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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1913
Page
3
Miss Gibson, extremely rich, toys with a poor suitor Mr Hanna who asks to marry her. He feigns tenderness and reveals he knows her fortune. she replies honestly that he is worth about two million dollars, and the ruse unravels as he realizes she will not marry him.
A friend teases a six year old about his mother’s new hand-painted fan while the boy retorts that their entire fence is painted in the same style. The playful exchange highlights a child’s blunt humor and family home project pride.
Michigan real estate listings show farms near Burbank and Allegan with homes, barns, and cultivable land. Advertisements from various brokers offer 40 to 640 acres in Michigan, South Dakota, Arkansas, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba with multiple outbuildings and stock. Prices and terms vary. some properties include houses, orchards, and timber.
Indiana branch of the National Congress of Mothers and 9 Parent-Teachers Associations hold their first annual convention in Lafayette May 2 and 12. Sessions at Second Presbyterian Church feature Mrs. Bright, Dr. Moran, Prof. Tack, and other speakers with music by the Jefferson High School glee club.
The March report from the state board of health notes 465 smallpox cases with one death in Martin county, and 34 counties reporting the disease. Pneumonia caused 444 deaths. tuberculosis 20. typhoid 27. diphtheria 24. scarlet fever 38. poliomyelitis three. rabies zero. total deaths 3 558 with a 15.1 per thousand rate. 192 deaths were accidental and 198 orphans were left.
Notices list filings for incorporations including Chicago & Indianapolis Electric Railroad increasing common capital to 3 million and issuing 1 million in preferred stock. Kirkhoff Bros. & McElwaine of Indianapolis form to deal in plumbers supplies with George F. Kirkhoff C F Kirkhoff C M McElwaine named. Crescent Pharmacy Indianapolis dissolves. Craigs Inc Greenwood seeks 10 thousand to operate hotels and related ventures with M M Craig J A Craig RF V Craig.
The flood caused nearly 20 million dollars in losses to Ohio and Indiana railroads. Property damage included 41 miles of Big Four track washed away and fourteen bridges destroyed. Major lines affected were Big Four, Pennsylvania,Baltimore and Ohio, Monon, Toledo and Ohio Central, Lake Erie and Western, and Chicago and Eastern Illinois.
State board of accounts completes ten year audit of Indiana State School for the Deaf. It shows a 52 cent uncollected salary owed to Superintendent Richard O. Johnson and only three errors in 7,084 vouchers totaling 1,802,469.55 dollars, corrected by the superintendent. An $5 payroll error in November 1902 was corrected with funds returned to the general fund.
The last legislature enacted 350 new laws covering many subjects. Key items include a vocational education law, a Panama-Pacific exposition commission, replacing hanging with electrocution, bans on street railway passes, designating the carnation as state flower and On the Banks of the Wabash as state song, and requiring employees to be paid twice monthly.
Henry Kann was elected vice-president and Paul H Krauss secretary at the Merchants Association of Indianapolis. George Vonnegut becomes president, succeeding Frederic M Ayres who did not seek re election. Frank D Stalnaker becomes treasurer as Vonnegut moves up. Balch remains manager with Dalchenser serving a sixth term.
Captain Smith of Company for N. G. held a military court at the armory after a clash with civil authorities. Four men pleaded guilty. two were fined ten dollars plus five dollars twenty five cents costs. Sheriff McDaniels earlier turned away six prisoners, prompting a renewed effort to arrest them and place them in the armory guardroom.
Rushville The Wealth Institute opened Tuesday under state health board direction and will run through Saturday. Dr. John Owen of the state board oversees the exhibit. Dr. Trurty was to speak but did not arrive. he is slated to address later. The exhibit draws notable interest from local schools and the community.
The interdenominational Sunday school convention closed here after naming Plainfield for next year in March. Officers elected include O. C. Knight of Coatesville as president A. S. Williams of Clayton as vice president Miss Pearl Hadley of Danville as secretary and treasurer with department superintendents also chosen.
Jesse Lauck age seventeen and Jerry Scraggs age sixteen, sons of prominent Newcastle families, ran away seeking the world with their blanket off. They have been traced to Chicago. Five other boys who planned to join backed out at the last moment.
John T. Brown a laborer sixty years old was instantly killed when struck by a Riverside street car. The front light reportedly out as Brown did not hear the car approach. his left leg was cut off near the knee and the right leg severed at the ankle. Coroner Bunch investigates.
A man identifying himself as Fred S. Smith bilked local merchants of hundreds of dollars by cashing forged checks from local manufacturers. He sometimes entered with a woman or a child, made small purchases, then handed back larger checks and received $15 to $25 in change. He appeared well dressed and prosperous.
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