This Day in Salina History: August 31, 1903

Local items transcribed from The Salina Evening Journal, August 31, 1903. Original wording is preserved; unsuitable passages are omitted rather than rewritten.

WEDDING AT ST. JOHN’S.

Nebraska Young People to Be Married at the School Tuesday.

The chapel of St. John’s Military school will be the scene of a wedding next Tuesday morning when Miss Helen Homerick, of Beatrice, Neb., will be married to Mr. Robert Dale Elliott, professor of Latin in Tabor college, Tabor, Iowa. Miss Homerick has been spending the summer at St. John’s with her sister, Mrs. A. L. Keith, and is quite well known in Salina. Mr. Elliott arrived in Salina today from Denver and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Elliott, of Beatrice, will arrive this afternoon to be guests at the school until the wedding.

The Salina Evening Journal, page 3.

SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY.

Summer School at the Wesleyan Is Progressing Nicely.

The summer school of theology moves along in fine order. Full work in recitation began Tuesday morning and has continued on daily throughout the week. The conversation hour each afternoon from 3:00 to 3.45. Various subjects of vital interest to the ministers are discussed at that time. The time limit was discussed Thursday afternoon. The topic Friday afternoon was that pastors should be men of superior piety. This afternoon the subject was “The possibility of greater liberality.”

The young men are industrious preachers and aggressive workers. In them a bright future for the Northwest Kansas conference is predicted.

The Salina Evening Journal, page 3.

FIVE LOVING CUPS.

VALUABLE TROPHIES BROUGHT HOME BY EBERHARDTS.

FRANK IS STILL CHAMPION.

He Defeated Fred for the Honors at the Close of the Tournament—Has Held it Six Years.

They brought home with them five silver loving cups, two silver bread trays and a tennis racket as souvenirs of the two weeks’ of tennis in which they were the stars. The largest cup was won by Frank along with the championship in singles at the middle west tourney at Omaha. This cup is valued at $150 and in case Mr. Eberhardt successfully defends it for two more years it becomes his property. Frank also got a $50 cup for winning the tournament at Omaha, the $150 trophy being the challenge cup held last year by Sanderson, of Galesburg, Ill. The silver bread trays the brothers got for second in doubles. At Atchison the Salina boys did a real mean (?) trick—they won all the big prizes and left only a consolation prize for Dr. Sheldon, of Kansas City The Eberhardts brought home three cups from Atchison, each valued at about $50. Frank won one for the singles and the brothers got two others, one apiece for the doubles. It is doubtful if any tennis team in the west ever returned with as many valuable trophies of the game. The Eberhardts now have five distinct championship honors. Frank is the champion in singles of the middle west, the Missouri Valley and Kansas and Frank and Fred hold the championship in doubles of the Missouri Valley and Kansas.

The Salina Evening Journal, page 3.

HOLTSNEIDER IS ACQUITTED.

JURY RETURNED A VERDICT OF “NOT GUILTY.”

Several Other Criminal Cases to Be Heard This Week—The Vivaretes Case Today.

The jury in the case of Gus Holtsneider, charged with stealing several thousand cigars from the store of Holzmeister Bros., on the night of July 13, returned a verdict about midnight Saturday of “not guilty.” The verdict was a surprise to everybody acquainted with the case and the general opinion seemed to be that the jury would convict or hang. The circumstantial evidence was strong against the defendant but the lack of positive evidence was possibly the cause of the jury refusing to convict.

However, it is reported, that the jury stood 9 to 3 on the first ballot for conviction. The vote see-sawed during the six hours that the jury was in the box. At one time it reached 10 to 2 for acquittal and then went back in favor of conviction again. About twenty-two ballots were taken, being 10 to 2 for acquittal near the end, the two jurors who held out finally agreeing with the majority.

The acquittal of the defendant is quite a feather in the cap of Corder & Hunt, the two young lawyers who were appointed by the court to defend the prisoners. They put up as good defense as possible for their client, but it is doubtful if they expected the case to result as it did. The verdict shows the uncertainty of juries. It often happens that a man believes that he can tell just what a jury will do, but he is often mistaken, especially in cases of this kind.

The Salina Evening Journal, page 3.

CITY NEWS IN BRIEFS.

The Salina bowling alleys, Wentworth brothers, proprietors, opened Saturday evening with a good attendance and the usual enthusiasm. Thursday will be ladies’ day from 2 to 5 o’clock and all ladies are invited to bowl free on Thursday afternoons.

The streets should be cleaned before the fair, especially on Santa Fe and Iron avenues and streets traveled mostly by visitors to and from the depots. The weeds should also be cut down and the city cleaned up in general before next week. Salina, no doubt, will entertain large crowds every day of the fair and it’s time we were sprucing up a little.

A runaway on State street last evening caused considerable excitement. Houston Parsons’ driving horse got away and badly demolished the pretty rubber-tired runabout which has been the pride of Mr. and Mrs. Parsons. The horse broke loose from the hitch rack and ran through two or three yards and finally came to a standstill with its head in a chicken house at the Underwood residence. No one was in the vehicle which was strung all along the street. The horse was bruised some but not seriously.

The Salina Evening Journal, page 4.

Source newspaper: The Salina Evening Journal. Source and image credit: The archived newspaper was made available courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society.