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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1921
Page
8
Correspondence reports social calls and travel routes from Coldwater to Montgomery and Fremont. Residents attend dinners, sewing clubs, and church events, with remarks on health and holiday plans. The piece notes community meetings, entertainment efforts for a schoolhouse, and a sermon at the M E church.
Residents report activity around Fremont with residents hauling hay and logs on Tuesday and the week’s end. Visitors include C A Strong and family and Basil Abbott with his wife at Fremont and Wm Snyder's place. Elmer Myers and wife from Coldwater help improve roads in the southern township while Ira Taylor and others scrape roads nearby.
Mrs Elia Balch and daughter Ruth visited Mrs Alice Firestone. Mrs Rosa Gilman reports her mother improving after a Hillsdale trip. The school tooth contest ended with popcorn and candy for the losers. Ella Balch entertained relatives Sunday evening including Clem Balch and the Knapps. Mrs Rey Lawrence mourns the death of her step mother Mrs James Sackett. funeral services were held Monday.
Carl Kint of Clear Lake was in Auburn last Wednesday afternoon. A fresh snowfall Monday hints at good sleighing. Chester Donahue visited Auburn Junction Wednesday night. Ivan Paul of near California Michigan rented the Averill farm vacated by Alvin Shook. Mr and Mrs Harry Fulton and Mrs Geo Worton Sr visited Mrs Delno Holley and family last Sunday. Wesley Fulton and wife with Mrs Laura Straw and daughter Lucile of Fremont called on the Holleys last Tuesday evening. They enjoyed popcorn and candy.
East Side Lake George households welcome William Fleming and wife and Thomas Fleming of Fort Wayne. Carl Stogden and daughter visit. Hiblers’ guests. Miller family to depart to Decatur Indiana for winter. Frank Kling to Fort Wayne for winter. David Meek to Hicksville Ohio. Hibler traveled to Fort Wayne to fetch a new Maxwell car.
The obituary notes the death of a Fremont resident aged 68, who died at his son Harry L Taylors home in Fremont, Indians on November 26, 1921 after a brief illness. He married Alice in 1880 and had two sons Harry L and Berle E. He taught school briefly before a long livestock career. He was a 32nd degree Mason and member of the Lodge of Perfection. His wife died in 1919 and he is survived by two sons three grandchildren and many friends.
Don Stoy helped Geo. F. Worton plow last Wednesday. Harry Fulton helped Delno Holley cut wood last Tuesday. John Bretz had his house wired for electric lights last week.
John H. Taylor, born November 7 1858 in York Township Steuben County Indiana, son of Linus G and Catherine Taylor, is noted in this obituary fragment.
A Nob le of the Mystic Shrine and Mason affiliations are noted with funeral rites in Fremont on a Monday in November. The text also references a stockholders meeting for the First National Bank and an Angola lodge of Masons.
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