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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1922
Page
1
The state highway commission orders immediate removal of all roadside ads on highway rights of way. W T Horn notes old signs and those nailed to trees or poles must come down now. Signs for camps, parks, or cities may stay until August 10 unless credit given to an advertising firm or society.
A series of brief notices cover visits by Miss Cleo White and Miss Lora Duguid to Leipsic and Corunna respectively, relatives in Coldwater and Fremont, a porch addition on East Toledo street, and numerous social gatherings including church and club activities. Also noted are a fatal illness, a moving plan, remodeling at the Conrad Lint property, minor traffic trouble with two visitors jailed near Angola, and a restaurant move by Silas Bressler, with several local families hosting guests.
Stokes Chapel United Brethren hosts a homecoming with Sunday School at 10:00 led by Mrs. Emme Miller, morning worship at 11:00 with Rev. J. C. Albright preaching, lunch at noon, and an afternoon program with talks by I A McNall W H Kerns M J Withington J Preston and Mrs Clara Albright. Special music by local choir orchestra and Fremont male quartette plus an 7:30 p m closing service by Rev. Albright.
The Wade family held its fifteenth annual reunion on August 3 at Mr. and Mrs. Mellie Kauffman’s home. About 60 attendees enjoyed a noon dinner, elected officers for the coming year, heard a varied music program, noted two deaths, three marriages, and four births, and planned next year’s reunion for Lake Lavine on the first Thursday in August.
The annual Steuben county Methodist gathering will be at Angola fair grounds on August 27. A union Sunday School and basket dinner at noon are planned with special music from each charge. Bishop F. D. Leete of the Indianapolis area will be the main speaker. No other Methodist services will be held in the county that day.
Harold Hufnagie placed a radio in the farm home of D. T. Bascom west of Hall's Corners. Bascom and family delight in listening to concerts from Detroit and Toledo plus crop and market reports, noting science moves quickly from wonder to daily necessity.
Great rejoicing as Lyle Emerick and wife greet daughter Margaret Jean at their home of John Emerick's family. Born Saturday August 5 1922 the child is the first girl in the Emerick line in seven decades. Mother and baby are reported thriving.
Indianapolis August 9. The Hoosier State Automobile Association urges drastic changes in Indiana law. Directors want harsher penalties for drunk drivers, including imprisonment, higher fines, and license revocation. Also discussed are mandatory property damage and personal liability insurance for owners and expanded free emergency road service stations statewide.
A collection of light sided quips and sayings on gender roles luck and travel. The humor remarks on membership in lodges home life garden trains and money with a final line about a vacation spending pattern.
R D Yates writes of a Sunday at Coldwater Lake with C L Hall and family and T R Yates daughter recalling boyhood days sixty years past. He notes forested wartime days giving way to cottages and stoves and mentions Delbert Miter Albert Burdick Daniel D Yates Irvin McNall and R D Yates as remaining figures.
Dr Wade announces his resignation from active practice in Fremont after fifteen years. He will close on August 12 and remain briefly to finish building at Coldwater while arranging for a successor. He expresses gratitude to the community, praises local nurses and supporters, and notes plans for office hours and accounts.
At morning worship Rev. Jacobs of Angola and the local pastor will exchange pulpits. Epworth League to be led by Ruth McMurray and Marvel Clark. Pastor to preach at 7 30 p m. News item requested.
At least 30 cars will travel from Allen county on August 16 to northern Michigan to collect logs for a St Joseph township community house. The party will stop at Hamilton Lake for a picnic hosted by the Farm Federation and Grange of Steuben county with music speeches eating and boating.
The Hughey reunion is planned for August 19 at the Angola fair grounds. Geedy reunion on August 16 at Petty's Landing Clear Lake. Teeters reunion on August 17 at Petty's Landing Clear Lake. Duguid Stewart at Mrs Barbara Paul's home today. McElhenie reunion occurred at Clear Lake yesterday. Laughlin reunion at Earl Laughlin's home on August 20.
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