Rain Ends Elks and Oranan Hall Game At Eleven Innings
Rain halted the Elks vs Oranan Hall game after eleven innings with a nine to wing score. Hayes and Hayes started for Ozaman, Potter and Scoble for Elka. Washington Pennants beat Wheatland fourteen to nine. Loogootee Glass Works beat Odon five to three. Marriages included Walter Harman and Dessie Callahan at the First Methodist church in Odon. A variety of local notices follow, including a stroke of paralysis on Nathan R. Ragle and a dawn wedding of Grenverry Miles and Frannis Clements. Washington ranked seventy-seventh in per capita wealth at 447.08.
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Elks
Oranam Hall
Shop Grounds
Ozaman Club
Hayes
Elka
Potter
Scoble
Southern Indiana Glass Works Club
Loogootee
Odon Boys
Loogostee
Glass
Daviess County
Plainville
Odom
Walter R. Harman
George Harman
Dessie D. Callahan
Odon
First Methodist Church
Hayden H. Allen
Madison Township
Tilletha Callahan
Agitation Grows for Adequate Life Boats on Lake Steamers
Report notes overcrowding with 1660 plus per shed on Titanic and calls for proper safety gear on Lake Michigan steamers. Births announced: a son to Mrs W C McKittrick of Plainville and a son to Mrs Fred Schwartz of Hamden Ohio. Kennedy birth listed for Mrs Luke Kennedy on a Saturday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Michigan
Mkittrick
W. C. McKittrick
Plainville
Schwartz
Fred SchWarts
Hamden
Ohio
Anna Watden
Kennedy
Luke Kennedy
New Suits and Marriages in Washington Area Court Records
Local court docket lists several cases including School vs White, Arney vs Arney divorce, Case Plow Works vs Alexander, Rust vs Gamble injunction and quiet title. Marriage licenses include Tidd Rhodes, East Walls, Beckett Crays, Bussard Towey, Beasley Maryfield, Harmancallahahan Callahan, Babrick Bogard. Advertised letters noted at Washington post office for week ending April 39.
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School
S. White
School City of
Washington
Belle White
Henry White
Arney
Imima P. Arney
Jonas J. Arnos
Plow Works
Alexander
Case Plow Works
William T. Alexander
Nate
Washington Post Office
Chas. L/ Rowlan
Mable Elwood
Anna Porter
Lizzie Irene Smith
Nora Sinnott
Knights Templars to Observe Ascension Day in Sullivan
Lodgh plans Ascension Day observance in Sullivan on May 16 with a big parade automobile rides band and orchestra concerts and a banquet. About 500 visitors expected from Washington Vincennes Olney and Robinson. Olney delegation to arrive on a special train. Services at the Methodist church and Sullivan high school band will provide music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights Templars
Sullivan
Sullivan Times
Washington
Wincennes
Olney
Robinson
Jil
Methodist Church
Sullivan High School
Robington
Olney Lodge
Sullvan Knights
Poor Asylum Condemned in State Charity Report
The state board of charities reports for the year ending September 30 1911 unfavorable conditions at Daviess county poor asylum north of the city. It warns the building is inadequate for sex separation and showers a gloomy basement living area for a crippled man. A new facility is urged. The Daviess county jail is described more favorably though interior painting and classification updates are noted.
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Poor Asylum
Board of State Charities
Daviess County
Girl Perilously Hit By Car On Brick Street
A young girl named Thompson was struck on the shoulder by a stone knocked loose by an automobile returning to Commercial addition on Friday afternoon. The stone caused a gash and will cause several days of pain.
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Commercial Addition
Thompson
Township School Enumeration Shows Growth in Washington Township
The annual enumeration completed by Township Trustee Grant Keith shows 1,092 school children in Washington township outside the city, up from 1,019 last year. Beoin reports 278 children, a gain of three, reducing the countywide loss to ten.
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Washington Township
Grant Keith
Beioin
Odon Teachers Selected for Public School Posts
The Odon public school announces appointments with J. O. Gillaspie as superintendent, J. Hufford as high school principal, Orpha Cole as assistant principal, Edith DeMoss directing eighth grade and high school history, Schuyler Ketcham overseeing grades seven and six, and Elmer York and Eulata Guthrie assigned to lower grades. Martha Sommers covers third and second grades with Fannie Ode in primary instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odon
J. OW. Gillaspie
Pr. J. Hufford
Orpha Cole
Edith DeMoss
Schuyler Ketcham
Elmer York
Booand
Martha Sommers
Fannie Ode
Notes from Plainville ceremony and local officials
The excerpt lists individuals O Brien and Miss Mayme B Wade and notes the class flower pink carnations with lavender and white colors. Music came from the Plainville orchestra. Invocation and benediction were given by Rev Henry Donbo. Daniel J Myers is identified as township trustee.
Indiana and neighboring states motor vehicle laws summarized
Digest of state motor vehicle statutes covers Indiana Michigan Illinois and Ohio registration fees licensing for chauffeurs speed limits lighting requirements and reciprocity rules. Notable items include Indiana registration with secretary of state optional licenses for chauffeurs and city regulation allowances. Michigan sets varying fees and age limits with reciprocity. Illinois imposes tiered horsepower fees and stricter tests. Ohio outline includes annual registration and license requirements plus lighting standards. Fire destroys a barn near Vincennes and a high school track meet results highlight Vincennes beating Washington 62 to 55 with close field events and notable performances.
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Washington
Indiana
Indianapolis
Michigan
Lansing
Secretary of State
Springfield
May devotions At St Simons Church Draw Large Crowd
Large crowds attended May devotion services at St Simons church with about two hundred children and youths taking part led by Sisters of Providence. Bishop Chartrand to bless additions at St Johns and attend confirmations and class of fifty children at St Ghies.
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St. Simons Church
Sisters of Providence
Misa Gertrude Dosch
Father Bolland
Mother of Christ
Joseph Chartrand
St. Marys
St. Simons
U. B
J. A. White
Rule on dancing and theater attendance urged by bishops
The board of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church advised abolishing the rule prohibiting dancing card playing gambling and attendance at theaters and circuses as obsolete in a report to the general conference in session at Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Bishops of
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
General Conference
Seasion
Minnegpolle
Many Missed Mortgage Exemption Filings
Newspapers urged use of the mortgage exemption law but many tried filing Saturday, six days late. Each eligible person would have saved more than the Herald’s yearly cost, highlighting the broad impact of timely exemptions.
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Herald
Johnson Requisition Arrives for Local Plant Equipment
Thomair Johnson of Snider Preserve travels from Cincinnati to Washington to prepare requisition for local plant equipment and to assist in closing scattered acreage. Otto Allen plans to stay in Madison through next week, with William A Wallace handling acreage matters in his absence. Work on the building will start once Johnson's requisition is organized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomair Johnson
Snider Preserve Company
Washington
Cincinnati
Mr. Johnson
Otto Ailen
Madison
Washington Track Team Seeks Big Six Meet Victory
A delegation of about forty students accompanied visiting Washington athletes who will travel to Evanaville next Saturday for the Big Six track and field events. County Superintendent A O Fulkerson refereed the meet and the Lambdl Phi club hosted an evening hospitality event at their Camp Bell quarters. Washington's chances for winning the girls meet are slim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. O. Fulkerson
Lambdl Phi Club
Campbell Building
Washington
Evanaville
Big Six Athletic and
Indiana Railroad Commission Orders Block Signal Installations
The Indiana railroad commission requires automatic block signal systems on several lines including B and O Southwestern Wabash and others. Twelve Indiana roads now ordered equipped with signals and many more to install at a projected cost near 1.1 million dollars for about 792 miles of tracks.
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The
Railroad Commission of Indiana
Indiana
B. & O. Southwestern
Wiabash
W. J. Wood
Pennsylvania
Wabash
Monda
T. H
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Misses Coats
Cabel & Kauffman Mercantile Co
Wheatland Sungzer
Sheriff's
A Benedict
Babrick-Bogard
Frank A. Babrick
Lillian Dorothy Bogard
Westminster Presyterian
W. P. Hosken
Broom
John Babrick
Ogden Street
Broman
Noah Bogard
Ordon Street
Honey
BL & O
Southwestern
Oveda
St. Simonse Catholc
Wardal
Se. Johns
GAL EL
Mahoney
Nathan R. Ragle
Barr Township
Grenverry Miles
Frannis Clements
Bramble
Martin County
St. Joes Church
J. F. Stanton
State Board of‘ Accounts
Mahoney Funers Lijeral ‘Services
Tor
John 3
He Mae
Tidd - Rhodes
Pierce Henry
Tidd
Addie
Rhodes
East-Walls
William Cline East
Heltonsville
Viola May Walls
Beckett - Crays
Austin Beckett
Erma Lenard Crays
Bussard-Towey
Herbert Cleveland Bussard
Ellen Jane Towey
Beasley - Maryfield
Charles Herman Beasley
van Buren
Eldena
Frank Arthur Babrick
Iillian
Dorothy Bogard
Meri
Dock Broadwell
Louis G. Gearnard, W. M. Roberts
James
B. J. Burrib
Lodgh
Epsom
Epsom High School
W. P. Dearing
Oakland City College
Albert Mack
William T
Eulata Guthrie
Columbus
Vincennes
Vincennes-Washington High School
Alicetown
Starkey
Crane
Wasu| Inston
Redelsheimer
Jones
Wise
Brouidette
Stuckey
Andske
Warner
Heffernan
Hartman
Vance
Miller
House
Whetsell
O'Donald
Coogan
Gabriel
Martman
Bruner
Deffendall
Fred DeBolt
DeBolt
Repul, Hcean
Updike
Vincenes
Kiefer
Ambles
Allen
Ryan
Klefer
Hride
Vincenne
Brouillette
McBride
House of Vincennes
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Frat Methodist Church
Ministerial Association
Washington Ministerial Association
Haaken
Johnson
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