Cloverdale Social Roundup Features Visitors and Local Events
Cloverdale residents host and visit across Indiana and Missouri. A busy spell includes tourists from Indianapolis, Greencastle, Terre Haute, and Columbia School Missouri visiting Cloverdale. a Dog and Pony show draws crowds. a sidewalk fall injures Patrick Keller. many locals attend Mt Meridian basket meeting and Sunday School. midweek trips to Bloomington, Mishawaka, Bloomington and Denver noted. Midshipman Leonard Branneman returns from cruise with Kenneth O Daniel arriving home. community events at M E Church and school progress wrap the update.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beryl Sandy
Bertha Watkins
Greencastle
Pearl McKamey
Chicago
Estes Duncan
Indianapolis
J. S. Sinclair
Hoosier Highlands
Frank Vestal
Beech Grove
Pyotr
Elbert Allen
Columbia School
Missouri
Canada
Washington D. C
Cloverdale
Columbia
Patrick Keller
Roy Keller
Mt. Meridian
Myrtle Tucker
Corns
Martinsville
Fanny Moran
Shirley Shake
Sherri Shake
Mishawaka
Miss Sandys
Guenere
Vivian
Seph Injman
Linton
Alton Murphy
Eugene McKamey
Detroit
Carly Utterback
Margaret May
Denver
Colorado
Utterback
Edward Hamilton
Leonard Branneman
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Maryland
William Branneman
Branneman
States
England
France
Belgium
Kenneth O‘daniel
Leonard Brannemah
Annapolis Md
H. T. Broadstreet
Michigan
Broady
Nelia Wingfield
George Wingfield
H. C. Foster
Was No Cannibal
A miserly old man visits a relative uninvited and is asked by his five year old niece if he is a cannibal. She says mamma warned he “lived on his relations” and he replies he is not a cannibal.
Good Stock Quip Turns on Watered Stock Facade
A brisk exchange between a stock salesman and Mr. Jones pivots to integrity and utility. The salesman claims the firm has no watered stock while Jones replies with a dry witticism about buying stock with four legs, implying a live animal as collateral.
Cost Him Salary for Life Wife
A light hearted note reports a young man fined 25 dollars for flirting. The columnist jokes that the punishment costs him less than expected, contrasting it with their own finances and future earnings.
Only for Certain Breed Friend Dinner Riddle
A cryptic dinner remark discusses distinguishing old chickens from young ones using a ruse of powder and paint. The dialogue hints at social scrutiny and clever deception in appearances.
Princess Claims Face Is Her Fortune
The princess asserts her face is her fortune while her father, pen in hand, mutters that her fortune will pay the beauty parlor bill.
Pink Lady Slipper Explains Slippers as Heads and Helpers
In a garden chat, Pink Lady Slipper claims their slippers sit on their heads not feet and that each plant needs one slipper. The flowers describe mutual aid with bees, pollen spread, and honey production, noting slippers’ special usefulness and the odd notion of loaning one’s head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billie Brownlie
Pink Lady Slipper
Riddles and Wordplay Highlight Classic Puns
A quirky collection of light wordplay answers with questions about eggs bricks roses and rooms. The verses play on puns with lines like an egg laid like a brick a rose bough seen with Sweet William and the largest room being the room for improvement.
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Cloverdale News
Everett Leonard
Sullivan
Sarah Branneman
William Branham
Mann
Lucy
George Holloway
Brazil
Carol McCurry
Champaign
Tls
W. B. Burris
Mary Hazelett
Finn Runyan
Bloomington
R. S. Branneman
John Hill
A. V. O'Daniel
Cloverdale Friends
Hill
Myrtle O’daniel
Charles McCurry
Leon Gray
Iowa
Bert Hamilton
Irma Mendenhall
W. K. Prichard
Westfield
Jean Comstock
Harmony
Nell Morrison
Charles Bowman
Fillmore
East Main Street
M. E
J. A. O’mullane
Bloomington Bus
Castle
H. K. Siscoe
Mgr
Larkin & Denny
B & B Battery Builders
C. C. Baker
Dad
Mary Graham Bonner
Billy Brownie
Billie Brownie
William
the Herald