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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1938
Page
6
Local items from Lyons Indiana include Mrs Millie Russell visiting relatives in Akron Ohio and Ada Brown visiting from Phoenix Arizona. Several residents attend funerals, visit relatives, or vacation at home with University of Indiana students noted among frequent traveler mentions.
Jericho tossers defeated Linton 722 ringers 1065 points to 963 ringers 1590 points on Lin ton City park courts. Practice session Friday night offers a two hundred tosses ringer contest. Next Sunday Linton barnyard golfers travel to Bicknell for a match.
Mrs Rebecca Spencer of Dugger guest of Mr and Mrs Dora Bedwell. Marion Jackson visiting grandparents in Bucktown while a Purdue student. Numerous relatives travel for visits in Sullivan Purdue Terre Haute Vincennes and other towns.
In Marshfield Massachusetts on June 25 Police Chief William H Pratt posted a bulletin mocking police "corporations." The notice promotes a lawn roller weighing 400 pounds when filled with water and jokes about officers using it to keep fit and influence appearances at the summer start, urging officers to let conscience guide them.
A prisoner ripped up floorboards in an old horsedrawn police van and slid to freedom. The escape prompted Boston authorities to replace two aging transport vehicles between Charles Street Jail and the courthouse with a single motor vehicle.
Henry Poore is seriously ill after several months of illness. Reports indicate his condition is grave and hospital care continues.
Sunday gatherings span Atlas Bloomfield and Jasonville with extended family visits. Local residents share meals attendances and short trips. updates note Miller family injuries improving and property changes near White Rose.
In Terre Haute on June 23, Indiana State Teachers College appoints 36 high ranking undergraduates to nine faculty committees. The move adds four student members to each panel, covering Athletics, library, alumni, convocations and activities, radio, student publications, selective admission and promotion, student health and welfare. President Ralph N. Tirey led the adoption of the plan.
Vicksburg group plans a June 27 get together at the I O F hall with a musical program and speeches. Officers include President Clarence Britton and Vice President Chas Sims, Floyd Alexander as club delegate, and William Brown as secretary-treasurer.
Motorists on state highways find reflector buttons on bridges signs and guard-rail posts improve safety at night. T A Dicus state highway commission chairman says reflectorized signs are standard and help motorists gauge bridge width mark road edges and warn of changing directions.
The First Annual Baby Show in Linton closes tonight after 700000 baby votes and about $13000 in revenue. Merchants say the event boosted trade. Grand Theater and Taylor H. Brown sponsored and regret not contacting all parents. eighty entrants were planned and first come, first served. The show will become a yearly feature with Baby Week next year.
Newberry Indiana on June 23 reports Mr and Mrs Manford Dinkens hosted relatives and friends for Harve Slinkard birthday. J W Sappenfield and daughter Pauline returned from six weeks in Canada. Ralph Thomas of Vincennes visited Walter Ketchem’s family. Wilma Ketchem joined them. Several other local mentions include church events and a funeral in Lyons for the Holmes child.
Baptist Sunday School members enjoyed a Tuesday evening picnic supper and softball game at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hannah. Wilbur Hannah visits Coal City relatives while Mr and Mrs Clyde Jefferies of Flint Michigan visit Mr and Mrs Mart Phillipe.
Emanuel Sonders filed a damages suit Wednesday in Greene circuit court against Raymond Puckett for assault and battery. A separate action on account saw H T Poindexter and Sons Merchandising Company sue Lenore Wymer doing business as Index Store.
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