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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1899
Page
5
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A three day convention of the Gloriatian and Missionary Alliance is set for Monday to Wednesday April 24 25 and 26 at Gospel Tabernacle Clinton and Holman in Edgerton. Notables include Jay G N E Eldridge Rev Dr Myland Rev Milton Bales Rev and Mrs Kerr and Lelacheur with the Ohio male quartet providing constant music. The event aims to extend missions in the U S reaching lower classes and opening new fields. Local branch hosts welcome the public to opening session Monday evening and attendance through June as plans move to Smiley then Edgerton.
Edgerton notes show farmers busy from dawn to dusk. John Mower returns home, Miss Maggie Everson goes to Toledo for work, and Miss Maggie Weiman returns from visiting friends. Isaac Debold moves to Decatur, G W Arapsch remodels a vacated house, Eli Ebee relocates to G W Gilbert’s farm, and August Anderson returns to Sweden. Lt Auspach begins a clerkship in the local general store amid efforts to hire Mrs M Brothera for a local school.
In Mayville and vicinity Rev W J Price temperance evangelist spoke at the Lutheran M P and M E churches and at U B church on The Possibilities of Young Manhood. A Monday fire destroyed Charles Hartzell’s barn and narrowly spared Minickes’ across the alley. Hartzell’s barn was set by the Hartzell child who said I didnt want it there. Rev Zimmerman began meetings at Scipio church. Wheat and clover crops suffer heavy losses with Springfield township expected to fall short of a hundred bushels per acre and an overall burden on farmers as acreage is readied for summer crop.
Local items report Mrs E C Carrington hosting guests and visitors from Lagrange. Clinton Coleman moved to Illinois for work. A surprise plan at James Parnin’s ended with locked doors. Elias Kennedy visited relatives, and the Mycological Society had a pleasant meeting. Friendship church dislikes the move to Coasse circuit. Chas Decker recovers from an accident. A dance at Myers’ hosted late revelers. Elmer Knepper moves to town with family. Batschel family準 moving to Aboll. Funeral attendance for Mr Parrott in Pierceton. Wayne and Washington townships teachers held a seventh joint institute at International Business College with talks on Plato, the Republic, and arithmetic equations.
Farmers sow oats and husk last year’s corn as schools near closing. Trustee Young conducts school enumeration while County Superintendent Young visited recently. Aunt Becky Young is poorly. Tock McGinness returns to Kansas with Dent. J A Weaver raised a barn. Pastor Norris returns to Manaon chapel and new assignment to Arcola. Insurance bill extends anti trust law to St Louis and Kansas City. governor signs it, law in 90 days. Mrs Scott of Aona coin is mentioned.
Mrs Weisel wife of a Lake township farmer survived a serious fall while helping haul fodder. She was thrown from the load onto her head and shoulders dislocating a shoulder and fracturing a right arm. Dr Cutsham reduced the fracture and she is recovering. Other local items include neighbors visiting, farm work starting, and a new preacher preaching to a crowded audience.
San Francisco prepares for the National Baptist meetings with 5000 expected attendees marking a golden jubilee since the movement began on the coast. The event opens April 24 and runs through June 30, with many denomination leaders present and a 500-strong delegation from Bouton arriving.
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