Excellent Farmers Institute Held with Purdue Speakers
Purdue University sent two good speakers and rich instruction at a two day farmers institute led by Wayne Cox and attended by Harold Orahood and A M Ford. Sessions featured talks on ensilage cheap feed family buying and home life with music and a closing business meeting planning a Boys and Girls Club for next year.
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Larely
Wayne Cox
Harold Orahood
A_M Ford
J. M. McHargue
W H. Senour
Purdue University
Troy Glascock
Virginia C. Meridith
Mae Law Dagger
W. H. Senour
A.M. Ford
Helen Flesher
B. F. Clifton
Estel Duncan
E. M. Gifford
Lois Ford
E. E. Ewbank
A. H. Lindley
Claude Ratcliff
Alfred Hesler
Worthy of Some Publicity in Kingman Windows
Cory Moffett Hardware Store displays feature miniature battleship made from shotgun shells and cartridges in the west window. The east window highlights Diamond Edge tools with a background scene of the first capitol and a cherry tree cut down by a Diamond Edge hatch, honoring George Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingman
Cory- Moffett Hardware
Ray Wilkey
George Washington
United States
Seven Months of School for Grades in Township
Trustee J M Lewis announced seven months of school for all grades in the township. Previous reports of six months caused unease among pupils and parents. Lewis cited a strained school fund but said seven months in the grades and eight months in the high school could be achieved with careful management. the eight months in high school is compulsory to retain the commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Lewis
Lewis
Starman
Bean attachments for corn planters advertised for six dollars
Local notice highlights Cory Moffett Hdn. Co. offering bean attachments for corn planters at six dollars. Community updates include visits and travel among families in Hillsboro Urbana Harveysburg and Acron. Geraldine Starkey of Harveysburg dies after brief illness. Will Carter and wife visit Pine Village with S. D. Shell family.
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Institute
Will Carter
Pine Village
Mrs
S. D. Shell
Knights of Pythias Hold Big Meeting in Veedersburg
Fountain county district meeting of Knights of Pythias praised as one of the best. Attendees from local area included Bek Hadley Sam Lindley Herb Lindley Oscar Spencer and C L Steinbaugh. Evening donations raised 54.10 for Mrs C G Delp widow of a man shot recently.
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Fountain County
Veedersburg
Bek Hadley
Sam Lindley
Herb Lindley
Oscar Spencer
C. L. Steinbaugh
C. G. Delp
Damon
Pythias
Moving pictures opening postponed at opera house
The opening of the motion picture show at the opera house every Wednesday and Saturday night has been delayed again due to lighting system troubles. During the delay the management prepares a fine program and shows 6000 feet of film on opening night, with a new date announced in this paper.
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Opera House
Substantial Gift in Memory of Son by Glascocks
Mr and Mrs H H Glascock gifted their 120 acre Mill Creek Falls farm to the Bible Chair Department of Indiana University Bloomington in memory of their deceased son Zeikel. Dean Joseph C Todd aided closing the deal as the real estate, valued about 12000 dollars, funds a new building for the department after a fire last December. The couple will receive about 500 dollars annually during life, with the property passing to the Bible Chair upon their deaths.
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H. H. Glascock
Mill Creek Falls
Bible
Indiana University
Bloomington
Zeikel
Joseph C. Todd
Christian Church
Zeikel Glascock
Tangier town notes and a runaway horse incident
A Tangier update recounts Mrs. Lawrence Harvey surviving a buggy wreck after a runaway team struck her vehicle near Tangier while returning from Cayuga. Rex Marshall of Howard owned the team. The piece also urges cement walk construction along Tangier streets and notes Sylvania store clearance prices. Local sickness includes several families affected and Rushcreek protracted meetings draw crowds with day and night services. Ivah McClaran and Jessie Beeson are noted visitors from Terre Haute and Marshall.
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Lawrence Harvey
Tangier
Cayuga
Mr. Harvey
Harvey
Rex Marshall
Howard
Zane
Rushcreek
Albert Snyder Sentenced for Petit Larceny in Covington
Albert Snyder, jailed in Covington since the prior Saturday, was tried before Judge Schoonover on Wednesday for petit larceny. He received a sentence of from one to eight years in the Michigan City penitentiary for allegedly taking a pair of shoes from Ned Inlow. Claude Philpotts defended the defendant. Alb n Thomas of Mulberry was summoned earlier in the week due to his mother Mrs Margaret Miller’s illness.
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Albert Snyder
Covington
Schoonover
Michigan City
Snyder
Ned Inlow
Claude Philpott
Albn Thomas
Mulberry
Margaret Miller
Book Shower For New Carnegie Library Next Monday
A public book shower promoting the new Carnegie Library is announced for next Monday. The program lists performances by Geanette Waltz and Della McCauley plus vocal and piano duets and solos. The lineup includes Grace Ratcliff, Ruby Ephlin, Elsie Gray, Josie Gray, Retha Myer, Ethel Cox, B O Hudler, Helen Flesher, and the Lehman Hewit male quartet with the Stainer Orchestra.
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New Carnegie Library
Della McCauley
Love Divine
All Love Excelling
Grace Ratcliff
Ruby Ephlin
Elsie and
Josie Gray
Retha Myer
U B Church Announces Revival Series And Meetings
Beginning next Sunday night the UB Church will hold revival meetings led by Rev. Jenkins. A great harvest of souls is hoped for. Sunday School aims for 100 in attendance next Sunday. A quarterly meeting will be held at Cates on the upcoming Saturday and Sunday.
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U B. Church
Jenkins
Cates
Crumley May Get Pardon From Parole Board
Gilbert Crumley, sent from this county in 1913 for the murder of his wife, will appear before the Parole Board next month as his two year sentence nears expiration. Attica women organize to oppose Crumley parole, contending the term was too short.
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Gilbert Crumley
Board of Pardons
Attica
Crumley
Local residents purchase oil stoves and visit Indiana
Mrs. S. D. Alexander Mrs. Ben Dix and Miss Alice Howell purchased New Perfection oil stoves this week from Cory Moffett Hardware Co. Greenleaf Woody visited his Clinton parents M. T. Woody and Mrs. Woody. Miss Genevieve Booe and Miss Jewell Wilkinson were in Indiana polis Wednesday. Sanitary chicken coops advertised by Cory Moffett Hardware Co.
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S. D. Alexander
Ben Dix
Alice Howell
Perfection Oil
Cory-Moffett Hardware Co
Greenleaf Woody
Clinton
Mrs. M. T. Woody
Genevieve Booe
Jewell Wilkinson
Indianapolis
New Firm in Town Opens Dry Cleaning and Gent’s Furnishings
Theodore Schomers from Oxford rents the I. O. O. F. room once used by Woody's harness shop and will open a dry cleaning and pressing business with a line of gentlemen's furnishings. He has moved his family to the Methodist parsonage.
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Theodore Schomers
Oxford
Woody
Schomers
Mrs Chloe Harvey Dies After Lingering Illness
Mrs Chloe Harvey of Tangier died yesterday near noon following a long illness. She was the mother of Lena and Elsie Harvey and sister of Mrs A H Dickens of this place.
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Chloe Harvey
Tangier
Lena
Elsie Harvey
A. H. Dickens
Ideal Grocery Ad Promises Top Market Prices
Bring your cream to the house of Booe for the highest market price plus sell your eggs and butter at top notch. Ora Ludlow and family return home in Veedersburg after visiting relatives. Mrs. R. B. Myers plans a week with her parents in Terre Haute. Cory-Moffett Hardware Co. advertises galvanized buckets for syrup making.
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Ora Ludlow
Veedersburg
R. B. Myers
F. B. Torbert
Terre Haute
Cory-Moffett Hdw. Co
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Lee
Gordon Moffett
Frank
Frazier
Hillsboro
Frank Hammel
Mahonet
Louie Curt
Urbana
Geraldine
Fred Starkey
Harveysburg
W. B. Bacus
Acron
Knights OF Pythias
Liberty
Sylvania
David Shirk
Belle Ephlin
Belle Brown
Ivah McClaran
Jessie Beeson
Marshall
Library Board
Annie Laurie
Mrs. Frank Jones
Hazel Pitman
Alhayes ‘McFall
Ethel Cox
B. O. Hudler
Were
Rose
Liza Lehman
Holst
Greig
Kopp
Bohann
Busch
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