Mrs Bryce Beecher Visits Mrs H W Ng
Mrs Bryce Beecher of Philadelphia is visiting Mrs H W Ng.
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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1944
Page
4
Mrs Bryce Beecher of Philadelphia is visiting Mrs H W Ng.
Linton notes a Hyacinth club meeting featuring a Paul Dresser program with many songs of the Hoosier author. Also reported are the death of Andrew J. Myers, a barber and former township trustee, at 57, and a city park picnic by Sunday school children taught by Misses Alice Butler and Lorena Letsinger. Linton delegates to the state Sunday school convention leave for Michigan City with Rev. and Mrs. B. S. Miss Ethel Dixon, Miss Mary MecNeeley, Miss Zella Johnson, Lynn, Miss Bess Bary, Joe Haseman, and Carl Hilgediek.
The two wage orders, effective July 17, raise the federal minimum to 40 cents an hour for all 21 million workers covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act. About 60,000 in Finance Insurance Real Estate Motion Picture and Miscellaneous Industries plus 50,000 in Communications Utilities and Misc Transportation gain direct increases. total covered employees reach 2,000,000. Restoration of illegally withheld wages in 1943 peaked at $4.69 million to 91,153 employees.
World War II field dispatches report German shock troops delaying the British 8th Army along a 25 mile front north and west of Perugia while Allied forces push up the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian coasts toward Ancona. Fighting has been heavy, with mines and mortar nests sown in hills as German rear guards make a stand.
Aviation Cadet Daniel F. Rice of Lin ton Indiana is awarded an Expert’s medal for pistol proficiency at Maxwell Field Alabama. He completes nine weeks of intensive military physical and academic training during RAF Training Command instruction.
T/Sgt Roy N Boyles 24 of Linton Indiana has arrived at AAF Redistribution Station No 2 in Miami Beach for processing after 39 combat missions over Australia and New Guinea. Medical and classification officers will assign him to duties best suited to his skills and past service.
Marine Private Otis B. St. John, 25, son of Mr and Mrs James W St John of JaSonville Ind route 2 box 119, has graduated from the San Diego California Marine machine gun school. He attended Coalmont High School and played school sports before enlisting. He previously worked for Chrysler in Detroit. his wife Leona E Schr oeder of Metz Michigan now resides in Detroit.
S/Sgt R D Park with United States forces in India writes to former neighbor Mrs D A Mowery about life overseas He notes receiving 60 Lin ton Citizens in one week and mentions reading of Mrs Mowery’s illness in an issue and her inquiry about her condition.
A June 23 Indianapolis market bulletin shows hogs 9 000 head with live weights 160 to 400 pounds selling from 10 75 to 13 80. Sows steady to higher. Cattle 400 head with steers 16 25 to 16 35, cows 5 75 to 7, calves steady. Sheep scant with lambs at 13 to 14 50. Dealers active and market broadly steady to light.
Mr and Mrs Paul Selby of Corning New York appealed to Akron friends for help to obtain rubber balloons for their daughter recovering from pneumonia The doctor prescribed balloons for lung exercises A local amusement center’s park booth supplied the balloons aiding the child’s treatment
Transfers filed for record include George Hamlin and Maud Hamlin to Earl Hamlin of 116.25 acres in Jefferson township and Helen Canady to Earl Canady of part of lot 12 in Stafford and Grounds addition to Lyons. Other deeds cover Ames, Bloomfield, Lyons, Cass and Linton areas with parcels ranging from 2.60 to 110 acres in various townships and additions.
Kelah Baker receives 40 acres in Jackson township from Herman Wilson and Martha Wilson. Julius Fox and Ceciley M. Fox transfer 40 acres in Wright township to William H. Walters.
In 1508 European medicine introduced a wood based cure for serious illnesses. The wood, imported from Cuba, was claimed to be endowed with miraculous healing powers by the medical profession.
The text recalls lignum vitae or wood of life once prized by courtiers and valued at seven gold crowns per pound. Centuries later its dense, water resistant wood drives shipboard utility in modern times, supplying pulley sheaves caster wheels stencil blocks masthead tracks and bearings for stern tubes and propeller shafts. Job printing at The Citizen.
Mr and Mrs Walter T Brown of Bloomfield will spend the weekend at Indiana University for the 1884 graduation reunion in which Brown was a member. Only 41 graduates remain from that class and he is the sole survivor in Greene County.
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