Credit Bureau to issue confidential Who's Who catalog
The Credit Bureau plans a county wide catalog listing names and addresses of customers who buy on credit. The book will show creditor ratings delinquent accounts and amounts owed and will be shared with member merchants to guide credit decisions. The catalog connects with nearby bureaus to track records across towns and states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Credit Bureau
Balog
Rincode
Loasnort
Kokomo
Lafayette
Ontsette
Frankfort
Aryone
Its
Era
Yice
Hinkle Family Reunion Elects Officers in Logansport
Orville Hinkle was elected president of the Mary Jane Hinkle reunion held Sunday in Riverside park Logansport Minnie Fiedler of Deer Creek was named secretary The social committee includes Mary McNulty John Mills and Theresa Hinkle Seventy five persons attended Next year the reunion will be the first Sunday in August at Riverside park
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orville Hinkle
Mary Jane Hinkle
Riverside Park
Logansport
Minnie Fiedler
Deer Creek
Mary McNulty
John Mills
Camden
Theresa Hinkle
Twelve Mile
Twenty Nine CCC Camps Planned in Indiana for 1940
Indiana will host twenty nine Civilian Conservation Corps camps in the first three months of the 1940 fiscal year beginning July 1. Four camps serve war veterans with 5,000 Indiana youths and 656 veterans employed. Of 5,800 total assigned, 2,800 work erosion control, 1,400 forest protection and development, 1,400 state parks, and 200 national parks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civilian Conservation Corps
Indiana
CCC
Congress
United States
Washington Township Home Economics Club Program at Farm Bureau
The Washington Township Home Economics Club presented a program at the Farm Bureau meeting on July 15 at Deer Creek School House. Rodney Fouts and committee members led the event featuring songs, solos, duets, acts, and a Push Button Television segment with Virgil Joyce as master of ceremonies. Refreshments served to 76 attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Township Home Economics Club
Farm Bureau
Deer Creek
Stella Fouts
Iva Downham
Mildred Fouts
Mary Hinkle
Earl Fouts
Monroe Meade
Virgil Joyce
God Bless America
Pauline Robeson
Bernice Smith
Ray Coble
Eva Seward
Eva Downham
Eva Brown
James Pierce
Carrollton Township
Township Dress Revue Staged By 4-H Club
The Smile Work and Win 4-H Club of Washington Township staged a dress revue at Mary Alice Caldwell’s home near Deer Creek on August 1 at 1 30 P M. Members chosen for the County Dress Revue on August 8 were Mar Alice Caldwell Eva Seward Mary McCloskey and Mary Louise Downham. Kathleen Yerkes and Rowena McCloskey served as judges. This was the club’s final meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Township
Mary Alice Caldwell
Deer Creek
Mar Alice Caldwell
Eva Seward
Mary McCloskey
Mary Louise Downham
Kathleen Yerkes
Rowena McCloskey
From the Roaring Twenties to the Crash in Los Angeles
Warren Bayley recounts the 1920s boom and 1929 crash through the rise of two loan clerks who fields into film careers. He notes Joseph Sawyer and Robert Young, and ends with a mail offer for a travel book promotion tied to his column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Building and Loan Association
Los Angeles
Joseph Sawyer
Hollywood
Robert Young
Continental News Service
South Hill St
California
America First
Is It Worth While to Battle and Humble Fellow Men
Poem questions the worth of jostling and warring with brothers on life isthmus. It pleads for pity and peace as people overlook pride while others bear burdens and die. The speaker asks if suffering could be met with compassion rather than contempt.
Program For Farm Bureau Day at Flora
The Carroll County Farm Bureau Day at Flora Community Park on Friday August 16 features a full schedule with Morning, Afternoon, and Evening programs. Notable items include band concerts, a 4-H Dress Revue, home economics projects, a Rural Youth recreation segment, and prize awards with speakers Dr J Raymond Schutz and Rev James Pierce among participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County Farm Bureau
Flora Community Park
Nona G
Logan County Farm Bureau
S&e
Monroe Meade
Nona G. Logan
Omer Collins
Castyle Fouts
S. A. Wickard
Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau Band “America
American Farm Bureau Spirit
J. Raymond Schutz
Chas. Hannell
Margaret Mabbitt
Milton
Asa Cohee
Wabash
County Farm Bureau Insurance
Ralph Rinehart
Camden School Plans Fall Opening and Staff Changes
Camden School will open August 30 with pupil orientation and class organization. Regular classes start September 3 after Labor Day. Three new teachers join a larger staff led by Principal Robert Hunt, with assignments in science Latin math English music and vocational agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Mary Jane Harter
Camden School
Butler University
Ball State Teachers College
Jerry Hinshaw
Sheridan
Purdue University School of Agriculture
Velma Rosecrans
Lapel
Indiana
Virgil Sink
Robert Hunt
Mildred Wyatt
Holme
Alice Breitwieser
Lloyd Joyce
Merle Michael
Mary Robinson
Leona Mills
Mildred Armick
Marie ’ Martin
Muncie
Joyce
Indiana University
Wells
Logansport
Purdue University
Marie Martin
Michael
Hunt
Northwestern University
Evanston
Jil
Teaciig
Camden Harvest Home Draws Large Crowds and Praise
Large crowds attended the Camden Harvest Home festival with two amateur programs on Friday and Saturday drawing strong response. WLS Prairie Sweethearts and George Goebel headlined Thursday, contests featured top talents, and Mrs Pettiner received praise for talent sourcing. About 3,000 attended Saturday night as organizers laud teamwork and plan an even bigger event next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camden
WLS
George Goebel
W. O. Pettiner
John Wise
Robert Wise
Robert Hunt
Lloyd Joyce
Jerry Hinshaw
Taken From the Files of 1921 November and December
A 1921 compilation recalls a fatal pit accident in Deer Creek Township as Walter Peterman 24 is buried when a gravel pit collapses. Other notes report infantile paralysis in Truman Spitler and deaths from appendicitis and illness, plus local marriages and business changes including C C McFarland selling the Camden mercantile to Joan Pritsch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Peterman
Ira Greider
Deer Creek
Peterman
Greider
Logansport
Benton
Truman Spitler
Ora Spitler
Indianapolis
C. C. McFarland
Camden
Joan F. Pritsch
Sedalia
Pritsch
Ray and Rice
McFarland
Indiana
Wm. Thornburg
Mr. Thornburg
Miles Jordan
George Griffey
Soldiers Home
Lafayette
Mr. Griffey
Baptist Church
Thomas Britton
Mr. Britton
Ighland
Ohio
Howard County
Lovey E. LeMasters
Christian Church
Horace Mann
Lebanon
Carroll County
Camden Cemetery
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Redit Bureau
Flora
Omise Strasser
Hinkle
Ed. Ruffing
By Warren Bayley
Trailor Vagabond
Camden Soy Seed Company
Cora
Ist Prze
Ester Kesling
Royal Centre
Darrell Zinn
Rockfield
Anna Louise Kunkle
Peru
Patsy Ann Hopkins
Maurence Bennett
Banta Sisters
Betty Irene Dittus
Earl Park
Banta
Cripe
Hoosier Harmonizers
Lafontaine
Betty Voyles
Delphi
Virginia Rose Vigus
Raymond Kenny Gretencord
La‘fayette
Harrison Twins
Baking I
Patricia Lake
Mary Hedde
Mary Margaret Quinn
Elizabeth Ann Fisher
Norma Jean Fisher
Mina Ruth Roberson
Martha Mocherman
Marjorie Jean Shanks
Eleanor Wieland Canning
Margaret Hedderich
Marjorie Wise
Canning
Marjorie Shank
Marjorie Brubaker
Lois Hughes
Mary Jo Hughés
Lothing
Carol Yerkes
Donna Rockhill
Eleanor Wieland
Norma Jean Caldwell
Florenning
Eleanor, Wieland
William H. Lake
Clarence Lake
F. L. Linberger
Deer Creek Lutheran Church
Paint Creek
Philip Leslie
T. A. Leslie
Toledo
Ross Leslie
Mesa
Arizona
R. C. Leslie
Cambridge City
Philip Ray Camden
E. S. Miller
Earl Chapman
Clay Cripe
Owen C Ipe
Vera Dilling
Will’ Musselman
C. O. Oberlin
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