Bunco in Arizona at Black Creek mines stars Miss Davis
Miss Dollie Davis leads a four act Western comedy drama Bunco in Arizona from Lillian Mortimer. The tale set at Black Creek mining camp follows Bunco and miner Dick Gold amid an English heiress aunt, a forged deed plot, and an Indian chief. After five years Bunco returns to wed Dick as Jim Blunt keeps the mine secure against rivals.
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Dollie Davis
James L. Veronce Amusement Company
Black Creek
Jim Blunt
Dick Gold
Bunco
Hinglishman
Jim
Black Hawk
J. Louis Ungerer
Frenchy
Heathercott
Buneo
Capt. Clay of Missouri to Open at Majestic Theater
David Higgins presents Capt. Clay of Missouri at the Majestic, a southern tale of romance, bravery, and social life in southwest Missouri. The play features Capt. Robert Claybourne and Melissa Benton amid baseball, garden scenes, a barn chase, a village banquet fight, and a lavish home setting with Miss Servoss and others in a staged production by Higgins.
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Majestic Theater
Ed Stair
David Higgins
Capt. Clay
Missouri
Southland
Robert Claybourne
Melissa Benton
Capt
Clay
Melissa
Stair & Nicolai
Mr. Higgins
Hod
Mary Servoss
Chicago
Bedford
Hope
Eleanor Downs
Miss Servoss
Bliss Milford
Bishon McLaren
Episcopal Diocese of
Jockey
Georgie Mack
Mack
Murray & Mack
Mack Hag
Actor lineages span generations in local company
The article notes that an actor recently starred in Foxy Grandpa as a bad boy and introduces Clare Armstrong as Leslie Benton, daughter of an ex Confederate general who also acted in youth. It adds Mark Smith, a fellow player, is a fourth generation descendant of Sol Smith, a noted early 19th century performer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare Armstrong
Leslie Benton
Mark Smith
Sol Smith
Plum Bluffton Wedding Planned Between Bumgardner and Worley
Elst News Bureau reports the approaching wedding of Charles Bumgardner and Maude Worley at the MecCague home in Bluffton Ind on Thursday evening. Bumgardner works at McBride furniture store. Worley is daughter of G W Worley Ossian both deceased. They will start housekeeping in Bluffton.
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Elst
Bluffton
Ind
Charles Bumgardner
Maude Worley
John MecCague
Ossian
Southern Hunter Returns With Captured Animals
Peter S. Green former proprietor of Bluffton Indiana’s grist mill arrives from Pioneer Louisiana with two catamounts and a wolf he trapped in the south. He presents them to old hunting companion Elmer McClelland and plans to return south in a few months. Green works for Pioneer Cooperage in summer but hunts cane brakes in winter and has killed ten deer in the past two seasons.
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Kist
Bluffton
Ind
Peter S. Green
Pioneer
Express
Will Teach at Gary Bluffton Ind Aug
Harry Redding a public schools graduate and former DePauw student has been chosen to teach in Gary for the coming year. Patterson Pletcher Co announces a great half price sale starting Tuesday morning with details on page two. Fall term at Fort Wayne Business College opens Tuesday September 1 with day and evening classes. Phone 2020 for particulars.
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Kist
Bluffton
Ind
Harry Redding
Public Schools
DePauw
Gary
Fort Wayne Business College
Monroeville Notes Busy Week Nears Ringling Circus
Monroeville Indiana reports a week of local visits and social events. Grace Smith of Fort Wayne arrived to stay with the Walters family. Mrs. Barfell dies at sixty eight of heart trouble with services at Marquardt church. Many residents visit Danville Fort Wayne and Ossian as guests attend club meetings and reunions. A Wass family reunion draws nearly a hundred relatives at the south country home. Thieves steal a purse from N Mull while away from home.
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Monroeville
Ind
Grace Smith
Fort Wayne
J. Walters
Jeremiah Barfell
Barfell
J. A. West
Marquardt
Harry Geyer
New Mexico
Frank Mpencer
Morgantown
W. Va
Wm. Mencer
B. ¥. Friedline
Lake Tippecanoe
Rose Kauffman
Antwerp
D. M. Byers
Fremont
Chas. Krick
Priscilla Embroidery Club
Iriday
Chas. VW. Putnam
Railroad Street
J. B. Niezer
Rome City
May Thomas
Findlay, C
Albert Schurger
Eota
Marceil
Delphos
Ohio
David Clark
Wm. Smith
Sandusky
Edith Davis
Starlight Club
Kathryn Ireland
Myrtle Martin
Cleo Edwards
Bernadett Niezer
Ossian
Oltie Geyer
Helen Jones
Agnes Phillips
Elsie Allegar
Bernaett Niezer
Ringling Circus
Port Wayne
Finan
W W. D. Baker
Danville
Dessie Martin
Myrtle Spaulding
Herman Paling
Valparaiso
Henry Ealing
V. Brubaker
Jewell, O
W. D. Baker
Chas, Erick
Grange
J. B. “Mytle
E. V. Steinman
New Haven
Roy
New Lisbon
John Goodin
Decatur
Clark Montgomery
al Railsnider
Wm. Marchland
N. Mull
Mr. Mull
Helen Davis
Gertrude Battenberg
Indianapolis
J. M. Jackson
Priddy
Home Telephone Company
Helen
Parsell Emerson Families Hold Seventh Annual Reunion
The Parsell Emerson families held their seventh annual reunion in Angola Indiana at the Emerson home. About 120 relatives attended a dinner a ball game with the old men winning ten to eighteen and an after dinner program. Attendees came from Litchfield Michigan Canadian Texas Hebron LaGrange Toledo and Fort Wayne. The next meeting will be at Edwin Beighs Salem township home. Officers elected were Christ Parsell president Robert Emerson vice president Hattie Parsell secretary James H Parsell treasurer.
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Kist
Angola
Ind
Emmons
Emerson
Charles Armstrong
Litchfield
Mich
Albert Parsell
Canadian
Tex
Elizabeth Elliott
Hebron
Ned
Kate
Angie
Artena Chapin
Fort Wayne
H. M. Herbert
Lagrange
Margaret Irving
Toledo
Ohio
Edwin Beigh
Salem Township
Christ Parsell
Robert Emerson
Hattie Parsell
James H. Parsell
Taft Club of Angola Completes Its Organization
The Taft club of Angola, Indiana completed its organization at the Armory on Friday evening. Officers elected are Maurice McClue as president, H. F. Thompson as vice president, W. Irving Pence as secretary, and Thos. Tl. Gillis as treasurer. A report recounts Taft nomination news and a joke told by Clue Carlin. Next meeting in two weeks may feature a Fort Wayne speaker.
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Kist
Angola
Ind
Armory
Taft Club
Maurice McClue
H. F. Thompson
W. Irving Pence
Thos. Tl. Gillis
Clue Carlin
William
Taft
G. C P
Fort Wayne
Stage Rolls to Go and $100 Bill Passed
Washington August, Chief Wilkie of the Secret Service proposes to test the law regarding the right to make stage money, as freely sold in Washington, D. C. The discussion centers on the legality of counterfeit or prop currency and enforcement actions after a related bill advance.
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Wilkie
Washington, D. C
Secret Service
Bluffton man buys irrigated ranch near bank in Great Salts River valley
John L. Waring, grandson of John Studa, a Bluffton native now a mesa banker, purchased eighty irrigated acres a mile from his bank for 170 dollars an acre in the Great Salts River valley. He plans to build a sumptu...
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Kist
Bluffton
Ind
John L. Waring
John Studabaker
Mesa
Ariz
Great
Salts River Valley
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