Geo Finney Returns Home From Camp Gordon
Geo Finney has returned home from Camp Gordon in Georgia. Schools remain closed again due to the influenza epidemic.
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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1918
Page
5
Geo Finney has returned home from Camp Gordon in Georgia. Schools remain closed again due to the influenza epidemic.
In the Cass Circuit Court a final settlement has been filed by Benjamin B. Richards as administrator of Cumberland M. Thorpe deceased. The examination is set for December 16, 1918, in Logansport Indiana, with heirs creditors and legatees required to appear and show cause why the account should not be approved. CHAS. O. BROWN, Clerk. Also social notes: Mrs. David Fite of Kokomo visited her daughter Mrs. Alva Newport. gatherings include E M Spaulding Emerson Polk and Frieda Haseltine of Kokomo Tribune staff visiting Chas. Walk family and J. M. Thomas household. Rev G E Garrison and L E Miller visited near Bunker Hill.
A 19th century advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh by internal action and blood purification. It offers a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure and instructs readers to request a list of agents from the proprietors.
Glenn Logan son of Thomas and Mrs Logan died at his home on November 29 1918 at age 27. He was devoted to his parents and farm work and leaves a sister pair Mrs Cora Emerick and Mrs Bessie Cripe plus other relatives. A Methodist since January 1916 his life was praised for its health and conduct. Funeral services were held at the home conducted by Rev Geo E Garrison with burial in Galveston Cemetery.
A fragment from a local issue recounts Dinah wearing a red dress to a funeral, a dispute with Mrs. Blank over attire, and Dinah declaring her plan while revealing an admirer. The piece then shifts to notices about publishing delays, local residents Elmer Wills, Ward Tidrick, and Ernest Yoder, plus a Scottish parish fund drive and a wartime letter from Bordeaux describing Armistice celebrations and returning soldiers.
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