Savings and Loan Association seeks investors and loans
The Liberty Loan and War Savings Stamp campaigns were fully subscribed in the county and many residents invested from $100. The Savings and Loan Association invites money to invest in stock with dividends paid twice yearly. It seeks more cash to fund loans and notes ongoing service to investors and borrowers, signed Lew M. O’Bannon, Secretary.
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Liberty Loan
Savings and Loan Association
Lew M. O’bannon
Harrison County Divorces Grant Custody Amid Manslaughter Case
Mrs Minnie Bailey wins divorce from Harry Bailey with custody of their children. Bailey is imprisoned in the Indiana reformatory after being found guilty of manslaughter in the killings of Mrs Julian Byerly and her daughter Miss Leona Cline at their East Fourth and Mass streets home. Mrs Bette Neafus also receives divorce and custody of her children. New Albany Item, Courier Journal.
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Minnie Bailey
Paris
Harry Bailey
Indiana Reformatory
Julian Byerly
Leona Cline
East Fourth
Mass Streets
Bette Neafus
George Neafus
New Albany
Coacier Journal
Red Cross News Grenades and Global Relief Efforts
The American Red Cross reports wide relief activity from 20 000 American Indians among members to 1 184 401 blankets shipped to war zones. Seaports in France host Red Cross workers while in Havana Afro Caribbean volunteers form an auxiliary. Civilian relief in France supports 15 hospitals with 1 500 beds and aid to over 240 000 French people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
American Red Cross
Havana
Red Cross
France
Emergency Rations and War Work Highlight Front Lines
Emergency rations of pressed beef and malted milk tablets are supplied to soldiers who left supply wagons in pursuit of retreating enemy. Women speaking Czech Polish and Russian receive Red Cross training for reconstruction work in those countries. About 20 doctors and 80 nurses serve in the Czech army of 70 000. At the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men in New York disabled veterans learn artificial limbs oxy acc welding drafting printing motion picture operation and jewelry making. Books added to the Library include The Tree of Heaven The Booraman Family The Truth About Louvain Billys Sunday Isabel Carlton Yeate and Thirty More Famous Stories Re Told. A marble bust of Abraham Lincoln was donated by Mrs Clara Slervons. All accounts including fall fertilizer are due by December 1st. W H Bullett & Sons Inc. fi 20 20
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Red Cross
Red Cross Institute For
New York
James Baldwin
Abraham Lincoln
Clara Slervons
Ed Garrison County Agricultural Society Officers Elected
The Ed Garrison County Agricultural Society elected officers on November 12. President Frank Self was reelected with opposition. Vice President W G Rhodes, Treasurer, and Secretary RR Wright retained their posts. Thirteen township directors were chosen, with several unopposed, and multiple named individuals from each township appeared on the ticket. A tribute note honored Hobart Louden by Spencer township teachers, dated November 15, 1918.
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Ed Garrison County Agricultural Society
Corydon
Frank Self
W. G. Rhodes
Eds
Days
Rank RR. Wright
Self
Russell
Boone
McCauley
Taylor
Weaver
Posey
Quebbeman
Morgan
Durmil
Blue River
County Council Organizes in Harrison County Indiana
Indiana law required all county council members elected last Nov 5 to meet and qualify by Nov 16. Only three others joined, prompting continuation of service by veteran members. The council elected Dr. Charles L. Stevens president and W H Bussabarger vice president with seven total members named across townships and towns.
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Indiana
Chas. L. Stevens
Davids. Stoker
John W. Lyskowinski
Wm. H. Bussabarger
Charles L. Stevens
W. H. Bussabarger
David G. Miles
Corydon
Joseph Ubl
Morgan Township
Chan. A
Andrew) Walther
Franklin Township
George Deatrich
David
Stoker
Stephen H. Carroll
Lyskowinski
Farmers’ Institute
Harrison County
Washington Township
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Coats
Europe
Amer
ICA
Our
W. H. Keller CO
Nefions
Bothes
Loans Money Act
Red Cross News
Areneuses
San Juan
Porto Rico
A. R. C. War Council
Serbian Red Cross
Weele
Italy
Friends’ Hospital At
Dunkirk
the Tree of Heaven
May Sinclair
Booraman
Watts
Louvain
Rene Chambry
Blanche Ridley
Billy
W. L. Ellis
Pearl Waleon
Isabel Carlton
Yeate
Margaret Asheman
W. H. Bullett & Sons, Inc
Robt
Swarens
B. Hays
Stephen A. ‘Taylor Frank Fr. Wright
J. W. Turley
Harrison Township
David Shaffer
Sam T
Wolfe
Boone Township
Joel FL
Harry Trotter
Cy Mauck
Ileth
FY Windell
Flora
Austin McCauley
Amzi Weaver
Webster Township
Thos. H. Smith
Paul Seipel
Scott Township
George Brown
Sam D. Breeden
John Lyskowinski
Herman Meyer
Weeese
Oscar Harbeson
Clarence A. Shuebbeman
Jas. M. Dumnil
Lus Iilver Township
Eres
Jackson Township
F. Davis
William Wagnarr
Spencer Township
Hobart Louden
Hobart
Bat Hobart
B. F. Belle
Fern Hickman
Dre. Chas.l. Stevens
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