Local hints of town life mix with city woes
Fragments reveal farmers hopeful about crops and townsfolk joking about a back to nature movement. A wave of summer drama includes small crimes, new military promotions, hay work, and a fall festival plan slated for the week of September 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Riley
Doc McNabb
Doc
Randolph
Russ Faull
Russell
Clyde C. Henley
Mr. Henley
Clyde C. Henley, Jr
Henley
Kansas City
Herschell McCrory
Indianapolis
Army
Miami
Fla
Air Service
McCrory
F. M. Miller
William Oldham
Harry Watts
Alhambra
Harry
WPB Denies Lighting for Carthage Softball Diamond
War Production Board replied the Carthage softball lighting project does not rate priority for critical materials. Principal James A Reynolds had asked Newton E Leakey of Public Service Company of Indiana to help obtain permission, noting storage lights and a wartime need for recreation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Production Board
Newton E. Leakey
Public Service Company of Indians, Inc
Leakey
WPB
James A. Reynolds
Carthage High School
I. New Castle
Indiana
Mr. Leakey
Carthage
War Production Office
Carthage School
Reynolds
Miss Sharlee Kyser Joins Rush County National Bank
Former deputy county treasurer Miss Sharlee Kyser has accepted a position at Rush County National Bank, adding experienced financial oversight to the bank's staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharlee Kyser
Rush County
Nat’l Bank
Deer fawn sightings rise across southern Indiana parks and highways
Deer fawns are increasingly seen by park visitors and motorists across southern Indiana, indicating a rebound in the population after eradication and restocking efforts begun in 1934. Conservation officers note most fawns are with mothers and shy, with Brown County State Park alone home to many deer roaming wide areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Department of Conservation
Greencastle
Muncie
Brown County State Park
Coon Dog Field Trials Set Near Carthage
The Ripley Township Conservation club sponsors ccoon dog field trials Sunday July 12 three miles northwest of Carthage and two miles south of Charlottesville at the John White farm. Purse is 200 dollars with 2 dollar entry fee. Prizes include 30 for first tree and first line, 20 for second tree and line, plus heat money. Admission is 25 cents for men. women and children free. Lunch served. no drugs on grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coon
Ripley Township Conservation Club
Carthage
Charlottesville
John White
Carthage Merchants Plan July 4 Holiday Closures
Local Carthage merchants will observe the July 4 holiday with many stores closing all day Saturday while groceries close at noon. The Carthage Radio and Appliance Shop, Carthage Hardware and the bank will stay closed all day. filling stations are expected to stay open. All places will operate Friday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carthage
Carthage Radio and Appliance
Carthage Hardware
Auto License Plates Half Price Sale Scheduled
Indiana license plates will go on sale at half price on July 1 after a court ruling revived the old date. The 1941 act that moved the date to August 1 was ruled unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court, restoring the traditional schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Auto License Bureau
Indiana
Greenfield July 4th races headline aerial bomb salute
A card of races is scheduled next Saturday night July 4 featuring star pilots of the Consolidated Speedways Assn including Kip Young Huston Bundy Everett Rice Lucky Parnell and Bob Breading. A field of 40 cars is signed for the big July 4 celebration race with aerial bombs used to salute the armed forces.
Library Notes Highlight New Additions and Closings
The library will be closed Saturday, July 4th. New adult titles include Yan and Yin about an American doctor in China, a gift from Mrs. Lillian Coleman. Youth selections feature Little Town on the Prairie and Inidge Treasure, along with An American ABC and Defending America. Gifts include six books from Mrs. Carl Norris and several dozen Life magazines from Miss Ruth Henley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Alice T. Hobart
Yan and
Yin
Lillian Coleman
Wilder
West
Inidge
Rogers
Eliza Lucas
South Carolina
ABC
Petersham
America
Peet
Army
Navy
Carl Norris
Ruth Henley
Rush County Registers 322 Men in Fifth Draft Sign-Up
Selective Service officials report 322 young men ages 18 to 20 registered in Rush County during the fifth draft sign up held Tuesday only Rushville hosted the registration. Of the total 26 registered men reside in other counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selective Service
Rushville
Rush County
Birth: Mrs. Mann Delivers Daughter Elizabeth Ann
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Mann welcomed a daughter named Elizabeth Ann, weighing seven pounds, born Wednesday evening at 6 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Mann
Elizabeth Ann
Induction order outlines four categories for armed services calls
Colonel Robinson Hitchcock says national policy priorities men with no financial dependents first but local boards may review each case. Categories cover dependents and marriages before 1941 with families and occupational classifications unchanged. The Bush county board will still call married men due to a shortage of single men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Robinson Hitchcock
Bush County
Congress
National Selective Service Headquarters
Hitchcock
Carthage Forms Lions Club At Dinner Meeting
A Lions Club is organized at a Wednesday dinner in Homestead to aid Carthage. Officers include Parvel Moore president A W Winfield first vice president Hubert Hunt second vice president Al J Carr and Ed E Bly treasurer. Charter members urged to join. next meeting set for July 18 with charter membership open. The club becomes Indiana’s 152nd and the International Association’s 4386th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homestead
Lions Club
Carthage
Carthage Lions Club
Parvel Moore
A. W. Winfield
Hubert Hunt
al J. Carr
Thomas E. Bush
Indiana
International Association
Fractures collar bone in tumble from bed
Jimmie Lynn Overman, one year old son of Mr and Mrs Jack Overman, fell from his bed Saturday afternoon and fractured his collar bone. He is getting along nicely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmie Lynn
Jack Overman
Jimmie
Dear Adolf radio series highlights American resolve
Stephen Vincent Benet debuts three radio plays for Council for Democracy and NBC titled Dear Adolf. An early broadcast features Raymond Massey in a farmers’ appeal against Nazi tyranny, stressing six million farms united for freedom and the United States as a nation born in liberty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Vincent Benet
Stephen Vincent
Benet
Council For Democracy
National Broadcasting Company
Adolf
Hitler
WEAF
Red Network
Raymond Massey
Ed Summers
Gus Taub
Iowa
United States
Freedom
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New Castle
Dutch Harbor
U. S
Essers
K. Hill
Alaska
Seattle
Greenfield
Wilhelmina
Netherlands
Lee, Mass
Ottawa
Canada
Juliana
Beatrix and
Irene
Library Notes
Nowtwinwenes
Harold A. Ruby
Henry G. Stager
Frank F. Jones
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