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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1908
Page
7
A Taylorville baseball team nicknamed the Evangels drew public ire for drunken, vulgar conduct in Vincennes. The manager allegedly joined the spree, and the group disrupted Fourth and Main, heckling from a streetcar to the Union Depot before departing by train.
Reports from Vincennes Spokane Hot Springs Fremont Piqua detail patrols against drunks, curfew enforcement, probation in parks, Taft measurements and lengthy marriages, with odd tales of jail, fines, and a fragile social order in midwestern towns.
In Savannah on July 21, 1910, 15 year old Harry Loveall, son of John G Loveall, was struck and killed by a giant porpoise about a half mile off Tybee beach. He was swimming with a friend, the Bruner child, and the body had not been recovered.
Purdue University horticulturist J Troop reports the joint wheat worm, a parasitic wasp larva affecting southeastern Indiana wheat stems. It overwinters as larva, emerges in spring, and damages straw causing shrunken kernels. preventive steps include burning stubble, heating manure piles, crop rotation, and timely fertilization.
North Vernon glass blowers from the Huckleberry group prepare for a Sunday at Camp Manning. Turtle soup will be served and a baseball game set between the glass workers and the Ville Blues. Attendees Henry Lear George Rake Joe Kramer Harvey Mc Shaffrey arrive from Detroit for the gathering.
County Superintendent Burris reports a letter from the state superintendent of public instruction. The inquiry asks whether students in the twelve week professional course in normal schools and colleges may go home for county institute work and earn credit for the full twelve weeks. The state board resolution is noted as paused.
The state board urged teachers at county Institute training not to leave school work for institute sessions and to credit two percent on general averages for training school attendance. Mr. Cox praised San Antonio as the best town visited, contrasted with Dallas and Galveston, and recalled a delegate’s barber shop bill as an amusing note from the trip.
County Superintendent B J Burris met with Cornettsville advisory board to decide on partitioning the Cornettsville schoolhouse into two rooms. The move creates a second teaching position as sixty pupils were once taught in a single room. New teachers are appointed for Bogard township schools, including Black, Grover Keller, Fisher Elmer Myers, Wade Herbert Carter, Epsom room A L B Ray, Epsom room B Bessie Keller, Pleasant Grove Seth Bales, Cornettsville room A Everett Miller, Cornettsville room B Ella M Hodges, Oak Grove Jesse Critchlow, Berry C W Myers, Bethel Benjamin Ritter, Hayes William Watkins, Ryan Ernest Keller, Trainor Hugh Morgan. From Mt Vernon M J Hanna is in the city.
Hugh L. Cox of Dallas attended the Elks national convention as a local lodge delegate. He toured major Texas cities including Houston Galveston San Antonio and Dallas praising the state and its people during his trip.
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