William H L Brown Dies At 90 In Montgomery County
William H L Brown aged 90, died at 1 45 PM at his son Granville Browns home in Montgomery County near the Hoone county line after a two month illness. Born March 9 1824 in Kentucky he married Nancy J Jessee January 2 1850 and leaves three children Mrs Marshall Coleman Mrs Sarah Bowen and Granville Brown plus a brother and three sisters. Funeral held at New Ross Methodist church Thursday August 27 at 2 PM Rev Nicely officiating. Burial in Odd Fellows cemetery New Ross.
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Wiliam Badley Brown
Montgomery County
Hoone
Granville Brown
Kentucky
Montgomery
Nancy
J. Jessee
Marshall Coleman
Thorntown
Sarah Bowen
Lebanon
Shannondale
Clark Brown
Greenfield
Susan Stewart
Mary McKinney
Regena Allen
Kokomo
Methodist Church
New Ross
Nicely
Odd Fellows Cemetery
Frank Stephenson and Drubelle Immel Wed in Frankfort
Local teachers Frank Stephen Stephenson and Drubelle Immel, both of Lebanon, married Tuesday night at the home of Rev. D A Stark in Frankfort. The couple are prominent in education. Stephenson previously taught at Central and South building after Philippines service, Immel is the daughter of Ed and Mrs Immel of West Main Street. They will reside with Immel’s parents for now, with Stephenson teaching next year.
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Frank Stephenson
Drubelle Immel
Lebanon
D. A. Stark
Frankfort
Stark
Stephenson
Central Normal
Danville
Jewelers converge for national convention in Chicago
The Chicago Jeweler's Association hosts the ninth annual convention of the American National Retail Jewelers' Association at the Hotel Sherman. About twenty five hundred jewelers from the middle and Southwestern states are scheduled to attend. Local dealer Harry McDaniel and his son Francis join Clyde Armstrong on the trip to Chicago Monday to participate.
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Chicago Jeweler's Association
American National Retail Jewelers’ Association
Sherman
Harry McDaniel
Sewler
Francis
Clyde Armstrong
Chicago
McKinley Family Reunion Honors Westfield Matron
A pleasant reunion of the McKinley family was held Sunday in Fairview park for Mrs. L. A. McKinley of Westfield turning seventy four. A noon dinner followed and Mrs. McKinley received a bound Bible and warm congratulations from attendees including N. M. Daily and wife Pak McKinley family Frite James Kase and family Mechanicsburg Mrs L A McKinley and daughter Ethel and several others.
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Mc Kinley
Fairview Park
L. A. McKinley
Westfield
Mra
Alice
Clark
L.A. McKinley
Ethel
Clit
Lord Carrani
Frank Lily
Crall-Clover
Lesh Borris
Mia
Joseph Poole
Abner Poole
Eva Byroads
Annual Reunion of 164th Regiment Indiana Volunteers
The thirty second annual reunion of the 164th Indiana Volunteers will be at the G A R hall in the courthouse on September 2. Welcome by Rev A W Cash at 10:30, program to follow, dinner at noon at First Baptist church for thirty five cents, afternoon meeting at the G A R hall to elect officers and plan next gathering. Old soldiers widows and their families invited. RSVP by Saturday evening for dinner count. Joseph Reese president.
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164Th Regiment
Indiana Voluntars
G. A. R. Hall
Court House
A. W. Cash
First Christian Church
Plelock
First Baptist Church
Joseph Reese
Regiment Association
Miller Wins Noble Street Contract For Street Work
George T. Miller was awarded the Noble street contract at Tuesday's council meeting for curbs gutters catch basins sewers and alley approaches from Indianapolis avenue to the west limits. Three bidders Adams Bros and Pat Shahan and Son. work to begin next Monday under the three mile gravel road law. township to build. property owners pay for other improvements.
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George T. Miller
Noble Street
Indianapolis Avenue
West Corporation
Adams Bros
Pat Shahan & Son
Three Mile
Rails Spread Wreck Strands Freight Cars in Central Indiana
West bound freight No 51 on Central Indiana Railway derailed in the local yards Tuesday night about 9 30 due to spreading rails. Three loaded cars were wrecked with two still off the rails, wheels buried to the axles. Sections teams have been called to recover the cars.
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Central Indiana Railway
Departure to Shreveport to join Mr Hissong
Mrs I K Hissong and children Miss Pearl Linn leave for Shreveport Louisiana where Mr Hissong has lived since March. Farewell parties including a piano serenade at Hudgens Grove were held in their honor. The family will be greatly missed, especially Pearl, a local favorite.
William B Reed Dies After Long Illness in Indiana
William B Reed died Saturday after nearly three years of illness and three months bedridden. He was born December 12, 1842 in Augusta County Virginia and moved to Indiana in 1865. He married Elizabeth Powell January 3, 1876 and had six children. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, later the Methodist church at Thorntown, and is survived by his wife, five children, thirteen grandchildren, and many relatives. Funeral Monday at 1 o'clock conducted by Rev. Martin Williamsport. burial at Precinct cemetery east of Thorntown.
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William 5
Archie
Margaret Reed
Augusta’ County
Indiana
Elizabeth Powell
Charles E
Jennie Grasham
Lebanon
Anna Gullion
West Lebanon
Chester W
Thorntown
Thomas A
Elizaville
Goldie Bates
Frankfort
Presbyterian Church
Dover
Methodist Church
Martin Jaf Williamsport
Precinct Cemetery
Lebanon Woman Undergoes Emergency Operation
Mrs Ora Wilson a Hamilton College representative met in Lexington Kentucky at the home of Mrs Ben F P SeKey. She suffered appendicitis in Washington Court House Ohio while preparing to take students to the college. An emergency operation was performed and the Rushville paper reports it successful. Mrs Wilson was a former Lebanon resident before joining Lexington school.
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Lebanon
Ora Wilson
Hamilton College
Lexington
Ben FP. SeKey
Washington Court House
Ohio
Rushville
Plumbing Contract Awarded for Farmers' Loan Building
The heating and plumbing contract on North Leba street for the Farmers' Loan Association building is let to Tice & Brown. Their bid stands at $1100.
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Farmers’ Loan Association
Lebanon Street
Tice & Brown
Bird and Bee Man Isaac Brown Dies in Rochester
Colonel Isaac Washington Brown known as the Bird and Bee Man has died at his home in Rochester Indiana. The obituary notes his nickname and residence, with no further details on funeral arrangements or cause of death provided in the readable text.
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Rochester
Ind
Isaac Washington Brown
German Regulations for Military Service
Germany enforces compulsory military service from age seventeen to forty-five. Berlin shows citizens aiding security with youths as young as twelve guarding bridges. The army comprises 26 corps totaling about 1,250,000 in peacetime, plus Landwehr and Landsturm reserves, with total mobilization potentially reaching 20 to 60 million across all forces.
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Germany
Berlin
Hie
Landwehr Cavalry
Forse
Landwehr
Landsturm
War Comet Seen Tied To The Great War History
An article discusses a comet discovered from La Plata in Argentina eight months before and now visible to the naked eye. It links the celestial body to the 1914 European conflict, noting its brightness, trajectory, and projected six year visibility, with references to other famous war comets in history. It mentions Pope Pius X’s death and a solar eclipse as contextual signs.
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Europe
Paul T. Detovan
Delovan
la Plata
Argentine Republic
Pope Pius X
Russia
Delevan
United States
Purdue Dairy Dept Boosts Cow Testing Across Counties
The Dairy Division of Purdue University expands an active campaign to organize cow testing associations in every Indiana county. Porter County's first association formed August 14 1914 in Wheeler with Milholland as tester. Meetings linked to Porter County Better Farming meetings. urging county agents and creamery men to form delegations and spread testing nationwide.
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Dairy Division
Agricultural Extension Department
Purdue University
Porter County
Wheeler
Ind
W. G. Milholland
Purdue
Better Farming Association of
Proud of Her Brother Sister of State Golf Champion
Miss Rosener of the Art Shop praises her brother Robert Resener, the state golf champion playing at Marion, Ind. The Art Shop in Lebanon is opened by two Indianapolis women Miss Laura Resener and Miss Margaret Conacher, with Miss Jennie Kennedy helping, aimed at bringing exclusive art offerings to local residents.
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Lebston
Jennie Kennedy
Indianapolis
Laura Resener
Margaret Conacher
Lebanon
Miss O'Neil
State Life
Resener
Robert Resener
Marion
Ind
Miss Rosener
Whisky labeled good tops slack bootlegging case
Raymond Slack of Marion Indiana serving four months in Clinton county jail and fined 100 dollars for bootlegging will not be prosecuted under federal law if he pays a revenue tax on the whisky found in four quart bottles. Deputy Revenue Collector W A Bustin testified the whisky tested 100 proof, eliminating further prosecution for transferring inferior whisky to bottles bearing revenue stamps.
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Raymond Slack
Marion
Ind
Clinton County
Jair
W. A. Bustin
Frankfort
Buntin
Divorce suit filed in Putnam county circuit court
Grover Eggers sues Minnie Eggers in Greencastle for divorce on desertion grounds. He was arrested in Greencastle two weeks ago for bigamy after marrying Laura Jewell of Roachdale without a divorce from Minnie Dayton Eggers, who lives with her parents near Advance. The parties previously married in a double wedding in northern Putnam county after Eggers had left his first wife and traveled west. The prosecutor did not appear at the hearing, and Eggers was released.
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Grover Eggers
Minnie Eggers
Putnam County Circuit Court
Greencastle
Young Eggers
Laura Jewell
Roachdale
Minnie Dayton Eggers
Advance
Young Hggers
Putnam County
Eggers
Reverend C C Tarr Honored by Eel River Conference
Reverend C C Tarr has returned from the Hel River Christian Conference at Linn Grove Indiana and visited Bluffton. He was honored by the conference as one of seven ministers to represent the Eel River Conference at the American Christian Quadrennal Convention, the largest representative body of the Christian church.
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C. C. Tarr
Linn Grove
Ind
Bluffton
Mie
Former Citizen Leaves Home After Quarrel in Indianapolis
John Thornberry, born in Lebanon and long away from home, disappeared from 419 North Pine Street after a Friday quarrel with his wife. Mrs. Thornberry, who works, fears for daughters Esther and Richard, ages twelve and ten, who now must sell papers to help the family. Thornberry is described as five feet seven inches tall with black hair sprinkled with gray.
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Lebanon
John Thornberry
Indianapolis
Indianapolis News
North Pine Street
Esther
Richard
Death of Tra Hiatt in Darlington at 63
Ira Hiatt died at his home in Darlington Monday evening after a nine year illness from creeping paralysis. He was 63. Survived by seven children all of Darlington except Hazel Anderson of Fairmount Indiana. Children named: Mrs Bert Saidin, Mrs John Lynch, Mrs Ethel Milner, Eva Hiatt, Ralph Hiatt, Mrs Emory Moffitt, and Hazel Anderson.
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Ira Hiatt
Darington
Hiatt
Darlington
Bert Saidin
John Lynch
Ethel Milner
Eva Hiatt
Ralph Hiatt
Emory Moffitt
Hazel Anderson
Fairmount
Ind
Engagement announced for Madge Cory and H. E. Dunn
Mrs. W G Cory hosted a yellow and white luncheon at 2955 North Capitol Ave Indianapolis to announce the engagement of her daughter Madge to H E Dunn son of Mr and Mrs W G Dunn. Twelve guests attended and the decor featured yellow summer flowers and yellow and white hearts. The wedding is set for September. Miss Cory is granddaughter of Mrs Lyda Cory and niece of Mrs Guy Voris.
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W. G. Cory
North Capitol Avenue
Indianapolis
Madge
H. E. Dunn
W. G. Dunn
Miss Cory
Lyda Cory
Guy Voris
Westfield native Rev J O Hochstedler preaches in Noblesville
The Ledger notes Westfield born Rev. J. O. Hochstedler, studying theology in Boston, delivered the Sunday sermon at the First M. E. church in Noblesville. The paper praises his clear, logical thinking and bright future, predicting he will finish studies soon and enter gospel ministry, rekindling hometown pride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse O. Hochstedler
Westfield
Noblesville
Ledger
J. 0. Hochstedler
Boston
M. i
Futura
Westpalaish
Death of Two Year Old in Grace Randle Family
Kenneth Loren Salle, two, died at the parents home at 6 45 Monday evening after an illness of one day. He is survived by his sister Floy Keith Randle. The fragmentary report notes a plea and trial context amid partial details.
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Kenneth Loren Salle
Grace Randle
Floy Keith Randle
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William HL Brown
D. A
154Th
Miller
C. 1
Shreveport
William B. Reed
The
Agricultural
Department of Purdue
C.C. Tarr
Springfield
Tra Hiatt
Announcedment Party
Miss Madge Cory
Harry Dunn
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