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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1917
Page
5
Sickness and recovery update as Ralph McElhenie and Dorsey Faulk struggle with illness. Many locals share weekend visits with Sam Davis, Clem MecElhenie, and relatives in Fremont, Jackson, and Angola. A Busy WCTU Institute at Clear Lake. church events, birthday celebrations, and a Valentine social planned for Jamestown.
Local notices report Mrs. Geyer and Grandma Stokes ill with the grip with no improvement for Mrs. Stokes. Mrs. Ray DeLancey shows slight recovery from lung fever. Visitors include Oscar Raisin from Flint visiting the Secor home. Several local people travel or visit families, with Rev. Mason and Mr. Adams noted. A revival at Bethel church yielded 72 conversions and 61 additions.
In Jamestown Floyd Straw and spouse welcomed a son born January 28 weighing eight pounds. Carl McCius delivered feed to the mill on Wednesday, entered the mill, and left his team unattended as the horses wandered away.
Roy Miller plans to travel to Montana this spring to file a claim. Bert Jordan and family visited his mother Mrs. Henry Jordan last Sunday. Miss Dorothy Barton stayed a night with Miss Grace Sunday. Grace Sunday and Elsie Stetler visited Miss Goldin Rakestraw on Sunday. William Harter and family spent Sunday with William Johnson and wife near Sand Hill. Mrs. Elizabeth Penner and son Harry and Byron Shupp and wife visited Clarence Penner and family at Coldwater Michigan. A. B. Dailey is sick under a doctor’s care in California. The Free Methodist quarterly meeting is set for Sunday at Wakeman church. Meeting Friday.
Audrey Lucile Goodrich, wife of Earl Goodrich, died January 27 after long illness. She and Earl married February 20, 1918, and left two young sons, Leslie Earl and Emery Charles. Funeral services were held at the M E church with burial in the nearby cemetery. A death in the community followed by reports of gatherings, visitors, and the Ladies Aid event with 33 attendees and a $3.50 dinner collection. The obituary notes her faith in the M E church and her involvement with the W C T U and Ladies Aid.
Mrs Clyde Hutchings and children from Coldwater visited with Mr and Mrs David Hutchins for a few days. Roy and John Crawford from Garrett Ind spent Sunday with their parents Mr and Mrs Fred Crawford. Marie Covell and daughter Elsie were Sunday guests in the Crawford home. Tom Painter and wife visited Libbie Henry. Jesse Dauber helped Bennett Stroh with hay. The Hutchins and Stroh families attended a farmers institute in Fremont. Harvey Harter and children spent Sunday with George Whitney.
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