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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1940
Page
3
A brief notice lists Fletcher Branson and Albert Hollwell as owners on the Hollwell farm with Henry Jessup and H. E. Stager involved as tenants or managers. The terse item reflects farm land occupancy and arrangement details in the era.
Hatchery advertises December 30 chick hatching to start the New Year with healthy chicks for brooder houses. Early chicks are promoted as best value. calendar offered. Golden Rule Hatcheries Rushville phone 2516.
Charlestown Indiana hosts a massive Dupont powder plant project with over 9000 workers and 13 000 applicants processed by the State Employment Service under W Scott Lane. The plant and nearby defense work spur traffic, guard controls, housing needs, and calls for state legislative enabling measures to support defense contracts and local infrastructure improvements.
Chevrolet reports the 400000th 1941 model unit produced at the Flint assembly plant. M. E. Coyle says the latest 100000 cars since November 27 boost a record pace set after the first 1941 model rolled September 3. Dealers nationwide expect strong sales and sustained factory volumes ahead.
The Priscilla club members and their husbands enjoyed a Christmas gathering Friday night at Judge William Marshall and Mrs. Marshall home in Rush. Guests shared a pitch in supper, played bunco, and participated in a gift exchange.
Members of the Jolly Eight gathered Friday at the Kennedy home for a delicio luncheon. Mrs. Bill Baker attended as a guest. Appointments followed a seasonal theme and two tables of rock were in session. A gift exchange concluded the event with sunshine friends revealed.
Mr and Mrs Lowell Beach Mr and Mrs Fred McFatridge Mr and Mrs Claude Miller Mrs Margaret Glendenning Mrs Lena Kennedy Mrs Mary Johnson Mrs Noah Price Mrs Pete Jones Mrs Ollie Offutt Harold and Graydon McFatridge Scott Moore and Miss Lloyd attended the funeral services for Oliver McFarlan at Westport Thursday.
An all day meeting at Mrs. Golda Smiths home included a pitch in luncheon for 32 members and 8 guests. After the business session a Christmas program featured readings by members guitar selections by Doris Coffin and readings by Rosemary Northam plus a gift exchange at the close.
Mrs Esta Webb hosted the Home Economics club chorus for a Christmas party Saturday evening. Santa greeted guests in a festively lighted living room. Mrs LaVerne Farthing and Miss Betty Belle Kemple led carols and organized games with miniature trees concealing song titles that matched gifted prizes.
The article lists numerous visitors and family gatherings over Christmas including Mrs. A. R. Hodges returning from Chicago, Dr. C. V. Hodges, and several relatives from Streator Greenfield Rushville Indianapolis and Bloomington visiting and staying with local families. It notes arrivals, departures and a move to a farm near Occident on R. R. 3, Rushville.
NBC president Niles Trammell states radio must sustain national morale through uninterrupted free information news and entertainment to preserve normal life during the all out effort for national security.
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