Local Social News and Visits From Canaan Area
Frank Miller and wife spent the weekend with Lester Miller and family. Butler Hurt and family visited Charles Lisby and family. Mary Hurt had a week long visit with friends. Dorothy Williamson and Mary Cunningham visited Lena and Irene Miller from Thursday to Sunday. Bernice Stallings attended Sunday. Margaret Evans stayed with Lloyd Evans in Indianapolis last week. The Clear Creek reunion was held Sunday with many present to enjoy the day. Canaan Home Economics met with Mrs. Lilly Smith and daughter Helen on Thursday. Thirteen members answered roll call. Two visitors were present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Miller
Lester Miller
Butler Hurt
Charles Lisby
Mary Hurt
Dorothy Williamson
Mary Cunningham
Lena
Irene Miller
Bernice Stallings
Margaret Evans
Lloyd Evans
Indianapolis
Clear Creek
Canaan Home Economics
Lilly Smith
Helen
Community Ice Cream Socials and Family Visits
Mrs Linnie Greenlee helped host brick ice cream cakes and lemonade. Ralph Minter and family left Thursday for Missouri. Donald Iddings is on the sick list. Cecil Arnold and wife and Addison Huber and families visited Charlie Lisby and family. Two ice cream socials Monday night at Lisby and Wheeler homes with plentiful cake and ice cream. Mrs Claude Iddings attended Mrs Woolf's funeral in Indianapolis.
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Linnie Greenlee
Ralph Minter
Missouri
Donald Iddings
Cecil Arnold
Addison Huber
Charlies Lisby
Charles Lisby
Gilbert Wheeler
Claude Iddings
Indianapolis
Woolf
Fears Blindness Drives Bloomington Man to Suicide
Jefferson Kemp, 68, a prominent Bloomington resident, shot himself at home amid fears of losing his sight. His 82-year-old mother-in-law, Lucy Barbee, died instantly from shock, and Kemp died three hours later. He had relocated from Kempton thirty years earlier and ran a garage after a career in brokerage. His health declined after a fire that nearly claimed him years before.
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Bloomington
Ind
Jefferson Kemp
Lucy Barbee
Tis Home
Kemp
Kempton
Tipton County
Flying X Rodeo at Indiana State Fair
The Flying X Rodeo from Texas will feature nightly performances in front of the grandstand at the Indiana State Fair Grounds from September 1. It promises hundreds of wild horses and cattle, roping wild steers, and riding events, a premier attraction for Indiana fairgoers.
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Texas
Indiana
Local landowner Kemp remembered in Tipton county obituary
The heavy land owner in Tipton county who devoted personal attention to his crops during World War I is mourned in an obituary. Survived by widow, two daughters Mrs Clyde Hare of Indianapolis and Mrs William Wood of Fort Myers Florida, son Harold Kemp of Marco Florida, and three brothers Joseph of Kempton Henry of Atlanta and John of Tipton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tipton County
Kemp
Clyde Hare
Indianapolis
William Wood
Fort Myers
Fla
Harold Kemp
Marco, Fla
Joseph
Kempton
Henry
Atlanta, Ga
John
Tipton
Ellen Terry Citizenship Question Raised After Her Death
International News Service reports London Aug 30 that Ellen Terry the English actress who died aged about 80 may have been an American subject. Her daughter Edith Craig questioned if nationality affects the will, noting Terry’s 1907 marriage to American actor James Carew in Pittsburgh.
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International News Service
London
Ellen Terry
Edith Craig
James Carew
United States
Lineman Electrocuted in Severe Storm at Substation
George Nelson aged 40 a lineman for Northern Indiana Public Service Co was electrocuted tonight during a severe electric storm while splicing hot wire outside the Eighth street substation in Michigan City Ind City officials cut power briefly to pull him from the live line doctors treated him for over three hours but he did not regain life.
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Michigan City
Ind
George Nelson
Northern Indiana Public Service Company
Eighth Street
Nelson
Yesterday's baseball results across leagues and cities
Scores from yesterday include American Association games Kansas City 5 Indianapolis 4 and Columbus at Minneapolis rain, Louisville at Milwaukee rain, Toledo at St Paul rain. American League Philadelphia 6 Chicago 2. St Louis 4 Boston 3. Cleveland 9 Detroit 5. National League Boston 8 New York 3. Philadelphia 4 Pittsburgh 0 in seven innings by agreement. St Louis at Chicago rain.
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American Association
Kansas City
Indianapolis
Columbus
Minneapolis
Louisville
Milwaukee
Toledo
St. Paul
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
Boston
Cleveland
Detroit
New York
Pittsburgh
Russian says he is father of eugenic baby
Captain Marc Medvedeff, a former Russian navy officer and actor, admits he is the father of the so called eugenic baby Vera born to Grace Burnham in New Haven area. He offers blood tests and vows to confront Burnham with witnesses to dispel doubt while detailing his own prestige and good family background.
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New York
INS
Marc Michailovitch Medvedeff
Eugenie Baby
Grace Mailhouse Burnham
Burnham
Karl Graham
Riverside Drive
Graham
Grace Burnham
Max Mairhouse
New Haven
Russia
West Ffty-ninth Street
Annie
Medvedeff
Holyoke
Mass
Aaron
Carolyn
Deflation of Farm Land Prices Publicized by Journal
The Chicago Journal of Commerce reports Dr Chew from the department of Commerce argues the farm problem requires deflating land prices and assigning the farmer to labor rather than ownership. It notes the farmer should accept wages, not interest, and be content as a laborer when income is redefined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Journal of Commerce
Chew
Department of Commerce
Agricultural Department
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Reo
R. P. Mullins
Delco
R. C. Scobee
Bloomington St. Greencastle, Ind
Canaan
Taw
U.S
Terry
Imavel
Tire & Battery Co
A. L. Dobbs, Mgr
Garbo In
MGM News
Greta
Mance
Ves
Rex Bell
Cowboy
Wild West
Sally Phipps
Chas
Morton Merchants
FOX News
Thire Ines
Castle
Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company
Bainbridge
Putnam County
Board of Trustees
General Fund
Total General Fund
Total Street Fund
General Street
State Board of Tax
C. W. Beck
Vergil J
Ader
Earle Evans
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