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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1921
Page
5
Public notices announce a Thursday prayer meeting at 7:30 p.m. led by Pastor H. W. Parx, with Sunday School at Chili at 9:30. B Y P U at 7:30 p.m. Evening worship and prayer services listed, with Supt. Baptist Church details and an open invitation to all parishioners.
The Brethren Church announces a Bible study at 9 30 in the morning with N B Brower as superintendent. Public is invited to all services. A T Wraick serves as pastor.
The Denver Electric Light and Power Co will install a full line of electrical fixtures and appliances at the Cloud Building on Harrison and Payson Streets. They will offer lamps household labor saving devices and power equipment including pumps washing machines heaters and more with stock arriving this week.
John Zigler aged 70 a retired farmer of Converse was found dead in bed by his wife early Saturday. Death resulted from cerebral hemorrhage after a day of work and fatigue. He was an Odd Fellows member known in the region and leaves a widow and children Charles of Wabash Alonzo near Somerset and Mrs Minnie Keyes of Converse. He was brother in law to Mrs A Q Miller.
A returned missionary Rev Danyes appears at the E Church next Tuesday morning Oct 3 at 10 45. An all day program includes a basket dinner and noon talks for children. Afternoon speakers Duryea Burt Thornburg Sparling discuss pastoral visitation evangelism benevolence. Pageant The Missionary and the Devil closes the evening with Rev Thornburg at Chili. don’t miss it.
Marine Corps recruiting has restarted after about ten weeks of suspension. Congress sets the force at 21 000 with high standards. Enlistment age 20, weight 130 pounds, height 65 inches. Contact Indianapolis Evansville or Louisville recruiting stations for details.
Earl Carrothers of Ebenezer and Rhoda Bacon of Perrysburg wed in a quiet ceremony at Elder Irvin Fisher's home on Saturday evening September 24 at 6 o'clock. Mrs. Jennie Fisher attended, and the couple plans to establish a home near Ebenezer with the good wishes of friends.
The Free Clinic of the Miami County Tuberculosis Society will be held Thursday morning October 6, 1921 from 9 to 11 in the Chamber of Commerce rooms 19 East Third St. Peru. A complete examination will be made by the examining physician and a diagnosis given for each case.
Denver High School hosts a Friday Sept 30 event at 7 30 pm with homemade candy popcorn cake walks and prizes for popular young ladies and the laziest man. Girls bring boxes for the fundraiser social.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church holds a gathering at the church with details to be announced.
Mary A Smith writes from Johnstown Colorado dated September 28 1921 describing a trip via Burlington to Denver with her brother Sam and wife. She details a ride through Lorland and Estas Park notes snow cold cottage life mountain views a one million dollar hotel trout fishery and a flat tire plus plans to visit Denver and return home.
County agent Thorne says an epidemic of hog cholera covers the southern Pipa Creek and northern Deer Creek townships near Bunker Hill and Miami with one herd of 126 head at 150 pounds affected. Vaccination and isolation advised as disease spreads countywide toward Fort Wayne and Goshen.
Articles of incorporation filed with the Secretary of State and county Recorder Dunn establish the Denver Electric Light & Power Company in Denver and Miami County. Capital stock is 10,000 dollars with Alonzo C. Cunningham Lee B. Long and Elvin R. Long named as incorporators and directors. Life 50 years. First annual meeting January 1922 at the Denver office.
At the present rate of progress 139 maintained the new Mexico school building will be completed in October. It is hoped to move the High School during the State Teachers Association, Oct. 20 to 28. If done, there will be no break in school. Carpenters nearly finish woodwork while painters follow. Plumbing and heating work lags, and officials desire completion before winter to ease grade-work inconvenience.
Charles Dewald a local carpenter misses work at the New Mexico school house this week due to blood poisoning from a small pimple on his left little finger that swelled after Saturday. He sought medical care as the condition worsened and left him unable to work while the project advances.
A Peruvian man named Jarritson, from Peru, was reported transacting business in Denver on Tuesday.
An outbreak of infantile paralysis has appeared in northeastern Howard County. Four year old Russell Mast died early September 15 after falling ill, and six year old Frances Lantz is also ill. A private funeral was held, burial in Rankin cemetery, while the Zion church area undergoes school disinfection and pupil restrictions to curb spread.
Denver residents rush to wire homes as poles and wire have shipped signaling imminent construction of the Chili line. Charley Hoover lists over twenty five dwellings with first wires to L. C. Dukes and M. M. Dukes, aiming for several per week. With cheaper material and labor, costs drop and most near dwellings already wired for quick connection once power arrives. Companies promise prompt material shipment and construction before winter.
On Sunday September 25 Mr and Mrs D C Stowman announced the arrival of an 84 pound baby boy at the home of Mr and Mrs Bert Goff in Colfax Indiana. The child named Robert Stowman is the couple's second child joining sister Louise Goff. Mrs Goff was formerly Miss Gayle Stowman of Denver. Mr Goff is a baker and expects his son to help in the business someday.
Mrs. E. G. Brindell formerly Mrs. J. W. Ellis left Peru Friday after a visit with Mrs. C. P. Eckstein. She will go to Toledo Ohio then south to join her husband in Orlando Florida. Mr Brindell is a retired Norfolk wholesale grocer and they may buy a home there and perhaps spend winter in Cuba.
Mr and Mrs Stanley Durets and their two small daughters from South Bend visited Saturday and Sunday evening with Mr and Mrs Glenn Brown west of town and Mrs F D Guinn were Sunday dinner guests at Brownlonie.
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