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Newspaper
Darlington Herald
Location
Darlington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1916
Page
1
Hon J Frank Hanly former governor will deliver the principal address at a large prohibition mass meeting Sunday at 3 p m under Flying Squadron auspices. Event features a choral concert and male quartet with moving pledges and broad local attendance expected.
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At a Monday night meeting the town board discussed sidewalk upgrades, with an ordinance in preparation to require improvements along several blocks long neglected. Plans also emerged to repair the old tree band and consider building anew.
The Calendar Society of the South Christian church held its regular monthly meeting at the Library auditorium yesterday afternoon. After a pleasant session, they were served refreshments at Schroff's by hostess Miss Lyde Meneeciey.
Friends Church held Children’s Day last Sunday with green boughs and crimson rambles. Young members wore plain Quaker garb including grandmothers’ bonnets and broad hats. A notably staged treaty between William Penn and the Indians and a historic wedding scene closed the service.
Harry Westever Walter Stewart and Edward Flaningam will depart next Tuesday for a two week trip through the northwest with Montana as the destination They plan to stop at points of interest and may spend time at Yellowstone Park The Montana idea has been in their minds for some time and they may consider settling there permanently
Franklin Township shifts Sundar School Convention from Shannoncale to July due to Flying Squadron gym service. The postponement aims to avoid clashes with afternoon activities at the Sundar gymnasium.
Autoloads of boosters arrived Monday afternoon from Clarks Hill to advertise the coming horse show next Saturday. The event promises liberal premiums and is expected to draw a large crowd to boost the town.
There will be no men's meeting next Sunday due to a big temperance gathering at the gymnasium at 3 o'clock. After that Sunday, regular meetings resume at the library at 2 30.
All persons knowing themselves indebted to Edward Flaningam are notified to call at the Peoples Banking Co. and make settlement at once. All accounts have been left there for collection.
Notice to guarantors who signed the year’s guarantee for the recently closed Chautauqua. They are requested to remit the assessment of 2 dollars to the treasurer E W Cox at once.
Fred Milner was in Rossville Wednesday Roy Cox and Hubert Seybold were in Indianapolis yesterday Ellea Snyder and family of Rossville spent Sunday at his brother Roy Snyder J B Smith and wife of Fillmore visited Grover Garrett and family Mr Smith returned Monday but Mrs Smith remained until Wednesday
Darlinston's third annual Chautauqua closed Sunday with Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson delivering Our Country. The week featured Old Country Fiddler Charles Taggart, Hampton Court singers, Bland's band and orchestra, Mrs Zehner on American Ideals, and a Gretna Party musical program. Ticket sales fell short of expenses, prompting pledges to buy hundreds more, but next year’s contract awaits signatures.
Edgar Butler and his two sons and daughter spent Sunday with his father Milton Butler near Lafayette. Thorntown plans a 4th celebration with a large horse show and fireworks, offering 300 dollars in premiums, with the Frankfort band providing music. Mrs. Marz Bolser of Chicago paused between trains for a short visit with Mrs. Melissa Bolser and Mat Karton, en route from Alamo to Moran. Mrs. Rogers widow of Dr. Rogers from Darlington was in Crawfordsville yesterday and will move to Frankfort to make it her future home.
The Preparedness League of American Dentists based in Buffalo has opened a bureau to enroll twenty thousand dentists who will each offer to prepare the mouths of at least one applicant free of charge to meet enlistment standards. Marine Corps eligibility requires twenty sound teeth with four molars and four incisors opposed. filled teeth count as sound. Dentists believe many men rejected for defects will be saved for service by these patriotic dentists.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union holds a Mother's Meeting on July 7 at 2 30 p m in the Public Library Auditorium. Program features devotions songs recitations papers and solos including tributes to mothers and talks on child development and keeping the Lord's Day.
Neighborhood Prayer Meeting Bible Classes will meet Monday July 3. Nov 1 at Mrs Marts Leader Mrs Craig No 2 at Mrs Young Leader Miss Kersey No 3 at RK B Cox Leader Mr Bowers No 4 at Mrs Heath Leader Mrs Cunningham No 6 at Homer Miller Leader Miss Weesner.
The Presbyterian Church holds Sunday School at 10 a.m. Morning worship at 11 a.m. and evening service at 7:45 p.m. The morning sermon is Spiritual Equipment for Service. The evening sermon asks What is the Power of the Holy Ghost in the Church Today. Rev. Edgar S. Williams invites all members and the public.
The Friends Church offers Bible School at 9:45, morning worship with sermon at 11, and evening service at 8.00. A mid week prayer meeting is Thursday at 7:30. A cordial invitation is extended to all.
The entry lists a preaching service at 11 am conducted by Pastor W. M. NICELY with Epworth League activities at 7 pm and a second preaching service at Potato Creek at 7:45 pm.
South Christian Church invites all to Bible School at 9:45 a.m. led by J. B. Cooper, superintendent. W. H. Martin serves as pastor and extends a cordial invitation to the community.
Ella Taylor granddaughter of S. S. Martin, daughter of Rev. Hugh Taylor, to wed Rev. Royal G. Hall on July 18 in Berkeley California. They will sail August 12 from San Francisco to Siam to serve as missionaries, following a life spent between Siam and the United States with Park College ties and family mission history.
Local residents and visitors fill the pages with social notes from Lebanon to Crawfordsville. Families and friends share trips, chautauqua attendance, and gatherings while property and selling notices appear alongside civic events and a Carnivalesque Wayne town celebration and horse show.
On Wednesday night the Masons conferred the Entered Apprentice degree on one candidate and the Fellowcraft degree on three. A large attendance included several visiting members. Light refreshments were served and all guests found the evening enjoyable.
Miss Beatrice Combs came back to her Crawfordsville home Saturday following a visit with the family of Dr. Peacock.
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