Wells County News Highlights From Warren and Surroundings
A sweep of short notes from Warren and nearby towns covers social visits, church events, and local business. Items include Jere McBride visiting Ossian relatives, a Dunkard conference near Warsaw banning home telephones, and a baby funeral in North Carolina linked by Wesley Woodruff. Also noted are local elections, oil company deals, factory retrenchments, and community gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Woodruff
North Carolina
United Presbyterian Church
J. H. String
Fairview Cemetery
Bluffton City Council Okays Brick Street Contracts
Bluffton approves contracts for over thirty blocks of brick streets. Hoosier Construction of Indianapolis to pave ten squares of bituminous macadam at 81 per square yard. Kemp & Son wins parts of six brick streets at prices from 0.03 to 2.19. Hoosier Telephone Co forms in Portland to serve Blackford and neighboring counties, stirring talk of a new local system. A secret business meeting reportedly discussed the proposal and committees were named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Council
Bluffton
Hoosier Construction Company
Indianapolis
Kemp & Son Company
Hoosier Telephone Company
Portland
Blackford
Also Mentioned on This Page
Scott
Corr & Bowne
Pearl Street
New York
Jere McBride
Ossian
Charles Smith
Putnam
Davenport
Eble
Carl Spaulding
Warren
Old Order of German Baptists
Dunkards
Wakarusa
Warsaw
A. R. Hayette
Huntington County
Wells County
Samuel Brickley
P. M. Brickley
Warren High School
Warren Tribune
Wirely Lamm
J. J. Wetmore
St. Louis
Abram Simmons
A. W. Lambert
Thomas Wagner
William Kunkel
Henry Koehler
A}l of
Pennsylvania
Jefferson Township
Allen County
Union Township
Dunkirk
Emmanuel’s Reformed Sunday School
Rock Creek
C. C. Deam
Charles Decker
Charle Blick
Danville
Indiana
Eliza
Maggie Mertz
Otto Mertz
Fort Wayne
Rosanna Magley
James Fisher
Henry Greenwood
Indiana Pipeline and Refining Company
Kansas
Greenwood
Montpelier
Marion
Ed Wisehaupt
Chicago
Knox
John McCutcheon
Record-Herald
Frank J. Kahn
Buffalo, New York
George H. Amram
C. C. Deam’s
T. H. Hicks
Moses
Jethro
Fort Wayne Gas Company
Hartford City
Decatur Democrat
Supreme Order of Pestalozzie of America
A.C. Holley
S. A. D. Whipple
Fortland
A. B. Crow
Francis Crowe
Ira S. Holley
Elizabeth Williams
Richmond
W. H. R Upright
Judge R. K. Erwin
Preble Township
Rupright
Judge Erwin
Decatur
Women’s Missionary Society of the First Reformed Church
Emma Edris
Rockford
Seabald
Evening Star
Dris
Id Saurers
Japan
Norfolk
Fai Poe
Cline & Zimmer
Inka
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