Tramps blamed after railroad conductor death at Dillsboro
A B and O Southwestern conductor Hiram Childers died early Tuesday at Dillsboro in a death linked by locals to a similar 3 year old incident at the same spot that killed Henry Orrell of Seymour. Friends Childers and Orrell were close, and speculation includes possible assault by a tramp or a tragic fall between cars.
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Hiram Childers
B. & O. Southwestern
Dillsboro
Henry Orrell
Seymour
Childers
County Awards Dual Contracts for Coal and Goods
The county commissioners awarded the coal supply contract for county buildings to Muel Elswick after bidding from Mutual Mining Co Sud dith & Martin and Cabel & Kauffman Mercantile Co. A second contract for groceries clothing dry goods and shoes for the county infirmary for a year beginning July 5 went to the Cabel & Kuffman Mercantile Co. The interurban election report for Barr township June 19 showed votes against the appropriation, and the petition for the subsidy was dismissed. Commissioners adjourned Thursday afternoon until Saturday. no session on the Fourth.
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Tomuel Elswick
Mutual Mining Company
Suddith & Martin
Cabel & Kauffman Mercantiie Company
Cabel & Kuffman Mercantile . Company
Board of
Barr Township
Postal bank plan credited with reducing department deficit
The plan attributed to Postmaster General Hitchcock shows a public depository offering deposits from ten cents to one hundred dollars, with limits of $500 per depositor and annual certificates at two percent. Depositors may reinvest in US bonds at two and a half percent, while women may open accounts under their new names after marriage. Firms and societies are barred. Lafe Bridges, brother-in-law of engineer Joseph Hedges, was killed by a falling log at Commiskey, Indiana. Resolutions of respect for Alex Moore, a loyal citizen, note his virtuous life and service.
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Peoples National Bank
Postal Savings Bank
Washington Post Office
Peoples National
E. C. Faith
Post Office Department
Washington
Postal Savings Depository
Postal Department
WB. Allen
Hitchcock
Howeve
United States
Lafe Bridges
Joseph Hedges
Seymour
Commiskey
Wheat being shipped from Daviess County markets
Wheat movement is under way with five cars leaving Washington since month start and three cars from Montgomery on Wednesday. Northern Daviess stores thousands of bushels in elevators while threshing has just begun and local buyers offered 78 cents.
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Daviess County
Washington
Montgomery
Daviess
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