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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1937
Page
4
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The Public Service Commission in Indianapolis on June 29 expanded its probe into rural electrification rates in Indiana. A round table with Indiana REMC officials and major utilities followed a REMC petition calling wholesale rates for rural co-operatives excessively high and urging a show cause action.
In Toledo June 26, Texas Guinan inspires a dining gimmick where waiters insult customers to boost sales. Eugene and Glenn Fowler opened Bud and Luke's as a side business, then expanded to two locations. Servers perform ad libbed taunts, mock customers, and playful mischief while the kitchen joins the raucous scene, creating a memorable but chaotic dining experience.
Virgil M. Simmons announces over eighty percent hatch from first setting at Jasper-Pulaski and Wells county game farms. 127 brooders are filled as birds move to holding pens for six weeks, enabling second hatch and a projected forty thousand birds for the year, boosting statewide stocking and hunting prospects. Thousands have visited the farms, with more visitors expected as holdings fill.
More than eight thousand Japanese beetle traps are distributed in eleven Indiana cities this week as part of a campaign to eradicate the pest. Virgil M. Simmons, conservation commissioner, says traps attract only beetles and are placed on lawns and in shrubbery. Fort Wayne and South Bend saw beetles in 1936. other cities join this year to check spread.
State Safety Director Don F. Stiver urges strict enforcement of the 1937 drunken driving law. First offense carries a fine 10 to 59 dollars and 10 days to six months imprisonment. second offense brings harsher penalties. Court orders will ban driving for up to a year, with final conviction details sent to the Motor Vehicle Bureau within two days.
Mr and Mrs Walsh Pango of Los Angeles Calif have started their trip home after an extended visit in the East. They were visiting M Alf Beasley and Mrs Pancogst formerly Miss Blanche Morgan of Linton.
The State Year Book of 1926 is available for distribution announced by Richard EK Straklem, editor and chief statistician of the State Board of Accounts. It includes annual reports of state officers departments bureaus boards and commissions for the fiscal year ending June 30 1936, judiciary report, Indiana township areas by acre and square miles, and election returns and registered voters.
Local notes list visits and family gatherings across Bloomfield Olney Spencer Linton Lyons Switz City and Lyons. Names include Flory Branstetter Buckner Muterspaugh Slinkard Cliff Tibbett and Calvert with multiple Sunday dinners and ice cream celebrations mentioned.
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