Hoover Area News Briefs and Local Anecdotes
Neighborhood notes report a boy thrown from a deer striking incident, aunt Liza Crook buried at 71, Jim Crook paralysis, Johnny Bean baby improving, Noah Balgbaugh sale nets over 4800 dollars with a Dodge car selling for 805. Local travels include Dunkyard meeting at Flora and to Indiana, hot weather delays road work, storms last Saturday night, and several dinner visits.
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Liza Crook
Corinth
Jim Crook
Johnny Bean
Noah Balgbaugh
Social Roundup in Peru and Nearby Towns
Rural Route 2 reports P. S. Sullivan in Peru Saturday and William Gruwell visiting there Friday and Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Morris and son of Peru guests of S. D. Berger and wife Tuesday. Lucife Ricks of Peru visited grandparents W. F. and Mrs. Newbold last week. Omer Lee and wife attended the Indianapolis fair for several days. Walter Leffel and sister Lucile visited grandparents Wm. Leffel and wife at Woolleytown last week. F. S. Matthias and sister dined with Mr. and Mrs. Owen Murphy at Woolleytown last Wednesday. Ambrose Moore and family, and Mrs. Grover Moore and child of Peru, spent Sunday with Mrs. Mary Berger. Miss Grace Ream spent Saturday with Mrs. Ballee and her young daughter. A. A. Morris and family and Chester Wohlheter and wife of Kokomo called on S. D. Berger Sunday afternoon. F. S. Matthias and sister Alva—
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisa Lantz
Biba
Berger
P.S . Sullivan
Will Ream
Elmer Ream
Denver
P. S. Sullivan
A. A. Morris and Son
Peru
S. D. Berger
Lucife Ricks
W. F. Newbold
Omer Lee
Indianapolis
Walter Leffel
Lucile
Wm. Leffel
Woolleytown
Matthias
Owen Murphy
Ambrose Moore
Grover Moore
Mary Berger
Grace Ream
Ballee
A. A. Morris
Chester Wohlheter
Kokomo
County Tax Rate Cut Keeps Miami County Funds Tight
At the eleventh hour the Miami County Council set the general fund tax rate at 18 cents per $100 valuation. By trimming expenses and reducing indebtedness the rate was cut by seven cents to 11 cents, with the commissioners fixing 2 cents for county unit roads and 13 cents for road repair and maintenance, totaling 38 cents.
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Miami County Council
Local social and club notes from Logansport area
Mrs. Milton Gallahan shopped in Logansport on Wednesday with other community notes. Elmer Lantz and two sons visited Mrs. Rufus Fisher. N. B. Hunt left for Indianapolis for the State Bankers Association. Oliver Fisher family moved to West Washington Street, Denver. Opal Daniels left for Evanston to attend Northwestern University. Mrs. Charles Alderfer and Roy Alderfer returned to Denver so Roy could resume Jefferson Township High School. they had spent the summer in Arkansas. A Miss Daniels elocution recital at the Brethren church drew a large warm crowd. The Dices visited Lindenwood Cemetery in Fort Wayne to place flowers on James G. Lacey’s grave, one year after his death. A Baptist Church musicale under the Women’s Missionary Society featured a mixed quartet and Manchester College pianist, with sacred music, readings, and a Kinley Gallahan duet.
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Charles Alderfer
Roy
Denver
Alderfer
Jefferson Township
Truman
Arkansas
L. H
Dice
Bippus
Baptist Church
Women’s Missionary Society
Manchester College
Gilbert Kinley
Emma Gallahan
Changes Planned an Agricultural Course in Miami County Schools
The Miami County Board of Education approved two outlines to enhance seventh and eighth grade agriculture. The plan adds local pests like chinch bugs, expands soy bean study and its byproducts, and introduces poultry farming with monthly focus on housing feeding and diseases. The program, led by the county agricultural agent, aims to boost practical knowledge and potential income for students.
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Miami County
County Board of Education
WIBEL'S RESTAURANT OFFERS CHICKEN DINNER WEEKLY
Weekday notices advertise that WIBEL'S RESTAURANT serves a traditional chicken dinner each Tuesday. The ad also promotes Rees's Ice Cream Candies cigars and tobacco. Mrs Lulu Gastin visited Peru early in the week as a guest of her daughter Mrs Bryan Black and husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rees
Wibel
Lulu Gastin
Peru
Bryan Black
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Hoover
Flora
Indiaoa
Holenstein
Fred Hutsell
Erie
J. D. Crumpacker
Family
Irvin Angle
Carroll County
Mr. Shoff
Ft. Wayne
Mr. Lacy
Mark Doran
John Bean
Fort Wayne
Dralling
Hank Long
William Gruwell
Alve
Milton Gallahan
Logansport
Elmer Lantz
Rufus Fisher
Martha
N. B. Hunt
State Bankers Association
Oliver Fisher
Gallahan
West Washington Street
Opal Daniels
Evanston, II
Northwestern University
The
Brethren Church
Indiana
OldZens State Bank
Denver, Indiana
Cass County Fair
Logansport, Indiana
West Third Street
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