Fremont Farmers Institute Forms Permanent Organization
The Fremont Township farmers Institute met in the opera house with strong turnout. The afternoon session approved forming a permanent organization, adopting a Purdue University based constitution, and electing Roy Peachy president Lincoln Brouse secretary and W E Van Auken treasurer. Dues are twenty five cents annually. Mrs Albert Ferguson spoke on The Women’s Wart on the Farm and J P Prigg discussed soil fertility and clover use with charts. The Short Course in Angola was announced and social events included music by local students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fremont Township Farmer's Institute
Opera House
Eagle
Albert Ferguson
J.P. Prigg
Seth Avery
Angola
Fremont Farmers’ Institute Association
Roy Peachy
Lincoln Brouse
W. E. van Auken
Purdue University
Prigg
Burton Handy
Handy
Bess Kibbee
Gladys Dier
Theo Brown
High School Glee Club
Mabelle Brouse
Milk bottles return request from J Rocka ad
Customer notice from J Rocka urges prompt return of empty milk bottles to avoid extra expense. The writer argues the request is reasonable and right to all customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Rocka
Helping Hand Plans Meeting with Cleveland Couple
California The Helping Hand will meet Mr and Mrs A A Cleveland on Thursday Feb 22 with a cordial invitation to all gentlemen. Meeting runs from 10 am to 4 pm. Eugene Beckwith and family moved to Quincy today. Daniel Falk will occupy the Brial Purdy house vacated by them. Mr and Mrs Harold Woodruff of Montgomery will begin housekeeping in the Mrs Mary Sherer house as soon as weather allows Folks moving. Miss Bessie Pothoof was sick with grip epidemic last week and her sister Miss Iva Pothoof replaced her as teacher. She is back in school this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. Cleveland
Eugene Beckwith
Quincy
Daniel Falk
Brial Purdy
Harold Woodruff
Montgomery
Mary Sherer
Folks
Bessie Pothoof
Iva Pothoof
Studio hours set for noon Thursdays near Pifer's store
Bert Caswell announces his studio will be open through the noon hour each Thursday to help those unable to visit on Saturdays. The arrangement targets convenience for local residents seeking weekday access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pifer’s
Bert Caswell
Obituary for Michael Fetterhoff of Freemont Indiana
Michael Fetterhoff born June 4 1844 in Dauphin County Pennsylvania died February 7 1912 at his home in Freemont Indiana aged 67 years eight months and three days He enlisted in the Union Army at twenty served about six months and was mustered out He was a long time member of the Order of Odd Fellows Mary Wade his wife bore two children Arlington in Bellingham Washington survives with his widow two brothers and three nieces and nephews Funeral held Friday at home with service by Frank S Hickman and Odd Fellows burial in Old Cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael
Jacob
Caroline Fetterhoff
Dauphin County
Pennsylvania
Fremont
Ind
Fetterhoff
Order of Odd Fellows
Mary Wade
Arlington
Bellingham
Washington
William
Old Cemetery
Frank S. Hickman
Local Notices and Health Updates
Mrs Bachman is very ill. Oren Coldsnow and Mrs Emma Abbott are sick. Mrs Edinger and Master Albert Edinger are also ill. Herbert Hefoy returned from Bethel. Mr and Mrs Abiah Michael visited Guy Abbott. Burton Strong was in Fremont on business. Inez Kordt remains under doctor care. S.L. Bricker considers moving to Fremont. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Burdett Gordell. Edd Delong visited Kinderhook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Abbott
Albert P. Edinger
Local Social Visits and Health News From Area Families
Saturday activities include Arthur Abbee visiting sister Mrs Ralph Davis and Frank Miller with wife and baby visiting Mrs Stella Norrick. Sunday gatherings feature One Coolman family with Warner Spearman and George Shearer with Joe Davis family. James McConnel has German measles and Ed Isenhower’s family move. Isenhower children recover from whooping cough. Rebekah county meeting in Angola praised as splendid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Miller
Stella Norrick
Etta Nicely
A. C. Bassett
G. A. Hughey
Frank Sailor
Rebekah
Angola
Manufacturers to discuss relief from liability law at Ft Wayne meeting
Manufacturers and shippers of the Twelfth District will meet at the Commercial Club in Ft Wayne next Monday night under the Indiana Manufacturers and Shippers Association. A banquet will precede discussions on easing burdens after the latest stringent employers liability law, with firms from Ligonier, Angola, Albion, Cherubusco, Auburn, Kendallville, LaGrange, Columbia City, Waterloo, Garrett and others attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twelfth District
Commercial Club
Ft. Wayne
Indiana Manufacturer's and Shipper'’s Association
Ligonier
Angola
Albion
Cherubusco
Auburn
Kendallville
LaGrange
Columbia City
Waterloo
Garrett
Horse slips and falls during Saturday incident
A horse belonging to Earl Cobb slipped on Saturday afternoon and tangled in harness. Several men freed the animal in minutes. The cold caused the horse to shiver despite a thin blanket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Cobb
Card of thanks from Pepper family
The relatives of N. L. Pepper express gratitude to neighbors and friends for assistance and sympathy during illness and death. Special thanks to Mr. and Mrs George Ralston and Mrs Jap Brown for support and to Mr. and Mrs. Dull for the music at the funeral. Mrs. Mary Pepper and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. L. Pepper
George Ralston
Jap Brown
Dull
Mary Pepper
Moving and health notes in Spring Bank area
Spring Bank reports renter changes as Mr Stokes plans to move to McNaughton farm. Mrs Baughman is ill with flu and heart trouble. Gertrude Schaeffer improves while Ella Bowen near Montpelier prepares to return to Canada as a bride. Harley McKim dies leaving sympathy for wife and daughter as cold weather continues with coal wood and feed in short supply. Mr Bennis of Ionia rents Ball farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Baughman
Uripp
Gertrude Schaeffer
Harley McKim
Public Sale at Fremont Farm Auction Notice
Public auction set for February 20 at J E Taylors farm three miles southeast of Fremont starting 10 a.m. Items include two bay geldings a brood mare and foal three year old colt milking cows and cattle yearlings ewes brood cows and a Poland China boar plus shoats farming tools 400 baskets of corn 500 bundles corn fodder and 100 bushels of oats Clarence Parsons conducts the sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Taylor
Fremont
Farrow
Poland
Clarence Parsons
Henry Hamman Advances Subscription and Attends Purdue Lectures
Henry Hamman called on the Eagle Monday and advanced his subscription to June 1913. He is noted for punctuality and arrived earlier than usual this year to attend Purdue lectures in Angola.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Hamman
Eagle
Summer School for Librarians Announces Eleventh Session
Carl H. Milam says the eleventh annual Summer School for Librarians will be at Earlham College Richmond from June 20 to August 8. Admission limited to current library staff or those with definite appointment assurances and four years of high school work or equivalent. For the first time the course is free, except a $10 out of state fee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl H. Milam
Public Library Commission
Earlham College
Richmond
Eminent Jurists Highlight West and Midwestern Legal Ties
Schuyler C. Hubbell withdraws from Hubbell Burris Harper in Goshen, shifting duties in South Bend to John GG Yeagley from Angola. The former firm lineage traces Baker Miller and Mitchell with Baker now in Goshen. Francis E. Baker, a Chicago circuit judge, is eyed by Taft for the U S Supreme Court. Charles W. Miller, former Indiana attorney general, serves as U S district attorney in Indiana. James S. Drake presides over the thirty fourth judicial circuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schuyler C. Hubbell
Hubbell, Burris & Harper
Goshen
South Bend
John Gg, Yeagley
Angola
Miller, Drake and Hubbell
Baker and Miller
Baker & Miller
Baker & Mitchell
John H. Baker
Captain Mitchell
Supreme Beach of Indian
Francis E. Baker
United States
Chicago
President Taft
United States Supreme Bench
Charles W. Miller
Indiana
Indianapolis
James S. Drake
Thirty-Fourth Judicial Circuit
Sunday Visits Across Union Corners and Nearby Towns
Rural social notices list numerous families visiting relatives and friends on Sunday including the Dingle, Huntington, Kollars, Harbaugh, Bichtol, Vanfossen, Merling, Bechtol, Rich tol, Goshorn, Robbs, McLain, Creek, Khnect, Worters, Zeiters, Groshorn, Fox, Goshorn, and others. Activities include dinners, gatherings, quiltings, and extended family visits across Marshall and Nettle Lake areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Mclain
Roy Creek
Geav. Khnect
Mary Goshorn
Ora King
Marshall Mich
Public Auction of Farm Stock Near Fremont Kinderhook
The undersigned sells at public auction on his farm four miles north and two miles west of Fremont or two miles southeast of Kinderhook on Thursday February 22 at 10 oclock. Items include two horses four cows eight calves Hieves one fine wool ram one O one C broad sow eligible to register ten shouts plus farming tools fifty baskets of corn four hundred bundles of corn fodder and two tons of hay. S. L. Bricker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fremont
Kinderhook
S. L. Bricker
Wesley Fulton and Maude Visit Relatives in Indiana
Wesley Fulton and sister Maude visited cousins Miss Eva and Delno Holley near Montgomery from Saturday afternoon to Sunday night. A sleighload of Ray youths attended Methodist church meetings at Fremont last Friday afternoon and reported a nice time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Fulton
Sister Maude
Miss Eva
Delno Holley
Montgomery
Ray
Methodist
Fremont
Jim Mingus
Lester
Paul Duguid
E. d. Bohner
Angola
Jamestown Obituary and Local Gatherings Report
Hurley McKim died Saturday February 10. Funeral set for Monday at eleven. Willing Workers arranged an Oyster supper for February 22 at Mrs. Weyburn's. 25 cents. Mrs. Harvey Straw aided sister Sadie Berry ill with pneumonia and pleurisy. No school this week due to Farmer's Short Course at Angola. Nettie and Coral Straw visited Pleasant Lake. Darrs from Fremont visited Edd Darr. Eli Straw entertained a guest from Ohio. Dr Wade rode to Jamestown in eighteen minutes for a Thursday morning errand. Mildred Wade and Laura Dunnavan visited Nettie Straw. Mrs. Mort Brown went to Fremont to aid Mrs. Gleason after a fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.J. Berry
Frank Weyburn
Harvey Straw
Jamestown List
Sadie Berry
Pleasant Lake
Miss White
Angola
Professor White
J. J. Berryn
Fremont
Library Contest Standings From Local Lodges and Schools
The revised standings list Fremont based groups and schools with point tallies for clubs and organizations. Lodges such as Fremont Sorosis Knights of Pythias Pythian Sisters Modern Woodmen Rebekah Masonic and Eastern Star, plus churches Fremont Evangelical and Fremont M. KE church, are shown with varying scores. Fremont High School Jamestown High School and multiple Fremont districts are included, indicating a community competition across organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fremont Sorosis
Knights of Pythias
Pythian Sisters
Modern Woodmen
Rebekah
Masonic
Eastern Star
Fremont Evangelical
Fremont M. KE. Church
Hk. BP. Charch
Ray
Fremont High School
Jamestown High School
Fremont Dist
Fremont
California Township
Also Mentioned on This Page
Farmers’ Institute
California
Mrs. Bachman
G. V. Abbott
Eugene Fossa
Coldwater
Oren
Herbert Hefoy
Bethel
Mrs
Abiah Michael
Guy Abbott
Burton Strong
Mrs. Inez Kordt
Mr. S. L. Bricker
Lorn
Mrs. Burdett Gordell
Edd Delong
Billingstown
Arthur Abbee
Ralph Davis
Coolman
Warner Spearman’s
Dale Beach
Doris
Mildred
Sylvanus Miller
George Shearer
Joe Davis
Family Sunday
Bertha Curry
Goldie Shook
East
J.C. Horton
Ed Isenhower
John Ryan
James McConnel
W. C. Strunk and
St Win
Straws
Jared Garey
York
P. Donahue
Schaeffer
Ed. Isenhower
Oliver Miller
Fort Wayne
Mr. Stokes
McNaughton Farm
Ella Bowen
Montpelier
Robert Bowen
Canada
Mr. Bennis
Ionia
Michigan
Summer School For Librarians
Union Corners
Dave Dingle
al Khoeet
Frank Vox
Ruth Huntington
Elmer Kollars
M. B. Rickets
Jessie Kollars
Charley Harbaugh
John Harbaugh
Joe Tarr
Blue
Sadun
G.W. Bichtol
T.s. Vanfossen
Chas. Merling
Ainger
del Bechtol
Roy Porter
G. W. Richtol
Harland Goshorn
Lawrence Robbs
Nettle Lake
Ad Zeiters
Earl Walters
Willis Shearer
Robert Zeiters
Lovenia Groshorn
Ivan Groshorn
Wm. Fox and
Hugh Goshorn
Mertie Lougheed
Ray, Ind
Geo Gary
Jasper Lords
Camden
Misa Mirriam McNaughton
Nay
W. R. McNaughton
Jamestown
Hurley McKim
Nettie
Coral Straw
Mr. Darr
Edd Darr
Eli Straws
Ohio
Charles Ward
Dr. Wade
Mildred Wade
Laura Dunnavan
Nettie Straw
Mort Brown
the Library
B. F. Chapin
Scott
Fremont, Ind
Rily
Fred T. Hackett
Bell Phone
Bank of Fremont
First National Bank
W. H. Mott
S. C. Wolfe
Zipfer Brock
Taylor
Farmers
G. A. Moore
C. E. Lints
Hillsdale Steam Laundry
L. E. Penner
Robert L. Wade
Kings
Farmer
Ernest E. Withington
H. Montgomery
William Veterinary
Notary’s
E. T. Wingerd
Chicago Vet. College
All Cotte Cin
Atention
Mhonia
Nightcat
Methodht Episcopal Church
Epworth League
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