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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1916
Page
13
Final totals of Indiana's common school enumeration show 774,318 children aged six to twenty-one, a rise of 5,600 from last year. White children number 791,067 with 366,223 white girls and 8,467 colored children, while attendances and enrollment figures highlight that many of school age remain outside schools.
Dorothy Van Duyn aged 84 died at her daughter's home in Monroeville after a period of illness. Born June 23 1863 in Vermilion County Indiana she married John Van Day and had five children and seven foster children. Short services are planned at her Monroeville residence Saturday morning with burial at Hum Rich J where funeral services will be held Sunday at 10 o'clock led by Rev J Lagan Powers.
An old advertisement extols a weekly antiseptic oil shampoo with no free alkali, claiming it nourishes the scalp and prevents dandruff. It advertises a large 64 treatment bottle for sale at multiple drug stores and grocers, urging men and children to wash weekly and women biweekly.
Paris reports heavy fighting on the Nerdun front with slight French advances near Courettes wood and violent clashes around Thiaut Mont farm and Vaux east of the Meuse. Artillery actions were intense. Verdun quiet otherwise as aeroplanes engage over Bar le Duc and nearby fronts.
A Berlin wireless dispatch notes Tate Da 1 and Taranto families with local guests, including Mrs. Willer Crandall. Howe school commencement highlights Rathhems as a graduate while many relatives visit and travel. Mrs. Riley Nelson hosts a Dorothy Nelson celebration as families relocate and attend events in nearby towns.
The contract is let for a one story business block to rise this summer on Dr. JM L Rosenthal s Broadway property just south of Jefferson street. An old building will be dismantled. Six storerooms will form the block with ninety feet of plate glass front. Owen Garman of East Creighton avenue holds the contract.
CHURUBUSCO INDIANA June 2 Albert Wolt and wife have a new daughter en ami wife have new son Holman and wife a banker of Tipton were visitors in town on Tuesday Just Bendy ash are taking an outing on Blue lake They are camping in one of the Rapp cottages Mrs Arthur Morrin and children visiting Mrs Holly Hull and other friends in town
June 3 two murderers Roy Champlin and John Supe were executed by electric chair at the state prison. Champlin killed his uncle Henry McGee in Wellsville in time a year ago. Supe was executed for the murder of Vincente Apbhattlelin at Westburg, Nassau County, on June 25, 1000, over a debt.
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