Chick Smith to Lead Mid-West Dirt Track Contest at Columbus
Chick Smith, the Frankfort Ky. racer in the Cream and Crimson A and W Special No. 47, enters the Mid-West Dirt Track Association driving championship at Columbus fairgrounds next Sunday. He is favored to pass leader Mike Salay as high-class drivers enter the three 10-lap elimination races and a 25-lap final. Local action includes Dave Tellas and Bill Anderson among entrants, with trials from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and races through 4:30 p.m. Other notes cover church and social visits among area residents on the same date.
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Columbus
Ind
Chick Smith
Frankfort
Kentucky Dare Devil
Bartholomew County Fairgrounds
Franklin
Chick
Mike Salay
South Bend
Don Wickliffe
Mid-West
Fairgrounds
Wickliffe
Vern Trester
Indianapolis Star
Frank Parroki
Smith
Les Duncan
Indianapolis
Ray Tellas
Noblesville
Fritz Sommers
Evansville
Wild Bill Anderson
Peru
Tellas
Anderson
Charlottesville Social Notes Highlight Local Visits
Mrs. Alice Perrell of Philadelphia visits Charlottesville to spend several days with her cousins Mr. and Mrs. Donard Shields and daughter Elizabeth. Miss Florence Simmons shopped in Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. John Gambrel welcome a son named Charles Robert born Friday night. Miss Lenora Reece visits Phyllis White at Trees Shop. Mr. Orman Batts of Indianapolis visits Ralph Zapf’s family Sunday. Mrs. Don Copeland is not well. Phillip Trees near Cleveland visits grandparents Friday.
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Donard Shields
Missionary Society of the Friends’ Church
Franklin Chance
Claude Walker
Cliff Dale
Anderson
Lawrence Wales
Kathleen McClarnon
Ivan Dudley
H. G. Biddlecum
Friends’ Church
Dale Haywood
Greenfield
Effie Niles
James Boston
Indianapolis
Morris Shields
Golda Kinder
Richmond
Harold Hudson
Ray Reeves
Lawrence
Kansas
Charles F. Reeves
Irvin Binford
David Binford
Walnut Ridge
Russell Roland
Mt. Comfort
Ralph Zapf
Grover Clements
Ruth Ann
Grant Shubert
Franklin
Homer Biddlecum
Lynn
Roy Roudebush
Frank McClarnon
Alice Perrell
Philadelphia
Elizabeth
Florence Simmons
John Gambrel
Gon
Charles Robert
Lenora Reece
Phyllis White
Trees Shop
Orman Batts
Don Copeland
Phillip Trees
Cleveland
Shelby County Fair Opens August 5 Seeks Six Day Run
Shelby county's annual free fair begins August 5 with a saddle horse show. The horse and mule pulling contest is set for August 7. August 8 marks swine and dairy cattle shows and a four day harness racing program. Open classes and 4-H shows run four days.
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Shelby County
Jersey
Guernsey
Do You Remember When July 23 1909 Carthage items
Daily notes recall social gatherings dinners and guests including Mr and Mrs Conrad Kiger and others. Obituary reports the death of Mrs Edna Coffin at 78 and family updates from Greenfield and Milroy. A seventh anniversary celebration at The Carthage Hotel is mentioned along with a local storm causing tree and crop damage.
Indiana Sees 52 New Oil Gas Wells Drilled in Six Months
Virgil M. Simmons reports 52 producing wells drilled in Indiana during the last six months. On July 1, 90 wells were under progress. Oil and natural gas production potential has risen. annual oil output doubled and gas up 25 percent though exact figures await completion of pipelines and capacity.
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Indiana
Virgil M. Simmons
Department of Conservation
Deer With Sweet Tooth at Brown County Park
Brown County State Park hosts a growing herd of white-tailed deer now numbered over two hundred in the park and surrounding areas. Visitors report deer approaching for sugar and other sweets, while conservation officials monitor sightings and population growth across southern Indiana.
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Brown County State Park
Abe Martin Lodge
Indiana
Department of Conservation
Brown County
Dangerous ski jump at Sun Valley World Fair raises fears
The Sun Valley ski jump at the New York World's Fair uses a specially treated canvas surface. It is rated far more dangerous than snow and has injured three national and international champions since the Fair opened.
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New York
Sun Valley
Earthquake Record at Fordham Seismograph
Seven earthquakes have been recorded on the Fordham University seismograph at the New York World's Fair since the Fair opened. The farthest quake was on April 30 in the Pacific about 8,700 miles away and the nearest on June 12 in Puerto Rico about 1,485 miles away.
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New York
Fordham University
Pacific
Puerto Rico
Trailor Vagabond and the Fort McHenry Flag
The account recalls a detained traveler who witnessed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry. Dawn revealed the flag still flying, signaling a failed assault, and amid the triumph Francis Scott Key wrote the anthem that would become a national symbol.
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Fort McHenry
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Auditorium Theatre
Carthage
Rapture
Universal Ite Arts
Armand Denis
Smee
Augusti
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Chapter
Wild Bill Hickok
Universal News
Cun wasTiCe
Frontier
A Cater
CUPP
Shane Vlas Te Fae
Jackie Cooper
Scouts i
Walt Disney’s
Bumsteads
Skinnay Ennis
Reug ¢ Ingletonm Agr
Lars Lar Simms I
Shelby County Fair
Princess Rushville
Sun. & Mon
Pat O’brien
Indianapolis Speedway
Wallace Beery
Sergeant Madden
Kay Francis
Bob Hope
Hell's Kitchen
Conrad Kiger
Will Siler
Jesse Siler
J. J. Anderson
Edward Adkins
Ralph du Bois
Mary Wright Willis
Ben S. Willis
New Castle
Charles Wright
Ottis Hoskinson
Mr. Hoskinson
Jesse Galloway
Market St
George Snider
Carthage Hotel
D. M. McCorkle
Vera Newsom
Mildred Delong
Elsie Chappell
Earlham
Mab
Binford
Ada
Lucille Chappell
Harriett Rawls
Treva Cook
Maude Cook
Isabel Henley
Frank Niederaar
Bryan, C
S. L. Newsom
Earl Hasty
Louisa Bradburn
Charles Kennedy
BE. T. Coffin
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John Clevidence
Isaac Clevidence
M. E. Parsonage
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Trenton
Blackford
Adams
Huntington
Jay
Whitley
Illinois
Ohio Lines
Kennedy Motor Sales, Inc
Knightstown, Indiana
Alhamer
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Hollywood
George O’brien
Ann
Rosalind Keith
Ray Whitley
Stuart Erwin
Gloria Stuart
Sun
Tarzan
Johnny Weissmuller
Maureen O'Sullivan
John Sheffield Henry Stephenson Henry Wilcoxon
Lan Hunter Frieda Inescort Laraine Day
Farmers and Conservation Club
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