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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1940
Page
3
The Nigh family expresses gratitude to friends relatives and neighbors for kindness after the death of Chas. E. Nigh. Special thanks to the Friendly Circle singers and Rev. Kenworthy for support.
Anna Redding Sam Bufkin and family express gratitude for sympathy during Ella M Moores illness and for the many beautiful floral offerings received from neighbors and friends.
Mrs. Martha Smith, visiting a club house in Chicago, paid for meals by check and received a bank call days later noting her handwritten signature. The report cites the line Affectionately Martha and then shifts to a Salt Lake City family with a 200 year butchering tradition linked to William Wood.
The Indiana State Fair runs August 30 to September 6 with an action packed program. Alec Templeton and 100 stars present a coast to coast broadcast from the Coliseum stage. Lucky Teter leads a 2 PM dare devil show with 28 acts including a bus leap. Night Horse Shows offer $20 000 in purses, and Americana opens for a six night run. Harness racing offers some $60 000 in purses with top horses and reinsmen. Johnny J Jones midway thrills and more fill the grounds.
Mrs. Clyde Wolf of Kansas City spotted her stolen car on the street and flirted with the driver until a policeman arrived and had him arrested.
Betty Mae Heath and Carolyn Jean Heath celebrated their third birthdays with a family dinner at Lila Ridout’s Circleville home. A long guest list included relatives from Arlington Rushville Greensburg and Indianapolis along with many friends and neighbors who joined in the birthday cakes and party atmosphere.
Mr and Mrs Sherman Lancaster mark their golden wedding anniversary at their West Liberty home. Mrs Lancaster, formerly Cora Newhouse, daughter of Isaac and Jennie Newhouse. A family dinner followed by visits from relatives including Glen Moore, Charles Leisure, John Ellison, Audit Newhouse, and June Newhouse.
The Margaret Hill McCarter club met Thursday at Rushville Memorial Park for a pitch-in dinner at noon with 26 members and guests. In the afternoon, participants presented Personality Stunts. Betty Wedding and Ruth Kennedy provided guitar music and songs. Rosemary Northam gave a brief book review before Frances Bush of Shelbyville and a local grade school teacher spoke, followed by social time.
Local residents host and visit across Morristown Rushville and Indianapolis. Guests include Mr and Mrs Earnest Eastor near Morristown and Mrs Jesse Wilkinson of Carthage. Crawfordsville visitors to Shober Joyner. Thomas Bird with Mrs Robert Ramer near Greensburg. and others from Xenia Indianapolis Shelbyville Elwood Rushville and Morristown. The Willkie day program reception committee included Mrs Cleora Jordan Nora McFatridge and Evelyn Kemple. William Sunman and family returned from a Virginia Atlantic coast motor trip. William Henry Beckner and family moved to Morristown.
Washington correspondent Everett Watkins bet Vice President Garner ten dollars that he could not name the Democratic nominee for president. Garner wrote Roosevelt on a card and sealed it for Watkins to open after the convention. Roosevelt was the name.
Favorable weather has accelerated work on the state highway system. Over the past week thirteen detours were eliminated as construction and improvements near completion. Many miles of improved roads and bridges opened. oiling and resurfacing contracts advance toward September 1 completion with workers earning weekly wages.
Pitcher Snyder of a Verdi California baseball team allowed only four hits while opponents scored 41 runs due to 20 errors by Snyder’s teammates in the game.
Indianapolis August 21 with threshing season under way livestock health authorities warn farmers to avoid entering neighbors hog lots while exchanging labor. The American Foundation for Animal Health says cholera virus sticks to shoes and wagon wheels and can spread from farm to farm until whole neighborhoods face epizootics.
J. P. Slade, magistrate of Ulander North Carolina, presides in a court while wearing suits made by his wife from bleached fertilizer bags. The homemade garments mirror local humor and reflect resourceful fashion of the era.
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