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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1919
Page
5
Announcement from Pastor Wm. Melton inviting everyone to Sunday School, B Y P U and a series of meetings starting next Monday evening at the Baptist Church. Do not forget the schedule and a welcoming hand from the church.
M and Church invites all to Sunday School next Sunday at 9 30 morning and to the morning service at 9 30. W W Sellers conducts Sept offerings. Alvin F White is the pastor and extends a cordial invitation to attend.
The Brethren Church conducts a Bible Study session at 9 30 in the morning led by Superintendent Sam Clingaman. The notice lists Clingaman as the supervising leader for the weekly study group.
The Peru Gun Club will host an all day shoot at their grounds in Peru on Wednesday October 22 under live bird and open field rules. The event aims for sport and pleasure over scores with rain or shine attire advised. It starts at 10:00 a m featuring two twenty third events and three main events with potential additions if time allows.
Ben Davis apples are being picked at Miller orchard four miles south of Denver this week. Other varieties are available at the home orchard two miles north of Chili. Call at orchards, L. V. Doud.
Mr and Mrs Charles Dawald move with their family from the Dawald farm northeast of Denver to a 60 acre farm northwest of Twelve Mile recently purchased from Ab Crippen. Sam Dawald and family will move from near Roann to the vacated Dawald farm. Friends extend best wishes on their departure to the new home.
Mrs Warren has been seriously ill with throat paralysis for two weeks but is now much improved. She is up around the home and her speech has returned after a period of loss. Friends note she is likely to be well again soon.
Timothy Murden born June 3 1882 in Baltimore Maryland son of Charles and Martha Murden lived in Miami County Indiana moved to Hudson in 1908 married Nancy Smith December 11 1856. He died October 2 1919 aged eighty seven years three months and twenty nine days with a large Methodist family legacy and burial at Circle Cemetery Hudson Indiana.
A mass convention of all legally qualified voters in Denver Indiana is called for Thursday evening October 16 1919 at 8:00 at Endsley Blacksmith Shop rear of Dukes Hardware Store to nominate candidates for town Trustee from three wards town Clerk and town Treasurer. Election held in an off year per state law. Civic duty to attend. Election Inspector W. T. See.
Cleve Eye signs contract at Roann on October 1 to install machinery by February 1. The Ege Brothers Willard and Cleve will run the Roann plant, employing 25 to 30 locals, with grounds donated and a 40 by 90 building erected. The Denver and Mexico factories expand under Ora Wiles and Ege leadership, proving basket making boosts towns.
The Woman's Baptist Missionary Society met at Mrs. Mionie Tharp's home on Wednesday October 8 led by Mrs. William Melton. After song and prayers, members studied biblical prompts and missions readings by Emma Zook Josie Lewis and Jennie Murphy. The group voted to send a clothing box to six month old twins at Crawford Industrial School. Reporter Mrs. A. Cunningham signed off.
Rev. A T Wirick of South Bend has accepted a call to the Denver Brethren Church. He arrived Saturday and filled services at 10 30 a m and 8 p m, delivering two well received sermons. Wirick will visit Denver biweekly to oversee the church while remaining based elsewhere. Rev L A Myers will move to Sidney Ind to lead the Brethren Church there with his family, after years in Denver.
The Denver Merchants Band plans an 8:15 p m concert on the Public Square next Saturday October 18 pending favorable weather. It will be one of the best yet and may be the last concert of the season due to cooler evenings. Families are urged to attend, shop, and enjoy the program.
Railroad companies across Indiana urge school authorities to enforce the law requiring hack drivers to stop before crossing railroad tracks and to ensure both directions are clear. They cite recurring child injuries and deaths caused by noncompliance.
We express gratitude to many friends for their kindness during our wife and mother’s long illness and for sympathy in our bereavement. Special thanks to Rev White for the service and to the quartet for the music. Charles Luckenbill and Children.
The Roosevelt Memorial Association plans a national campaign during the week of October 2027 to raise 5 million dollars for a Washington memorial and Oyster Bay shrine. Indiana Church Committee urges ministers to observe October 19 as Americanization Sunday, stressing Theodore Roosevelt’s ideals of courage energy unselfish service patriotism and integrity as a guide for youth and future Americans.
Mrs. Charles Luckenbill died at her Washington Street home Thursday evening after months of illness. Medical care and devoted family efforts could not halt the progression of a complication of diseases. She was a highly respected resident, and her loss is deeply mourned by family and the community.
Cyntha A Harden born near Mexico Indiana September 20 1850 died in Denver Indiana October 9 1919 aged 69 years 19 days. She was orphaned young and raised by David Keefer family. She married Charles Luckenbill November 5 1876 and raised his five children. She joined the Dunkard Church early and later the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ebenezer then Denver. She left no biological children and is survived by two unknown western nieces. Funeral Saturday at 9:30 in home conducted by Rev A F White. Interment at Ebenezer Cemetery.
County Superintendent EB L Powell has secured Rolla Elcott of Valparaiso to deliver the address before teachers at the joint township institute to be held in Peru at the high school building next Saturday afternoon. Prof Elcott is a professor of public speaking at Valparaiso University.
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