Switz City Social Roundup Highlights Memorial Day Visits
Mr and Mrs Robert Spencer and children traveled to Meridian Mississippi to visit Mrs Spencers father and relatives. Mrs Bell Aldridge and child ren spent Monday with her father in Spencer. Families including Gastineau, Joyce, Bump and Layman households shared Memorial Day visits and cemetery time at Walnut Grove. Detroit visitor Gerald Switz spent the week with Mrs Sarah Switz and relatives while Martinsville and Bloomington families joined locals for holiday gatherings.
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Robert Spencer
Spencer
Meridean
Bell Aldridge
Will Gastineau
Sullivan
Olive Joyce
Indianapolis
Harvey Wills
Frank Bump
The
Methodist Church
Ross Evans
Walter Ritter
Lena Russ
Dillon
John Layman
Prairie Chapel
James Hineman
Harley Haskett
Walnut Grove Cemetery
Charles Graves
Bloomfield
McKee
Lyons
Roy Graves
Gerald Switz
Detroit
Mich
Sarah Switz
Nina Gail Willis
Keith
Martinsville
Art Gerkin
Doyle Hennon
Bloomington
Clive Herold
Lester
Orlando Roach
Truce talks in Korea face hard bargaining by China
UN coalition presses for cease fire as London signals possible talks and Gen Van Fleet says enemy has suffered heavy losses. China agnostic to war rules seeks UN recognition and a political settlement while internal and external pressures mount for a break in the Korean conflict.
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Trygve Lie
Ottawa
Korea
London
Washington
James A. van Fleet
U.S. 8Th Army
van Fleet
Peiping
United Nations
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Stalin
Russians Agree To Attend Confab In Washington
Russia accepts the July 23 meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers in Washington only if Europe bases and the North Atlantic Defense Pact are on the agenda. The Western Allies have refused these terms after weeks of deputy talks in Paris. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko delivered the conditional note to the allies and Moscow.
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Paris
U.P
Russia
Washington
Europe
United States
Great Britain
France
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gromyko
Moscow
County Property Transfers Filed In Recorder Office
The county recorder lists transfers including Virgil Dean to Joe Benham in Stockton township and Bertha Hudson to Claude Flynn in Jackson township among others. Parcels include 54.12 acres, lots in Fairview and Highland Place Additions, and multiple townships such as Richland and Lyons.
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Virgil Dean
Joe Benham
Stockton Township
Bertha May Hudson
Claude Flynn
Jackson Township
Merle Krieble
Lillian Robertson
Fairview
Linton
Etta B. Weller
Claron Weller
Island Coal Company
Toka H. Lehman
Wyrtis M. Eddington
Frank Rose
Bert Reed
Richland Township
Julia B. Deckard
Charles Lace
Boone's
Lyons
Leonard DePew
Leland A. Lester
Stafford and Grounds
Minnie D. Renner
Roy L. Burton
Stafford Township
John Birch
Chas. Bechtel
Railroads Move Record Passenger Milestones in 1940s
In the 1940s American railroads carried vast passenger volumes with thousands of miles of service and minimal fatalities relative to riders. The era saw commuter and long distance routes linking major cities including New York and San Francisco with extensive miles of operation and safety measures keeping deaths low per passenger carried.
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New York
San Francisco
Woodruff Place Opens With Southern Fare in Linton
Miss Maude Woodruff opens Woodruff Place at 339 A St N W serving fried chicken steaks plate lunches and short orders with three meals daily starting at five. breads ice cream and milk available Sundays and holidays with packed lunches for workers.
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Woodruff
Ame drive training courses advance with new mobile option
About 4 350 Ame enroll in behind the wheel training to use mobile driver training courses. Sea lion pups are born singly in marine wildlife study notes.
James Linn Family Socials Report
Lucy Chapel Mrs James Linn has returned home from Mary Sherman hospital. Homer Templeton and Virgil Morgan families visited. Figg family called. Wolfe and Davidson families from Gary Lin ton visited. Monday visitors included Mrs Sisil and Mrs Richards. Donald Linn Monroe City visited. John Page Jerry Carrithers visited Tuesday morning.
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James Linn
Mary Sherman Hospital
Homer Templeton
Virgil Morgan
Charles Figg
Dode Figg
Harlan Chastain
Charles Wolfe
Gary
Will Davidson
Linton
John Sisil
Emil Richards
Dugger
Donald Linn
Monroe City
John Page
Jerry Carrithers
New York County Farm Leaders Hit National Lists
Of New York’s 62 counties, 44 rank among the nation’s first 100 in output of one or more agricultural products, highlighting broad regional agricultural activity and county-level contributions to production.
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New York State
Local social rounds span Island City visits and reunions
Island City residents attended trials for Indianapolis races and welcomed guests Sunday. Abbie Stafford visited Alton family. Floyd Booker and others called on James Angleton Friday. The Hauck reunion gathered at Lyons Park. Rev. Gene Snyder visited Angletons Tuesday. Lane to illness notes for Lewis Hall.
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Robert Roberts
Bill Roberts
Bud Barnard
Indianapolis
Abbie Stafford
Alton
Floyd Booker
Mary Hensley
Mary Campbell
James Angleton
Eva Weaver
Bud Teague
Mary Jane Patterson
Linton
Hauck
Lyons Park
Gene Snyder
Vincennes
David Campbell
Ivan Weaver
Bill Angleton
Floyd Weaver
Lewis Hall
Leo Cunningham
Local Visits Span Mishawaka to Elnora Regarding Dinner Guests
Weekend visitors from Mishawaka visited Ed. Eva Weaver and daughter with Mr. and Mrs. James Angleton traveled to Elnora and Newberry on Tuesday. Decoration Dinner guests included Leo Cunningham and sons from Mishawaka, Bill Waskom and children from Crane, and Malersia Angleton of Linton. Mrs Bud Teague and daughter recently called on the Angletons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mishawaka
Eva Weaver
James Angleton
Elnora
Newberry
Robert Roberts
Ollie Gilligan
Leo Cunningham
Bill Waskom
Crane
Malersia Angleton
Linton
Bud Teague
First U S Theater Building Erected in 1716 Williamsburg
The first building in the United States designed specifically as a theater was erected in 1716 in Williamsburg Virginia. It marks the origin of purpose built playhouses in the American colonies.
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United States
Williamsburg
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Long Beach
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Dugger, Ind
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Mason
Woodruff Place
Thomas Jerrell
N. E. G St
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