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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1939
Page
4
The Carthage Citizen edited by ED E. Bly is published weekly in Carthage Indiana. Subscription rates are $1.50 per year or $0.75 for six months and $0.50 for three months. It is entered at the Carthage post office as second class mail matter.
Rush county welfare director Carolyn Gehamberlain announced that the local welfare office is now accepting October CCC applications. Eligible youths aged 17 to 24 who are unmarried in good health may enroll, with preference for those with needy dependents.
Three quarters of a million children will start school soon and over 70 000 for first time. Motorists must drive carefully near schools and watch for school zones as the Hoosier Motor Club promotes safety.
The Good News of 1940 Program returns with Roland Young Fannie Brice Connie Boswell and Meredith Willson and his orchestra. NBC 7 pm tonight features Snooks and Daddy. CBS offers Believe It or Not Americans at Work Saturday Sept 9 5 pm Campbell Playhouse Sept 10-13 6 pm Star Theater Valley Forge Sept 13 7 pm.
Commissioners allowed numerous bills at the September 4 1939 meeting including clerks salaries deputy clerks treas auditor coroner sheriff and welfare expenses. The long list names many individuals and vendors with amounts ranging from a few dollars to over a hundred dollars. A note mentions the Lindbergh Carrel heart device at the New York World’s Fair.
In Paris a radiophoto shows French reservists at Fontenoy Barracks being assigned to war stations as France mobilizes. In Washington Lord Lothian, new British ambassador, met President Roosevelt for 75 minutes, posing with a black cat named Crisis. Danzig reports German forces advancing against Poland amid wartime tensions.
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