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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1922
Page
1
The Salvation Army fund drive will be held Friday and Saturday with help from the American Legion and Boy Scout troop. Solicitors will assist, and donations support home service in Indiana for nursing and medical aid.
Patterson-Fletcher Co of Fort Wayne launches a big sale on fine clothing after purchasing more than $25,000 of spring suits from Rochester and Syracuse firms. Men and young men can buy suits marked at $18, $25 or $35, with retail values ranging from $30 to $50.
Sunday May 14 marks Mothers Day with 9 30 Sunday School led by mothers 10 30 class meeting and 7 45 Baccalaureate at the M E church Rev Clear to speak The mid week prayer service is set for Wednesday May 17 The pastor O N Braun notes growing church attendance and urges continued participation The same cordial welcome to all
Next Sunday morning will feature a Mothers Day service with combined Sunday School and preaching. Special music will be provided by the men of the church. The pastor will deliver a Mothers Day address. Sunday evening includes a baccalaureate sermon and choir music.
Warren D. Wells of Fremont Indiana certifies as editor publisher and owner with Donald H. Wells and Henry F. Wells as owners in a 1922 ownership statement filed in Steuben County Indiana. No bondholders or major security holders listed. Frank Harding plans moving a house from the McClue property to West Toledo Street and remodels it into a modern residence.
At Cassel Post American Legion meeting last Monday night committees were formed to visit cemeteries and place flags on soldiers graves. The Legion firing squad will be on hand and services will be held at church and cemetery. A post meeting is set for Monday evening May 22 with all members urged to attend.
Federal Judge Killits of Toledo argues that buyers of boot leg liquor are violators of the law on par with sellers and should be punished similarly. He says treating buyers as conspirators would curb bootlegging and protect public respectability, though he Believes bootlegger’s customers are even lower in the human scale.
Paris will host an American style baseball league this summer organized by the American Legion in Paris. Four teams, including two composed of U S veterans and two from French clubs, will play starting May 20 at the Bagatelle grounds in Bois de Boulogne. The Legionnaires will also instruct on throwing pop bottles.
Thousands of Chicago families plan to move under canvas to cope with rising rents. Tents will be pitched on vacant lots and forest preserves as urged by the Chicago Tenants' League. Tent manufacturers will supply tents at wholesale prices.
Three men arrested in a pool room raid in Omaha were sentenced by police court to ten days in the public library. They must spend eight hours daily there or face jail for double the term.
A satirical sketch critiques injunctions on a town well and social norms in Cleveland. It humorously weighs dress codes for women, basement water, liquor spills, road ethics, tax dodging by jewel owners, and a call to higher jewelry taxation.
A verse describing a flapper as a street-walking, fashionably bold young woman who flirts with men, wears short skirts and bobbed hair, powders her face, and uses charm to take money from suitors. The poem ends noting flappers are identified by missing ears and hints at late hours and nightlife.
The article notes that owning two or more dogs is treated as a luxury in Germany with heavy taxes under a new schedule. It mentions a modern flat building and a Chicago landlord constructing a 33 flat complex with secure perambulator stalls for tenants and a promotional offer of $200.
A large crowd attended the eighth grade contest held Friday evening in the high school auditorium. The program from last week featured musical numbers by Lucile Straw Pauline Brunk Virgil Straw Wayne Sidel Wava Huss Katherine Painter Thelma Van Every and Geraldine Deller. Russell Swift won first place with Gladys Swick second and Edward Button third.
Fremont Folck, previously noted ill, died May 4 at his home in Scott township aged 59. A Fremont resident and Knights of Pythias member, his funeral was Sunday at his home with many Knights in attendance. Eld er J O Rose preached the sermon and burial followed in Circle Hill cemetery at Angola.
Indiana youths are urged to apply for a government offered month long camp at Camp Knox Kentucky. The program covers all expenses including transportation uniforms arms and food. Participants gain physical strength sanitation knowledge and military basics while meeting peers from across the country and returning home with no further obligations. The camp opens about August 1.
N. R. Graham, 59, a La Grange County farmer, died by hanging at his father in law Marion Teeters home near LaGrange Sunday afternoon. The body was found about two hours later by family members. He had been in ill health for some time.
The fifteenth annual district convention of the Pythian Sisters No. 2 drew 350 attendees in Garrett last Friday. Ruth Temple No. 56 hosted with I O O F hall decor, while district officers led sessions, a banquet, and charitable offerings totaling 155.22 dollars. The next meeting will be in Goshen in 1923 with local temples celebrating their thirtieth anniversary.
Fremont Indiana May 6 1922. To James B Eaton William H P Weseman Jennie A Weseman Charles Beall. I will apply after ten days to the Steuben County Surveyor for an official survey to determine corners of Lot 19 in Wilder's first addition to Spring Bank in NE quarter of Sec 14 Township 38N Range 13E and to determine boundaries of the portion of Lot 19 owned by me.
The Jamestown school honored fallen boys of the war by planting trees on Arbor Day, creating a living tribute to the memories of the students who gave their lives in service.
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