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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1926
Page
2
Cambage Lodge I O O F No 255 meets Tuesdays at 730 in the Auditorium East Mill Street Visiting members welcome Rush Lodge No 580 F and A M regular meetings first Wednesday of each month
The Carthage Citizen details Mother's Day observance across the nation and urges readers to check ads. It notes a Friday and Saturday sale of $1 items by Carthage merchants and offers a new subscription deal for $1 through January 1, 1927. A robbery at the Standard Oil station on Main and Franklin in Knightstown is reported with attendant flung gunpoint theft of $50. Herbert Kenworthy of Birmingham, Alabama visits his parents in Greenfield.
The issue honors nineteen years of service to the community or forty six years of service as the Clarion Record and Citizen. The note marks long service across local newspapers and civic duty.
Prof J C Hackleman of Illinois speaks on alfalfa by radio. Miss Marcella Lineback, DePauw junior, schedules a May 12 piano recital at Meharry Hall. She belongs to Mu Phi Epsilon and University Girls Glee Club and serves as YWCA cabinet secretary and Mirage Board staff. Russell Publow family of Ojus Florida will move Saturday to Little River with P O Box C 48.
Ruth A Henley Vera Miller notes a tennis defeat at Spiceland. Several students and two teachers attended Edmund Hahn funeral services. The eighth grade sent flowers. Report cards were issued Wednesday. The Senior class play Deacon Dubbs is set for May 14 with lead line quotes included.
Mr and Mrs Earl Rainey hosted guests including her parents Mr and Mrs D M Osborne of Cleveland Ohio and her sister Mrs Pardie of Los Angeles California. The ad promotes painless dentistry by E W Wagoner in Knightstown offering teeth extraction grinding crowns and fillings with no bad effects and no pain.
Miss Esther Butler presided as vice president of the Henry County Historical Society welcoming six local citizens to the fortieth annual meeting at 614 S. 14th St New Castle. The Grose house displays rare instruments portraits and Indian wares. Mr Davis and his bride marked a wedding anniversary with a cake and bouquet at dinner. Clarence Smith curator offers tours while a Nature Study class aids grounds beautification.
Mrs J W Lee aged 41 died Thursday noon at Methodist Hospital Indianapolis after a surgical operation. She had been in poor health two years and lived here six months. Surviving: husband, mother Mrs Ellen Law, a sister of Tipton, a half sister in Elwood, a half brother in Indianapolis. Body to Elwood for funeral Saturday at 2 30 p m.
Jasper Archey died last Thursday at his New Castle home after injuries from a Minnick gravel pit accident five weeks earlier. He worked fifteen years for contractor Charles Minnick. Survived by widow, two sons Donald and Emory Archey, two daughters Mrs La yon Dempsey and Mrs Mabel Roberts of Newcastle, stepson Verne Clay born, foster sister Mrs Alice Terry of Marion. Funeral Saturday at home, Rev. Raymond McDuffey presiding. body buried Riverside Cemetery.
Edgar H Boone and John V Gates family planning move to his father's home north of town. Miss Jeanette Rawle to Philadelphia for a month visit with Mrs Paul Gordon and Mr Gordon. Miss Alice Stanley of Arlington visited Mrs Avery Rawls and daughter. Mrs H O Pitts returned from Indianapolis hospital and improves. Miss Flora Pitts acts as nurse at home. Lawn mowers serviced by Elmer Hunt. Bruce Jordan family of Shelbyville visited with his mother. Johnston families and D S Johnston hosted visitors. A G Simmons family Lena Calbert left for Steele Missouri.
A Lafayette theft involved two sacks of registered mail containing 100000 dollars in bonds and cash. Indiana figures mourn loss of Mrs Rhoda J. Chase widow of former Governor Ira J. Chase at her Muncie home. A whiskey seizure near Indianapolis followed by arrests of Ralph W. Clark and others. Police record 25 speeders near Indianapolis and 26 car thefts valued at 17500 dollars. C. S. Mercer, former Morristown Sun publisher, acquitted of manslaughter in Shelby court for a shooting case. Rushville carrier Herschel Schmall robbed of 18 dollars after a ride request near Circleville. Indianapolis hotelier Capt. William E. English dies of pneumonia following influenza. he survived Spanish American War injuries and remained a civic leader.
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