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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1924
Page
3
The city council held a quiet meeting during Yuletide with no major business. Only essential officials and one reporter attended as they reviewed a bond issue for H street and Fourth street northeast and discussed correcting a dating error on $2,500 bonds set for ten years.
The First Baptist Church choir will perform the Christmas cantata The World's Redeemer by Fred Holton at the regular evening worship hour Sunday. Directed by Mrs William Peoples, the program features multiple choir and quartet numbers including He Shall Reign Forever Near the Starry Heavens Arise and Shine From Lands Afar The Gates of Heaven Unbar I Bring You Good Tidings Glory to God in the Highest The Song and the Star Christmas Memories He Came to Redeem the World Come Let Us Adore Him and others with solos and duets by local singers and couples.
In Indianapolis on December 17 the Sullivan county election board admitted an error in its returns in a case filed by George K. Denton of Evansville, the Democratic candidate for judge of the Supreme Court First district who was defeated by Benjamin Willoughby, Republican, by one vote. The board said its members were willing to perform further acts needed to properly determine the vote.
A reflective piece by Thomas A. Clark Dean of Men at the University of Illinois invites youth to assess the past year. He contrasts a foreman’s uncertain progress with personal growth through self possession wider interests and social interactions. He urges readers to measure gains in friends powers ideals wisdom and strength as the year ends.
A nostalgic Christmas vignette describes light shining from an old church steeple onto shepherds and wise men, a garret full of hopeful children, and everyday kindness as Salvation Army bells ring. The scene ends with the steeple standing as a witness to steadfast ideals.
A veteran New England shipper, eighty two, remains active in the Christmas tree business after forty years. Once shipping to Texas and Chicago, he is described as a real Santa Claus in appearance, illustrating the established national trade in cutting, shipping, and selling evergreens.
Miss Charlotte E. Cook daughter of Rev and Mrs O A Cook arrives from Beaumont Texas where she teaches mathematics at the high school for Christmas vacation with her parents. She is joined by her sister Mrs Ethel Mary Neal who lives at Lebanon Indiana and will also spend the holidays with the family.
Veteran guides and woodsmoke predict a mild winter based on muskrat houses and other wood signs. Old timers say muskrat lodges are an infallible signal, claiming they indicate a moderate winter with several thaws ahead.
A terse literary note on fidelity attributed to George Eliot, reflecting the notion that true hunger of the faithful heart is faithfulness itself. The fragment conveys a devotional insight without broader context or additional facts.
Indiana cannot finance the proposed interstate bridge across the Ohio River at Evansville beyond building a fill, as the river is deemed Kentucky territory. Attorney General A S Lesh’s opinion to the state highway commission says no Indiana funds may cover construction, delaying the project amid Kentucky funding concerns. The bridge would link Indiana state road No 10 on the Dixie Bee Line with Kentucky roads, with estimated cost around 3 million dollars.
Four persons who had attended a dance in Sterling were killed when struck by a Burlington train near Kiff. The victims included three Sterling residents and a traveling salesman, all ground to death as they were returning home around midnight.
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