Morgantown Indiana Excites With Small Town Industries
A writer visits Morgantown Indiana a town of 500 600 people along the Illinois Central rail line 65 miles from Linton It features fine homes churches schools two long established centuries old residences a chair factory and other wood plants a cannery flour mill and a 12 mile Martinsville to Morgantown road The nearby scenery rivals Brown County and Martinsville offers a distinct fire siren system that shows the fire location by coded blasts with a town map for residents The piece also notes similar modest industries in Martinsville and questions why Linton cannot attract such small plants plus mentions a cemetery visit to Frank Red Smylie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Linton
Morgantown
Illinois Central Roalroad
Brown County
Martinsville
Democratic Club Meeting Planned for Greene County Women
Members of the Greene County Women's Democratic club will meet at noon next Wednesday March 12 in the old Democratic headquarters at 70 East Vincennes street Linton. A covered dish luncheon will be served and a program will be presented in the afternoon. Democratic women are urged to attend with dish and table service.
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Greene County Women’s Democratic Club
East Vincennes Street
Linton
Dance at Linton Moose Hall Admision Fees Corrected
An error in a notice about a dance at the Linton Moose Hall was reported today. The Thursday Daily Citizen erroneously listed admission as 50 cents per person and music was to be supplied by Dean Hampton's Cotton Pickers.
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Linton Moose Hall
The
Daily Citizen
Dean Hampton
Federal group studies possible air mail set up
The Civil Aeronautics Authority in Washington considered Mercury Development Corporation of Indianapolis for a pick up air mail and express system across Indiana Kentucky and parts of Ohio Michigan Wisconsin Tennessee and Missouri. Proposed stations include Linton Bloomfield Sullivan Spencer and Vincennes with about 135 intermediate points. No hearing date has been set though officials view the plan as potentially beneficial but early in development.
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Civil Aeronautics Authority
Washington, D. C
Mercury Development Corporation of
Indianapolis
Indiana
Kentucky
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Tennessee
Missouri
Press Association
Mercury Corporation
Linton
Bloomfield, Sullivan, Spencer and
Vincennes
Corporation
Harold L. Plummer
Mercury Company
Taylor Funeral Sunday in Linton and Dugger
Funeral services for James D. Jim Taylor 64 will be held Sunday at 2 PM in the Linton Elks lodge with Elks officers officiating. A funeral procession will travel to Crown Hill Indianapolis for burial Monday morning. Taylor former owner of the Grand hotel in Dugger and longtime Linton businessman. The body lies in state at Aikin Funeral Home Dugger.
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James D
Jim” Taylor
Dugger
Linton
Aikin Funeral Home
Trial of Trustee Beesley Opens in Vincennes Court
In Vincennes Indiana on Friday March 8 trial of I Grant Beesley township trustee began in Superior Court after Special Judge Frank Gilkison overruled a defense motion challenging 19 accusations of neglect of office Beesley faces an indictment over irregularities in poor relief administration A deputy clerk Paul Sweeney identified a report of township expenditures The court adjourned to Monday March 17 for formal openings and to keep within the twenty day trial deadline.
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Vincennes
Ind
I. Grant Beesley
Vincennes Township
Superior Court
Frank Gilkison
Washington
Beesley
Paul Sweeney
Gilkison
Shuler McCormick
Two Newborn Girls and Several Births Reported
A daughter weighing seven pounds thirteen ounces was born to Mrs. Reinhart Griebel of Roosevelt street and named Brenda Lucille. A daughter six pounds eight ounces was born to Mrs. H Edwin Ropp named Celia Louise. Several mothers, including Mrs. Earl Utterback, Mrs. Wilbur Bruce, Mrs. William H. Dowden, Mrs. Joseph E. Floyd, Mrs. James W. Walker, Mrs. Dencil Price, and Mrs. Leonard Lester, along with their babies, were taken to their homes in various areas this morning or Friday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reinhart Griebel
Roosevelt Street
Brenda Lucille
H. Edwin Ropp
Celia Louise
Earl Utterback
Wilbur Bruce
Bloomfield
William H. Dowden
Switz City
Blizzard Sweeps Seaboard Areas
A major blizzard swept the Atlantic seaboard with over ten inches of snow in Metropolitan New York. The storm originated in California and followed a path across the nation. The Olaf Bergh freighter ran aground near Ocean City Maryland as coast guards battled rough seas and heavy snow.
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Atlantic Seaboard
New York
California
Canada
Weather Bureau
Rio Grande Valley
Atlantic States
Metropolitan
Manhattan
Olaf Bergh
Ocean City
Nutrition expert to speak in Greene County clubs
Miss Estelle Nesbitt, nutrition consultant for the Indiana State Board of Health, will lead two nutrition classes in Greene County next week at Bloomfield and Linton for federated clubs. The sessions run 2 to 4 p.m. Monday in Bloomfield and 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday in Linton, with presidents and child welfare chairmen specifically invited. She will also address NYA girls at Jasonville, with about 50 girls each morning.
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Estelle Nesbitt
Indiana State Board of Health
Greene County
Linton
Bloomfield
Federated Clubs
American Legion Rooms
Linton Public Library
NYA
Jasonville
Suits Put On File In County Court
Three new suits are on file today in Greene county clerk Claude Storys Bloomfield office. A L Myrland sues Marton L Lil lie on a note. Fred Maddox sues Roy and Beulah Duffey on an account stated.
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Claude Story
Greene County
Bloomfield
A. L. Myrland
Marton L. Lillie
Fred Maddox
Roy
Beulah Duffey
Bloomfield Post Office Wall Sculpture by Lilian Saarinen
Sculptor Lilian Saarinen completes a farm themed mural for the Bloomfield Indiana post office lobby. The piece shows a farmer with a work horse and a farmwoman milking a cow, using Indiana red and buff clay. Saarinen, born 1912 in New York, studied under noted sculptors and has prior commissions including Michigan and New York exhibitions.
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Bloomfield
Lilian Swann Saarinen
Edward Bruce
Fae Arts
Public Buildings Administration
Saarinen
Bloomfield Mills
Mich
Indiana
New York City
Albert Stewart
Brenda Putnam
Heinz Warneke
Cranbrook Academy of Art
Bloomfield Hills
Michigan
Carl Milles
Section of
Fine Arts
Mid-West
Michigan Association of Women Sculptors
Detroit Art Institute
Winnetka
Illinois
United States
Motion for new trial postponed in Bloomfield case
A motion for a new trial for John M. Rose was postponed until Monday in Greene Circuit Court Bloomfield due to illness of both sides. Judge Orval D. Hunter ordered written briefs for Monday's action. Rose was convicted of manslaughter on a related second degree murder charge and is jailed in Bloomfield.
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John M. Rose
Greene
Bloomfield
Orval D. Hunter
Rose
Charles Yount
Visits at Terre Haute
Vera Young spends the weekend at Terre Haute with Mr. and Mrs. Levi Adkins staying in their home and enjoying city surroundings.
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Terre Haute
Vera Young
Mr. and
Mrs
Levi Adkins
Indefinite adjournment in Harvester strikes talks
Negotiations at four International Harvester plants in the Midwest were adjourned indefinitely after a week of talks failed to yield progress. John R. Steelman of the U.S. Conciliation Service recessed the meetings in Washington. In Chicago the AFL petitioned the NLBR for an election to determine a bargaining agent at the McCormick plant, claiming 4,000 of 6,500 workers are represented.
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Washington, D. C
International Harvester Co
John R. Steelman
United States Conciliation Service
Chicago
American Federation of Labor Union Today
N.L.R.B
McCormick
A.F.L
British aid bill seen passing Senate amid strong admin support
Senate Democratic Leader Barkley predicted final passage of the British aid bill with a substantial majority. Administration leaders anticipated no further changes as the measure moves toward Roosevelt for signature, despite opposition warnings and three test amendments.
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Washington
Mar
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
U.P
Congress
United States
Western
Philippine Islands
Sen
Bennet C. Clark
David I. Wash
Mass
Naval Affairs Committee
Barkley
Britain
Greece
Robert A. Taft
R. O
Chales W. Tobey
Taft
United Kingdom
Canada
Tobey
Caribbean
Foreign Relations Committee
State Budget Bill 10 Faces Final Senate Vote
Indiana budget fights continue as Senate deliberates an eight million dollar departmental appropriation with most house cuts intact. Two days remain in the 82nd General Assembly as bills for federal matching funds and state institutions await late House action.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
House
Senate
82Nd
General Assembly
Ways and Means Committee
Tour by Jap Leader Risks German Blitzkrieg Shift
Foreign Minister Matsuoka is slated for a flying trip to Berlin Rome and Moscow to coordinate Axis plans. Balkan sources fix Tuesday for Greece and Yugoslavia moves as Nazi forces mass against Salonika and a token bombardment could signal aggression. Turkish sources warn Greece attack could provoke Turkish action with Britain at a moment of strategic opportunity.
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Matsuoka
Berlin
Rome
Moscow
Salonika
Japan
Yosuke Matsuoka
Balkan
Jugoslavia
Germany
Greece
Bulgaria
Italy
Albania
Macedonia
Edessa
Jugoslav
Gulf of
Mar
U.P
High Command
Britain
Clinton Miner Dies After Slate Fall at Waukee Mine
Ralph C. Brown aged 40 of Clinton Indiana was killed instantly when a slate fell in a room at the Waukee Coal Corporation Mine near Centenary. Charles Walker was injured. Brown leaves a large family and funeral services are set for Monday at 2 pm.
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Clinton
Ind
Ralph C. Brown
Waukee
Brown
Maude
John Brown
Charles
Billie
John Allen
Gertrude Ann
David
Helen Louise
James Frederick
Ruth Huxford
Rosedale
Elizabeth James
Terre Haute
Sarah Malone
Jeffersonville
Jennie Bosstick
Montezuma
Bicknell Man, 43, Given Sentence in Indiana Case
Eugene McBride, 48, of Bicknell, who escaped Knox County jail on Sept 17 1934 after a five to 21 year sentence for criminal assault, was ordered committed to prison by Judge Herman Robbins. He had been paroled from Kansas prison for sodomy when captured. fingerprints exposed his identity. Authorities awaited Kansas release to return him to Indiana for the sentence tied to a Chicago trip with a young Bicknell girl.
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Vincennes
Ind
Eugene McBride
Bicknell
Herman Robbins
Superior Court
McBride
Kansas
Knox County
Indiana
Chicago
Thieves Target Bloomfield Area Again At Library
Bloomfield police and county officers chase a burglary crew tied to last week’s Bloomfield high school break in. Thursday night the Bloomfield public library window was pried open and the librarian’s desk drawer emptied before the burglars fled with no money found.
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Bloomfield
Bloomfield High School
Bloomfield Public Library
Maybury Wins 1940 New England Checker Title
Charles Maybury aged 85 wins the 1940 New England Checker Association correspondence tourney. Conducted by mail, the yearlong contest pitted Maybury against twenty nine opponents to secure the championship.
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Worcester
Mass
U.P
Charles Maybury
New England Checker Association
Maybury
Hunter College students direct own plays in course
Students in a play writing course at Hunter College write original plays then handle all production and direction tasks. The program emphasizes female leadership as the girls create, stage, and run each production.
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New York
U.P
Hunter College
Firemen idle as city sees no alarms for weeks
Altus Oklahoma life of firemen shows no calls for twenty nine consecutive days. The department faces boredom and the need for activities like whittling to pass the quiet stretches.
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Altus
Okla
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Frank
Red) Smylie
Morgan County
Democratic Club
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Taylor
Linton Elks’ Home
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Carol Frederickson
Rock Island, Ill
Judge Hunter
May
United Press
Ankara
Uri
Turkey
Athens
Ugo Cacallero
Lui Geloso
Albani
Cavallero
Ubaldo Soddu
Clinton Miner
Ralph Brown
Robbins
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