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Newspaper
Boone County Progressive
Location
Boone, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1914
Page
10
Community notes list numerous visits and stays among Copeland Robison and related families across Lebanon Gadaden Morristown and Advance. Duroc hog purchases and quilting sessions appear alongside church group events and a forthcoming sale by Frank Ross. The Bethany infant death is noted with local burial.
Pleasant View social roundup lists Joe Bowen and family visiting Thomas Fendley and Mrs. Edrington, Mrs. Hazelrigg and children at Cain's, Mrs. Reiber of Zionsville dining with Thomas Fendley, plus visits to Jolietville and Shannondale area friends. A birthday party for Miss Mable Brann and Miss Bessie Cox near end of month featured ice cream, cake, fruit and friends, with many local names attending.
Salem residents report a Sunday visit by Johnson Wilson and wife to John C Marsh and family Mrs Elizabeth Moore of Zionsville spent a week with relatives in this neighborhood Parle Shaw and family called on E B Bender and family Sunday afternoon Newton Carter and wife entertained at their home Thursday Mrs John Davidson Mrs Els Holler Mrs Peter Bander and daughter Julia Ora Smith and wife Elis Smith and wife J B Bender wife and son Robert and Miss Gladys Smith Mrs Mary Schoflaid W A Scho field and family and Mrs Elizabeth Moore of Zionsville visited with Dudley Venard and family Sunday Mrs E Moore and ag Maurice spent Thursday with Mrs Verely n Wood in White Town Vern Hackley and wife visited with entry Wilson and family Sunday Mark Lane spent Saturday night and Sunday with Ole Stevens and family in Indianspolis Sylvia Lane spent Sunday and Monday with J M Byroads and a Dy at Indianspolis Z R Moore Harj Ditzenberger and family and Noble Moore and wife
The series of meetings in Riolietville completed Sunday night. Dozens of residents appear in daily life updates from Dover Station to Northfield, listing visits, illness, small gatherings, and local events across families such as the Rainey, Hawking, Hickson, and Kincaid households. Notable mentions include attendance at Sunday schools, stock gates organized by J A Pavey, and social visits among neighbors in Stewart's Chapel and Lebanon areas.
Rev D O Coy to fill his regular appointment at Stewart's Chapel Sunday morning and evening. The report notes visits by Mrs P Shelly and others to relatives near Advance and N A Graham. Several local residents including Mr and Mrs C I Cressy and families are mentioned among visitors and attendees.
Sunday visits and Tuesday church meetings color a Lebanon area social roundup. Families including Glendenning Perkins Day Dooley Evans Gates and Hoffman are noted with kinship ties, while Mart Shaw returns from the south and Mexico and Mr Williams moves onto a former Cunningham farm.
Reading through the fragment, the report lists several visits on weekends and a Monday sheep sale. Names include Johnny Drindle, George Jackson, Hazel Brown, Otha Kibby, Joe Jackson, Edd Jackson, Carrie Jackson, Daisy Dale, Dora Kennadie, Lora Lassey, Versa Reese, Chas Thompson, and the Reese and Jackson families, with places such as Ward, near Advance, and Ovid Knowlton's.
Miss Ivalakia of Edenburg visits Zionsville relatives and friends while Miss Hill of Cloverdale does the same. Mrs. Harriett Hardy spent last week with her daughter. A farm purchase by William Tudor, preparations to move. The Ladies Aid Society met with Mrs. Dora Crouch. Local residents host and visit neighbors. Shown are cattle shipments, farm news, and social calls around Whitestown and Indianapolis.
Mr and Mrs Clark Parkins called on Asbury Williams last week. Mr and Mrs Jodie Campbell attended.
Thorntown residents George Osborn and Anderson Arnold were arrested on rape charges after Miss Anna Vaughn, 15, and Miss Sarah Robison, 16, who had run away from Attica, testified against them. The girls, taken to Covington for possible placement in the Girls' Industrial School, had stayed in Thorntown amid reported misconduct.
Local items report a flurry of visits and greetings among Lebanon residents. Notables include Mrs. Spellering ill, friends in Indianapolis and Lebanon visiting relatives, and many social calls across nearby towns. A March fifteenth Go-To-Church Sunday was designated in Lebanon with various gatherings noted.
Lebanon ministers met to designate March 15 as Go-to-Church-Bunday appointing Rev A L Ward and Rev F L Hardy to lead advertising. The plan unites Lebanon churches to encourage every resident to attend a local church that day. The movement has spread widely with strong community response and is expected to boost participation. Mr and Mrs Cornthwaite and daughter visited Fragk tort relatives Sunday.
Truste of Center Township Boone County Indiana will sell at public auction on February 7, 1914 at 2 pm in Lebannon Indiana the Kern School property including building. Property described as one acre more or less with outbuildings offered separately. Cash terms. right reserved to reject bids. John L Saunders Trustee Center Township Boone County Indiana.
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