chair of mathematics next year. He is praised as a highly prepared, broad minded educator and rising mathematical investigator. Letters of strong support come from Cornell colleagues and leaders at Stanford and other institutions.
Gordon Smith a fifteen year old resident of 1 East Morris Street was arrested on petit larceny charges after detectives Kinney and Lancaster uncovered a scheme involving pilfered C O D packages. Smith had left his job as an elevator boy at H P Wesson a week earlier to work at Taylor Carpet Company and allegedly took packages from Wesson’s store for personal gain, confessing to one he took last Saturday and denying others.
The State Association of Haymakers opens its annual meeting at the Stub bins Hotel. Leaders including D W Gerard and J F Smith discuss formal recognition as a branch of the Improved Order of Red Men, urging Great Councils to ratify Haymakers as an auxiliary and bolster growth nationwide. The report cites 1,800 initiations and 1,478 suspensions in the year, with financial reserves improving.
Alexander Johnson, superintendent at Fort Wayne, praises his institution from the Hotel English. He notes 410 boys and 426 women in care, with 49 feeble minded women new to a forthcoming building for 120 inmates, and 142 boys on a waiting list. A Monday meeting of superintendents will feature his paper on Educative Value of Public Entertainments and a comic opera performed by inmates titled Columbus in a Merry Key.
Professor J W Carr superintendent of Anderson public schools visited Indianapolis to hire teachers for primary grades. He met with trainees at Miss Blaker's training school, invited some to Anderson to meet the School Board, and noted the growth from seventeen to nearly one hundred teachers in twelve years.
California horse-raiser A Hickock and famed trainer Budd Doble arrive at the Grand Hotel with five carloads of fast stock for the State fair grounds. The horses will stay at the grounds while Doble oversees training. The climate and track draw the team, though Doble once favored Terre Haute. A town visitor doubts Indianapolis will host the National Educational Society meeting next July, a major gathering bringing about 10,000 people to the city.
A group of Indianapolis educators in Chicago discussed inviting the society to meet in Indianapolis the following summer but no invitation has been extended and the Commercial Club may oppose the plan. Estimates suggested city costs to support the society and prominent locals were noted including Forsyth and Dennison at the Denison Hotel, Dennison’s Lincoln era lineage, and O Brien of Lawrenceburg arriving for state committee talks. Adolph Gagg, long in Terre Haute banking, is now in Indianapolis. The National Carriage Body Manufacturers Association met at Spencer House with several Indiana makers present to discuss routine matters.
The Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows convenes at 9 a.m. in the Grand Lodge Hall at Pennsylvania and Washington streets for a two day session. Officers will be nominated, reports read, and committees formed while unresolved grievances face next October Sovereign Grand Lodge consideration.
The Rebekah Assembly closed with officer elections led by retiring president Mrs. Anna Hogate. New officers include President Sarah E. Ray and Secretary Tina K. Mann. trustees include Mrs. Mary Pothes and Mrs. Anna Brautigan. A gavel carved from Jerusalem was presented, and the retiring president received the past president’s jewel badge.
Dong How and Dong Tip two young Chinese cousins of murder victim Doc Lung arrived from New York as guests of Moy Kee. They learned of the murder via a letter from Dong Gum Hong. Tip is fifteen, frail, fair. How is older and more Asiatic in appearance. Both are Americanized, attend De Witt Clinton High School, plan college study after graduation and will stay several days.
Detectives Holtz and Wallace arrest Fred Hendricks a Greenfield resident on a fugitive charge. He allegedly beat farmer Wilbur Berry into insensibility and stole a large sum. Hendricks fled to Anderson then returned to the city Saturday night and was arrested after being found at a East Court street resort.
At a Century Club meeting Charles W. Moores discusses Lincoln's appeal to reason and conscience, his rise from rustic boy to lawyer and politician, and how slavery shaped his public voice. He notes Lincoln’s use of fables, parables, and epigrams in a growing, dignified style that remained clear and persuasive.
State Geologist Hlatchley remarks on the popular name seventeen year in relation to insect life and glacial formations, noting his professional focus spans mineral and geological studies rather than entomology. He frames the term within scientific naming conventions and local understanding.
Professor Blatchley surveyed country areas for cicadas yesterday but found none. Locusts appeared in the city and county with seventeen year adults found on Woodruff Place trees. The winged insects were in the mature stage and expected to spread through Marion county and nearby areas in coming weeks.
A board will convene at the Marine Hospital Bureau in Washington DC on Monday June 16 to examine candidates for admission as assistant surgeons in the United States Marine Hospital Service. Requirements include age 21 to 30, medical college graduation, testimonials. exams cover physical, oral, written, and clinical, with a cadaver operation optional. Salaries range from 1600 to 2460 yearly with allowances and longevity pay. tenure is permanent and travel expenses are paid.
Dr C I Fletcher will lecture at the Grand Opera House Saturday night on the Island of Martinique. He visited the island where recent volcanic eruptions occurred a year ago and has many fine pictures of the city of St Pierre and Mont Pelee.
Sunday May 25 in Cincinnati and Indianapolis area rates listed for round trips to Lafayette Way Points Terre Haute Greencastle and intermediate points. Special trains depart Union Station Indianapolis 7 00 a m and 7 20 a m with return times 7 00 p m and 7 30 p m respectively. Also Dayton route via C H D line 7 a m to 6 ½ p m with stops. Insurance ad from German Fire Insurance of Indiana with offices at 29 South Delaware Street.
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