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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1939
Page
3
Linton Daily Citizen invites society items from Helen L Grubbs for inclusion in the next issue. Deadline 11 a.m. at the office. Personal news club lodge party and church items welcome.
Regular meeting of the Worker’s Alliance of America at 1 p m in the public library. Sons of American Legion gather at 6 30 p m at the Legion home. Linton Concert Band rehearses at Central School Building at 7 30 p m. Shuffle Board Club meets at Humphreys Park at 7 p m. Quapaw Tribe No 145 IO Red Men meets at the hall at 7 p m. W A W club picnic at Humphreys Park at 6 p m. Columbian Chapter 140 O F S holds a stated meeting at the hall at 7 30 p m with sandwiches requested.
A series of local visits and gatherings are noted as families from Linton and Terre Haute, including Ralph Owens, Hart, Bovenschen, Pirtle, and Owens households, travel and host guests. People from Jasonville and Bloomfield join in weekend and weekday visits with neighbors and relatives.
Mr and Mrs Thomas J Shields hosted a diverse group of visitors including Mr and Mrs Frank Shields and daughter Anna Frances of Detroit Michigan Mr and Mrs Charles S Wools of Marion and Paul Wools of Muncie guests of Mr and Mrs Austin Wools Also Mrs Eliza Ham Newark and relatives Varying visits from Indianapolis Solsberry Plainville Sellersburg and Detroit with families William Small and John Small of Detroit among the guests
In St. Paul Nebraska a leg injury kept Robert Hanisch from the classroom this spring yet he stayed in school via a two way telephone loud speaker system. A wire connected the school to his home linking bedroom to each study room with movable speaker units as classes convened.
The fifth Wells family reunion near Newark celebrated Mrs. Mary Wells sixty eighth birthday. Attendees included Clifton and Ben Wells families Coal City Worthington Blooming ton and Newark residents with many others from Ellettsville Linton Jasonville Calvertsville and Calvert ville. The group planned to meet again next year at the same time and place.
Dugger Indiana June 2 members of the Woman's Study club shift from evening to afternoon for next Tuesday at Mrs Belle Tison home. Members will visit Carlisle tonight as guests of the Research club at Mrs James Phegbsy. At the last gathering Mrs Charles Mason was honored with a covered dish luncheon and auction bridge. Attendees included Ed Jones W H Hammersley Ray Tison Jake Yung D C Phillippe Ray Goodman David Lippeatte Tennyson Rector and Mrs Mason.
Midland Chat and Stitch 4-H club held its regular meeting in the high school building on Thursday afternoon. A program committee for the next meeting was appointed including Tris Pope Barbara Martin and Marjorie Walraven. Games and refreshments followed as the group gathered.
Mr and Mrs King Cruse of Mc Allen Texas returned to their home Thursday after spending a few days with their niece and nephew Natalie Jean and Bobbie Guy Hayes of Fourth street south east.
Bloomington booster C. D. Donato, who bought land and donated it to the Scouts, is pictured laying the cornerstone of the sandstone lodge at the new Boy Scout camp in Martin County. Bloomington World Photo.
In Aliquippa Ohio valley steel town workers honor Mario Ezzo, a poor Italian immigrant who died after his bathrobe burned in the county home. His body, once buried in a potters field, rests in a marked grave at St Joseph's cemetery after a community fund funded a memorial and funeral. Seven hundred mourners attend a solemn procession as priests recite the rosary and choir boys sing. The epitaph reads Mario Ezzo it work makes my bread taste sweeter I am a man.
State liquor agents in Philadelphia deploy candid cameras to photograph tipsy panhandlers targeting pedestrians. A spokesman notes panhandlers report to drink sources in the morning, move through districts, and intensify as the day progresses.
Citizen readers answer a question on improving Indiana roads. Suggestions include more paving and maintenance by the state highway department, heavier penalties for highway damage, roadside safety markers, national highways with dual lanes, and planting trees between lanes.
Mrs. Helen Jensen faced possible charges for compounding a felony after she gave a robber $10 to spare her cash register. The bandit demanded money, she offered no help, but he took the cash with a brief delay before fleeing.
Elizabeth A. Rice of Monticello Indiana will serve as one of ten Big Ten hostesses at the Elgin watch observatory during the New York World's Fair. A government student with scholarships and summer work to offset expenses, she stands 5 feet 5 1 2 inches tall weighs 120 pounds and is 22. She plays clarinet swims and bowls and belongs to Pi Beta Phi and Mortar Board.
Mrs Huddie Goodman hosts guests as Dora Dean Russell and Lulu Joyce Lambright from Lyons visit. Several families share dinners and visits including Underwoods, Bedwells, Hampers, and Goodmans. Anna Schantz improves slightly while Laura Mae Gyger visits grandparents Rev Porter Walls. Glen Walls visits Indianapolis relatives. numerous towns named.
Trustee J Lowrie Mattox announces a short extension for dog tax payments and asks tag holders No 143825 issued April 27 and No 143821 issued April 29 to contact the trustee's office by phone or in person to complete records.
O Gene Carr of Pontiac Michigan visited here with relatives and friends Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Paul Davies of Detroit Michigan visited recently with relatives here. Phyllia Elaine Anderson returned home with them for a visit. Mr and Mrs Ross Arbell of Greencastle spent the day Tuesday here visiting relatives. Mr and Mrs Ern Dugger and Mr and Mrs Reed Dugger of Franklin were here Wednesday calling on friends.
The Oberhausen project in Germany claims the lowest cinema in the world, located 1,800 feet underground in a former coal shaft. It seats 100 people and is carved from an abandoned shaft to host films.
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