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Newspaper
Boonville Enquirer
Location
Boonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1923
Page
3
In Lynnville residents search for gold in chicken crows as Aunt Mary Brown finds a nugget while cleaning a bird. The tale echoes a past Lynnville gold rush led by Dr. G. O. Wilde, though earlier finds were scarce. Meanwhile local poultry markets thrive with homegrown birds.
Members of the Boonville Writers Club anticipate a holiday feed from Mrs. Charles J. Nester Evansville Courier correspondent and charter member. Tom Downs praises her cooking and others await to see if his boast is genuine.
The Queen Esther society of the M. E. church enjoyed a Christmas party at Mary Florence Seigle's home. Parlors were decorated in Christmas colors. Er nest Nagle led the program with Lloyd Hopkins singing, Constance Kelley reading, and Margaret Myers also singing. Guests included Marion Doane, Dozza Eastham, Florence Roth, Lucille Young, Marjorie Roth, Opal Williams, Katherine Hoagland, Mary Seigle, Bertha Dillingham, Helen Jeffries, Martha Roetzel, Helen Roth, and Wilma Doane.
Boonville residents Robert H. Meyer and Fred M. Myers belong to Indiana University Bloomington’s renowned ROTC unit. The Hoosier student soldiers have earned the War Department’s distinguished college rating every year since 1919. Indiana’s R U T C is the sole university unit in the fifth army corps area to win the honor this year. The regiment is among twenty five nationwide awarded the gold star by Washington.
A family from Rockport is stranded in the city after a wagon crash Monday afternoon. The Hess family includes J Hess an ex soldier and his wife and four children with the wife ill. Estelle Helmbeck Red Cross matron arranged care at the local orphans home while efforts seek work for Hess. Earlier Fred Davis of Stinson Station collided with a parked car near Boonville causing damage and injuries from shattered glass.
After a Christian Endeavor meeting at the Oak Ridge club house, the Oak Ridge Farmers' Club was reorganized naming Wilton J. Stone as president and Gilbert Bussingham as vice president. Other officers include Amelia Gilmore secretary Norman Baum treasurer and program committee members Mrs John Gray and Mrs Claude Hart. Trustees to be named later. The club will meet weekly and invites all interested residents.
A message reports the death of J. A. Libby at his brother's New York home. His wife remains critically ill at her mother's place, unaware of the death. Mrs Libby had been brought here weeks earlier due to illness, preventing Mr Libby from visiting. Other locals, including Mrs Gertrude Cotterill and Miss Edith Cotterill, returned home after a weekend visit. The Navy weighs a North Pole air voyage next year using the Shenandoah dirigible, amid weather challenges.
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