Kleinknecht Family Reunion Sets Next Annual Date
The Kleinknecht family held their annual reunion Saturday one half mile north of Y Tocsin with about 200 attendees. Speeches music andRecitations filled the day. a basket dinner was served at noon. Fifty local members attended and officers James Kleinknecht President W A High Secretary and S N J Kleinknecht Vice President were unanimously re elected for one more year.
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Y Tocsin
Kleinknecht
Saturay
James Kleinknecht
W.A. High
Sn.j. Kleinknecht
Died on the Car Thoras Gilbert Passes Suddenly
Thoras Gilbert of the South part of the state died on an interurban car between Hartford City and Eaton Sunday from heart trouble. He entered the car in health and died quietly on the floor after a brief gasp. The bodies were taken to Hartford City for investigation, with the event stirring excitement aboard the car.
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Thoras Gilbert
Hartford City
Eaton
Bert
Hartford
Blackford
Soroner
Filing Names For Election Tickets And Muddled Prose
The piece notes parties filing certified nominees with the clerk to place names on the ballot. It mentions the Prohibitionists and Socialists already filing, with others expected soon, alongside a rambled moralizing excerpt about labor, idleness, and cigarette habits.
County schools form basketball association schedule
Six schools Bluffton Poneto Keystone Craigville Osstan and Liberty Center form a county athletic association to play basketball. A meeting with the county superintendent arranged a partial schedule with Oct to Dec games. Bluffton not represented at the meeting but will fill open dates. standings or averages to be kept like baseball leagues.
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Bluffton High School
Poneto
Keystone
Craigville
Osstan
Liberty Center
Bluffton
Ort
S—Ossian
Telephone Story Sparks Neighborly Call Confusion
A Bluffton resident received a rain driven dining invitation via phone. A woman asked him to tell the neighbor she could not come, claiming rain spared her, only to have the caller insist she relay the message in person. The irritated man slammed the phone down.
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Jlanner
Bluffton
Soom
Tragedy: 11-Year-Old Shirly Cummins Found Dead in Woods
Shirly Cummins aged 11 was found dead in the woods near Dundee on Sunday morning at 2 o'clock by a searching party. He had left home Saturday afternoon with a small rifle for a hunt. A bullet wound through the roof of his mouth lay nearby and gum rested beside him, with officials supposing the gun fired accidentally as he attempted to blow into the muzzle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirly Cummins
Dundee
Grace Grove Weds Joseph Myers in East South Street Home
Grace Grove and Joseph Myers wed at 8 p.m. in a ceremony at Grove family home on East South Street attended by about eighty seven guests. Rev. C G Miller officiated as Wilmetta Fink played the wedding march and a wedding supper followed. The couple will live on Johnson Street.
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H. B. Grove
East South Street
Grace Grove
Joseph Myers
C. G. Miller
Wilmetta Fink
Harry Grove
Rev. Miller
Bert Grove
Angola
Robert Blackburn
Decatur
Harold Kimble
Geneva
John Wasson
Grace
Pennville
Molly Shreves
Ft. Wayne
Ray
John Ashburn
Ossian
Johnson Street
Mr. Myers
County WCTU Convention at Poneto Draws Record Attendance
The county convention of the W C T U held at Poneto attracted the largest turnout in its history with White Ribboners from across the county. The secretary reported a membership increase of 133 in the past year due to old unions and ten new unions at Toesin Emmans Flhan and Prospect Murray Barbers Mill Liberty Center Craigville South Side or Frances Willard and West Side or Christian Hope union. Officers elected included Mrs D A Walmer as county president and Mrs Manson Reiff as corresponding secretary. Edith Sickler won the gait medal prize after ten contestants competed.
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Poneto
Toesin
Emmans
Flhanan Prospect
Murray
Barbers Mill
Liberty Center
Craigville
South Side
Frances Willard
West Side
Christian Hope Union
D. A. Walmer
Walmer
Manson Reiff
Linn
Reiffsburg Union
Simon Bickle
Six Mile Union
Edith Sickler
Mike Uniom
Frost Nips Wells County Crops In Early Freeze
Old Jack Frost struck Wells County over Sunday night into Monday morning. Ground and plants received a light snow coating but most crops were already mature. Tomatoes suffered the heaviest damage while corn had been largely harvested or is near harvest. The canning era’s past crops limited financial losses.
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Jack Frost
Wells County
Wells County Canning Company
Wedding Announced for Ward Fryback and Jennie Swaim
Invitations issued in Ossian announce the wedding of Ward Fryback of this city and Miss Jennie Swaim of Ossian. Fryback is with Fryback & Son livery. Swaim is noted as a popular Ossian resident. The ceremony is set for October 6.
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Ward Fryback
Jennie Swaim
Ossian
Fryback
Fryback & Son Liverymen
Swaim
Warren Tribune
Gas firms end gas for cooking at 50 cents per thousand
Gas, Light and Fuel and Heat Light and Power companies serving Muncie ordered that after October 1 gas would be used only for illumination and priced at 50 cents per thousand cubic feet. Their charters allow cutting gas for cooking and heating when supplies are short, at a rate not exceeding three fourths of artificial gas. Public protest grew as no notice of the rate change was given, and many homes must switch to wood or coal stoves by week’s end.
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Gas, Light and Fuel Company
Heat, Light and Power Company
Muncie
Bluffton Teachers Offered Missionary Posts in Africa
P A Allen reports Bishop Hartzell of Africa seeks to verify James Ferris and wife as potential teachers. The couple, longtime Bluffton instructors now in Arcadia, may lead an academy for whites in Africa, shifting from missionary to educational work and leveraging their extensive teaching experience.
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P. A. Allen
Hartzell
Africa
James Ferris
Ferris
Bluffton
Arcadia
Muncie
Marriage Licenses and World Fair Animal Show Sale
The notices list marriages Artie Schwob to Bessie Jones and Dallas Richey to Bessie Hoover. A circus owner Walter L Main and Hagenback proceed with a large sale of Hagenback animals from Hamburg to Matt Mann at the World’s Fair, around $500000. Noblesville’s new mayor John Dulln vows to remove all gaming devices from cigar stores and urges churches and lodges to quit selling chances.
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Artie Schwob
Bessie Jones
Dallas Richey
Bessie Hoover
Brazil
Walter L. Main
Circus
Hagenback
Lewis Hagenback
Hamburg
Germany
L. Willams
St. Louis
Mann
Noblesville
John Dulln
Dulin I
City crews inspect fire plugs as dredge talk grows
City council appointees canvassed town this morning testing and flushing fire plugs. The Salamania river dredge proposal drew broad support with the filing deadline for objections passing Thursday and no dissent recorded.
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Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Timi
Sack Frost
W. D
Bertaline
Herbert H. Deam
Pennsylvania
Steel Ranges
Cline
Zimmer & Reed
Chsh Shoe Store
Salamania
Madison Township
Portland Commercial In Exchange
Sharpe
Postofice
Cincinnati
I. Aratt
Vera Cruz
Studebaker
Circuit Court
United States
Hillis H. Roberts
National Bankers’ Convention
Roberts
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