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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1920
Page
1
Fremont plans are underway to form an American Legion Post for veterans including former soldiers sailors and marines. Meetings are delayed by the scarlet fever quarantine but notices will appear when a date is set. The post is pitched as a local force to counter antiwar radicals and bolster community safety.
Poem by Cherry Wilson extols reading the local newspaper to lift spirits when living afar from home. It celebrates neighbors, social events, and small town updates like Si's chicken coop and Masons, inviting readers to enjoy a ready-made glimpse of home life.
Leon M. Estbrook heads the Bureau of Crop Estimates in Washington and is also a farmer. He explains the complex job of tallying the nation’s annual crop supply while a friend, Jack Russell of Oklahoma, recalls a tale from Arkansas about bootlegged liquor and a wary host named Gap Johnson who eventually welcomes a self described horse thief.
Beginning next Monday our store will close at six o clock every evening except Saturdays. This notice is issued by E C Duguid Co.
Estelle Pierce daughter of Henry and Eliza Pierce died suddenly December 19 1919 at 65 after a long period of poor health. Born on an east of Fremont Indiana farm in April 1854 she married Henry Foltz in 1897 and cared for her mother during illness. Surviving are brother Albro Pierce and his California-based son, stepdaughter Mrs William Pettit, an aunt Mrs Sophronia Caswell, cousins Mr and Mrs Lee Caswell and Misses Nellie Jessie Caswell plus many friends who recall her charitable nature.
A citizen from Faulkton describes a harsh two months of deep cold from December into winter, daily long walks between five nearby towns, earning five dollars cleaning a schoolhouse, and the casual dangers of cold weather including frozen poultry and wolves and foxes raids. He notes gas flames, a strange moving light, and wishes a Happy New Year to Editor Fremont Eagle.
The Eagle office adopts a paid-to-date system, ending credit and back-number supply. Address labels show renewal through the indicated date, here January 7, 1920, and readers are urged to renew promptly to avoid missing issues. The yearly rate is $2.00.
The Friday club meeting is postponed as all town public meetings are cancelled. The library will stay closed until further notice. An advertising quip about an Electric Washer appears in Coldwater Reporter. A humorous exchange quotes Mark Twain on original jokes. An Eagle readers offer invites joiners for $2 for 52 issues in the new year.
At Christmas night Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Adams celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary with about forty friends and relatives. A hidden gift revealed two gold rings in a nailed wooden box after cheering and playful unwrapping. The couple expressed joy and hopes for many more years together.
Mrs. Martha May Rogers of Brooklyn has spent ten years aiding young women through M E church groups and expects spring legislation to allow prefixing her name with Rev. She critiques rouge and tight skirts as women’s curse today.
State inspector warns Fremont and Fremont township that crowded conditions and inadequate air space of 156 cubic feet per pupil violate the law requiring 225. Recommendations include new building and better toilets. suggests converting to a township high school to share burden and meet state standards before the 1920 21 year.
When the doctor is ten or twenty miles away, a jar of Musterole offers relief for colds, congestion, aches and pains at home. The ointment, made with oil of mustard and simple ingredients, provides warmth and cooling relief, helping coughs, bronchitis, sore throat, neuralgia, rheumatism, back pain, and more.
Fremont residents are urged to keep sidewalks free of snow and ice. By order of the Town Board.
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