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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1917
Page
1
The county agent urges farmers to grow more wheat with a guaranteed two dollar price next year. He notes anticipated record acreage, easy seed-bed prep due to rains, early seeding after September 15, and high fertilizer value though supplies may run short. Stinking smut treatment will be offered next week.
Company B, in camp at the fairgrounds since August 5, received orders to move to Fort Benjamin Harrison. The men are healthy and trained, armed with new Speld rifles, soon to be issued Enfield rifles as supply allows. They await reassembly at Hattiesburg before a longer training at a Mississippi camp. Families helped with equipment. the community offers support and pride in volunteers saving others from draft burdens.
Announcement of the Sept 5 marriage of John R. Thompson and Bernice Ruth Vian at the bride’s parents’ home in Garrett Indiana. Thompson, cashier at the Fremont First National Bank, and Vian daughter of Frank W. VanAman. Funeral for Aaron Harmon of Scott township held after a drowning in Elkhart last Friday.
Samuel E. Brooks of Angola marries Mrs. Hattie Herron formerly W P Herron at noon last Saturday in the home of Rev L W Kemr. Herron has served Florence Hall DePauw University four years. Brooks is a retired farmer. They head to northern Michigan after the ceremony.
Rev. Elbert McCreery of Ray will present an illustrated talk titled Egypt and The Soudan at the Methodist church Sunday night. He spent nine years in Egypt and the Soudan as a United Presbyterian missionary and once entertained Mr. Roosevelt in his mud hut. The talk features over one hundred slides on local customs, wildlife, and missionary work, and is free to the public.
Fremont Shamrocks defeated Bronson Michigan 9 to 3 last Sunday in a game watched by a large crowd. Jack Mason hit a three bagger in the eighth, Barry pitched until fifth, Bowerman relieved. Monday Fremont beat Edgerton Ohio 4 to 1 before the season’s largest local crowd. Aldrich and Higbie backed Fremont. music by the Fremont band and Ginnivan show band. In a separate action the fats and leans clashed, Lean victory 21 to 7 amid many scorekeeping errors and seven adding-machine counters. six innings played with talk of nine-inning rematch.
Steuben County prepares for a major celebration next Thursday with the dedication of a soldiers monument in Angola. Ex-congressman Washington Gardner of Albion Michigan and former Grand Army of the Republic commander will speak. The day also marks the Old Settlers and Soldiers Reunion with extensive plans for a large event.
In Hattiesburg Mississippi on September 5 soldiers from Kentucky Indiana and West Virginia heading to Camp Shelby will arrive during the harvest of a record cotton and corn crop. Experts estimate about 100000000 bushels of corn and 1300000 bales of cotton valued at roughly 240 million dollars with seed. Corn tops two dollars a bushel and cotton prices average around 125 dollars a bale. Local committees plan a warm welcome for the arriving guardsmen as they adjust to southern fields and dialects.
A soldier writer from Ft. D. A. Russell describes frequent training changes between cavalry and field artillery, with about 500 men sent to San Francisco for reorganization and a Sept. 5 Honolulu departure. He recalls horse breaking, injuries, and humor amid post life with Cheyenne support and YMCA activity on the reservation.
The annual W. C. T. U. county convention will be held at Ash ley on Thursday September 20 with a basket dinner. Everyone is invited and asked to bring baskets. The program will be published next week. Electric Service Collections will send a representative to call on customers the ninth and tenth of each month for monthly collections.
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