Peru News Notes From Local Business and People
A collage of small items reports price highlights at Leavitt and Cornell and Brown Drug Store, local visits by Macy and Denver residents, a move to LaDue, a Waterman pen lost, and a Peru marriage at Squire Haag’s office. The column mentions coalitions of guests, sales, and social visits across Peru, Logansport, Marion, Indianapolis, and Mexico with several named residents and families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W E Howes
Logansport
Macy
Leavitt & Cornell's
Brown Drug Store
TJ Ewer
Denver
Squire Haag
Peru
John C. Stover
May Ethel’ McDonald
Den
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A clipped local notice column lists social visits and brief notes. Mrs Joseph Smith visited Marion friends. Miss Orpha Roberts visited Mrs Mary Cover in Deeds ville. Walter Eisaman and family visited Denver relatives. Clarence Woolley and George Miller visited Denver relatives. Miss Meriam Derek entertained Miss Norma Kennam. Iva Eikenberry and family attended the reunion in Spencer Park. A sale offers 18 lbs soft sugar for $1.00 at Leavitt and Cornell's. High Grade Lubricating Oil advertised at The Feed Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavitt & Cornell
Walter Eisaman
Columbia City
Denver
Subscriptions and social visits in a frontier column
A sparse item list notes a Feed Store sale on Wabash Portland Cement, Burton Green visiting Denver on Thursday, and E D Leavitt hosting his wife's brother and family. Warwick China by Collins Woolley visited Culver with relatives, George Smith and family spent Sunday in Peru with Henry Earhart’s family. William Baldwin’s family visited Mrs Shultz and family near Converse, plus Fern and Zora Guyer attended a threshing supper at Miss Anna Guyer’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton Green
Perrysburg
Denver
George Smith
Peru
Henry Earhart
Fern
Zora Guyer
Anna Guyer
Harmounts Uncle Tom Show Brings 35-Person Company to Town
The Harmount Company presents a traveling Uncle Tom's Cabin show in a large waterproof tent on Tuesday evening August 30. The event features 15 bloodhounds including Riley and Tracy, a brass band concert, a saxophone quartet, and a first class production with 3500 seats at 15 and 25 cents. The company emphasizes no street parade and distinguishes itself from Pitt's prior appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harmount
Denver
Harmount Company
Riley
Tracy
Harmount Co
Pitt
Leavitt Cornell Sale Ad Display Notes Local Visit Tidbits
Foster Long with his wife and daughter Zula and son Elvin were in Peru over Sunday visiting relatives. Mr and Mrs W W Sellers entertained at dinner Wednesday of last week with J M Statesman and wife of Dayton Ohio and Mrs Emma McCoy. Elbert Zook and family Rev Tacoma and family and others camping at Lake Manitou last week. Charles Bell and family went Saturday returning home Sunday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Fields
Marion
L’ A Haines
Cheston Long
Indianapolis
Dr. Quinn
Cutler
Indiana
Elbert Kline
Mexico
Miss Lois
Stork
Charles Dewald
South
Denver
Foster Long
Zula
Elvin
Peru
W W Sellers
J M Statesman
Dayton
Ohio
Emma McCoy
Elbert Zook
Rev
Tacoma
Lake Manitou
Charles Bell
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Iater
Simmer
Gandy
Elbert Kline, Mer
A. M. Brown
W. L. Piper
McCaffreys
Grant Moon
Pan-a-cea
Great Chicken
Hess Stock Food
Animal
AJ Long
Toledo
Will Smith
Sue Fisher
Peter Armantrout
Waterman
W. B. Place
Lester’s Ford
Earl
Tippecanoe River
Mesdames
O Derek
EE Saline
Meriam Derek
Norma Kennam
Magers
Gordon Grimes
Oscar Brown
Verry
Senaca
Harry Plimpton
Andrews
Mesdames C A Smith
Ella McElwee
Guyer
Warwick
W B Black
Ind
Lynas
William A Roger
Olivia Smith
Marion Normal College
O Brower
Katharine
Ruth
Joseph Smith
Orpha Roberts
Deedsville
Mary Cover
Clarence Woolley
Culver
George Miller
Iva Eikenberry
Eikenberry
Spencer Park
Dr. J. Upshall & Musselman
Leavitt
China
Collins Woolley
E A Woolley
William Baldwin
Uy m
Detroit
Art Stove Company
Laurel
L. G. Dukes
Laporte County
NEW York Central Lines
Laporte
Uncle Tom
S Cabin
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