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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1941
Page
6
A frustrated speaker pleads for help locating a deed abstract insurance policy or other valuable papers. The appeal emphasizes the search for essential documents and urges cooperation from readers who may recall the missing items.
Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie Brouhard of the Allen Chapel community near Bloomfield will be held Saturday at 2 PM at Bloomfield Methodist Church. Rev. N. C. Pfeiffer will officiate. burial follows in Grandview Cemetery. She died Thursday in Freeman Greene County Hospital after a Sunday stroke. Born November 1, 1884 east of Bloomfield, she was the daughter of David Allen and Sarah Bradford and lived most of her life in Allen Chapel. Survived by husband Roy T. Brouhard and daughter Mary Alice Brouhard of home.
Indiana's state personnel board appoints W. Leonard Johnson of Kansas City Missouri as director of the state personnel division to administer the new merit law enacted by the 1941 legislature. Johnson, a New Jersey native and current Kansas City personnel director, will assume duties July 1 and oversee merit law administration for all state penal, benevolent and correctional institutions and related departments.
Michigan City Ind June 20 40 P A Gay Nineties motif marks the start of a three day celebration for the 50th annual Columbus Yacht Club race from Chicago to Michigan City The golden jubilee will finish tomorrow with parades dances and night fireworks Governor Schricker will escort the belle of a ball to open the festivities Attic trunks held costumes from the 1890s and men wore beards cultivated for a month
Greene county local board No. 1 outlines a second selective service registration on July 1 for men over 21 and those turning 21 since October 16 1940. Pink melon cards for new 21st birthdays, white cards for those who missed registration, with emphasis on registering all eligible men.
Batavia June 20. Sumatra, four times Java, supplies half of NEI imports and holds vast rubber, tin, and tobacco while jungles cover most of the island. Foreigners cultivate much rubber. new mines near Manila promise profit. Singapore sits across the strait as Sumatra’s defense strengthens despite Muslim opposition to the Axis.
Ruth Wiser, in Pasadena California, reports a single donor slipped sixty dollars into her Buddy Poppy box for World War II victims. The giver remains unknown as the record stands as the largest single poppy donation.
Ohio WPA administrator Dr. Carl Watson says about 12 000 of 18 000 aliens in naturalization classes are expected to receive citizenship papers in the next six months.
The Department of Commerce reports that American homes and restaurants consume about 60 percent of the nation's sugar. This figure highlights the large share of sugar intake handled by households and food-service establishments.
Linton Miner team hosts Robinson Indiana Moose at High School Park this Sunday at 2 50 pm. Robinson has won five of seven. Moose were among the 16 Indiana state tourney winners at Terre Haute two years ago. Smith, Miner star twirler, expected to start. Bleachers to be moved for better fan view.
A crew of about 20 painters completed spreading 35 060 gallons of paint on the exterior of 618 buildings at Camp Funston Kas Interiors of some buildings were painted but most received only a single coat on the outside
Fish were released from a low-flying airplane to stock high mountain lakes in Wyoming. The method, tested by the state game and fish department, aimed to reach almost inaccessible waters despite seeming miraculous.
In Great Falls Montana a hotel room fire required firefighters to tackle a burning mattress and pillow. A woman present on the bed appeared, and the fire crew quickly doused the flames and departed.
A woman testified at North London police court that she warned a husband his wife had hit her without speaking. He denied it saying that if she said nothing she wasn’t his wife and that she always has a lot to say. American candy consumption in 1940 reached an all time record.
A special service with chalk-talk, music numbers, and sermon is set for 8 p.m. Monday at the Switz City Baptist church. Rev. D. E. Luttrell of Cleveland will lead the musical portion, his son Rev. Donald D. Luttrell will assist, and Rev. Jack Finnegan of Elkhart will deliver the sermon. The invitation goes to the public.
An eleventh hour reprieve spared Mrs. Juanita Spinelli from execution for the murder of Robert Sherrard. Gov. Olson halted the sentence after Judge Ray Coughlin requested a stay. Spinelli expressed relief and prayers, hoping new truths emerge with the possible testimony of Mike Simeone.
Two companies of military police were assigned to the camp stockade at Fort McClellan Alabama after officials found room for prisoners in the guard house but not for the MPs in the regular camp area.
A Cleburne Times-Review item recites an average woman’s life in numbers. It lists ages, chores, heights, hours spent washing dishes, gossiping, telephone use, and repeated quarrels, along with expenses on cosmetics and hats. The piece ends noting she makes a darn good wife despite the faults.
James M. Carter, state director of motor vehicles, told a group of club women that back seat driving is a highly useful and honorable calling, reversing the usual disapproval in Sacramento California.
Musselshell county commissioners propose a Works Progress Administration backed project to build a dam and reservoir to use mine water pumped from a coal mine for irrigating farm lands in Riumup.
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