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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1921
Page
1
A long list of Sunday visits and weekend callers to Jamestown residents. Families from Pittsboro Indianapolis Lafayette Crawfordsville and Danville visited relatives here. The Jamestown Band planned a Memorial Park concert and local church group hosted a roast while others moved or hosted reunions and gatherings.
Rev Rector led the second Daniel chapter discussion at Chapel Monday morning. Earl Threl gave a history recitation. Mark Bowman won a candy box for most Country Gentleman subscriptions. Sherman Garner took second prize. Eighth grade elected Verlin McClaine president Thora Melson vice president Edith Morrison secretary treasurer amid tied votes and a new ballot.
All is in readiness for the Masonic banquet to be held at the Advance Community Building next Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. A large attendance is expected and a fine program will be given.
The diary notes a clash on April 19 as about 300 Tibetans attacked Batang, with 1,100 deserters and supporters forming a mixed force. Tibetan and Chinese forces fought along the ridge and in town, civilians injured or killed, leaders named, looting occurred, and a possible war looms as governor warns of action if a deserter and rifles are not delivered.
William Farnum appears in the Fox special If I Were King based on McCarthy’s play and staged at Advance Community Theatre. The program highlights Farnum as Francois Villon, tracing Sothern’s celebrated stage portrayal and Farnum’s screen artistry in a remembered story.
The Advance hosts a big free community night that proves popular and well established. Caplinger and Emmert extend success wishes as Advance continues to unveil worthwhile new offerings and events.
John W. Forbes, a civil war veteran, recounts a Sherman era incident at Goldsboro North Carolina. He describes a volley issued by Sherman after a brave woman and two children were found in a house under fire. The woman died and Sherman aided the child and buried the woman in Georgia. The woman later held a government post in Washington and the man a job in Cincinnati. Roy McCabe and family visited near Mace on Sunday.
A note recounts Mr and Mrs James Ashwell entertaining relatives from Bloomington Saturday and Sunday. A letter from Roderick A MacLeod expresses a lighthearted hope for Tibetan rule and an end to robberies as the governor arrives with Laso troops.
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