Happenings Include Picnics Meetings and Gatherings
A long list of social events fills a Rushville rural page with picnics, showers, bridge games, and dinners. Notables include Mrs Charles Crawley visiting from Australia honored at Ben Davis Christian church. Lafalet club dinner for departing Payard Baker. youth and adult leaders meeting in Rushville. WCTU gathering. and numerous Sunday dinners and birthday observances among local families and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Gurley
Noah Leisure
Henry Jessup
Anne Sipe
Ben Davis Christian Church
Charles L. Crawley
Rushville
Crawley
Australia
Children's Day Program and Local Social Notes
A children's day program features numerous musical numbers and young performers including Janet Warrick Marilyn Lei sure Lula Mae Nelson Carole Kay Sims and several others with solos and group pieces. Community updates list visits by residents to relatives and Memorial Day activities across nearby towns, mentioning several names and weekend engagements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ish
Janet Warrick
Marilyn Leisure
Lula Mae Nelson
Carole Kay Sims
Patricia
Sue Ann Truitt
Philip Lukens
Rex Edwards
Jimmy Mosier
David Walls
Kirby Overman
Lawrence Manche
Thomas Gorman
Donald Cook
Dorothy Edwards
Kirby
Father's Day Tribute and History Recap
The article marks Father's Day on June 16 with echoes of ancient and modern tributes. It traces origins to Mrs. Dodd of Spokane who proposed a third Sunday in June for honoring fathers in 1910, notes floral symbolism, and highlights how 1940s cards feature hunting scenes, pipes, and practical jokes while honoring Dad. It also lists social visits and Memorial Day gatherings across Indiana destinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmesu
Dad
Jane Addams
John Bruce Dodd
Spokane
Wash
Former Purdue Alumni Host Strawberry Feed Series
The group voted to continue a fall series of farm management meetings. E. F P. Brown chaired the program committee with Allen Blackridge and T. A. Coleman as members. Motion pictures were shown. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ewbank have hosted the annual strawberry feed for Purdue alumni for many years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. F P. Brown
Allen Blackridge
T. A. Coleman
Howard Ewbank
Purdue
Mrs Maude Humphries to Return Home to Tulsa Oklahoma
Mrs Maude Humphries has been with her daughter Mrs Basil Stultz for months and will return Thursday evening to Tulsa Oklahoma. Mrs Stultz will accompany her mother for a two weeks visit. Grover Grimes of Indianapolis visited Memorial Day with Mr and Mrs Harry Bentley. Mr and Mrs Joe Wallsmith of Marion spent the weekend in the home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Carson
Joyce
Leora Binford
Howard Binford
Betty and
Phylls
Shelbyville
Russell Siler
Carl Carson, Jr
Greenfield
McClarnon
James Robert
Charles Rhodes
Robert Tuttle
Carthage
Walter Troy
Jack Binney
Clay McClarnon
Cora McClarnon
Julia
Florence McClarnon
Robert Lytle
Sue
Alexandria
Jessie Edwards
Fly
Arlington
Ben Jessup
Paul H. Brown
Indianapolis
Charles Pearson
Carson
Myrtle Harvey
Shirley
Russell Pearson
Knightstown
Irvin Binford
Charlottesville
David Binford
Chloa Lacy
Lorelei
Anderson
Cleve Geise
Emma DeSchipper
Ezra Thompson
Robert Porter
Muncie
H. L. Dryer
DeSchipper
Ertle Stevens
Laura Benson
Luther Hull
William McMichael
Rushville
Irvin McAdams
Marion
Walter McAdams
McAdams
Sue Kinder
Phyllis Small
Lois Reames
New Castle
Leata Knorr
Shirley Galfimer
Near Arlington
Elmer McMichael
Helen Cosand
Sarah E. Newby
A. L. Tuttle
Frank Brooks
Hazel Brooks
Seymour
Mattie Clark
F. W. Ragsdale
Franklin
Jack Speddy
Cleveland
Ohio
Jack Harmon
Akron
Robert Spangler
Harmon
al Harmon
Harry Diesenbach
Hamilton
Charles D. Moore
Curtis Pollard
Paul Moore
Philip Winslow
Wallace Cook
Purdue
F. M. Miller
Ida Small
Paul Winslow
John Cole
Linda Myers
Brazil
Howard E. Henley
Max Haas
Cincinnati
James Henley
Chicago
H. E. Henley, Jr
Gouldie Kyser
Sharlee
L. R. Hiatt
A. J. Carr
Carr
L. A. Hiatt
Kyser
H. E. Poston
Ervin Renegar
G. H Jones
L. A. G Hiatt
Oklahoma City
Walter Chonan
Robert
Fred Fleming
Rickey
Paoli
Maude Humphries
Basil Stultz
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Grover Grimes
Harry Bentley
Joe Wallsmith
Thompson Couple Visits Kokomo Wednesday and Thursday
Mr and Mrs A B Thompson spent Wednesday and Thursday in Kokomo visiting local sites and meeting friends during a short trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Thompson
Kokomo
Card of Thanks for Bertha Addison
The family extends heartfelt thanks to Fletcher Methodist church neighbors friends and relatives for flowers and kindness after the death of our mother and sister Mrs Bertha Addison Carl Carson Charles Pearson Leora Binford and others listed
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fletcher Methodist Church
Bertha Addison
Carl Carson
Charles Pearson
Leora Binford
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Lafalet Club
Guy Ewing
Payard Baker
Columbia City
Roy Newby
Bayard Baker
Ralph Moore
Baker
C. G. Hill
Grant
Lois Fountain
Norma Mae Nigh
Betty Day
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Thurdsay
Inez Binford
George Leisure
Walter Addison
Barbara
Fred B. Sims
Carole Kay
Lowell Whitman
John Miner
Thomas Haynes
Bruce Cameron
Ralph Truitt
Sue Ann
David Magee
Earl Kirk
Lyons
James L. Scott
Near Greenfield
Methodist
June Kinder
Bonnie
Ross
Max Manche
Jimmy Lukins
Lloyd
Glen Fitch
Barbara Neal
Mary Lou Alexander
Carolyn Pitts
Norma Nigh
Paul Edwards
Jack Brown
Robert McClarnon
Verna S. Hill
Frank White
Loren White
Chesley White
Ogden
Robert Anderson
Los Angeles
Calif
Ruthana Slimmer
Nelson Stephens
Thomas Snell
Merrill Ewing
Eli Stephens
Gene Cartwright
Danville
Howard Crim
Charles Crim
Sulphur Springs
Henry Henley
Terre Haute
S. L. Newsom
Sharlee Ky
Princess
Butt E Spirity
Bingingrid Crosby - Bergman
Leo McCary
S Et
A&l Market
Indiana
Scott County Pork & Beans
Garth
van Camp
Maxwell House Coffee
Nancy
Jackson’s Tomato Pet Bottle
Newport Green Beans
Westfield Maid Tomato Juice
Northwest Mounted Police
By dAlessio
Jimmy Terhune
MSP
Bill Parish
Barbara Lukens
Bonnie Manche
Martha Ann Jones
Sue Ellen Jones
Phil Parish
Joan Warrick
Jesus
David Will
Ralph Will
Patricia Truitt
Marcia Leisure
Judith Kennedy
Pamela Hunt
Sherrell Mosier
Jean Ann Terhune
Beth Roberts
Linda Lukens
The
Birds
Donald Lukens
America
Ross Manche
Praising God
Gloria Lukens
Joyce Carson
Frances Jean Wall
My Prayer
Mary Lou Lukens
William Murphy
Connersville
Henry L. Stinger
Murray White
Hovard, Illinois
Jesse Newsom
Walter Newsom
Carroll Drake
Danny Joe
Joseph Graff
John Whitfield
Yolanda and the Thief
Fed Astaire
Lucille Bremer
Frank Morgan
Gary Cooper
Madeleine Carroll
Paulette Goddard
Preston Foster
Robert Preston
FP Harvey
Judy Garland
John Hodiak
Ray Bolger
Lansbury
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