Safety steps to avoid lightning on farms
Purdue farm safety specialist F R Willsey warns farmers on tractors to detach machinery and seek cover during summer storms after multiple Indiana lightning deaths. He notes odds rise when equipment is attached, and stresses tractor safety as National Farm Safety Week runs July 24 30. Also mentions social notes of Mr. and Mrs. Terhune and Mr. and Mrs. Nance visiting in Indiana communities.
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Lafayette
Purdue University
F. R. Willsey
Rush County audit board minutes list officials and expenses
Rush County officials ledgers show salaries, per diems, and reimbursements for numerous staff including Louise Phillips Helen Winkler Fern Ewbank and others. The entry records payments to auditors clerks health officers teachers sheriff deputies and various vendors for services and supplies at the August 1 1955 board meeting.
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Howard Ewbank
Rush County
Board of Commissioners
Said County
Louise Phillips
Helen L. Winkler
Fern Ewbank
Kenneth Earnest
Atty Sal
Gladys L. Milbourn
Treas Sal Wilma Hougland
Bert George
Remember When July 31 1925 Fatal Car Train Crash
Obituary item notes Jesse Albert Leisure age 66 wealthy land owner stock raiser of Jackson Township killed near Henderson when his Overland touring car was struck by a northbound Big Four train at about 11 20 am. Also reports a wedding in Rushville and local social notes including bank employee vacation and band formation meeting details.
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Jesse Albert Leisure
Jackson Township
Henderson
Ellen Walker
Walter Walker
Vinton Hudson
Carthage
St. Paul’s M. E. Parsonage
Rushville
H. W. Hargitt
H. G. Laird
Wabash
Mabel Phelps
Carthage Bank
Francesville
Pulaski County
Louise Jessup
Indianapolis
Luva Apple
Madam Blaker
A. P. Wagoner
Bowen Announces Daughter Anne Ruth Born in Indianapolis
Born to Mr and Mrs James R Bowen on July 29 at Methodist Hospital Indianapolis a sixth daughter named Anne Ruth. Elizabeth Hill died last Thursday at her daughter in law Verna Hill home with Rev Frank Guyatt conducting service and Riverside cemetery burial. Local residents Walter Chonan Roy Newby Grace Porter Grace Phelps Winona Newsom Avery Rawls Pearle Coffin Fred Sims and Ray Gurley visited Allen's Park near Greensburg on Sunday.
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James R. Bowen
Methodist Hospital
Indianapolis
Anne Ruth
J. A. Lineback
Elizabeth Hill
Verna S. Hill
Frank Guyatt
Riverside Cemetery
Walter Chonan
Roy Newby
Grace Porter
Grace Phelps
Winona Newsom
Avery Rawls
Pearle Coffin
Fred Sims
Ray Gurley
Allen’s Park
Greensburg
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Indiana Republican Editorial Association
Kenneth Rhodes
Indiana
Henry Terhune
Milroy
James Terhune
Lester Nance
Arcadia
Worth Pitts
Commissioners’ Claims
Mabel Marlett
C. M. DeMunbrun
Phyllis J. Rehme
Jeannine A. McComas
William M. Carter
Sal Roy McKibben
Court House
Owen Gabbard
Daisy Mitchell
R. O. Kennedy
M. D
Fannie D. Cannon
Ava’ M. Teel
Richard A. Phillips
A & B Typewriter Co
Republican Co
A. E. Boyce Co
Joan Martin
Treas
Olive L. Miller
Robert L. May
Wayne White
A. B. Boyce Co
Sur
Frank Cameron, Jr
Marshall Krammes
Lawrence Clark
Paul Glisson
Citizen’s Ind. Telephone Co
Circuit Ct
Williams Hardware
A. Gunn Hayden, Inc
Churchill Manufacturing Co
Citizens Ind. Telephone Co
Indiana Gas & Water Co
Rushville Pharmacy
Rushville Republican
Rushville Telegram
Carthage Citizen
Myers Insurance Agency
Butcher Funeral Home
Murphy Funeral Home
Master & Sons Mortuary
Marlin Crull
Fox Bounty
Russell Dora
Same
Hale Elwell
Harold Frakes
Reading
Lee Haehl
Richard Houston
Gary McDonald
Russell W. Logan
Wilbur Mosburg
Lewis Ross
Marvin Saxon
Donald G. Stephens
Wm. F. Marshall
Ava M. Teel
W. P. Wolfal
Ditch &Allocation Fund
Reed Electric Service
Minor Owens
Eloise Owens
Claud Levi
Cora Sherwood
Ethel Steele
Nellie Palmer
Helen Woods
Susie Eastor
William Lashell
Walter King
Home
Jaggers Oil Co
Home Heat
Home Rep
Metzger Lumber Co
Montgomery
W. M. Jordan
Rush County Lumber Co
Howell Brothers
Curtis Television & Appliances
Wilbur Mosburg, Co
M. O’connor & Co
Kroger Co
John Sexton & Co
Green Way, Inc
Knight Bros., Inc
Towne & Country Market
Meadow Gold Dairy
Thorp’s Dress Shop
A. Gunn Haydon, Inc
Rush County Frigid Lockers, Inc
Rush € O. Hatchery
Irvin Miller
Master Feed & Grain, Inc
Sunshine Feed Store
Walter Norris
Robert D. Webb
Waldo Mohr
Fred Mason
Warren Buhler
Cities Service
Frank Lawrence
Clarence Loyd
Wm. B. Whitton
J. O. Readmond
Noland Hood
Dwight Miller
Lawrence Krammes
Shirley Macy
Lee Gardner
Forrest Havens
Russell Parish
Geo. W. Owens
Wm. Wilkinson
Henry E. White
Harry D. Bird
Roy L. Johnson
R. E. Fancher
Raymond C. Ball
Loren E. Mack
Rush County Stone Co., Inc
Armco Drainage & Metal Products
Shumaker Brothers Industries
Same Shaver Office Equipment, Inc
Underwood Corporation
Wel Furniture & Fixtures
Ralph Gosnell
Elmer M. Perkins
John R. White
New Albany
PSCI
Public Service Company
Hoosier
Fortable
Purdue
Public Service Company OF Indiana, Inc
Dr. Kennth V. Test
Mays, Indiana
Mays
Thurman Addison
W. O. Moore
Roy Small
Frank Craft
Horace North
Frank Overman
Charles Moore
Loren Munden
Ralph Moore
Fly 7 Leadbetter Pharmacy
Knightstown
Joe Marsh
Finfilly
Grandpa
Josh
Jim
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