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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1929
Page
8
Martinsville Indiana reports dwindling Civil War veteran ranks with 1306 living in Hoosier state. Commander W F Molyneaux predicts encampments may end as age and census mortality projections show 250 of current veterans likely to pass within a year and over half by 1982.
Mrs. Erna Ricar ARDS of Pittsburgh reports severe fatigue weight loss and loss of appetite before using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says after eight bottles and similar in tablet form she is improving and able to eat and would recommend the medicine to others.
A projection from 1934 estimates Indiana's World War I veterans remaining will fall from 326 to about a dozen by 1941. Using an average life expectancy of 83, the table lists yearly deaths and survivors through Jan 1, 1941, with counts dropping from 1 056 dying by 1930 to 3 by 1940 and 80 by 1941.
Mrs Docie Edington spends Tuesday at the home of Mr and Mrs Butler Records. Mrs Kate Bruce of Bedford visits a week with her sister Mrs Frank Horn and to attend an all day meeting at Ashcraft Chapel next Sunday. Opal Babb and three daughters Edna Elma Elsie visit from Kentucky Ridge with Ira Cooper family. Mrs Hazel Alexander and son William from Bicknell and Amanda Corbin visit Martha Horn. Audia Padgett and child visit James Gilmore. About sixty attend Sunday School with new members. Simon Ashcraft injures his side in a wagon fall. ribs may be broken. Charles Records and Mary Jackson wed May 10 with a charivari.
Brief item referencing society papers noting a wife is expected to be home in January as discussed in casual exchanges between spouses. The Border Cities Star snippet reflects gossipy society chatter rather than a formal report.
Grentis Hadley of near Jasonville died at Mary Sherman hospital Sullivan after a fall at Queen No 4 mine Monday night. He suffered a broken leg and internal injuries. death occurred more than 24 hours later. He was 40, survived by wife and six children at Lattas. Funeral services set for Friday at 10 a.m. in Jasonville.
Sylvanus Le Forge aged about 65 and a former Linton resident died at his Detroit Michigan home Monday night. His body was shipped to Linton and taken to the home of his son Harry Le Forge four miles east of Linton for funeral plans. Surviving are sons Harry James Paul and Ted LeForge and daughter Delena Day of Detroit, one brother Isaac Le Forge of Center Point Indiana and one sister Nora Mahan of Los Angeles California.
Governor Harry G. Leslie will host a dinner at the Claypool hotel in Indianapolis on Friday evening June 14. Invitations went to industry transport and commercial leaders to discuss plans for rehabilitating Indiana coal mining. Linton guests with reservations include D. R. Scott W. J. Hamilton E. V. Bull Ray Singer and Lyon Borden.
United Press dispatch from Memphis reports Lloyd P. Powell seeks court aid to annul his second marriage while his first divorce is invalid, arguing that setting aside the first decree would expose him to bigamy. Lawyers say the move could free him from both spouses if the first divorce is legally void.
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