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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1914
Page
6
Our Correspondence lists visits across families in the area. Residents include Harry Fulton and relatives in Fremont and York Indiana. Mingus family moves to a newly purchased home. probate and missionary society gatherings noted.
Miss Nettie Straw of Fremont visited J J Berry and family. Milton Coppis moved to Frank Brown's tenant house. William Little moved into Mrs Theodore Casebeer’s house. Coral Straw stayed with Paul Dygert. Paul turned 16 on Saturday as friends joined a birthday party. Several locals visited neighbors and attended the township teachers meeting at James town school. California W C T U officers elected: President Mrs Das Cleveland, Vice Agnes Graham, Secretary Lois Duguid, Treasurer Hose Vance. Ladies Aid to meet at Mrs D T Bascom’s home. Mrs Moolux and daughter Clara visited Coldwater. Amy Snyder returned from South Haven last week. Mrs Bikel Gould of remot is…
Local social notes list guests at Charles Smith and C D Smith homes in East Fremont and nearby towns. Mrs Hoyt Young visits Edgerton Ohio. Mrs Frank Isenhower and Thelma with Mrs Caroline Isenhower stay with the Smiths. Wm Hobson visits Harry Strunk. Earl Worthington heads to Fort Wayne for summer work. Ralph AfcMall helps move J W Gill to a farm near East Gilead. E C Dally visits relatives in Hickaville.
Mr VanAmman visited Kinderhook to oversee pickle industry affairs this week. JE E Smith of Jackson Michigan visited G W Abbotts. Mise Corlew the teacher is sick. Fred Peppiatt drawing file from Fremont. Hezekiah Drake of Rochester Indiana visiting sister Mrs Wom Bordt. John W Michael of Union City Michigan visited Guy Abbott and Joshua Michael. Charles Allen and family visited Wu Bordts Sunday. J W Garo and wife dined with Mr and Mrs Wm Snyder. Warm weather has arrived, bringing a chill to the season.
London notes list humorous examples of soldier slang from the Household Brigade Magazine. Terms include Tom Clarke as a kiss, rimer for bread and cheese, dirty hot for tea, saddle flap for meat, half a gauge for sixpence work, and winds jammers for bandsmen.
A London writer notes instinct versus reason in animal behavior. Birds and insects often act on instinct, with occasional blunders such as misplacing nests or misreading eggs. The lemming spectacle is described as a dramatic if debated farce of self-destruction. In New Jersey, carpenters interrupt a sermon. the minister dismisses the crowd and police fine eight workers under the Sunday law.
Eagle Want Ads report a bank move from inside to outside premises with a nap-buttoned flap and a new name Gate Keep Pocket amid fashion talk on modern dress. It notes shifts in depository habits and comments on the slashed skirt style. A Chicago exile tale attributes a wife’s departure to constant charity calls via telephone.
Gary Indiana report details a standpipe near the steel works that vents coke oven waste gas with a constant flame. Northern birds migrating south are lured to the flame and killed by the fumes as they approach.
In St Clairsville Charles F Marmie a coal operator sues for divorce accusing his wife of flirting with street car conductors including Harry Albrough and others to his discomfort and loss of reputation. Marmie says he stayed home to curb her street car outings while Mrs Marmie admits some flirtation but says she rebuked the men.
Mrs. Elbert H. Gary faces a hasty departure as incessant phone calls and a flood of messages seeking charity overwhelm her New York home. The relentless solicitations, described as pathetic, forced her to flee for safety.
The Free Methodist Chapel Farnham holds Sunday School at 10 am and preaching every alternate Sabbath. Pastor S. H. Matthews presides. Service times include morning, afternoon, and evening slots from 10:30 am to 7:30 pm on various days.
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