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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1917
Page
6
Funeral attendees report Wm. Phipps funeral in Bluffton with Paul and Ross Knox. Kelso couple welcome daughter Helen Lucile. Bluffton illness prompts family travel. Miss Sadie Berry visits from Fremont for plays. East Fremont passes on visits and farm improvements. residents in Angola and Fort Wayne listed.
Mrs. Ben Sommers has been quite sick with rheumatism last week. Nellie Wyatt and sister Irma visited Mildred Yates. George Mason traveled to Toledo to see his parents. Mrs. Hattie Miller stays a few days with Irvin McNall and daughter. Henry Hamman called on Grandma Stokes. Dell Wyatt visited their son Francis Wyatt and family. Ralph Babb and Ernest Withington visited their parents. Rev. Rhoades preached at the Baptist church. John Abbott and wife visited near Nettle Lake. Henry Lewis and family stayed with Ralph Lord. Irma Kint of Long Lake is ill with throat trouble.
Many friends join Mrs Upp's Ladies Aid event, though rain kept attendance small. Attendees report a good time despite the weather and hopes for a speedy recovery.
Sunday visits mark a busy weekend with multiple families listed including the Baileys, Jordans, Rineharts, Wiggens, Pendills, Harter, Legg, Mott, Lytle, Mabie and Weldon. Blanche Baker ends a school term while plans for a picnic emerge. Herman Albright reports a lost work horse and grateful neighbors for aid.
Miss Luella Brouse spent Sunday with her parents at York Center. Al Monlux of Fort Wayne visited his mother and sister Miss Clara Monlux. Rennie Gould and family from Fremont and Carl Straw and family were guests of Jake Knapp and wife. Garland Firestone and wife of South Reading visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. Dan Firestone. There was no school last Thursday and Friday. Mr. Little the teacher was in Coldwater taking the teacher's examination. The eighth race examination will be held here Thursday and Friday of this week.
Don Tabor lost a cow Sunday while births and visits fill a rural tally. A baby girl arrived April 28 to Harlon Little and wife. Mrs. J B Tift visits Coldwater kin. Edson McNitt's family spent Sunday with O F Nichols. John Quimby shingled his house. Ray Waldron and Doc Parker did the work. Fred Tindall and children visited Ransom Purdy and traveled in a new car.
Den and wife and Ned Ogden of Kinderhook visited M. A. George Ed Ogden and families. Mrs Elizabeth Merrill and daughter and Mrs Clarence Waterbury were called to Schoolcraft Michigan last week by the serious illness of Merrill's father.
Local column notes many residents visiting relatives in Fremont Hillsdale and Ray near North Scott. It records illness and family gatherings including Mrs. Peter Smith’s decline, Mrs. Sam Bailey’s improving condition, and various Sunday outings of the Throop, McElhenie, Elliott, Allen, Whitlock, and Duguid families along with community events in Kinderhook and West Gilead.
A serious condition in Mrs. Henry Flint has led to the summons of her son D E Flint from Mobile Alabama to be with her. The report notes the family’s distress and travel need due to the illness.
YORK ITEMS The Page school closes Thursday Preaching at York morning and evening. Wm Brouse is working for A C Ferguson. Mrs Gale Platt visiting her husband at Elyria Ohio. Miss Eva Orwig closed her school Wednesday with a picnic. Matt Ferguson in Fremont past two weeks. John Smith home from Fremont working on the section. Luella Brouse and friend visited her father Wm Brouse. Mrs Ethel Shook returned from Montpelier. Rev Hardy and family to move here Thursday. Mr and Mrs Hardy drove from Warren Ind to move. Albert Ferguson and family attended the golden wedding of Mrs Ferguson's parents at Kinderhook 80 present. OBITUARY Eliza P Howard born Nov 10 1834 died Apr 24 1917 at Nellie Michael’s in Jamestown Township Steuben Co Ind aged 82 5 14. Married Osmon D Goffman Jun 26 1850 eight children remain. Survivors listed: Owen H Morlan Mary Peppiatt Nellie Michael Alma Thorne Azro and fourteen grandchildren. Funeral at Methodist church Rev Kemper officiating. She came from Kingdomville to Fremont fifty six years ago. Read The Eagle every week.
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