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Society notes call for citizen office by 11 am to submit personal news club lodge and social items from Wilutlicu requests.
08 Jun 1937
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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1937
Page
1
Society notes call for citizen office by 11 am to submit personal news club lodge and social items from Wilutlicu requests.
Mrs. Robert Akre will entertain the Tuesday Afternoon Bridge club at 2 p m in her home. Royal Arch sons will meet at the hall at 7 30 p m with important business to be inspected.
Various local organizations schedule gatherings at different venues. Christian Ladies Aid, Royal Neighbors, Rotary Luncheon, First M E Church unity lodge I O O F, Eagles Lodge, and Les Cercle De Amis mark daytime or evening events with noted meeting times.
Local organizations hold meetings across the afternoon and evening including Baptist Ladies Aid at the church all day, Faith Temple Pythians at 7 30 p m, American Legion post at 7 70 p m, Moose 1434 event, Red Men hall gathering, and Clarion club with Ss George Stafford at 1 39 p m.
The Yuapaw Tribe No 14% improves meeting time at the hall this evening. Officers of the Women’s Missionary Society plan a covered dish luncheon at Mrs A W Dean’s home and prepare for the annual June Tea. The Yaquina Club meets with Fannie Eskew at 1 30 p m and the Newturn Mothers Club will start at the Community House.
Announcement of the Saturday marriage of Miss Kathryn Koch of Freelandville to Butler of Peoria HI. A single ring ceremony took place at the bride’s parents home near Freelandville led by Rev. Shawn of Bethel Evangelical. A reception followed with cream cake and fruit punch for about fifty guests before the couple left for their honeymoon.
Student nurse Joan Curry of Indianapolis City Hospital begins a vacation with her parents Mr and Mrs Paul K Foard of G Street Northeast.
Fragmentary note mentions a visit or meeting at a smith shop with unclear references to a person named Tad Cirdl or similar and possible local surnames. The text is incomplete and cannot confirm events or roles.
Citizens of Linton and Greene county alerted to be on the lookout for Earl C Davis described as round faced and red skinned. He passed a fake deposit at Fayette Bank and Trust in Connersville for 2800 dollars and issued a pass book and check book. Indiana Bankers association authorized the notice.
The Linton recreation hiking club plans an all day trip to Shakamak State Park near Jasonville. Leader Elza Martindale announced the outing for Wednesday 8:00 am from City park, with 20 cents needed for bus fare and park admission. Return to Linton at 5:00 pm. Older participants are especially welcome.
Prize winners in the doll exhibit and contest held this week at the Linton City park were announced this morning. The Greene county WPA recreation department sponsored the event under Elza Martindale's supervision. Winners include Ruth Mathena for smallest doll, Emma Martindale for largest doll, a largest doll family of 16 dolls, a 100 year old doll awarded to Phyllis Goodson, and Peggy Bedwell for best dressed doll. Prizes were donated by the City park refreshment stand.
Walenburg Colorado June 8 The junk trade rushes prairie for cattle skeletons as bone values leap from nine dollars a ton in 1935 to twenty seven fifty. Experts credit European rearmament as the main driver of the surge in bone prices and demand.
Former Greene County sheriff Matt Flynn died at 12 50 PM Monday in Methodist Hospital Indianapolis after a three week illness from pneumonia contracted from an injured lung. Born in Scotland Flynn spent most of his life in Koleen and was active in county politics including terms as sheriff from 1934 to 1936 and as township trustee and assessor. He leaves a wife Ida and siblings Ott Claude Flynn Bertha Cullison and his mother Alma Flynn. funeral will be at Walnut Grove church with burial beside the cemetery.
Citizens of Greene county are invited to an 8 p m mass meeting on Wednesday June 16 at the Bloomfield Court House. Clarence O Schlegel of the Indiana Taxpayers association will discuss the tax limitation law and urge attendance at budget hearings to oppose unnecessary items. The event is part of a statewide series aimed at curbing taxes through public action.
The Indiana Democratic Editorial association will hold its annual summer meeting at French Lick August 27 and 28. President Jack Dolan of Hartford City announced that the executive committee and officials of the State Democratic committee will meet soon to arrange the event.
Indiana plans to draft an interstate cooperation program under Frank Finney. A Governor's Committee on Interstate Cooperation will meet after 1937 acts are issued. Members include Governor Townsend, Lt. Gov Schricker, Speaker Stein, and other state leaders.
Word was received that Dan Sams of Elizabethton Tennessee, formerly of Linton, died after several months of illness. He lived on H street northeast and was well known in the community. funeral plans were not announced.
Funeral services for Jesse Powell who died Monday at Sullivan hospital will be at 2 PM Wednesday at the family home two miles west of Dugger on State Road 54. Powell, a construction foreman for Central Indiana Coal in Sullivan County and Browns Town, died of asthma.
More than 100 planes arrive and depart daily at Newark New Jersey airport, described as the busiest flying field in the world. The note emphasizes high air traffic and constant movement at the facility.
Jonathan Koons, 68, died at his home south of Dugger after a short heart- disease illness. He moved to Sullivan County from Martinsville 43 years ago and belonged to Morris Chapel church. He was preceded in death by his wife 40 years ago and survived by two daughters Mrs Walter McGhee and Mrs Raymond Wolf, three nephews, and two nieces. Funeral services scheduled 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Morris Chapel church with Rev. Mr. McBride of Cass officiating. Burial in adjacent cemetery. body prepared at Aikin funeral home and to be returned to the McGhee residence tonight.
Governor M. Clifford Townsend said the state labor division is so important that funds would be provided for additional conciliators if needed. He noted rising use of arbitration by workers and employers and cited grateful letters from users of the service.
London June 8. Britain France Germany and Italy reached agreement in principle on extending safety zones and neutral patrols in Spanish waters. They would seek guarantees against molestation and consult if a patrol ship is attacked while defending itself within lawful limits.
Mrs. Lovenia Fay Nolting 26 of Nine Mile community died at 4 40 PM Monday at Union hospital Terre Haute after a five month illness. Wife of Ernest Nolting she lived most of her life in Greene county born to Faunze and Gabbard. Survived by two children Patricia and Ernest. brother Clovis Gabbard and sister Chloral Gabbard. Funeral at Nine Mile church Thursday at 2 PM Rev Russell Taylor to officiate with burial in Boh ley cemetery.
Mrs. Karl Walter of Cleveland converts cloth scraps into decorative quilts as an absorbing hobby. She recently began her 15th hand-pieced quilt, showing how she visualizes fabric to form artful bed coverings.
Amelia Earhart flew from St Louis to Dakar and studied weather forecasts as she plots her round the world path. A severe heat wave from Mid Africa to Mid Europe worsened conditions, with dangerous rising air over the Eastern Sahara mountains affecting flights. Marion May 27 is arrested in Indianapolis in connection with the Lapel Standard Elevator attempted holdup case that left Howard Brown dead.
Indiana will expand adult feebleminded housing at Muscatatuck Colony near Butlerville within a year. Plans call for building additions costing about 500000 within fifty miles of Butlerville to relieve overcrowding at Fort Wayne School for the Feeble minded and enhance education for feeble minded youth. A committee including Thurman A. Gottschalk Governor M. Clifford Townsend and Dr W C Van Nuys will approve the site and plans.
Mellwood Arkansas June 8 Justice of Peace J S Campbell plans a flood resistant home with a seven foot high concrete pillar foundation after flood damage earlier this year.
Workers across three auto feeder plants face plant shutdowns as SWOC gains support from Detroit and Toledo committees. In Michigan’s capital, 2000 tradesmen walk out as building operations halt after a labor holiday.
Local authorities ordered the disarming of steel strike pickets in Youngstown as 39 000 mill workers remain idle in Mahoning valley. Republic Steel plans to reopen Newton Steel Co. in Monroe Michigan with 63 percent of workers voting to return. Frank Purnell of Youngstown Sheet and Tube said plants would reopen with full protection for workers and families. Police Chief Carl Olson urged pickets to stop carrying clubs or other weapons on penalty of arrest.
Phillip Murray, chairman of the steel workers organizing committee, urged a senatorial probe into moral conduct on both sides of the steel strike. He asked Sen. Styles Bridges to widen a proposed inquiry to examine the Chicago murders and other strike aspects, including a Warren Ohio Republic Steel plant delivery site.
Republic Steel protests to Postmaster General Farley promising legal steps if post offices in Niles and Warren Ohio refuse to deliver parcels to Republic plants in the strike zone. John S. Brookes Jr. signs the letter as counsel and executive committee member.
Three University of Texas undergraduates were fined after police found 13 signs with a total value of 75 dollars in their room. One item was a police no parking placard.
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