Community News From Charlottesville Area Churches And Families
Charlottesville area residents share visits and social events. Families from Huntington and nearby towns visit, hostesses organize aid society and bridge club gatherings, and church services are noted with upcoming Children's Day and past pastors courses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hettie Hunt
Russell Hunt
Roy Tanner
Lena Lantis
Vint Cook
Golda Lowe
Florence Heifner
Oscar Ruggles
Marie Zapf
Minnie Trees
Cleveland Church
Friends Church
Homer Biddlecum
Quaker Haven
Syracuse
Small Towns Have Most Of Accidents
Indianapolis July 13. Cities with populations under 3500 show a higher share of intersectional and pedestrian crashes than the state average. Hallie Myers, traffic director for the state highway commission, said the survey finds almost three times as many incidents in these areas.
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Indianapolis
Hallie Myers
State Highway Commission
Roosevelt Praises Caraway on Small Town Traffic Study
A traffic survey by the bureau of traffic highlights higher intersection accidents in small towns on state highways, with head on collisions much lower than the state system. Reduced speed in small towns may lower damages and fatalities, while left turn corrections and lane hazards account for many crashes in communities under 3500 residents.
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Myers
Bureau of Traffic
Lake Manitou A Noted Lake Of Indian Legends And Lore
Lake Manitou in Fulton county covers 886.75 acres and ranks seventh largest in Indiana. Located one mile east of Rochester, the Hoosier Motor Club promotes a visit to this resort famed for legends of a monster and old Indian names Mah-nee-to and Mah-nat-o-wah. The lake’s irregular shore results from a dammed seven foot lowered outlet and merging basins. It is a premier fishing spot stocked yearly with smallmouth bass crappies sunfish perch pike goggle-eye and catfish.
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Manitou
Fulton County
Indiana
Rochester
Hoosier Motor Club
Lake Manitou
Next Winter the Canned Food Taste Questioned
A fragment notes that next winter the canned food will taste no better than it tasted before, raising doubt about quality and flavor in a local context.
Approval Granted for Five Grade Separation Projects
The U S Bureau of Public Roads has approved plans for five grade separations funded entirely by a 1 2 million federal allocation dated July 1 1938 The partial program totals about 727 000 with one project already under contract the underpass on Road 40 near Indianapolis The other four structures pursue relocations on Road 20 around Valparaiso for bypass traffic under two railroads and a fifth on Road 6 in Hobart to clear Pennsylvania railroad and Gary Hobart Traction Line tracks Plans for the remaining separations are being prepared for bids and eventual construction.
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State Highway Commission
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
T. A. Dicus
Bureau of Roads
Road 40
Indianapolis
Eagle Creek
Valparaiso
New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
Highway Commission
Hobart
Gary & Hobart
Struc
Proposed Marion County road project to grade and straighten
The plan aims to improve High School road as part of the feeder road system. An overhead structure would replace a grade crossing, removing curvature and steep grades where the current structure crosses the Pennsylvania railroad.
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Marion
Pennsylvania Railroad
Duplicate social security numbers issued in Indiana
Clarence B. Gwyn, manager of the old age insurance bureau field office in Richmond, Indiana, urges all who lost their social security numbers to apply for duplicate accounts. Applications are available from any postmaster or directly from Gwyn’s office in the American Bank Building, Richmond. Applicants should indicate where and when the original number was obtained.
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Social Security Board
Clarence B. Gwyn
Old Age Insurance Bureau
Richmond
Indiana
Card of Thanks for Carrie Newsom
The Newsom Family expresses deep thanks to friends for kindness after Carrie Newsom's death and to Rev Myers for consoling words and Mr Thompson for tireless efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie Newsom
Rev. Myers
Mr. Thompson
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Charlottesville
Laurel Herkless
Mary Jo
Millie Herkless
Huntington
Doris Binford
Methodist Aid Society
Florence Jessup
Verna Haskett
Elmer Pearson
Greenfield
Claral Alrey
Bert Morris
New Castle
Clara
Lizzie Overman
Earl Addison
Adaline Kenyon
Claude Cass
Cleved
Ed Young
Ronnie
Near Wilkinson
Elmer Collins
Lena Barron
Walter Woods
Shirley
Claude Walker
Charles Reeves
Paul H. Reeves
St. Louis
Roosevelt
Caraway
Booneville
Ark
Hattie W. Caraway
Miss Caraway
Pace
Small
Small’s Dairy
Public Service Company of
Coca-Cola
Baysback Fertilizer Co
the Newsom Family
Texaco Phone
Carthage Howe
Palm Beach Clothing
W. Willams Co
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