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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1917
Page
5
Our Correspondence Department reports updates from South Clear Lake residents. Mrs. Peter Smith is very ill, Miss Lena Elliott hosts a Delta Ohio cousin, and Mrs. Alva Allen visited her Elliott kin. Ben Davis, Gale Throop, and others visited relatives in nearby towns.
Community diary entries list visits and gatherings across Coldwater and nearby towns. Names include Ruth and Russel Albright, Grace Albright, Emma Hartman, Ella Yates, Bessie Geyer, Marguerite Mountz, Julia Smade, Mrs Ling, Blanche McNall, Mildred Yates, Mrs D W Babb, Mrs A D Yates, John Hulse, Ray Brown, Abe Reppert, Ralph Babb, Quincy, Preston family, Loyal Workers fifth anniversary at U B church with program by the class. Also reports of church services, conventions, and local travel plus farm activity and a Lake Odessa Sunday School event attendance.
A woman travels with her aunt Mrs. J. A. McLouth to Topeka Kansas and plans visits with friends in Kansas City. Her mother accompanies her as far as Fort Wayne.
A Sunday night church exercise drew a large crowd. An ice cream social is planned at the Jamestown schoolhouse on July 14. Many local families, including the Howey and Nodine households, visited relatives in the area this past week.
Daughters Maude and Lucile and Ira Taylor with Lucile Conklin joined a Sunday gathering near Howe Indiana. Cole and family Amos Stokes and family Perry Stokes and family Irvin Deucil and family and Mrs. Charles Pothoof and children visited Mr. and Mrs. Percy Adams.
A June 29 shower at the Frank Whaley home celebrated the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Steffey. Mrs. Whaley assisted by Miss Mayme Herr greeted guests while Grafonola music filled the evening. About one hundred attendees enjoyed ice cream and cake as gifts were presented for future memory.
Mr Snodgrass and family now ride in a new four door car. E M Hawes and family spent Sunday with Edson McNitt and family. Hawes expects to raise his barn this week and has re shingled his house. Rodney Snodgrass and family visited Sunday with Mr and Mrs Styles near Dorrance. Lydia Kauffman, at Ypsilanti for school, is home ill with typhoid fever. J C Disbro and grandchildren Arlene and Maxine Smith and G B McNitt and family were Sunday callers at Batavia home of J C Disbro.
Miss Gertrude Dally is visiting friends in Fort Wayne. Charles Porter and wife visited Mrs Porter's mother in Hillsdale Sunday. Kenneth Dally returned from Burr Oak where he was visiting his sister Mrs Straw. Mrs Portier and daughter Leah of Fort Wayne spent the past week with her parents Mr and Mrs North. Mr and Mrs Giles Bailey and Mrs H Strunk and children su n t Sunday with Dr and Mrs L E Chapin at Camden.
Town line items list visits and travels among local residents and nearby towns. Names include Charles Mountz Park Watts Mrs Henry Jordan Leon Jordan and families Mrs Byron Shupp William Harter Mrs Elizabeth Penner plus many others visiting Fremont Coldwater Union City Jamestown and Angola with church and funeral attendances and weekend trips.
West Kinderhook notes report visits from Mr Tappan of Detroit and Mrs Charles Smith of Coldwater. G E Kleinhvist will speak at 11 Sunday at the church for Red Cross. Mr and Mrs Snyder of Convoy Ohio left after a cottage stay. Annabelle Mallory funeral attended by Mrs Leigh Kanouse and Anna belle Mallory. Roy Schaeffer welcomed a 9% lb boy born early Monday July 2 with Dr Blosser. Henry Straight of Coldwater gave a lecture on Bigger Men and Bet.
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