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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1941
Page
2
Mrs. A. W. Rigsbee and Mrs. Clara Rigsbee led a Wes leyan Methodist Missionary society guest day on Thursday with thirteen members and fifteen guests enjoying a Mother's Day program.
The Busy Bee 4 H club at Posey township met Friday after school with ten members and nine guests. Barbara Hyatt demonstrated posture while Rosemary Northam spoke on eye health. Katherine Ross read, then Laura Jane Hester and Esther Ellen Dearinger played a piano duet. Sponsors were revealed and games enjoyed. Refreshments followed. next meeting set for May 23.
A quiet Sunday ceremony at the home of Mr and Mrs Raymond Kemple in Lafayette united Elizabeth Kemple and Clarence Gross of Wabash in matrimony. The Rev Wiley presided over a double ring service as guests admired ferns roses and a three tier cake. The couple planned a three weeks western honeymoon after a spring reception.
California visitors will reside in Rushville after returning. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Conaway and Mr. and Mrs. Pete Jones of Arlington were among those who attended the wedding.
Mrs Heath entertained guests Friday night at her Arlington home with a rock party. Delightful refreshments followed games. Present were Mesdames Irvin Bitner Pete Jones Ray McCloskey Merle Stout Roy Renegar Bob Kennedy Hugh Kennedy James Cadwallader Joe Readle John Woods and Delbert Winkler.
West of Arlington hosts Mr and Mrs Denning Nelson and son for dinner with guests Lee Mitchell Hutchin and families. Nearby families James Allison Charles Buck Kemple entertainments. many visits across Rushville Marion Noblesville Indianapolis Castleton and Carthage with Downeys moving to Noblesville.
Tabulation shows 1 526 accidents and 50 deaths on ten thousand miles of state highways in April. Outside cities over 3 500 population 45 fatalities in 982 crashes. in cities 3 500 plus 5 fatalities in 544 crashes. Rural injuries 563 with 171 055 dollars in damage. city injuries 144 with 42 808 dollars. Day and night breakdown: 439 of 1 018 property damage crashes at night. 237 of 468 personal injuries at night. 26 of 40 fatalities at night. Defense boosted industrial expansion strains Marion and Clark counties highway Facilities.
In Washington observers link Hess’s parachuted into Scotland episode to White House strategy and convoy war debate. Across the capital writers discuss timing, Roosevelt’s canceled speech, and potential naval incidents while DC gas tax bill gains bipartisan support and visitors tour the city.
The U S army calls Hugh Offenbacker of Greenfield into service in June. His Western Auto Supply stock will be sold at public auction starting Saturday May 24 and continuing until the stock is disposed. Offenbacker is a popular Greenfield businessman and the second local merchant affected by the draft.
A fashion authority says British women will wear skirts about 18 inches from the ground this spring, only one or two inches shorter than the American average.
C R Gutermuth reports two hundred thousand quail and pheasant chicks are being delivered to conservation clubs for rear ing and liberation. Chicks hatch in electric incubators at Jasper Pulaski and Wells County preserves and are moved in heated trucks. 921 electrically heated breeders operate this year under contract with the Division of Fish and Game.
Indiana conservation clubs drive a rapid rise in game bird liberation. Since 1938 clubs expanded brooder operations and increased birds released, with 142000 quail and pheasants liberated in 1940. The Division of Fish and Game hatches 200000 game bird chicks and ships them to clubs nationwide, funded solely by hunting and fishing license revenues.
Mrs. Irma ONeill Speight and her daughter each secured a divorce on the same day in New York. Their attorney was Robert ONeill, who previously represented Mrs. Speight’s first husband.
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