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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1903
Page
7
Rev Frederick G. Strickland, editor of Social Justice, Ohio state organizer, speaks on a scientific form of government rooted in justice. The free admission lecture at Peoples hall, Wednesday March 11 at 8 o clock, promises clear exposition and moral daily law for an era of peace and goodwill.
Menlo Moore returned to Mitchell. Will Brown from the West end is sick. Bernie Glover is home from St. Louis. Thomas Downer visited from Vincennes. Frank Dixon came from Montgomery. Miss Clee Allen went to Vincennes this morning. Harley Smoot is recovering after several days of sickness. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bunch came from Plainville last night. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Joseph and child from St. Louis arrived. Mayor Charles Covert and family returned to Evansville after a visit with relatives. Mrs. St. Holsinger returned to Garrett after visiting her son. Mrs. Belen Shugert and daughter Nellie returned from a visit with G. W. Cox. Harold Stearnes Jr. from Boon shot, D. B. Lamar and George B. Ashby were here last night from Petersburg.
We express deep gratitude to those who helped our beloved husband and father during his illness. Your tender sympathy and timely aid are warmly remembered. Mrs V S Davis and Callprex 310d11 It is all the inevitable forks of life that the greatest number of mistakes are made.
Maud Ballou and Francis Colwell, both colored, were tried in Mayor Clark's court and found guilty of prostitution. Colwell was fined ten dollars and Ballou five dollars plus costs. Ballou paid nothing, Colwell went to jail. The dispute began when Mrs. Colwell found Francis at Ballou's home Sunday night and swore affidavits. The trial drew heated remarks and Colwell declared he would have nothing to do with his wife.
Local notes report Tom Nolan moving to a Barr township farm and Fitzpatrick with son Frank taking Nolan property in Flora Street area. Ida Campbell to remain West End principal. Frank B Burke ill in Jeffersonville Ind. to have operation. doctors confer. Rain caused postponed Maple Grove sale to March 14. Hamlet Allen visits Omer Allen at Jefferson Barracks. Omer ill but improving. high school class of 1900 noted.
The Monday afternoon club was pleased by Lisa Helen Williams of East Walnut street. Miss Bessie Shannon of Coats Springs near Petersburg will be Miss Ben Clark’s guest at an East Fifth street party tonight. Wednesday evening the Misses Porter will entertain for Miss Shannon, their guest. The Washington chapter of Royal Arch Masons held a spread at the Hyatt hotel after the lodge meeting. Jack Jones, O M Wallace and Ralph Ingram were initiated, about forty five guests attended lunch, and extempore speeches followed. Vesuvius Active. Naples reports the volcano throwing ashes and incandescent globes as it stirs again.
Deputy State Auditor John C Billheimer of Indianapolis has endured months of rheumatism and now travels nightly to Martinsville for baths. He returns to Indianapolis before office hours each morning. Friends hope for a permanent cure.
Aggregated items record local railroad staff movements from Covington to Seymour and Louisville, a Vincennes death of conductor John Langel aged 58, and tributes to A S Davis of the Industrial Savings and Loan Association. It notes a Southern Teachers’ Association meeting and B&O S W ticket sales to Vincennes in April 1903. The piece closes with a maxims line about earning a living.
Reports describe rising river dangers across the Mississippi corridor from Cincinnati to New Orleans. Meanwhile a royal order in England seeks a DRT class ember to be built, and a batch of flood victims leaves Hilgore Kentucky.
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