Census to Start Monday in Elwood City to Count Population
A federal census opens Monday in Elwood to count residents over about two weeks. Mayor Robert Fortson says the current population of 11 761 could rise to about 12 500, boosting state gasoline and alcohol tax revenue to cover census costs. Enumerators will record addresses names relationships sex race and ages with confidential data.
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Elwood Elwood
Elwood
Robert Fortson
B. J. Fitzgerald
Bureau of the Census
U.S. Department of Commerce
Jellwood
Shaw Cleared In Disorderly Conduct Charge
Illiterate OCR fragment reports William V Shaw 33 of 2628 Halford St was charged with disorderly conduct after an arrest on Dec 21 1957 at K Y Smokeshop. He was found innocent after proceedings.. The text also mentions church group meetings and other minor court items from Elwood Indiana.
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First Methodist Wscs
First Methodist Woman's Society of Christian Service
Ray Barnes
Vimal
William V. Shaw
Halford St
K. Y
Vest
Witt Marvin
Ming
Charles Whitehead
Shaw
Whitehead
John Walsh
William Lawler
Reformatory Head To Address Optimists Club
Paul Whelchel, superintendent of the Pendleton Reformatory, will speak at the Anderson Optimist Club noon meeting at the YMCA. He will discuss delinquency and correctional institutions.
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Reformatory
Anderson Optimist Club
Paul Whelchel
Pendleton Reformatory
Y ¥McA
Whelchel
Indiana unemployment shows little change in jobless picture
Indiana unemployment held steady last week with about 560 workers filing for jobless benefits. The Employment Security Division reported layoffs and recalls nearly advanced, with 14 331 new claims from workers newly out of work. Auto production slackened and about 2 500 automotive and supplier plant workers were laid off as more than 76 000 workers filed for long term unemployment.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Indiana Employment Security Division
Jess
Fire damages utility room at Bicknell home
A fire started around electrical equipment and damaged a utility room at Charles Bicknell’s home on Seybert Road near Rt. 2 at 1 am Wednesday. Anderson fire companies 6 and 2 responded with booster tanks to prevent spread. A Bicknell family member woke the household. Loss estimated around $1000. Mount Whittier at Ossipee NH named for Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier.
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Charles Bicknell
Rt. 2
Seybert Rd
Anderson Fire Companies 6 and 2
Mount Whittier
Ossipee
N.H
John Greenleaf Whittier
Elwood Receives 1957 Alcohol Tax Share for Remainder Quarter
Elwood will receive 3,482 dollars from alcoholic gallonage tax receipts for the final quarter of 1957, down 169 dollars from the same period in 1956, due to population shifts and per capita allocation. Local police urge residents not to dump stray dogs, with dog care at the city barn. Reserve Air Force officer Robert Snyder has completed two weeks of active duty at the National Resources Conference in Indianapolis and serves with the 9596th Air Force Reserve Squadron in Muncie. Mercy Hospital reports recent dismissals and admissions including several named patients and transfers to Riverview Hospital Noblesville.
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Elwood
Othe
Joseph Hickey
John Ramey
12Th Sts
Indianapolis
Air Force Reserve
Ron
Muncie
Snyder
O Corporation
Mercy Hospital
Ernest Sheedy
Baby
Allen Oswall
Fair Imount
Penny Padgett
Darrell “Hoover
So. F St
Jamies Sheppard
Tipton
Mary Nicholas
Marvin i Cunningham
Victor Alten
Jack Bousley
6Th St
Alexandria
Keith Sizelove
John Conwell
Robert L. Jackley
Darlene Simmons
So. H
Donald Tobin
Allen
Waymire Rites In Fairmount And Local Obituaries
Rites for Ervin Waymire 79, Fairmount, a retired farmer, held at Fairmount Friends Church with burial in Elwood City Cemetery. Surviving widow Agnes two daughters Mildred Welbes and Mrs. Ernest Foust two sons Wayne and Milton a brother Roc Waymire a sister Mrs. Sarah Houser. Also obituaries for Mrs Maude Stewart 84 Elwood and other local details including family links and church membership.
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Elwood
Ervir i Waymire
Rt. 1
Fairmount
Rigdon
Fairmount Friends Church
Xen Harvey
Elwood City Cemetery
Hunt Funeral Home
Agnes
Stewart
Maude
Chalmery
Hobbs
Windfall
Pritchard
William Dever
Harmony Christian Church
Leisure
Elwood City
Fred Hobbs
Richmond
Netlie Gilchrist
Ligier Nursing
Arcadia
Million dollar license plate error ends in bank return
Romeo Rizzatto of Alton received a $1,000,010.50 check due to a bank mistake when his 1958 license plate fee was processed. Secretary of State Carpentier will return the oversized check to Alton Bank and Trust Co, so the bank can keep the funds.
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Springfield
Romeo Rizzatto
Alton
Alton Bank and Trust Co
Rizzatto
Rizzato
Secretary of State
Charles F. Carpentier
Carpentier
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Handley Senate
Ewin Steers
Handley
U. S. Senate
Florence Cooper
M. A. Copeland
Thelma Reid
Alesdames Overton Sacksteder Jr
Harry Overesch
Fred Smith
Fellowship Guild of the First. Baptist Church
Kappa Delta Hi Sorority
Mangas
Mes
Thelma Lilly Philatheas
Philathea
Grace Methodist Church
Hamany
Mesdames Wayne Phenis
Herman Bull
Sam Landeman
Ethel Wimmer
George Kintzel
Ellis Horlen
Ruth Doo‘Jey
Earl Prater
Richard Vo
Bernice Caldwell
Delta Chi Sigma
Esther Guard
Casel C. Hicks
S. Gaseston
Norton
James &. Moore
15Th St
Charles W. DeLong, Jr
14Th St
Lois Hodson
Anderson Meadowbrook Baptist Church
Jolly Women’s Club
Jolly Women's Club
Elizabeth Goodwin
Nellie Rigsby
Dorothy Leisure
Walt Disney
Yeller
Big
Disney
Paramount Theatre
Dell
Anderson St
Russell Sumner
Fred Emmons
Cepher and Fesler
Riverview Hospital
Noblesville
Waymire
Masonic
Mastis
Anderson
John Brent
Carl A. Cottam
Miller J. Huggins
Omer L. Springer
California
Barkentine Euphemia
San Francisco
Pha
Liberty Township
Agnes Smith
Floyd Fortson
Jack Fortson
John
Peg
Wancy Leavell Hobbs
Charles Stewart
Nescafe Instant
Kraft Velveeta
KRAFT
Miracle
Manor House
del Monte
Ballard OR
Pillsbury Biscuits
van Camp
Purina
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