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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1911
Page
7
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A party of eighteen Fort Wayne residents headed by Mr. and Mrs. William H. Simmons and others boarded Wicker Plate train No. 1 bound for Hermiston Oregon to settle on land they have purchased. The group included several families and individuals with long local ties. Nickel Plate supplied a special coach to Chicago where they joined other colonists for the onward trip.
More than a hundred Holman street car employees gathered at the barns at 8 p m Sunday to honor Edward M Raver city superintendent who resigned to take a post in Jackson Michigan Hon J M Barrett presented a diamond ring and several veteran workers spoke including Conductor T M Catshall Motorman R L Seaton and Motorman C O Van Ness Raver thanked them and left Monday for Jackson to start new duties.
Winchester business men pledged $1,000 to cover expenses for the Northwestern Indiana Volunteer Firemen's association annual tournament to be held in Winchester late June. A committee on arrangements hopes for attendance and interest matching last year’s cited success. G F Rogge and F G Duryee, Fort Wayne Electric Works firefighters and association executives, attended a board meeting in Winchester. Mrs Mears Marshall of Grand Rapids is in town visiting Mrs Forbes, while M Morrison remains at Hope hospital.
Dr S D Fess president of Antioch College Yellow Springs Ohio has been invited to deliver the commencement address at Princess Rink on Saturday June 10. The selection was made at a county board of education meeting on Saturday. Enumerating the school children began Monday.
Returned pastors Rev. C. D. Rarey and Rev. C. A. Hirschman are assigned to Bethel and Crescent Avenue churches in Berne and Fort Wayne district. J. J. Wise remains presiding elder of the Fort Wayne district, serving a five year term. Other appointments include P. L. Brown at Waterloo and J. Rees at Wolcottville among many.
The Indiana Evangelical Association will hold the next conference sessions in the first week of April 1912 in Dayton Ohio. Rev Rarey, returning from Berne Monday evening, notes the state meeting was among the best with large attendance as Berne hosted delegates hospitably.
The Fort Wayne Playgrounds association received 843 dollars from the Egypta presentation last week after settlements at a Sunday meeting. Receipts from tickets and ads totaled 2960 dollars with expenses of 1264 dollars leaving 1686 dollars to be split between W D Chenery and the Playgrounds association. The YWCA raised 108 dollars for its building fund and Chenery left for Springfield, Illinois.
John J. Pauley, longtime Fort Wayne clerk and dean of the local clerks, resigns to devote full time to a new insurance partnership with his son Maurice J. Pauley. Mrs Pauley becomes district manager for Home Accident on Health association in South Bend. He will run Spring Beach hotel at Bo City for summer, starting about May.
A set of birth notices lists new children born to Dr and Mrs BeSwee Rhamy of 1115 Garden Street a son. Mr and Mrs W Howard Moellering of 841 Madison Street a daughter. Mr and Mrs Tease Huffman of 1136 Eliza Street a daughter. Mr and Mrs Fred Houston of 2316 South Harrison Street a son. Mr and Mrs Marry Grimme of 538 East Washington Street a daughter.
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