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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1937
Page
3
The Missionary Society of the church will meet at 2:00 PM Thursday with Mrs. Grover Nich on East Vincennes Street. The Elks Ladies plan a bridge game at 2:30 PM.
Friday schedule lists Tribe No 143 Improv Order of Red Men meeting at 7 p m at the hall and Columbian Pier 140 0 BS 7 30 p m. Women's Home Missionary Society of the First Church to meet at 2 p m with Mrs H G Ramsey. 1937 38 officers to be installed.
Relatives and neighbors gathered at Ilene’s home for Lettie M Canady’s fifty sixth birthday party. The meal was served under a tree with friends from Dugger Sandborn Lyons Ora and Tene in attendance.
The Citizen reports a covered supper to be held at the Linton Methodist Church building in Lin City park starting at 6 29 p m. After the meal the children’s Bible school display and program will feature the youths participation and the children who completed the training class will be received into the church.
The Iden Rule Club held its regular meeting at Mrs. Pearl Pope's home with twenty members present. Lydia Hair won the club event, Ruth Dudley won the penny, and prizes went to Leola Rector Lessie r Belma Hastings Tressie 8 Fern Peterson Mildred e Ruth Dudley. Sandwiches pie and tea were served, and the club adjourned to meet with Ile Rectory in two weeks.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Edwards and their son Billy visited Mr Brigh Rousch and Mrs Jaminy in Colorado Springs. Mrs Bawtimats is the niece of Manat ok. Mrs Bill Slinkard and Aiirfa Mary and Esther Jane visited friends in South Bend. Diane Coen Hubert Lynch and David Jones from this city visited friends in Clay City. Berhadene Hill returned from vacation to North City. Reed Taylor is enjoying a trip to Northern Michigan.
A Sunday night Children’s Day program at Mt Moriah featured several children and youths with Mrs Clive Bedwell directing and Miss Lorraine Bedwell at the piano. The Pleasantville orchestra performed as the church was decorated in a garden of joyous life and a large crowd attended.
The Baptist church Sunday school class led by C D Clayth announced the planned picnic for this week is postponed. An updated date was not given and may be announced later.
California issued license plates for 1959 and 1939 will carry a slogan promoting the 1989 Golden Gate International Exposition. The plan ties historical plates to the upcoming fair, signaling a statewide promotional effort.
The state YWCA Camp Gunaquot, formerly Camp Bedford, four miles south of Bedford, opens a two week girls’ camp on July Fourth with Miss Jeannette Scudder of Edwardsport in charge assisted by college women. Activities include nature study astronomy swimming lifesaving boating archery marksmanship horseback riding hiking storytelling dancing and evening program planning.
Vehicles bearing numbered plates were observed on city streets in Linton at 1 30 PM in violation of local and state parking regulations. One car was parked on the wrong side of the street facing backwards.
The Main building music classes of the Adult Education program shift to the Greene County Recreation Department. Bert Brown announced auditions for amateurs with public participation welcome. Rehearsals and a big program at Linton City Park are planned, with tryouts at the WPA recreation office.
The Federal Home Loan Bank Board released an analysis noting higher purchasing power and rent increases boost residential building. April housing units rose 68 percent from 1926, with foreclosures at elevated rates and construction rising to 32 percent of the year’s average. Savings and loan associations planned 155 million for new homes in 1936, funding nearly a quarter of projected costs.
Greene county farmers are advised of a new ruling by the Greene County Soil Conservation association. If fall sown wheat or rye or spring small grains are seeded as a nurse crop at over half a normal rate and pasturing does not wipe out grain formation, with a grass or legume stand present, the acreage will be classified as soil conserving if the crop is not cut for grain or hay.
Ten year old Hastings child suffered a deep ght to his dee from a fall Tuesday afternoon while playing near a parked automobile. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Hastings of Bloomington.
Mitzi Uehlein stands in a frame as rulers encircle her outline while Mermaid Andree Holden observes the apparatus. The scene previews the preliminaries of Venice California's Miss California contest guiding the city Mardi Gras festivities.
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