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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1944
Page
4
Tressa Good, seventeen, dies in a house stove accident as clothing ignites. The brief note records a fatal fire near Marco with tragic young victim and no further details.
Two Linton Indiana men Malcom Ray Cox aged 24 and Rolland Farris aged 18 begin recruit training at the U S Naval Training Center Great Lakes Illinois. The program includes seamanship drill and Naval procedures with aptitude tests to assign them to a Naval Service School or immediate sea duty. After training they will receive leave.
Allied forces press from the Saar toward Merode and Duren as German bridges across the Inde are destroyed. American Third tank and Ninth infantry divisions clash in Merode while Patton’s Third Army advances toward the river opposite Merzig amid heavy artillery fire.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Hair purchased the hCafey property and moved in. Mr and Mrs Richard Shake moved into the Milford Cole property bought recently. Mrs Wilson Trueblood, once ill, is reported improved. Preston Asrey was in Terre Haute on business. Mrs Robert Boone and children returned to Linton. Mr and Mrs Tom Weaver of Indianapolis visited Ned Weaver. Mr and Mrs Ward Pitman and Mrs Ben Alton visited relatives in Dayton. Mr and Mrs Wilson Trueblood called on Henry Priest in Linton.
In loving memory of our son and brother Richard Adam Mowery who passed away December 1 1943. December brings sad memories of a loved one Zone to rest. You will never be forgotten dear est one by the ones who loved you best. The call was sudden the shock severe. We little thought such grief was near. Only those who have loved can tell the pain of parting without a farewell. And while he rests in peaceful sleep his memory we shall always keep. Mother Sisters and Brother.
Mrs. Fielding P. Williams of Huntingburg reports her husband Captain Fielding P. Williams has been promoted to Major. He is transferred from the Hawaiian Islands to the Philippines where he commands a hospital after three years of service. He is married to former Miss Lucille Brown, a local schoolteacher and niece of Mr. and Mrs. Seph Inman.
Pvt Ned W Moore is back at Camp Fannin Texas after a 14 day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs Bert Morrison and wife Mrs Ilene Moore and family.
Indianapolis livestock report shows hogs up to 25 cents higher across weights with 160 to 200 pounds steady and 200 to 240 pounds at 14.00 to 14.10. Sows rise 10 to 15 cents, cattle trade opened steady weekend, medium to low grade steer 11.00 to 13.00, heifers scarce, cows 6.00 to 11.00, cutters 4.50 to 8.75, top cattle 16.50.
The report notes American planes searching Philippine waters after a B 29 bomber was forced down. On board were Second Lts. Richard Burns Chinook Mont flight engineer and Elmer L Donaldson Jr of Fowler Ind and San Antonio Texas.
Jesse Mitchell of Mt. Vernon died Wednesday. Services will be from the home of his sister Mrs Delma Spencer in Pleasantville at two o'clock Saturday afternoon. Newkirk Funeral Home of Pleasantville is in charge.
Akron report notes a new pamphlet on milled sponge rubber claims the material offers a simple, grandma like cure for stomach discomfort as a practical postwar innovation beyond laboratory mystique.
The text explains that bicarbonate of soda added during mixing heat of vulcanization creates the cellular structure of sponge rubber. It notes sponge rubber differs from lighter latex foam rubber, which is made directly from latex.
Mrs Bettyy Lou Herring left yesterday for Jacksonville Florida to spend the winter visiting her husband Fvt. Bob Herring who is stationed at Cam Blanding Florida.
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