Women Foreign Mission Session Opens in Bloomington
Delegations from Illinois Wisconsin and Michigan attend the thirty second annual Northwestern branch meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society at the College Avenue Methodist Church in Bloomington Indiana Miss Margaret Dickson opens with devotional services and holy communion Mary Nind leads after communion session Patton presides in absence of Mrs Quinn Miss Ruth Hitt becomes life member presenting a walnut gavel from near George van on’s grave I R Hitt notes Indiana as cradle of Western missions and cites growth from two missionaries to 382 and total receipts rising to 5 851 525 for foreign support Dr W L Bryan reads scripture and Rev C J Little delivers the address on The Effects of Wow Activity in the Foreign Work.
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Indianapolis Journal
Bloomington
Ind
Northwestern
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
College Avenue Methodist Church
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
Margaret Dickson
Indiana
Doddridge
Mary Nind
Patton
William Quinn
Missescot
Fisher
India
Mission
I. R. Hitt
Ruth
Indianapolis
George van On
Kokomo Congregational Association Meets in Marion
The seventh annual Kokomo Congregational Association of Indiana met in Marion with sermons by Rev. C. W. Choate of Kokomo and Rev. F. W. Raymond of Anderson. Delegations from Alexandria Amboy Anderson Elwood Fairmount Gaston Marion Portland Ridgeville and Fort Recovery Ohio attended. Permanent officers were elected including moderator Rev. J Chailen Smith of Alexandria and scribe Rev. F W Raymond of Anderson with A M Osyas registrar. Committees were named from various churches.
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Indianapolis Journal
Marion
Ind
Kokomo Congregational Association of
Indiana
Congregational
C. W. Choate
Kokomo
F. W. Raymond
Anderson
Alexandria
Amboy
Ander Se Seahh
Elwood
Fairmount
Gaston
Portland
Ridgeville
Fort Recovery
J. Chalien Smith
A. M. Osyas
Indiana State YWCA Convention at Greencastle Oct 22
The Indiana State Convention of the Young Women's Christian Association will meet in Greencastle on October 22 hosted by De Pauw University. Speakers include Rev Worth M. Tippy D Gordon and Miss Conde and Miss Simms of the American committee. Delegates are expected from college and city associations across the state.
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Indianapolis Journal
Greencastle
Ind
Indiana
Young Women's Christian Association
Association of de Pauw University
Worth M. Tippy
Polls
D. Gordon
Cleveland
Miss Conde
Miss Simms
American Committee
Norfolk
American Christian Church
Ohio
Oo. L. Je
Cincinnati
J. B. Op
Dayton
Missing Veedersburg farmer leaves note of suicide claim
VEEDERSBURG Ind Oct a farmer seven miles southwest of the city, W R Patton, failed to return after going to cut corn. A pencil note on a grocer sack tied to his knife warned he would end his life. He was seen at 11 am fishing by a neighbor. A search of Coal Creek area followed, with his debt worries noted as a possible motive. FAIRMOUNT Ind Oct Enos Storey fifty nine years old died after swallowing poison in the city jail. Storey, who had visited his previous wife’s family in Illinois, left his ex wife’s home after a reconciliation attempt failed. Arsenic traces found in his pockets. The report notes a divorce case won by Mrs Storey and references to a country home and a return to the city.
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Indianapolis Journal
Veedersburg
Ind
W. R. Patton
Clifford Cade
Coal Creek
Patton
Russ Patton
Fairmount
Enos Storey
Storey
Montenec
Ill
Yesterda
Ai Gre
Despondent Man Commits Suicide in Fort Wayne
Carl B. Schoenlein aged sixty eight killed himself by swallowing carbolic acid in his room at his daughter Mrs Wehnert’s house on West Main Street Fort Wayne Ind authorities found him dazed and later dead his wife had died six months earlier and sorrow likely led to the act the body was discovered by Night Engineer Millard Clarke at the water works station adjoining the city jail
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Millard Clarke
Indianapolis Journal
Fort Wayne
Ind
Carl B. Schoenlein
Fred Wehnert
West Main Street
Farragher Star Sets Notre Dame Star Disqualified
Notre Dame faculty disqualifies Farragher from varsity play this season after his return to classes. He left last year for Christmas vacation and rejoined fall training, renowned as a top tackle. He will help the scrubs and aid line development while the team adds Gil lends experience and fresh signals. Draper Fisher Nyere Beacom and Lake Forest prep noted as practice and possible lineup changes.
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Indianapolis Journal
South Bend
Ind
Notre Dame
Rooters
Farragher
Gillen
Varsity
Capt. Salmon
Draper
Fisher
Lake Forest
Nyere
Beacom
Richmond High to Play Knightstown and Others in October
Richmond Indiana October schedule shows a home game against Knightstown October 18 in Richmond, next week at Knightstown, a second team game at Earlham College, two games with Winchester next month, and two planned games with Muncie canceled.
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Indianapolis Journal
Richmond
Ind
Richmond High School
Knightstown
Earlham College
Winchester
Muncie
Million Dollar Trust Deed Foreclosure Filed
William P Williams acting as trustee filed suit in Elkhart Circuit Court to foreclose a one million dollar trust deed securing bonds bought by Michigan New York Philadelphia Chicago and local investors. Receiver had been appointed to sell the Bristol electric plant to satisfy claims amid company insolvency. Nearby, a land option on about 500 acres near Bristol is noted. Windfall report details a separate trial in which John Judd, Lapel saloon keeper, contests a judgment for permitting minors, arguing the clerk’s power is unconstitutional.
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Indianapolis Journal
Goshen
Ind
Willliam P. Williams
United States
Chicago
Monolith
Portland Cement Company, Limited
Elkhart
Michigan
New York
Philadelphia
Omters
Bristol
John Judd
William Huffman
Judd
Madison
Golden wedding celebrated at Lamaster home
Greenwood Indiana oct The golden wedding of Mr and Mrs W R Lamaster was celebrated yesterday at their home one mile west of here Sixty five guests dined on the lawn at noon with thanks and toasts by Rev Warren B Dunham and others The couple aged seventy two and sixty nine mark fifty years of marriage The gathering ended with a group photograph before the old house
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Indianapolis Journal
Greenwood
Ind
W. R. Lamaster
Here
Warren B. Dunham
Kelly Ax Factory Joins National Tool Trust Forming American Ax and Tool Co
In Alexandria Indiana reports say the Kelly Ax Manufacturing Company has joined a national trust of all U S ax factories. The new group to be named American Ax and Tool Company is led by promoter Charles D Gates of New York. The Kellys had resisted the ax coalition using natural gas fuel and earlier shifted to scythes and tools with higher prices. They have now entered the scythe market, seen as the trigger for the consolidation.
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Indianapolis Journal
Alexandria
Ind
Kelly Ax Manufacturing Company
American Ax and Tool Company
Charles D. Gates
New York
Kellys
Fort Wayne official denies Chicago suit claim
Fort Wayne Indiana James J Wood, superintendent of the Fort Wayne electric works, denounces a Chicago paper story that he is a defendant in a Cook County Cir cuit Court alienation suit filed by Charles A McDermott for $50,000. He asserts mistaken identity or blackmail and says he never knew the parties and is not under Illinois jurisdiction. In Hartford City Ralph Potts returns from gas belt tour and reports L A 30 alignment with West factories, Burns wage scale interest, Converse plant reduced operations. In Shelbyville Grand Chancellor C A Tindall given a formal reception at the K of P Castle.
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Indianapolis Journal
Fort Wayne
Ind
James J. Wood
Illinois Court
Hartford City
Ralph Potts
L. A
Frank Yourison
Denny
Converse
Indiana Veterans and Local Events Reported Across Cities
In Pendleton crowds welcomed a visiting dignitary with a depot band and parade before a banquet at the lodge hall. Other reports note reunions of the Eighty ninth Indiana Infantry and the Eightieth Indiana Regiment with campfires, speeches, and glad attendance. Greensburg covers a street fair outcome returning 16 percent to donors, while Fort Wayne notes an oil field probe by Standard Oil and a high producing gas well near Sycamore.
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Pendleton
Ind
Eightyninth Indiana Infantry
Ninth Indiana Battery
J. 8. McCarty
The
Eighty-ninth
Harry Reid
William M. Gifford
Lincoln
Neb
Charles T. Near
M. J. Hodson
Fielding Burdette
M. M. Dunlap
Rev. Smith
Lights Out
E. W. Collis
Washington
Eightieth Indiana
Perryville
Masonic Hall
Forty-second
Indiana Regiment
Ebenezer
Eightieth
Morrison shortage hit in Kokomo County treasurer case
In Kokomo Indiana on October 8 a Circuit Court ruling fixes John A Morrison former county treasurer and his bondsmen with a net shortage of 801.42 after audits following his retirement An Eastern guarantee company will cover the deficit.
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Indianapolis Journal
Kokomo
Ind
John A. Morrison
Morrison
Eastern Guarantee Company
Indiana Grand Lodge Templars Meet in Lafayette
The State convention of the Indiana Grand Lodge Templars convened in Lafayette with about 100 delegates. Reports from several officers were accepted and twenty five new members received the Grand Lodge degree.
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Lafayette
Ind
Indiana Grand Lodge Templars
Richmond Pioneer Amos Warfel Dies at 87 in East Germantown
Obituaries report Amos Warfel of East Germantown dies at his daughter's home in Richmond after paralysis. Funeral set for tomorrow. Also notes the death of Mrs Disa Butler of Dublin, Blanche Dobbins in Chicago, Mary J Craft near Boggs Town, Minnie James near Martinsville, Johnston Reid of Martinsville, and Mrs Walter Ware formerly of Middlebury.
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Richmond
Ind
Amos Warfel
East Germantown
W. L. Beck
Harry Co
Millard Warfel
Enos Warfel
Walnut Level
Elmer Warfel
Connersville
Aldus Warfel
W. H. Bebr
Beck
Mary J. Craft
Boggstown
Shelby County
E. M. Chalmers
Fairland
Indianapolis
Crown Hill
Minnie James
James James
Martinsville
Johnston Reid
Ireland
June
Margaret McClintock
Thomas Reid
John
Adam Reid
Goshen
Walter Ware
Riblet
Middlebury
Boyne City
Mich
Religious leader named cruise head for Holy Land pilgrimage
In Kokomo, Rev. E G Shouse has been named general agent and superintendent of the Oriental Bible School cruise for an interdenominational pilgrimage to the Holy Land with side trips. The trip will begin shortly after January 1, 103. In Richmond, Michael W Kelly was welcomed by Knights of Pythias members after being elected district deputy grand chancellor at Indianapolis. In Muncie, John W Lovett proposed a coal mine operation for the gas belt to the Commercial Club, which endorsed the plan, mirroring a proposal shown to the Anderson club.
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Muncie
John W. Lovett
Anderson
Commercial Club
Anderson Commercial Club
Republican Editors Meet In Indianapolis Oct 4
The Indiana Republican Editorial Association executive and district members will convene at the Republican state committee headquarters on Tuesday Oct 4. They will discuss constitutional amendments by law changes and possible legislation for the next Legislature. A 6 o clock dinner at Hotel English is planned with W H Whittaker and J B Whitehead inviting attendees to a theater party that evening.
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Indiana Republican Editorial Association
Republican State Committee
English
W. H. Whittaker
State Committee
J. B. Whitehead
American Press Association
Confederate Shaft Unveiled at Perryville Battlefield
Danville Kentucky October 8 a state monument to Confederate soldiers who fell at Perryville was unveiled before about ten thousand spectators. Addresses were delivered by Judge M Saufey Hon R J Breckinridge and General J A West. Miss Ella Hay unveiled the marker.
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Danville
Perryville
M. Saufiey
R. J. Breckinridge
J. A. West
Ella Hay
Notable Jubilee Honors Pastor Fifty Years in Goshen Church
Goshen Ind Oct 8 a joint jubilee marks the fiftieth anniversary of First Presbyterian Church and its pastor Rev Hervey L Vannuys D D. The Synod of Indiana has appointed its annual meeting here Oct 13 15 with sessions highlighting the celebration. Vannuys born 1829 in Kentucky began ministry in 1852 in Elkhart and Goshen, has governed the church with steady growth since, married twice and educated at Hanover and Princeton.
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Indianapolis
Goshen
Ind
First Presbyterian Church
Hervey L. Vannuys
Vannuys
Europe
Holy Land
Presbyterian Synod of Indiana
Ambrose Y. Moore
Hanover College
Southern
Indiana
Leon P. Marshall
Franklin
Central
Charlies Little
Wabash
Presbyterian Church
John Dixon
D. D
New York
Board of Home Missions
A. Woodruff Halsey
South Bend
Harvey Logan “Vannuys
Kentucky
Shelby County
Tennis Vannuys
Katy (de Maree
Theological Seminary
Princeton
N. J
Constantine
Mich
8. C. Logan
Scranton
Logan
Centerville
Three Rivers
Michigan
Indiana Synod
Lafayette
Elkhart
Thomas G. Harris
Trinity Lutheran
South Fifth Street
Elias Gortner
Lima
Rebecca Williams
Lily W. Loring
Hanover
Wabash College
Army orders announced at War Department
Washington reports extend or relocate officers and actions across services. Capt James F Brady receives one month sea absence extension while First Lieut George E Mitchell and First Lieut Wm G Doane gain two and three month extensions with permission to go abroad. Other officers are reassigned within forts and stations, and Santa Fe Railroad notes cancel an advance livestock rate into St Joseph, with settlement of a dispute over east bound packing-house products.
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War Department
James F. Brady
Artillery Corps
George E. Mitchell
Seventh Cavalry
Wm. G. Doane
Sixteenth Infantry
Leonard J. Mygatt
Seventeenth Infantry
J. 8. Cecil
Nineteenth Infantry
F. E. Buchan
Third Cavalry
Fort Apache
Arizona
Fort Assinniboine
Montana
E. W. van C. Lucas
Corps of Engineers
Memphis
Tenn
E. E. Winslow
Wilmington
N. C
R. M. Bachellor
Santa Fe Railroad
St. Joe
Santa Fe
St. Joseph
Rushville Speech Highlights GOP Platform And Local Support
The Rushville talk featured Holliday, incumbent, with D. P. Smith and Capt. C. F. Branch also speaking. Smith, a Morgan Marion joint senator candidate, drew home-town interest as the first appearance on the platform. Crowds gathered from early afternoon as the meeting moved to City Hall. Smith urged state issues preeminence amid praise for Republican legislation. Holliday addressed national issues, outlining two decades of Republican congressional leadership. Smith is slated to speak next week in Marion County. In Windfall, J Frank Hanly urged Republican state management and tariff protection, praising McKinley. Terre Haute labor leaders warned the city council about union printing after a 3 to 1 vote supported the measure. In Muncie, an old-fashioned Republican love feast at headquarters began a two and a half hour campaign rally.
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Holliday
D. P. Smith
Morgan
Marion
Capt. C. F. Branch
Morgan County
Mr. Smith
Indiana
Marion County
Indianapolis Journal
Ind
J. Frank Hanly
Lafayette
Dennis & Wood Opera House
Hanly
William McKinley
Muncie
Election Campaign Tactics Stir Indiana Counties
Voters heard speeches as leaders of the party urged turnout and a missionary campaign. An anonymous Democratic circular attacked Judge Stimson and Judge Piety on favoritism and costly courts, while Republicans in Rushville ousted Democratic officials Wallace G. Morgan and Michael O'Reilley, placing new appointees under the GOP administration.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Stimson
Superior Court
Piety
Circuit Court
Indianapolis
Hendee Campaign Speech Draws Crowded Carthage Meeting
CARTHAGE Ind Oct E E Hendee Republican candidate for joint senator for Madison Hancock and Rush counties spoke to a crowded house at the Columbia ra House last night The Jack Gowdy Glee Club accompanied Mr Hendee Will M Sparks nominee for re election to the state Legislature presided at the meeting Bedford Ind Oct 8 On account of the fatal illness of his father who lives at Fort Wayne John C Chaney has been compelled to give up his campaign in Lawrence county for the present Ira C Batman of Bloomington one of the ablest speakers in southern Indiana will fill Mr Chaney s appointments.
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Indianapolis Journal
Carthage
Ind
E. E. Hendee
Madison
Hancock
Rush Counties
Columbia Ra House
Jack Gowdy Glee Club
Hendee
Will M. Sparks
Bedford
Fort Wayne
John C. Chaney
Lawrence County
Ira C. Batman
Bloomington
Indiana
Chaney
Scottsburg Ticket Nominated by Republicans and Democrats
In Scottsburg Indiana the Republicans name John W. Davis as prosecutor for Scott Jennings counties and T H Everett for representative of Scott Jennings and Ripley counties. Democrats nominate Henry Harmon for representative and E S Weiss for prosecutor. In Marion Indiana Representative E D Crumpacker of Valparaiso spoke at Wyandotte Hall reporting a prosperous, contented people.
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Indianapolis Journal
Scottsburg
Ind
Scott and
Jennings
John W. Davis
Scott, Jennings
Ripley
T. H. Everett
Henry Harmon
B. Weiss
Marion
E. D. Crumpacker
Valparaiso
Wyandotte Hall
Crumpacker
Pittsburg's Victory Over All-Americans in Shutout Game
The All-American stars were powerless against Phillippe's pitching and strong defense by the National League champions. Joss pitched well for the visitors, with both Pittsburg runs coming on errors. Friday and Saturday's games move to Cleveland for the third and fourth contests. Score: Pittsburg 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0. All-American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0. Batteries: Phillippe and Zimmer for Pittsburg. Joss and Sullivan for the All-Americans. Umpires O Laughlin and O Day. Attendance 4,500.
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Pittsburg
Oct
Phillippe
Joss
Cleveland
Rhe
Bocceeeeeasa
Zimmer
Joes and Sullivan
O' Laughlin
O'Day
Hadley Signs with Mond Team in Western League Polo
Richmond Indiana reports W H Hadley a top polo talent from the National League has been signed by the Mond team in the Western League. He is described as an all around player joining the roster amid season changes.
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Indianapolis Journal
Richmond
Ind
W. H. Hadley
Newland
Themond
Wandering to Find Coffee Relief Leads Home to Postum
A Mansfeld mining engineer recounts years of coffee related nervous distress and treatment before switching to Postum Cereal Food Coffee. Within a week he felt morning jitters vanish and six months later all nervous symptoms disappeared. He credits Postum for a rich cup and relief from coffee effects and endorses the product from Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan.
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Toronto
Buffalo
New York City
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
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