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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1922
Page
4
The article in Farm Mechanics sponsors Henry Ford as a farmer with a 9000 acre power farm. Ford claims farming is simple and needs about twenty days of farm work yearly. He envisions the farmer of the future spending most time in a factory near home. The piece notes missing details on operating costs and crop value.
An obituary notes a longtime resident who fathered eight children with a wife and two sons predeceasing him. Survived by six children in Indiana and Michigan, including Giles Norton in Ray and Delane Norton in Algansee, plus twenty eight grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren. The community remembers him through numerous friends and relatives.
Steuben county livestock breeders will meet Tuesday afternoon March 14 at 1 30 in the court room with speaker J W Schwab invited by the Steuben County Duroc Breeders Association. The gathering aims to promote better livestock and welcomes all county breeders.
Levi Norton born February 12 1840 in Oswego County New York died February 28 1922 at his son Giles Norton's home in Ray Indiana aged 82 years 16 days He enlisted in Company C 24th New York Volunteer Infantry on April 21 1861 He married Mary Elisabeth Yockey on April 18 1866 and was part of a large eight child family all prior siblings having died.
Reading Michigan forms an athletic association. Camden Michigan schedules town election March 17. Indiana National Guard to train at Camp Knox. Gruhlke ships cigar lighters to Japan. Oswalt seeking treatment at Battle Creek sanitarium. Corunna negotiates light and power with Indiana Utilities Co. Knights of Pythias celebrate 58th anniversary. Sperbeck now clerking at Alward & Co. in Camden. Coldwater jail partially empty last week. Walters couple celebrates golden wedding. Ewers trades farm for Hillsdale grocery stock. Waterloo to form law enforcement league. State school at Coldwater reports 80 tonsil and adenoid operations. Spelling contest in Otsego March 11 with medals. Mrs. James Fillmore dies. husband and son survive. Ohio divorce suit cites wife's mania for picture shows. Ramsey family moves from Quincy to Hicksville. Rev H L Hart returns to Ashley after Lisbon stay. Lamberson buys back Bridgewater store. Cramer ill in South Bend. former Pythian district deputy.
A Hicksville man tapped into electric wires to run a heater. Northwestern Ohio Light Co. sued and won a judgment of 239.98 dollars.
Smiley and Sighs In The News From Eagle Files Of Long Ago recounts events from 28 years past. It notes births, moves, visits, and social hosting including Mr and Mrs Frank Michael welcoming a daughter and Mrs Al Schaeffer hosting Congregational social.
A diving crew fights an enormous octopus clinging to diver H Palmer as he frees a seven ton concrete block. Hatchets and knives hack the creature as, after a grapple near thirty to forty feet deep, Palmer is hauled to the surface in a perilous rescue. The dead octopus, eleven and a half feet from tip to tip, is laid out on the pier.
Mildred Neutz and Ralph Myers win the inter school debate. Seniors request relief on contest day but do not receive it. The piece notes contest and graduation affairs as topics among seniors.
The sophomore class is well represented at the Anola tournament while study topics include Edgar Allen Poe Ruby Corey and John Emerick who have been absent this past week. Geometry covers proportion and Modern History explores the Third French Revolution with Mr Kinsey aiming for a quick France settlement.
The piece notes freshmen mottoes in French class and warnings about completing lessons. It recounts how Miss Thorvald or Mr Kinsey might assign work and sophomores mock freshmen who misplace passes or fail to act, highlighting classroom humor and tensions.
A student named Seph loses his pass causing minor disruption while teachers note that Qral compositions in English are more popular with staff than students.
No game Friday night as announced last week due to uncertain road conditions. The season ends with no further basketball games this year and closes Saturday, March 11.
The eighth grade team won two games from Angola and three from freshmen and split with Fremont high school. Absent pupils include Hugh Chapin and Lyle Schaeffer. Angola High won the district basketball tournament. Twenty three pupils were neither absent nor tardy in the last four weeks. Agriculture boys protest the Domestic Science class eating their prepared food.
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