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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
5
Social and missionary events fill the column with Henry Witwer hosting at 407 Hickory Street and a 2:30 pm Friday gathering for Miss Constante Field. Old People’s Day is announced at the Baptist church next Sunday, with conveyances arranged for those unable to attend.
Mr and Mrs Gordon of 808 Cleveland avenue entertained relatives and friends for their fifty fifth wedding anniversary with music and singing. Out of town guests included Mr and Mrs J L Gordon of Arcadia Neb. Miss Ernestine Sidway and Beatrice Beardsley planned to sail for Europe from New York soon and tour the continent returning in the fall. Additional locals hosted farewells for Sidway Mercantile Co employees and others attended social events including a pillow party and a Riverside club picnic for Miss Smith prior to a wedding announcement involving Inez Hecht and R O Hoover. The evening concluded with a three course supper and merriment.
Notes show B. G. Machan in LaGrange for attorney R. Proctor in Goshen. Clayton Helfrich left yesterday for visits at Ohio points. Mr and Mrs Walley of Pratt Street are at Klinger Lake. J L Harman was in Goshen and Grand Las he 5 Danis sheetyene.
Five men remained in the city jail this morning. Weaver moved his coupling shops to 10114 South Main Street near Houseworth Bros. A cement wall was installed on North Main in front of A. Dente’s shoe shop. Drayman John Haley, fractured right leg after being buried by falling ice at the Goldberg store, is recovering. T F Crippe sprained his back lifting a heavy machine at the Acetylene plant where he works.
Sick list notes George Scholes bedridden visiting grandmother on State Street with improving condition. B Page ill after stroke. L G Hafer recovering from pleuro pneumonia. James Dygert of Allendale also listed as sick.
A baby girl was born this morning to Mr and Mrs Crayton Merrill of Tenth and Lafayette streets.
August Faller and Tillie Schmide of Heithart are listed for licenses. A home grown philosopher recalls learned hard knocks and a shift from worrying about others to supporting neighbors, noting a neighbor once in need and choosing self reliance. He contrasts personal scale of family and daily charts of hardship with a past offer of help.
A throat specialist endorses yawning as beneficial, noting it stretches and exercises pharyngeal muscles and clears airway waste. The piece also cites a man’s quip about reading newspapers revealing habits and a lengthy sports roundup from Warsaw including rifle scores and battalion standings.
A string of death notices lists Mrs Christina Jacobson at 83 Harrison Street aged? widow of Christian Jacobson with two sons Charles and William. Henry Arbogast of Osilo Township dies at 55. Mrs Mary Bainter aged 72 dies of paralysis. Walker, 16, dies near Nappanee from heart troubles. Elizabeth Troyer, 67, Goshen, wife of Christian Troyer, dies with three sons and three daughters surviving. plus notes on solar heating experiments and theatrical ghost lore.
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