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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1917
Page
8
Local notes recount Hazelwood Dorsey Butler and family visits. Wm Butler, Mrs. Jane McDuffie, and relatives are mentioned along with trips to Indianapolis and Lebanon. A horse owned by Mark McDowell was badly hurt in a one day race last week.
A wartime travelogue from Chicago recounts visits to Fort Sheridan and the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. The writer describes army and naval camps, training routines, dummy weapons drills, and a baseball game between Army and Navy units, finishing with reflections on a steel plate shell and the question Sammie or Jackie.
In a fragmented note, organizers announce a regional Red Cross supper on Saturday night in Ge MeeAgS IL. Volunteers welcome donations and say all funds go to support relief services. The message hints at a large, anticipated tea cream supper event.
The piece notes farmers are occupied with hay and oats this week. It records several neighborly visits and small social calls among residents including Chas Bean selling a hen to McMans and various families visiting each other around Ward and Lebanon.
Slarry Demes and family visited Lebanon Thursday with wife and daughter Miay and son Delbert. Baxter Brubeck and Albert Garner families joined Lizzie Richardson and Sol Win. Rhoades family and May James spent Sunday at Lafayette. Baxter Brubeck also in Lebanon Thursday. Harry Dames and Janie spent Sunday with Afark Vee and wife.
A Providence crowd heard a sermon by Reverend El. Carrey at Providence Church with families including Mr and Mrs Grant Davis and JC Grant Davis attending. The group then joined a dinner with friends. James Town band concert Saturday night. One Ladies Aid Society to meet Thursday with Mrs Hazel Debee.
A very large crowd gathered in town on Saturday night as power lights grew dim yet movies projected clearly. The event drew residents and visitors amid weak illumination and steady crowd energy.
Alvs Rove Waters returned home in Linton after a two week visit with J. W. Root and Walters. Mrs John Weldon and family were at the Shades on Sunday. Joe Sandlin of Lebanon visited in Advance over the weekend. Uncle Joe says he reads every word in the trusted paper.
A section of the elevator car broke down after a car load of homing hearts proved too heavy. The incident raises concerns that the entire elevator could fail under the burden of high prices.
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