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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1906
Page
1
Various notices from Angola area include visits by Isaac Kirkwood of Pleasant Lake and Mrs. Hattie Holcomb with Geo Holcomb. Dell Snow and family spent Tuesday in Angola. Martin Foss of the north town died after a lingering illness. Also listed are seed sales and garden products from F. Schaeffer and a reminder about Angola Maid Sedgar and cigars.
Fremont High School held its commencement at Hall's Opera House last week with the Fremont Orchestra and several soloists. Graduates delivered orations on topics from the Dollar Sign to Panama Canal, followed by a class history and valedictory amid a series of celebratory events and thanks to Supt. Heitz and staff.
The Fremont High School alumni held their 11th annual reunion and banquet on Friday evening May 11. Attended by 50 to 60 members and about 150 guests, the event featured an orchestra, an oration, solos, toasts, and letters from absent members. Notable messages came from Flora McNabb Burgess of Bad Axe and Blanche Stockdale now in Boston. A juniors’ repast followed, with visiting and best wishes for next year.
The Steuben county Prohibitionists met in Concert hall Angola on May 2 to nominate candidates for county offices. Sheriff Calvin Tuttle is the ticket’s top choice with Samuel E B Straw for surveyor and Sidney Young for clerk. Other nominees include Wm. S. Renner recorder Jacob Mountz coroner J. W. Thomas assessor Maurice Watters and North District commissioner. The same day the Angola crowd debated a May 30 Robinson circus appearance and its fit with Decoration Day memorials.
C. H. Corey limps after a barn incident and rests in Coldwater with his sister's family. Beiley Jerkins serves as housekeeper for Pen Weidge in Coldwater. Dygert reports better but crutch-bound. Granville Ward family visited Isaac Eckert. Frank Chambers and wife visited Coreys. Ross Clark to return from Wisconsin soon.
Republican voters of DeKalb and Steuben counties meet in Angola Indiana on Tuesday June 12 1906 at 1 pm to place in nomination a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney for the 5th Judicial Circuit. Delegates are DeKalb 17 Steuben 14. Joua W Brown is chairman DeKalb Ezra L Dover is chairman Steuben.
Angola Republicans held a large caucus last Friday evening and nominated a ticket for city offices led by Mayor M. Pollock and Treasurer Thos. Freeman. Also listed are councilmen across wards and at large, with a Good Citizens League slate featuring Orville Carver as mayor and Royal Carpenter as treasurer. The city election is scheduled for May 28.
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway offers half rate tickets to Boston from May 1 to June 9 with return by July 15. Details available from agents or A J Smith Cleveland O. Frank Holbrook raises fifty two pigs on his farm south of town. Brannon D Hickey, attorney, seeks settlement of all debts with Fred Richard.
Warren D. Wells announces his candidacy for a Steuben County position subject to the Republican nominating convention. He states his intent to serve if selected by party processes.
Local residents and visitors are listed in a sequence of social calls and visits. Families and individuals including the Wortons, Shooks, Crals, Youngs, Abrams, Rodgers, McNaughtons, Oswalts, Schillings, and Millers are noted visiting relatives or hosting guests across Ray, Angola, Fremont, and nearby areas. The report also mentions recent rain benefiting crops and a delayed Owl train affecting travel.
Merle Watters of Fremont visited J. J. Fulmer and Mrs. George Kapeleye and daughter Margery in Coldwater. Mrs. J. J. Fulmer was knocked down by a horse but recovered enough to go out. L. A. S. to meet Mrs. John Harley on Thursday June 7. Sanford Allen family grandparents to a baby born to Delta Ohio couple. Cellar dug for Sanford Allen’s new house. Subscribe for the Kaus. A dollar a year.
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