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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1944
Page
2
An aging man reports a decade of a brick like sensation in his stomach linked to undigested matter. He credits ERB-HELP with cleansing bowels easing gas headaches and fatigue, and promotes Hamilton's Drug Store as the seller.
Social Calendar lists Saron Evan gelical and Reformed church group with Miss Bertha Keehi at 2 p m United Brethren Missionary Society with Mrs Raymond Boston at 2 p m bridge club with Mrs Floyd McCidnaugh at 2 15 p m Democrat women meet all day at College Hill School with noon covered dish Baptist Ladies Aid all day at church Eagles Lodge 7 p m Elks 8 p m Unity Lodge 7 30 p m Rotary 12 15 p m at Legion Home Glenburn W S C S meets at community house Baptist choir 7 p m at the church
Indianola clubs and church groups schedule evening events including Junior Home Economics with Mrs. Claren Nolan at 7 30 p m and American Legion Post and Auxiliary gatherings at the Legion Home 7 and 7 30 p m. United Brethren choir practices join the church 7 p m. Surgical Dressings classes run at Elks Home 1 4 and 7 9 p m.
Friday activities include Women's Relief Corps at 7 p.m. at the hall and Chapter 19 Women of the Moose also meeting at 7 p.m. Surgical dressing classes run at the Elks Home from 1 to 4 and 7 to 9. Columbian Chapter No. 140 OES meets at 7:30 p.m. Red Cross sewing at Main School 1 to 4. Prayer meeting at Glenburn Mission at 7 p.m. Quapaw Tribe No. 143 Red Men meets at hall.
The tenth annual Elgan-Figan reunion occurred Sunday at City park with a noon family dinner and a post dinner business session. Officers elected: President Jimmy Elgan, vice-president Jesse Elgan, secretary treasurer Edna Kruger, table committee member Mrs Emmit Elgan. Next meeting set for the second Sunday in June. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Emmit Elgan and Mrs Evangie.
A string of visitors and extended family members gather and call on households across Bicknell Oaktown Westphalia Carlisle and Vincennes. Names include Elgan Wond ers Mathina Hayes Elgan Higgins Canady and others with ties to Lyons Terre Haute Switz City Indianapolis and Nine Mile. Afternoon callers include Otto Andrews and Minnie Moses.
In Dugger Indiana on June 14 Mr and Mrs W H Barcroft announce the marriage of their daughter Florence to Joseph Elliott of Reidsville Georgia The ceremony was held Tuesday evening at eight thirty in the home of Mr and Mrs Elkin Turner with Mr and Mrs Turner as attendants Guests included Mrs Helen Grubbs and Donald Schloot The bride wore a white jersey floor length dress with white carnations and a diamond bracelet gifted by the groom After a short visit at the parental home the couple will move to Reidsville where Elliott serves as captain of the guards at the Georgia State Prison.
Harmony class of the Lyons Methodist church held a regular meeting in the church basement. Devotions opened with a unified singing of Faith of Our Fathers and a prayer by Rev. S. E. Stroud. Rita and Pauline Bogard readings. Ardath Osbon and Ardath Bloomer sang a duet.
Announcement of the marriage between Mil dred Couchman of Terre Haute and Arnold Page of Linton. The ceremony was June 8 at First Baptist Church in Linton, officiated by Rev. Powell Forbes, with attendants Mr. Donald Clayton and Mrs. Clayton. The couple plan to reside at 1914 Locust Street in Terre Haute.
Mrs Maude Silvers of Dugger spends a week with relatives and friends in Terre Haute. Mr and Mrs Mac Watson of Detroit visited friends in Linton on Tuesday. Mr Watson was formerly assistant manager of J C Penney Co.
Allied lines report Sixth Army troops captured Mokmer airfield on Biak after a daybreak assault backed by air and sea bombardment. The push along with bombardment drove Japanese from hills and fortifications, completing the 11 day Biak operation begun May 27 with Bosnek landings.
In Cincinnati the Smiths organize the Smith Gallon Club at the Red Cross Blood Donor center. Already 745 Smiths have given blood with 16 donors contributing eight times or more, aiming to enlist more donors.
Forrest J. Sadler arrived in Bloomington to assume duties as Boy Scout Executive of the White River Council, replacing Harold Boltz who resigned to join a Southern Illinois council. Sadler, from La Crosse Wisconsin, has been Field Executive for Gateway Area Council since 1942 and will tour the area after camp arrangements are finalized. He and his wife and six year old daughter will relocate to Bloomington.
A Civilian Defense Corps official urges periodic testing of stirrup pumps used as a defense weapon and for spraying fruit trees in Cincinnati. Some custodians test pumps while applying spray to trees as part of wartime measures. Lend-Lease butter shipments in 1843 reached 6.2 ounces weekly per civilian.
United States and Great Britain top brass including Eisenhower Marshall King Arnold and Churchill along with Smuts Brooke inspected Normandy battlefronts by sea and land, touring beachheads and installations without a formal meeting. Churchill landed on French soil for the first time since 1940 aboard the Kelvin while Eisenhower’s group disembarked from a dock to join Omar Bradley among others.
Michigan public schools have trained 411 636 persons for industrial and food war production jobs under the state federal vocational training program.
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