Minister Is Honored At Elwood Sunday
The Elwood Evangelical United Brethren Church honored retiring pastor Rev HA Lashbrook and his ministry with a full day of services. A desk pen set was presented, and a $427 offering was raised for the resting minister. A basket dinner and afternoon program followed with music and tributes from visiting ministers and family members.
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Elwood
Evangelical United: Brethren Church
N. Mandath Ste
HA Lashbrook
Lashbrook
Terre Maute
Vernon Eugene Mikesell
Bonebrake Seminary
Daston
Raymond Downham
Chalman
Sire
Ethel Gatlapn
Musi
Mesdames Frossle
Copeland
Martha Downham
Fond Committee
Mrs. Gallapoo
Raymond Fern
E. Cher
Willam Bambroush
Nancy Henderson
Joy Kay Havens
Freda Hiarsock
Mire Rath Wertz
Verona
Kay
Wesley
Ella
Mae
Lacey
Mary Lee Brown
Noblesville
Tengirs
Noblesille
Juanita, Wertz
Ella Mae Lacey
Betty Lynch
Mary Tee. Brown
Barbara Jo Downham
Dorina, Hicks
Helen Nickles
Leona Mitel
Muncie
Heycock
Gary
Ravpe Anderson
AE. Birch
Eliwood St. John’s Taitheran ‘Church
Re. Es
First Baptist Church
J.B. Mecoy
East Nain
Street Christian
Clair W. Fiscus
Chieh of God
Mr. Sage
Dinner Honors 90th Birthday in Summitville
Mrs. Mary McLain celebrated her 90th birthday with a family dinner at her home on E Walnut St. Relatives from Indianapolis and Columbus attended. A Merry Makers Club party and bridge games followed at Frank Inglis’s home. Guests included Ruth Canfield, Ruth Van Ness, and Ida Mae Hughes among others. Grover McMahan hosted a Sunday dinner for guests from Sarasota and Muncie. A Connecticut visitor, Sylvia Farr, is staying with Nellie Beeson.
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Summitville
Mary McLain
E. Walnut St
Karl Ruddle
Joe Walther
Mary Ann
Joan
Karl Walther
Indianapolis
Lymon Overshiner
Columbus
Frank Inglis
Irene Connery
Grace Allen
McLain
Merry Makers Club
Ida Hughes
Sylvia Farr
Wilmette NL
Nellie Beeson
AMVETS Forming Post At Elwood
AMVETS will meet at Callawa Park shelter house at 7 30 pm Wednesday to organize an AMVET post in Elwood. Hauff Anderson fifth district commander will lead the meeting. All veterans interested in affiliating are asked to attend.
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Elwood
Madison County
Amvets
Callawa Park
Hauff
Anderson
Marion Singer
Peters Birthdays Are Celebrated and Community Notices
Relatives gathered at Peters home Wednesday evening to honor birthday anniversaries with refreshments. Neighbors and friends, including Mr. and Mrs. Herb Waymire and family, attended from Summitville Alexandria and near York. The Women’s Missionary Society met at James Shawhan’s woods near here with topics on World Peace and Peace with Self and Others. Also noted were a local stork shower for Mrs. Margaret Pratt and a hospital patient, Larry Delinger, with injuries from an automobile accident near Fort Recovery Ohio. Ottawa pipelines carried 147,304,000 barrels of oil in 1953, up from previous years.
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Anars
Edd Peters
Herb Waymire
Summitville
Charles Peters
Alexandria
Harold Cunningham
York
the Neighbors Inc
Chub
Callaway Park
Elwood
Margaret Pratt
Judith Runyan
Mary” Ruth Harrison
Paul Stiner
Ralph Livengood
Julius Walker
Don Nash
Lake Durant
Hubert Beilhartz
Edd Jardis
Midland Mid
Susan Johnson
Anderson
Kathy Ludlow
Women's Missionary Society of the
Church of 5 God
James Shawhan
Edith Hull
Virginia Gough
Self
Thelma Henderson
Mildred Williams
Janet Moore
Jonesboro
Orestes
Larry Delinger
St. John's Hospital
Ft. Recovery
Ohio
Ottawa
Thorne Death Inquiry May Be Continued
In Chicago an inquest into Montgomery Ward Thorne's death may proceed despite a natural death ruling. Coroner Walter E. McCarron plans further sessions as witnesses and the pathologists' report form part of an ongoing inquiry into the 20 year old heir's June 19 death.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward Thorne
Walter E. McCarron
Thorne
Harry Leon
McCarron
Jerry Kearns
Elwood Newcomers Club Picnic and Reunion Notes
Elwood Newcomers Club members held a picnic at Clearwater Park with games and swimming. The M. M. Jackson family hosted its fourth annual reunion with a noon dinner and park activities. A Country Club dance drew a large crowd while regional weather and travel notes filled the rest of the page.
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Larry Earle
Jackson
S. Ste. Marie
Des Moines
Cle Dubuque
Fargo
M. M. Jackson
Masas City
Cal
Filaway Park
Basket
Omaha
Jedteon
Dina
Loy Dackson
Ficus
Elwood 7 Country Club
John Merritt
Ae Virgil Ri
Sam Re
ang_ Mg
Oesett Wann
We E
Sioux City
Withston
Atlanta
Boston
Miami
New York
Washington
Fort Worth
New Orleans
Denver
Phoenix
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Monument Erected To Swedish Emigrants
A monument honors Swedish emigrants on Fryken shore in Vaermland. The 54 foot granite monument bears the heraldic eagle and provincial arms. Unveiling speaker Axel Westling notes the annual reunion and distant kin across the United States and Finland.
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Aas
Vaermland
Sweden
I Fryken
United States
Finland
Vaermt
Sunshine Clas
Gover
First Presbyterian
Axel Westling
Callaway Park
Esther
Doenges Will Address Clu Touay Meeting
Doenges plans to address the Rotary Club meeting at noon. James L. Doe discussed the Federal Social Security Program before the U S Senate Finance Committee representing the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and the Madison County Medical Society. The gathering adjourns at 1 15 p m with a water show by the Girls Department at the YM pool.
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Touay
Anderson Rotary Cnmca
James L. Doeiscuss
Dr. Doenges
U.S. Senate Finance
Madison County Medical Society
Stone Blarney Stone Captures Hearts at New Hampshire Cathedral
A fragment of Ireland's Blarney Stone forms part of an open air World War I memorial cathedral in Rindge New Hampshire. Douglas Sloan, founder of the cathedral after the loss of his Air Force son Lt Sanderson Sloan, received the fragment from J W Chapman of Lynn Massachusetts. The stone has rested with the Chapman family for a century and is now a cherished token amid the pine hillside sanctuary.
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Chapel Rindge
N. H.pa
Ireland
New Hampshire
Douglas Sloan
Air Force
Sanderson Sloan
J. W. Chapman
Lynn
Mass
Chapman
Atlantic
Local Elwood Wedding Reflects Simple Elopement Style
Elwood, Sunday afternoon at First Baptist Church witnessed the wedding of Miss Carolyn Lee Smith and Paul M. Julius. The ceremony featured pink gladioli and white asters, with Miss Beeman as matron of honor and Ronald Lee Jordan as best man. After a reception in the church basement, the couple plans a summer wedding trip and will reside on Route 1 Windfall. Carolyn Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Smith, is a 1953 Wendell L. Willki graduate working at Commonwealth Loan. Paul Julius, son of Mrs. Alice Lis, is a 1952 Tipton high school graduate now farming.
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Esther Koons
Han ‘el Smith
Booth Hamilton
Robert Perry
Carey ‘Phiter
Sadie Harris
Fadna Balser
Willian White
Rebecca Allen
Martha Tipton
Chicago
W .Tipton
Florence Cooper
Chicax
Menominee
Mich
Ster
Orth
Ingome
Robert Bamrough
Irs
Max Beeman
Ronald Lee Jordan
David Julius
Ernest Julius
David Perkins
Ann ‘Trittipo
Rose Marie Bright
da Cotton
Beverly Fettis
Sandra Riley
Betty Baxter
Perkinsville Personal Notices Spotlight Local Guests
Perkinsville residents list visitors and gatherings including James Row and Joe Montgomery from Augusta, Mara Lee Wilson of Frankton, Walter and Karl Gentry hosts, Bass Lake vacationers, and multiple Sunday dinners. Names from Anderson, Lapel, Noblesville, Fairmount, and surrounding towns are noted among families and extended relatives.
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Perkindvill —Messrs
Mesdames James Row
Augusta
Joe
Montgomery
Lapel
Francis Lennes
Town
Alice Graham
Land
Mara Lee Wilson
Frankton
Walter
Karl Gentry
Vow
Bass Lake
Ford
Spauiaing Sand
Anderson
Lee Girton
Ed Wise
Ola Mooce
Russel Pinnell
John Welch
Annie Castor
Messrs
Walter Henderson
Merschell” Wikiman
James Humphreys
George Lay
Elva Earlywine
Forest Path
Noblesville
Jim Bolt
Messrsanc Mesdieres
Charles Smith
Alexandria
Kenneth Bolten
Charle Acklen ¥An
Aries. Davis
Fairmount
Raymon
Gary Shaw Oveentown
Italy Erects Memorial for POWs in Bombay Cemetery
Italy honors its dead with a marble mausoleum at Sewree Cemetery in Bombay for Italian prisoners of war who died in India between 1941 and 1946. About 500 Malian officers and men were exhumed from 23 cemeteries and reburied in a U shaped memorial, as a tribute to their service and sacrifice.
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Bombay
Sewree
India
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