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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1934
Page
4
After Oct 31 warmth and gaiety fill the Mexican Village at the World’s Fair in Chicago, one of fifteen foreign villages. It will also fall to the wreckers when the most successful American expo closes October 31 with giant special events that outshine other schedules.
Relatives gathered at the widow Ethlinda Watkins to share a yearly family dinner at the century-old homestead. Reminiscences stretched to 1825 with a Civil War era letter from Washington Watkins. Attendees included McDuffey, Redman, Weaver, Roberts, Neal, St Clair, Watkins kin, and Ward in Bloomington.
A statewide effort by the Indiana Highway Commission to improve safety follows the publication of a map listing motor vehicle deaths on state highways over the past five years. The commission seeks information on fatalities not shown on the map to complete a full five year tally and bolster the safety campaign. The widening of shoulders along more than a thousand miles and culvert work on bridges are part of safety improvements already underway.
Visitors at the Indiana state fair view a State Highway Commission exhibit with enlarged maps showing fatal motor vehicle crashes by flashing lights and colored gaps in the current system. The display includes miniature highways of twelve types such as gravel, brick, concrete and oil mat, located in the west part of the Manufactures Building.
Jack Overman ill at home this week. Grapes for sale or trade offered by Orin Miller. The Misses Fella and Greta Mc Clain visited Charlotteville last Sunday. O C McCarty and Charles Webber traveled to Petoskey Michigan for hay fever relief. Mrs Willis Ratliff hosted by brother Virgil Tetrick and family Saturday night. Mr and Mrs George Jones moved to Greenfield to work in a movie film and continue work in Anderson.
The Eastern Indian Holiness Association camp meeting at Salvation Park in Cleveland Indiana served over 2500 free meals. John Williams says the session had the best attendance and enthusiam in ten to fifteen years, boosted by Rev. John T Hatfield who traveled from Los Angeles to lead.
Vernon Hill son of Mr and Mrs Vinton Hill died last Tuesday at his Newcastle home after months of tuberculosis. He was 19, a Newcastle High School graduate 1933, entered Earlham College in 1933, left last May. Funeral Thursday at 2 in Friends church Newcastle, burial Glencove Knightstown. Mr and Mrs George Hinshaw attend.
The column lists numerous local visits and travel from Rushville Indiana. It mentions Miss Augusta Carr visiting St. Louis and returning home, various families hosting meals and guests in Indianapolis Charlottesville and Cincinnati, and many small-town trips for holidays and vacations. It also notes illness and school or club attendance, plus a brief moral inscription about parental care and faith.
A brief reflective note cites R W Dale urging earnest weekly prayer to fill the minister with the Holy Ghost. It contrasts nearness to the Saviour with greater love, likening intimate communion with Jesus to sunlight raising planetary heat in the soul. Spurgeon adds a similar image on ardor for Christ.
A brief quotation attributed to M. Luther on preserving the church through time. It reflects the idea that human efforts alone cannot sustain the church but faithenduring presence is constant. The text emphasizes divine constancy beyond generations.
The preacher C H Spurgeon replied that defending the Bible is unnecessary and unwise comparing it to a lion that should be let loose to defend itself. He urged letting the Bible speak for itself rather than guarded defense.
The note previews library hours beginning next Tuesday with noon openings on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the school term. It reviews four featured works: A House of Her Own by Marjorie Hill Allee focusing on a girl’s early life. Waterless Mountains by Armer about a Navajo boy. Prairie Anchorage by Medary with dramatic sea and river adventures. Tabitha Mary by Parton about an orphan girl in Newburyport in 1910.
A list of attendees includes Mr. and Mrs. Roy Herk less, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Staten, Miss Sharlee Kyser, Mrs. Maude Porter, Finley Nelson Ross Tweedy and family, Luther Renegar, D. P. Dunn, Roy Small and family, Russell Publow and family, Mrs. Lindley Taylor, Lan Frost, S. L. Newsom and family, Miss Winonia Newsom, John Benson and family, H. O. Pitts, Homer Bowers and others.
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