06 Apr 1922
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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1922
Page
1
An editorial argues for a 16 game season over 16 weeks to curb basketball encroachment on study time. It notes the sport’s benefits while warning against excessive evenings of games and social events. It urges adoption to protect grades and sustain the game.
Road meeting Friday night. Miss Leonard and Miss Eva-Ann tonight. Tennell called to Greentown on account of grandfather William Hancock’s death after a recent accident. The old gentleman broke his leg days earlier and later. Myers, township superintendent, reports large rocks south of town along the farther south road. Regular material will follow.
The Tribune notes a Radio Broadcasting News report that Bryan received four thousand letters from forty five states after denouncing satanic influence. The piece praises Herbert Ames for improving amplification and warns listeners to refrain from disruptive chatter during broadcasts.
Roland Byrd, long in the local restaurant trade, opens a news stand in the Myers theater building after selling his business to John Clark. The venture will offer a sales agency for all dailies and periodicals and handle related items.
Miss Leonard and Miss Eva Anderson attended events as Mr and Mrs John L. Zinky traveled to Chicago yesterday afternoon. Dr and Mrs. are also mentioned in the social notes with no further details.
Francesville residents crowded the station rooms awaiting a KyW radio broadcast with Anne Leonard, daughter of Mr and Mrs W B Leonard. A Magnavox instrument barely amplified her voice but promised a full program that evening at the Francesville high school gym with Eva Anderson accompanying.
John Blake argues in Public Opinion that progress comes slowly. Wise reformers respect prevailing views and avoid immediate clashes. Agitators and martyrs are useful, but lasting change comes from moderates who gradually remold customs built over centuries.
John Hillman 25 died after a fatal kick by a horse on Tuesday evening. He was born February 17 1897 near Francesville and married Rose Clark in 1915. Survived by wife three children Howard Margaret Virginia father Georges Hellman and grandmother Mrs Dora Schumacher burial in Francesville cemetery.
Long microphone praise surrounded the local church service as Rev. Van Orman received a bouquet of roses from Mrs. C D Newby after parishioners and leaders urged continued leadership. H F Sehricker lauded his work, and the male quartet offered a closing musical tribute to the beloved minister.
Fred W. Kellogg of the Francesville Business Men's Association plans a large meeting at the Myers theater to promote a proposed Lafayette to Michigan City highway. Local towns along the route have held popular gatherings, with State Highway Commission officials showing interest in routing the road into the state system. The project would connect Lafayette with Michigan City, seen as a potential ocean port through the Great Lakes.
Engineers survey drainage in the Norway dam area to verify the county system. The team, employed by Eastern financial interests, works independently of New York engineer Mr Free man who did the prior survey. They assess risks raised by Mr Kentnich.
Work on Lake Cicott structures has begun and the area is set to become a popular summer resort this season. Drives have been laid, a cleaning up has been done, and facilities include a dance pavilion, soda fountain, slides, a shooting gallery, a bath pavilion on the lake, and large ice houses for storage, with improvements costing about $5,000.
Republican candidates seek local offices including trustee Fred C. Westphal and Calvin Myers, assessor John Alkire, with campaign activity noted as concluded in Salem Township.
The Hoosier Auto Association and the American Automobile Association invite entries for a contest to coin a sharp label for reckless drivers. A $25 prize will go to the most fitting phrase that ridicules danger on the road and promotes safer behavior. entries due by May 15 with winner announced May 20.
The taxpayer once paid one dollar for schools and one dollar for pauper and criminal care. Now both dollars are given to schools and none to pauper or criminal care. Yet some people still argue that schools are costing double, depending on how you figure.
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