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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1938
Page
2
Henry Bareswell will be the principal speaker at a Townsend Club meeting in Linton City Hall at 7:30 this evening. Applications for membership will be received and the public is urged to attend.
More than eleven hundred campers stayed overnight at Indiana state parks in early June. Dunes State Park reported the most campers and trailers, with 593 campers and 55 trailer occupants. Shakamak and Clifty Falls followed in campers and trailers respectively, while Dunes Pokagon and McCormick's Creek ran group camps for 367 people. Virgil M. Simmons notes facilities were added to accommodate trailer travelers.
The Farmers and Merchants state bank of Wheatland will liquidate and dissolve after unanimous board action. President James W. Prather cited adverse economic conditions and insufficient earnings, noting authorities approved voluntary liquidation effective July 1 and deposits may be available after conversion of assets.
As incoming weeks bring more camping demand, Dunes state park camps and trailers become summer homes for many Chicago area families. The field note lists numerous locals visiting relatives and attending events in Indianapolis Washington Terre Haute and Hazleton while students and travelers spend summer with kin.
Mr and Mrs Otto Lefforge welcomed a son Gerald Dean born Friday June 10 at Freeman Greene County hospital. Mother and baby home and reported doing nicely. Mrs Mary Elswick hosted guests from Bedford for an afternoon visit including Elizabeth Bunch and daughters Almeda and Della Mae and son Lawrence Clarence Huff and Freddie and Mary Joe Cummings.
A Twin Safety chapter meeting decided to include a Safety Unit in Linton's Fourth of July celebration, outlining plans for participation and coordination with local organizers. The article notes the meeting took place locally and involved chapter members discussing parade and safety duties.
Bob Jackson presided as Mose Cullison of the Number Four mine suffered a bruised knee in the only no lost time accident since the last meeting. No accidents were reported at New Hope mine. Hugh Martindale of Victoria community won the safety prize. Twenty eight from New Hope and eight from Number Four attended.
Two University of Miami students, George Waldeck and Roy W. Woodbury, reported discovering two tree species believed extinct for 100 years. The Clusia and the Cupania glabra were found growing in the lower Florida Keys.
A swarm entered Epworth Methodist Church through a knothole, risking Sunday services in Bluffton Ind. A minister called a veteran beekeeper who used smoke to drive the bees from the building.
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