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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1916
Page
4
Ralph Cunningham Bert and George, the Blacksmith Boys, promise top welding and disk grinding with a Presto Welder and disk grinder. They fix breaks in iron, wood, steel, or machinery and also shoe horses and mules, claiming unmatched speed and quality with Epperson & Whitsett on the job.
Earl Self loses a valuable horse due to injury. Local residents and visitors sift through church and school life, sales, and social updates. Advertisements cover Palm Beach suits, farm horses for sale, and local business notices amid a month of clean up campaigns and Bible Day plans.
A 1916 church notice invites all to Mother’s Day events at the Methodist Episcopal Church. Missionary Sunday follows with Ver Beta Miller storytelling the church’s first Home Missionary. A Workers Conference Saturday at 7 45 p m urges all teachers officers and superintendents to attend. The Epworth League program closes the Sunday School with readings songs recitations and offerings honoring mothers and Epworth League anniversary.
Emma Stewart signs a Reader's Viewpoint criticizing churches and schools for hosting social events and fees, arguing sacred spaces should worship Christ, not finance town needs. She quotes Bible verses urging the truth to set people free.
An all day C W E M program on May topic discusses U S Christian ties to world affairs. The gathering at Mrs Mary Riner house on May 10 features Mrs Clara Jones as leader with songs prayers readings and music including Onward Christian Soldiers Jesus Paid It All and Blest be the Tie. The schedule lists Bible readings Psalms 90 with Mol lie Brown Edith Brown Maude Ross Verna Cornelius Esther Sparks and Leola McClaine. A foreign mission letter and special music conclude with a benediction.
Mark Wall and family entertained Ora McDaniel and family for dinner Sunday. Robt Fulwider, Mark Wall and Ora McDaniel attended the Harrison Township S S convention at Bethany Sunday afternoon. Harrison has four schools averaging from 27 to 67 in attendance. New officers were elected and conventions arranged for four times a year.
The list of graduates includes Blanche Armbruster Georgia Ashley Stephen Bowman Louise Bounell Ethel Bryant Roberta Camplin Harold Gillaspie Nellie Hackleman Hiram Harting Pauline Hiller Edna Hawk Eldo Melling Ellen Miller Cecil Miller Doris Patterson Fulton Sperry Herman Wells Thomas Burrin Seaton Day Jewel E Dean Earl DeBard Earl McCoun James C Smith Crim Ashley Quince Canada Francis Caplinger Arnold Hypes Dcie Jarrett Sarah McConaughy Walter Nicely Vernon Purdue Letha Rohn Raymond Rohn Oakley Smith Marda Whiteley Fern Whorley Ernest Wright Ambrose Dale Victor Dale Dorval Hedge Ora Scott Gertrude Pratt John Thompson Walter Owens Elmer Hawk Lucile Dickson Grafton Henry Helen Piersol Walter Kernodle.
Wm Joseph trustee of Jackson Township states he will be at the State Bank of Advance in Advance every Tuesday for township business and at Jamestown on all other days for the same.
Historical notes recount the oldest living schoolhouse No 7 in Jackson township now a barn on Dave Duncan farm. Early teachers were John Frank and Joshua Hurt. first trustees Eli Miller James Sandlin and James Kibbey aged 91. Thompson Henry the oldest living teacher, 77, taught No 1 in 1859.
The editor Hustler reported on the Hendricks County S. S. convention at Ame noting weaker organization than Boone with four temperance departments and sixty schools. Attendance matched Jackson’s Thorntown delegation, and Ame residents supplied a free dinner at the new school building.
Telephone before 7 a.m. to receive six loaves mailed postpaid for 80 cents. A new venture advertised as convenient and beneficial for customers, inviting trial.
Ringling Brothers circus comes to Indianapolis on Thursday May 11 with afternoon and night shows in the main tent. Cinderella heads the program with more than 1000 performers dancers and pageantry. The event also features 400 artists animals and new acts from Europe plus a street parade in the morning.
Carmen Ross urges households to install screens on doors and windows and use fly traps and fly-tight garbage and manure containment. Clean stalls and toilets, remove rotting waste, and urge neighbors to act to reduce fly breeding and disease spread.
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