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Amo area notes and community events from May 1920
Local items include a memo for the Amo Horse Thief Detective association meeting on May 3 1920, social visits by Rev McPrayer and Mrs Orrell, a community singing, sick list updates, and high school events. Also reported are travels of Mrs Hearle Brown, visits by Mrs Mark Simpson and her Indiana connections, a store interest transfer to F W Allen Clayton, and multiple local incidents including a horse runaway into a telephone pole injuring George Graham. Funeral notices, military funeral honors for Lee Derr, and community actions around schooling, farm moves, and a World Movement drive in the Northern Baptist convention are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amo Horse Thief Detective Association
W. W. Cosner
Severetary
Addy
Anna Tincher
McPrayer
Coatesville
Orrell
Elmer Fusen
Hearle Brown
Ladoga
Mark Simpson
Babe
Indianapolis
Alice Hamilton
Hugh Hadley
Nora Parker
Sarah Caylor
Lena Terry
Ernest King
Columbia
St. Carolina
Lee Derr
England
Clayton Baptist Church
Tedford
Clayton
Oscar Benbow
Benbow Newlin
Mamie
Geneva Burgess
Crawfordsville
Terrell
Pittsboro
Meyers
Franklin College
Baker
New World Movement
Northern Baptist Convention