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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1914
Page
4
The page records a string of social notes and advertisements. It mentions legal ads at fixed rates, festival notices, and money-making entertainment pricing. Numerous residents visit relatives in Coldwater Fort Wayne Angola Ann Arbor Grand Rapids Detroit Howe and Quincy while others travel for hospital, soda fountain, or automobile updates.
Townspeople report visits and illness across Angola Pleasant Lake and nearby areas. Notables include Mrs S L Bricker and daughter Beulah visiting Angola. Elmer Wood recovering after appendicitis surgery. Mrs J W Heller in Fort Wayne hospital. Mrs L P Markley visiting Muncie. and a Spanish War veterans reunion in Fort Wayne. The F H S baseball team lost to Montgomery H S 17 to 7. The 157th Indiana Volunteers reunion set for Fort Wayne.
Local items mix humor and notices from fin de siècle style with rental jobs and social events. The text mentions an employment request for ten Mexican laborers, a quip about Irish workers, banquets at Fremont high, Albion-Emersonian contest at the opera house, and multiple family visits and birthdays including Ma. K. KE. McNaughton’s seventy fifth birthday with twenty six attendees.
Old papers and various items for sale listed by local residents. Potatoes for sale at 50 and 75 cents, a horse and buggy, safety deposit boxes for rent at Bank of Fremont, and a farm for sale northwest of Fremont with alfalfa and rye. Subscriptions invited for the Want Column. cottage rental near Clear Lake with special June and September rates. Notices include contact names and locations in Fremont Indiana and Chicago.
The high school commencement will be held Tuesday evening. Graduates include Margaret Blackman Gladys Duguid Clayton Straw Harold Hudson Dorothy Sheets Walter Brouse Marguerite Hagerman Gale Friday Artin Vance Burt Brockway Grace Belete Ethel Brill Imo Worthington Jeanie Pothoof. The Angola aceded section notes a Masonic lodge meeting last evening with Dr T J Creel Ty Wood Franklin Cary Charles De L N Klink Lauren E B Smith and others attending.
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