17 Mar 1913
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Newspaper
Grabill Review
Location
Grabill, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1913
Page
1
Social visits fill weekends as families travel between Auburn Fort Wayne and Spencerville. Local clubs meet while church groups plan district events and fund drives. Residents share illness updates and attend services as neighbors attend to family and community duties.
Contractor G. E. Fredrick and carpenters began building a new barn for M. C. Gorrell on his farm about one and a half miles east of town to replace the one destroyed by fire. Visitors include B Schlatter of Chicago and Mr Barrett of Lagrof e Ind. local residents and relatives attended various calls and social visits in town.
The column lists gatherings across Wise's Corners and nearby towns including Frank Wertman and wife, V. E Marr and family, Rev. A. E Banmone and Vinton Milles with new Ford touring cars, and multiple visits among neighbors. It notes birthdays, church events at the Lutheran Sunday school, a farewell for Mrs. Katherine Thornburg, a Mother's Day service, and plans for an Aid program. Mary Ellen Billman-Markle died at age 64 after liver and stomach illness.
Farm for sale near Crabill Indiana on 141 acres. Wants include pigs or sow with pigs. Potatoes and garden fertilizer for sale. Seed corn with high germination. Oils and grease for machinery offered by A Nenenschwander Co. Also list of other small sales and a Poland China hog for sale. Contact names and rural routes provided.
Spra ins and bibains relief note describing Sloan's Liniment as a quick aid for strains sprains and general aches. It claims painless absorption without clogging pores and notes suitability for grippe related pains and overexertion with quick relief available at druggists for 25 cents.
The school at Fletter Junction taught by Miss Carrie Noble of Ft. Wayne closed Friday with an afternoon program and dinner for about one hundred guests. Several locals and relatives from Ft. Wayne and Leo visited, and S.C. Richer and bride returned from Canada after their recent wedding. Lawrence White and wife hosted and traveled to Ft. Wayne for visits.
A garbled local page lists various names and places including Neuvenschwander and Co, J J Gerig, Berne, Deena, D W Rhoades, Avostats, Witmer family, Sheriff G W Gitte, C J Rale, Pe Wag te, Berger Mfg Co, and C H Lake among others in scattered references to shopping, visits, and travel.
Sister Mrs Joseph Webb of this place and four brothers Daniel Billman of Farmer Center Frank Billman of Antwerp Charles Billman of Columbia City and Henry Billman of Ft Wayne announce funeral arrangements to be announced later. The notice appears in The New Haven Tribune The Woodburn News and The Grabill Review along with a local classified rate.
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