Courthouse notes on wills and estate matters
County commissioners in session approve settlements with trustees for poor accounts. The will of Mrs. Sarah E. Beck bequeaths $2000 to each sister Catharine Pickard and Mary Martin, $2000 to I B Webber including Center street home, $1000 to each of Bell Pettis, Margaret Mills, Anna Stockdale, with specific bequests of dining room furniture and mirror. Bequests to others include 2000 to the African Methodist church, 500 to Roy Webber, and various provisions for heirs and executors. Executorships assigned to Andrew R Wakefield and I B Webber. estate heirs warned against contest. Sale and guardian matters noted for other estates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah E. Beck
Catharine E. Pickard
Mary E. Martin
Nice
Etta Wakefield
Andrew R. Wakefield
Webber
Center Street
I'o
Kittie Bell Pettis
Margaret Mills
Anna Bell Stockdale
Bell Wynant
Frank Robinson
Bessie Robinson
Bell Scott
Anna Lesley
African Methodist Church
Roy Webber
Warsaw
Masonic Lodge
Nerces
County Council Deliberations and Real Estate Transfers Reported
County council met in special session and approved various appropriations including stationery drainage and jail supplies plus salaries for sheriff clerk and superintendent. Week ending transfers from Koesterke Abstract include numerous property deeds and sales across multiple townships in January 1903.
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Court House
Coates
Koeciuske
Guaranty
Company
Grabner’s
Poultry Show Impresses Kosciusko County Exhibitors
The Kosciusko County Poultry Association held its annual poultry and pet stock show last week in Warsaw. Although smaller than last year, the exhibits were high quality with many top birds. Exhibitors included W. W. Worley Claypool and Nat J. Kline North Webster among others, featuring breeds such as Light Brahmas Barred Plymouth Rocks White Wyandottes and Show Homing Pigeons. The cold weather kept some participants away but the association is pleased and Kosciusko breeders are noted as among the best. The Silver Lake farmers institute will be held January 26 and 27 with state speakers O A Somers and Grace Irwin and local talks to follow. The remains of Mrs. Sarah E Beck were interred at Oakwood Cemetery with Rev. E H Montgomery officiating. the funeral was well attended by older residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kosciusko County
W. W. Worley
Claypool
Nat J. Kline
North Webster
A. M. Fields
Gaff
Plymouth Rocks
Eda Kitterman
North Manchester
M.D. Polk
J. P. Hawks
Goshen
Bult Orpingtons
S. P. Bryan
Argos
White Wyandottes
Robert Hitzler
Partridge
Cochin
Will H. Schadt
Wyandottes
J. H. Young
John L. Nye
Partridge Wyandottes
O. E. Bussard
Golden Wyandottes
Bud Patterson
T. C. Todd
Langshans
John L. Trish
White
Everett Harter
Warsaw
Silver Lake Farmers’ Institute
O. A. Somers
Grace Irwin
Sarah E. Beck
Oak’ ‘Wood
Farmers Institute Program At Warsaw in 1903
The Farmers Institute program lists sessions in a circuit court room on January 28, 20, and 30, 1903. Subjects include soil conditions, co operation in arm products, fruit growing, farming methods, education of farmers' daughters, sanitary farm home, rural telephone developments, and live stock preparation with numerous speakers from Kokomo Warsaw and surrounding areas. The note also cites the New Paris Mutual Telephone company expanding capital to 10000 with over 100 patrons and plans for exchanges with Royal and People's Mutual Telephone companies to improve rural service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. A. Somers
Kokomo
Chas. W. Anglin
J. W. Hover
H. W. Reber
New Paris Mutual Telephone Company
Royal Telephone Company
Milford
People’s Mutual Telephone Company
Mutual
Elkhart
Mutual Telephone Company
Warsaw
Death of Marion Idle Marks Longtime Kosciusko Resident
Marion Idle died last Thursday at 62 after a prolonged illness due to cancer. Born December 23 1840 in Champaign County Ohio he moved to Kosciusko County Indiana 1858 near Sidney and later Warsaw. He served in the 1th Indiana Cavalry 1863 1866 and married Hulda Norris in 1870 with two sons Ollie and Walter later widowed 1874. He married Lucy Norris in 1875 and had a daughter Louise. Idle worked as a teacher and carpenter before farming then served four terms as Monroe Township assessor. Survived by three brothers H C M F Talmon and two sisters Ann Clouse and Jane Norris. a Christian church member for 35 years. Funeral at Pierce Township Baptist church with Rev M M Eaton. interment Ryerson Cemetery.
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Marion Idle
Warsaw
1Th
Indiana Cavalry
Hulda Norris
Ollie
Walter
Swift & Co
Butte City
Mon
Mra
Idle
Lucy Norris
Louise
Monroe Township
H.C
M.F
Talmon H
Ann Clouse
Jane Norris
Oklahoma
The
Christian Church
Pierceton
East Ward
M. M. Eaton
Ryerson Cemetery
Obituary for Taylor Gilliam and rural school telephones
Obituary notes Taylor Gilliam born 1847 died January 14, 1903 at 55. He lived in the county his whole life and was highly respected. his funeral drew many, with eleven surviving siblings attending. The service was at Morris chapel, and interment was at Oakwood cemetery. Also reported: Trustee James Blough in Jefferson township orders Royal Telephone to place telephones in eight school houses, a first in the state, to aid teachers and pupils, potentially inspiring other trustees to follow.
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Taylor Gilliam
Jennie Leary
Allegan
Mich
C. Gilliam
This City
Minerva Rich Creek
William W
Wayne Township
Nathaniel Hover
Tippecanoe Township
Emma Berry
Goshen
James
Mishawaka
Pulaski County
Harry
Hattie Kelly
Amanda Wells
Indianapolis
Taylor
Richcreek
Morris Chapel
Whitley County
North Webster
Oakwood Cemetery
James Blough
Jefferson Township
Royal Telephone Company
Milford
Brough
Iit .Be
Mutual
Town council preserves grove over debt in Maine
Notes by the Way recount a Maine town in Franklin County loyal to its pine grove beside the public highway. Facing debt, the council declined a lumberman’s bid to buy the trees, choosing to protect the town’s chief pride and seek other ways to raise funds, urging readers to value beauty over mere dollars. It also shares various digressions on Foster and other public figures, plus brief notes on congressional personalities and a forestry bulletin about Catalpa Speciosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eustis
Franklin County
Maine
Pines
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Iiwewe
Cotstatesioners Court
Probate Court
TW Anglin
Frances E Boggs
Edson Barber
Joshua Tucker
Louis
John
Seward To
S H
Susan A Clay
Abraham Whetstone
Harrison
F E Bowser
Thomas E
Clay
Eli Lintz
Davin W. Dewning E
Jefferson
Bertha Wyland
Arthur Blanchard
Hillabold’s
Syracuse
Tina Boggess
E T Kenny Co
Seward
Wm C Clay
Elmer E Hickman
Kist
Joel F Yocum
Wm Yocum
Cyrus Leonard
Jne Bilger
Shaw
Silver Lake
John O Cavendar
Corne
Lake
Lawrence H Lozier
Homer Kring
Etna
Francis M Mott
Henry Matt Lows
Dolan & Miles
Blanch Matthews
Wm H Downing
Isabella A Linn
Wm R Butler
Rebecca Stettler
Stephen G Hill
Alpheus Freeman
Prairie
John Fawley
H Wolf
Mentone
Margaret Summer
Mary M Pinkerton EK
John C Strombeck
Joseph Mook
T K Warner
N. Webster
Eugene Alleman
Alleman
Middle
Mary C Sturgis
Wm E Graham NW
van Buren
Simon H. Drabenstott
Dante
Drabenstott
Washington
EL Marsh
John L Andreas SE
Malvina Hayden
John L Andreas E
E. F. Diehl
Leesburg
Lake City Lumber Company
Efet
Omiers
Bekahblodge
Heckleman
Katha
Rine Boulton
N. G
Emma Campfield
Lizzie Coleman
Jean Ward
Mary Webb
Treas
Nettle Philpott
Warden
Graham
Haddix
I. G
Virgil Ams
O G
Dora Oram
Ole Hines
Mary Baughman
Jennie Berat
Maria Berst
Chaplin
Jennette Bentley
Organist
Irwin Foulk
Charley Wheeler
I. S
Peter Fogle
Wm. Kinngle
Jacob Foulk
Melvin Barr
Levi Zumbrum
Oliver Sloan
Poultry Association
Institute At
Farmers’ Institute Program
Circuit Court Room
Grace Erwin
Bourbon
Q. A. Somers
John L. Cook
W. H. Zimmer
A. E. Mayer
Eph Wells
G. J. Smith
Joe Scott
Miss Erwin
Alice Hayward
Dr. W . Hines
Florence Outkelt
Henry L Oldfather
Egbert Gawthrop
John F Plummer
Sesson
J. F. Plummer
L. W. Rouse
Telephone Company
South Bend
Tiar
Cuelis
Wa. Ganter
Oswego
Thur
Old
Kentucky
Stephen Collins Foster
Robert B. Risk
Lancaster
Examiner
Foster
William Barclay Foster
Pennsylvania
Allegheny City
James Foster
Liberty Company
Londonderry
Col
Samuel Hay
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Alexander Foster
Ireland
Keystone
Mr. Risk
Congress
House of Representatives
Cy Sulloway
New Hampshire
Samuel W.sith
Pontiac
Apollo Belvidere
Frank Eddy
Mieral Consent
Galusha Grow
Vania
Feeley
Chicago
Serena Payne
New
P. Belmont
Yor
Illinois
Billard
Chig
John’ Wesley Gaines
Tennessee
Stephen Morgan
Charles’ 5
Littlefield
Joel Heatwole
Minnesota
Confederate States
J. L. M. Carry
Confederate Congress
Cleveland
Spain
Curry
North
Catalpa
Bureau
Forestry
Waalla
Thas
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