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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1910
Page
2
Mayor McCarty leads council in authorizing a 5000 loan from Peoples National Bank. Bonds for city officers are filed. A request for department requisitions is approved. Police to curb ash dumping. A committee of Allen Ramsey and Feagans to confer with Hugh McKernan on city hall improvements and additions.
The mayor addresses Common Council outlining finances and duties. He cites a start with a deficit of 669.05 and pending taxes. urges enforcement of liquor, gambling, and vice laws. praises public schools and police, fire departments, and street maintenance. discusses electric light and water plants. announces park purchase and civic improvements. calls for honesty and public service in government.
New York January 10. A new labor federation led by John H Parks linked to the Fibre and Manila pool has been indicted by the federal grand jury as an illegal restraint of trade. The Paper Board association of 140 major paper manufacturers faces charges, with Parks previously fined 4000 dollars after pleading guilty. Indictments name individual members, and a third suit against newsprint makers is pending.
The Rev. J. C. Rhodes, pastor of the First Baptist church of Vincennes, after forty six years learns his father Enoch Rhodes is buried near Nashville Tennessee. Rhodes served in the Fifty first Indiana volunteers with Col Streight and was mortally wounded early in the Civil War. Aged information indicates efforts to bring the body to Indiana for burial.
A new law partnership of WII Aikman and Arthur Rogers is announced. Aikman has run a lucrative practice for years and will join his existing office. Rogers, trained at Indiana University Law School, has been with Hastings Allen Hastings and was elected county attorney. The firm will operate from Aikman's current office.
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