Ten to Graduate at Williamsport
Williamsport high school graduates ten students at the annual commencement held in the opera house. Dr. J Stanley Coulter of Purdue University delivered the address. The class includes Ray M Bush Bessie Ferrell Frank Held Hazel Dennis Hazel Carter Edith Keister Gladys Butt Emerson Davis Blanche Fullenlove and Marie Edwards. Miss Gemma Jones returned home near Chatterton after visiting friends in town.
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Williamsport
Williamsport High School
Opera House
J. Stanley Coulter
Purdue University
Ray M. Bush
Bessie Ferrell
Frank Held
Hazel Dennis
Hazel Carter
Edith Keister
Gladys Butt
Emerson Davis
Blanche Fullenlove
Marie Edwards
Gemma Jones
Chatterton
Indiana fire marshal urges noncombustible roofs to cut fires
The Indiana state fire marshal warns shingles cause most dwelling fires and calls for non combustible roofs to reduce losses. He cites 646 spark fires in eight months and 160 in April, urging volunteer fire brigades and better equipment to combat blazes.
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Indiana
Newtown
City observes Decoration Day with selective mail service
On Decoration day the city carriers will make no deliveries but one collection will occur in the forenoon. Post office windows will be open from 8 30 a m to 10 00 a m. Rural carriers will make no deliveries.
Gish Returns Home After Indianapolis Visit
Walter Gish has traveled back to his Indianapolis residence following a family visit with his brother Frank and relatives in the city.
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Walter Gish
Indianapolis
Frank
City
Polish evangelist abducted in Danville area found alive
Rev Louis R Patment a Polish missionary vanished eight weeks earlier amid an anti saloon fight in Danville Indiana. He was discovered in an abandoned Illinois farmhouse bound gagged and in poor condition after being beaten and held in a cellar for days. Investigators Segal detectives and grand jury pursue arrests as clues emerge.
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Louis R. Patment
Danville
Columbia
Ill
Patment
Grand Jury
Westville
Segal
Patmont
Cleveland
Burns
Memorial Day Observance at West Point
Memorial services at West Point will be held at the Methodist church Saturday at 2 p m. Rev Grant Teeters of Lafayette will deliver the Memorial address as ex soldiers gather. Afterward the West Point band leads a march to the cemetery for grave flags and flowers. Citizens are urged to display national colors and the G A R ladies will serve refreshments at the K P hall with a band concert in the evening.
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West Point
Grant Teeters
Congress Street Methodist Church
Lafayette
K. P
Progressives Gain in Wayne County As Judge Bonds Predicts Win
Judge W. A. Bond of Richmond predicts the entire progressive ticket will win Wayne county in November with a larger majority than two years ago when they carried the county by over 1,000. He cites crossovers from Republicans Democrats and socialists and notes a Republican supporter told him he would join the progressives. Joe Weineman returns from a week in Tell City.
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W. A. Bond
Richmond
Wayne County
Bond
Judge
Suit to force payment on fourteen checks in Fountain Circuit Court
Danville papers report an impending suit in Fountain Circuit Court to compel payment on fifteen checks held by a Danville detective. The checks, issued by a man near Wallace during a drinking spree, total nearly a thousand dollars. Authorities say the man had bank funds when the checks were issued and now faces legal action.
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Danville
Fountain
Wallace
Illinois
Statesman of Crawfordsville Enters Covington Campaign
James F. Statesman, former United States minister to Bolivia, visits Covington to seek the Republican nomination for Congress. He plans a stiff campaign against incumbent Morrison and seeks Fountain county support for the June 18 Kokomo district convention, while not appealing for it if Fred S. Parnell runs. Statesman cites tariff and foreign policy as Morrison’s vulnerabilities. Covington Republican.
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James F. Statesman
Crawfordsville
United States
Bolivia
Covington
Congress
Statesman
Morrison
Fountain County
Kokomo
Fred S. Parnell
Attica
Covington Republican
Injured Woman Falls From Porch in Wingate
Mrs. M. E. Sheaffer slipped from a porch step at O. H. Crane's in Wingate sustaining a broken arm at the wrist and a hip fracture. Dr. Allhands treated the arm. a second exam revealed additional injury. She was moved to her daughter’s home in Richland township with Mrs. I. L. McKnight. Dr. Stanfield assisted in care.
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M. E. Sheaffer
O. H. Crane
Wingate
I. L. McKnight
Richland Township
Stanfield
Veedersburg Man Dies After Illness
Frank H. Young a Veedersburg businessman died at his mother Mary L. Young's Mill street home Tuesday at 6 55 PM after a week long illness. He had been working in Illinois and fell ill, with doctors puzzled by his condition. Post mortem found kidney trouble and gall stones among complications.
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Frank H. Young
Veedersburg
Mary L. Young
Mill Street
Mr. Young
Illinois
County Council Calls Special Session June First
The county council meets in special session on Monday June 1 to consider any business. Likely topics include defending in the appellate court the mandamus suit filed by taxpayers to compel an appropriation for a county agricultural agent.
Superintendent Rejects Gravel for Mellott Road Work
The Mellott Home Press reports the gravel road north from Mellott will use only approved material. The superintendent condemned six carloads of gravel deemed unsuitable, insisting the road be built with the best material available for the project.
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Mellett
Mellott Home Press
Seed Potatoes for Seed with Guarantee
About 100 bushels of Rural New Yorker seed potatoes offered by John D. Pearson. Potatoes are scab free and in good seed condition. Telephone 24 on 408 Attica. Miss Katherine Green visited in Lafayette on Sunday and accompanied her father toward Chicago.
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New Yorker
Attica
John D. Pearson
Katherine Green
Lafayette
Chicago
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Frank McDermond
the House of Kunnenheimer
Kuppenheimer
Capps
McDermond
J. Frank McDermond
H.W. Mitchell
the Continental Fire Insurance Co
Devoe
Crigler’s Drug Store
Joe Weineman
Tell City
Alex Newman
Newman's Clothes Show
Attica, Ind
Fiere
Lucas
Ravine Park
Bethel
Perry Street
Attica Shoe Repair Co
J.A. Newman
John G. Crumbo
Singer Sewing Met
Jackson St
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