Arlington Happenings Highlight Local Society News
Mrs. Will Stout of Arlington announces the marriage of her daughter Kathryn to Floyd Blanton of Orange in Newport Kentucky on January 27 in a double wedding. The column covers club meetings, visits, and social events around Arlington including Home Helpers, Willing Workers, Margaret Hill McCarter, Jolly Eight, and local church activities with many residents listed as attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Stout
Arlington
Kathryn
Floyd Blanton
M. M. Blanton
Orange
Newport, Ky
Mary Todd
Connersville
Raymond Russell
Blanton
Joyner’s Cafe
Earl Stout
Mary Stout
Indianapolis
Jesse Stout
Virginia
Gurney Swain
Home Helpers Club
Delbert Winkler
Dean Stanley
A. W. Rigsbee
Paul Bunyan
Ralph Hufford
Arlington Christian Church
Winkler
James Cadwallader
Purdue
Gertrude Adams
Mattie Publow
Rigsbee Farlow
John McDaniels
Rushville
Harold Goodpasture
Claude Cook
Cleveland
Mary Hodge
Margaret Hill McCarter Club
G. T. Beckett
Beckett
Hodge
John Alsman
Norma
Carlos Heath
Clyde Heath
Knightstown
Everett Price
Carthage
Lowell Hutchinson
Herbert Myers
Morristown
Ralph Hafford
Hubert
Roy Kennedy
Merle Stout
John Coffin
Madison
Morris Stout
Lornetta Brooks
Dean Linson
Warnie Hutchinson
Marcella
Mildred Hutchinson
C. R. Withers
Clemadine Hutchinson
Lolita Brown
A. W
Bill Baker
Howard Stout
Raymond Overleesen
Irvin Bitner
Ray McCloskey
Pete Jones
Joe Readle
Donald
January births soar with 37 total in county report
Health commissioners report 37 births and 14 deaths for January 1940. Seventeen births in townships and twenty in Rushville city. Five contagious disease cases noted. Several local residents and visitors listed, including names from Ripley Center Washington and Rushville. Junior class gathering at Jack Long’s hosted 22 attendees with games and refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rushville City
Indianapolis
Herbert Trobough
Catherine Earnest
Bob Earnest
The
Legion Hall
Jack Long
Journeys End at the Gates Farm Front Gate and River
The narrator recalls wandering from Gates farm front gate into a world of memory and landscape. He describes a June day with birds and a spring-fed brook, later finding the Little Blue River and a Kamchatka voyage in parallel. He laments ecological change, forest loss, and land development reducing frontier spirit and natural landmarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yu Lu
Yangtse River
China
Amur
Siberia
Carthage
Marquette
LaSalle
Lewis
Clarke
Fremont
Santa Fe
Marco Polo
Drake, Magellan
de Gama
Gates’ Farm
Isaac Gates
Blue River
Kamchatka
Carthage Farm
Local social visits span Gwynneville to Morristown
A string of visits and calls across Gwynneville Bloomington Rushville and Morristown highlights weekend activity. Families visiting relatives include Mr and Mrs Charles Irvine with daughters in New Palestine and others calling on friends and kin in Greenfield Indianapolis and surrounding towns. The Ladies Aid quilt session and various hosted dinners mark community life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Irvine
Daughters of
New Palestine
Edd Poston
Roy Swain
David Poer
Mary Woods
Maxine Swain
Mary B. Poer
Frances Woods
Bloomington
C. E. Hurst
George Bill
Rushville
Frank Kemper
Earnestine Nigh
Shelbyville
Otta Hauk
C. K. Peer
Fred Pollitt
Harry Keaton
Lafayette Keaton
Greenfield
Mary Fair
Paul Gosnell
Alice Swain
Ella Gunning
Morristown
Stella Kemp
U. B. Church
Death of Mrs. George Cox
Funeral services were held Monday at 1 30 p m from Lynam funeral home for Mrs. George Cox of Greenfield. Burial followed in Greenfield cemetery. She was a granddaughter of Mrs Anna Bundy and died after several weeks illness from double pneumonia at Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynam Funeral Home
George Cox
Greenfield
Greenfield Cemetery
Cox
Anna Bundy
Robert Long
Jndianapolis
Albert Payne Dies After Illness in Carthage
Albert Payne a driver for Sohn and Son of Carthage died after a period of illness following a severe cold. He passed away at 1 a m Saturday February 3 while under medical care. Survived by widow Irene Payne two sons Billy and Larry aged seven and three and stepson Gene Mann aged fifteen. Funeral held Monday at 1 30 p m at the McDaniel home in Charlottesville with burial in Glencove cemetery Knightstown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Payne
Sohn & Son
Carthage
Payne
Irene Payne
Billy
Larry
Gene Mann
McDaniel
Charlottesville
Glencove
Knightstown
Also Mentioned on This Page
Carthage Radio & Appliance
Hubert Hunt
Mrs
Mary Heath
Noah Price
Joe Beadle
Lowell Beach
Roy Lowe
Family
Leroy Hauk
Harry Hauk
Banco
Anna Stewart
Jolly Eight Club
Darrel Rowan of
Henderson
Raymond Overleese
Gerald Butler
Stork
Ripley
Charles Henry Riley
Frederick Thomas McCorkle
Luella Irene Chapman
Joyce Mann
Center
Donnie Jean Brown
Maryin Leora Jackson
Washington
John David Gribbens
Larry Wynne Lee
Maribel Kay Willis
Walker
Dessie Arlene Nickel
Priscilla Lee Trimble
Carol Joan English
Wayne Lee Thrall
Richland
Mary Josephine Bedel
Carol Priscilla Miller
Anderson
Marion Neal Robertson
David Allen Percell
Mary Anita Rogers
John Richard Keaton
Sarah Ellen Perkins
James Delbert Glover
Nancy Jolene Bane
Wesley Lawrence Glenn, Jr
Eleanor Mae Littrell
Jo Ann Wright
Janet Lucille Vrendenburg
Eric Alan
Miles Nervine
America
Miles Ee A
Albany
Georgia
McCormick
Gwynneville
Lawrence Wortman
Stella Gotlieb
Esther Unger
Marjorie Nigh
Zella Kinsey
Jimmy Andis
Sonja Henie
Herschell Thurston
Howard Dyer
Frank Wilcoxon
Harold Sample
Johnnie Sleeth
Indiana
Bausback Fertilizer Co
Arthage
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