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Newspaper
Camden Record News
Location
Camden, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1938
Page
5
A Montreal Herald note traces the term dunned to Henry VII era London debt collectors, citing a bailiff named Joe Dunn whose success spurred merchants to cry I shall have to run him. It also explores slang like skedaddle and cites a Cromwellian era Bible misprint leading to squadadal.
FHA insured mortgage loans in Carroll County totalled 14100 for 1937 and rose to 18100 as of March 31 1938. Indiana lenders hold about 31000000 in FHA loans guaranteed by the U S Treasury with no losses to date. 1938 is expected to set records in home construction and mortgage volume aided by extended credit facilities to farm property.
Approximately 800 youths are expected to participate in the Hoosier Boys State to be sponsored by the American Legion. The encampment runs June 18 to 25 at the Indiana state fairgrounds and offers a short course in government and politics. Participants organize a full state and local government, hold political conventions, and elect officials with candidates from the Federalist and Nationalist parties.
The article describes Indian archers carrying quivers of skin or bark holding ten to twenty arrows. Vanes used fiery feathers from wild geese turkeys eagles vultures and herons. Boys learned weapon use early with wooden arrow points and they hunted small birds and fish, sometimes eating them raw.
The description explains a five gaited saddle horse must perform the walk trot and canter plus one of three fancy gaits the running walk slow pace or fox trot. The rack is noted as showy yet hard for the horse since it is a four beat gait with each foot striking separately.
Whitestown residents Rev and Mrs Graham Klees visit Rev and Mrs A H Fabiao ske while Carroll Circuit Court plans summer closure from June 25 to the second Monday in September. Local social and family updates follow including ministerial meetings and parity of relatives near Monticello, Delphi, Yeoman, and Kokomo.
An authority notes that travel reveals European city names are often Anglicized. Roma becomes Rome Milano Milan Genova Genoa Firenze becomes Florence Venezia becomes Venice Livorno becomes Leghorn and Wien Vienna Antwerp Cologne are common English forms for many travelers.
Rockfield notes show Rufus Ringer and wife visiting home folks while Mrs Evla Plank of Camden visits son Percy Plank and family. Robert Cates and wife host relatives at Sunday dinner as Hobart Little is ill. Indianapolis visitors include Robert McCarty and Miss Laura Temple with North Manchester ties. Clarence Cree hosts Nick Mace and daughter. George and Eliza Barnes host Prairie area guests. a 16 person birthday dinner at Burnettaville and quilting at Burrows Ladies Aid are recorded activities.
Burrows News notes Mrs. Robert Shaffer and her son returned home Monday. Mattie Etter visited Rockfield relatives. Mr and Mrs Ray Smith and son from Boswell visited relatives Sunday. Carney family visited Mrs Della Wagoner. Snoeberger and Martin couples visited John and family Sunday. Witter family spent Monday with B O Brown relatives. Been and Bowman couples attended races in Indianapolis Monday. Reed and daughter Fatty Aabi visited Jessbett Monday. Dewy Neste Cox and A Lowe dined with Mr and Mrs Lowe Monday.
T. H. Inkster of Kirkland Lake Ontario, directing a shipment to radium fields near the Arctic Circle, was saved when a beam of light and a rope rigged from a barge allowed a trapper upriver to grab the line and secure the vessel. Inkster, a former Royal Air Force officer, credited the flash light with guiding the rescue as the barge drifted toward rocks and banks in a gale.
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