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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1918
Page
11
The twelfth Waters family reunion was held yesterday afternoon at the Barrett residence, 1527 West Main Street, with family members gathering for the event.
About one hundred members attended the reunion, fewer than last year due to deaths. Dinner was served at 2 pm at Bethany Presbyterian church, then an afternoon gathering at the Barrett residence with ice cream and luncheon on the lawn. Speeches were given by The Hey Shirey and B F Bowser, with several others. Officers were re-elected for 1819 to be hosted at John Waters’ home on Cold Water Road. meetings occur the first Saturday in June each year.
Ten Fort Wayne young men left for military service in special branches. Seven were assigned to Camp Hancock, Georgia as gunsmiths. three will join Fort Meade, Virginia or Fort Harrison for railroad contingent training. Names and addresses of the draftees are listed with their destinations and assignment details.
W H Buell and daughter Lena of 2 West Creighton avenue received official notice that their son Private Clayton Buell of the Canadian army Twenty month service battalion was wounded in the foot by a bomb explosion while fighting in the trenches May 50. He is convalescing in a military hospital. Buell, forty seven, formerly of Seattle, enlisted in Canada for service in France after moving to Vancouver. He trained in Ange lst dominion camp from 1911 to Mar 101 and saw heavy front line action, though he escaped total disaster when a German bomb shattered his feet.
Washington June 1 Senate and House conferees on the rivers and harbors bill reached a dratchet today when they failed to agree on a 500000 appropriation for improving Mobile Alabama harbor. In Indianapolis June 1 the condition of Charles W Fairbanks former vice president was described as shows improvement after a relapse during the night with doctors noting gradual recovery through the day. Journal-Gazette Want Ads One cent a word they bring results.
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