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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1941
Page
3
Note requests society items be at the office by 11 a.m. to appear in the day’s issue. Personal news from clubs lodges parties and churches are welcomed. Helen L Grubbs.
Linton Shuffleboard Club meets at Humphreys Park at 7 p m. Sons of American Legion gather at the Legion Home at 6 30 p m. to Qupaw Tribe No 143 Improved Order of Red Men at the Hall at 7 p m. State meeting Columbian Chap wit No 140 0 E S at the hall at 7 30 p m Memorial services and refreshments Called meeting Women's Relief Corps in hall over old post office at 7 p m W W A W club picnic for members and families at Humphreys Park at 6 p m Triad practice Central School building at 6 30 p m.
The Band Parents Club in the high school elected officers for the year, naming Mrs. Clinton Reintjes as president and Mrs. Wayne Maxwell as vice president. A six member board of directors includes Earl Haag and Lloyd Brown among others. The organization bought five instruments totaling 230 dollars and eight new uniforms plus five twirler outfits costing 250 dollars. A thanks was given to supporters who aided the band and club.
Mrs Pearl Laughlin hosted a recent Ilene club gathering with roll call and readings by Della Adamson Myrtle Turpen Myrtle Lind and Alice Wines. A social hour followed and refreshments were served to a list of members. The next meeting will be a picnic at Humphreys Park in Linton.
Nine members of the Junior World Wide Guild were selected to attend the annual house party at Franklin. The meeting at Miss Doris Breck's home opened with the Guild pledge and dues, readings from the study book, and an unbroken chain of prayer.
Announcement from Cass notes the marriage of Miss Helen Keene of Cass to Paul Sweeney of Dugger. The couple exchanged vows Monday June 2 in Lansing Michigan where the groom has worked for months. Both families are prominent in Dugger.
A group of regional youths enjoyed a day at Shakamak state park. Attendees included Veda Wallingford Pleasant Grove Anna Pear! Davis Dugger Eleanor Reeve Linton Ivy Luxton Linton rural route Esther June Saucer man Sullivan Mr and Mrs Bob Woodruff Pleasant Grove Gerald and Roy Luxton Detroit Mich Lee Plew Linton rural route and Harry Borders Dugger.
Members of the Friendly Circle 4 H club of Hopewell met at Doris Jean Buckles home for a June gathering. Health pamphlets were distributed, music by Anna May Williams, readings by Louise Lind Helen Rowe and Juanola Lind. Refreshments followed. The next meeting will be at Pauline Martins home.
Mrs Norma Sparks hosted the Clarion club at her state road 59 home where several bingo games were played. Prizes were awarded to Alma Anderson Lucretia Bauer Nell Stockrahm Arlene Griebel Lola Mae Myers. Refreshments were served to Bauer and the members. Next meeting time and place pending announcement.
Miss Minnie Strietelmeier hosted the Women’s Missionary society of the Saron Evangelical and Reformed church at her north of Linton residence. The session opened with The Church’s One Foundation, with Miss Lizzie Strietelmeier delivering scripture and prayer. The lesson My Church’s Channels of Service was discussed by members and read by Mrs Harvey Fisher. Mrs George Haseman, the society president, led a brief business portion and the group offered unison prayers.
Canoe specialists will race five miles on the Rapid River at Ringedley Maine from July 4 for the second annual White Water event. Led by Alexander Grant Jr of New York City the contest seeks guides wardens and enthusiasts nationwide. Dick Reed of the Maine development commission directs the affair and aims to form a National White Water Association.
Austin report says Keyes Carson Jr a Texas A&M senior and president of the National Hitchhikers Association visited Texas colleges taught chapters to hitchhike safely. He demonstrated a telescope device and a reflector sign to show destinations and boosted night rides. He cited 217000 miles of hitchhiking experience.
Detroit June 6 United Press One of the first major tests of defense worker training programs to meet a surge in skilled labor for Packard Motor in building Rolls Royce airplane engines. Packard uses marine engine program as training ground with workers transferred from automobile lines. new Rolls divisions to train 60 days with instructors. naval crews also trained. In Royal Oak Michigan a deaf mute runs Oakland Machine Works manufacturing water pump pulleys for Ford autos. Ford bought pulleys and supported operation aiding disabled workers.
Cornell ornithology professor Dr. Arthur A. Allen leads a field team to record bird calls with a sound track. The project, from Maine to Florida and coast to coast, aims to create a permanent sonic archive for lab analysis and museum display.
Home Office tests a wristlet wireless broadcasting set in London to help locate people trapped beneath wreckage. The instrument weighs six ounces and measures three inches in diameter, sending oscillations on a fixed wavelength with slight pressure on a celluloid strip.
An advertisement from Las Vegas Nevada promotes private mail replies by Madame DeLore Station No 379 for a fee of one dollar. The offer invites readers to obtain discreet responses by mail at the listed address.
A column responds to readers Mrs E H B and others with guidance: stay on the farm with property cleared in two to three years, sell by September with a small price cut, marry the blue eyed partner, and marry the current partner after his military service.
A reader asks about marriage timing and profits from a step forward. A future husband is said to appear at a social dance and a single child may arrive between ages 36 and 7. Home ownership is forecast within a few years, moving east. The inquirer is advised not to take present romance too seriously.
The Glenburn Spitfires defeated the North End Hurricanes 15 to 15 in a close air tight junior baseball game at the High School park diamond. The match featured Linton boys under twelve, sponsored by Greene County WPA Recreation department. Players included Spitfires Bob Moss Flack Ham lin Silvey Hebard Arnac Prud home Coakley Currans Hud son and Hurricanes Price McCulloch Tuttle Wright Murdock Moss Fiscus Graves Sims.
Plans by the morale builders to create a beer garden at the Fort Leonard Wood training center would serve about 1000 soldiers. Officials say it will be so attractive that trainees will not seek other places to drink.
Two motorists were injured when Melvin Boulton, who said he was napping, crashed into Lee Davis’s parked car on a highway near Salt Lake City. The incident occurred as both drivers were resting.
Mrs. Ervin Sager of near Sandborn received a gold medal and a state certificate for winning Knox County in a Hoosier Garden canning contest. She averaged 359 quarts per member in her family. 81 Knox county women attended the Vincennes meeting at the Presbyterian church. Mrs. J P Marper of Bruceville earned a bronze medal for second place.
Mrs. Margaret Ann Small returns home after attending the graduation exercises at Indiana State Teachers College in Terre Haute. Her granddaughter Miss Virginia Mary Small of Terre Haute was joined in the graduating class.
Tren ton induction station in New Jersey called five men into service. The draftees were Rice Cook Farina Coco and Cook. Major A M Freeman joked that it sounded like a breakfast call.
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