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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1917
Page
2
The Madison Herald reports a selection of social notes and visits. Mrs Hares Childs visits Toledo refugees. Mrs Howard Thos travels to Bardstown. Mrs Cravier plans Minneapolis visit. Mrs Whidts and M Lesech return home after visits.
Readable fragments describe monks and nuns at a historic monastery during the thirteenth century. The scene hints at dining practices, craft work, and daily routines on the monastery grounds with mentions of gardens and milking.
Madison letters report multiple local and regional movements. Parties such as Mee WOOP Clark and Mrs Edward J Meyer return from Indianapolis, while Miss Juliet Hoffstadt visits relatives there. A wedding trip ends for Mr and Mrs William C Niesse, with condolences and greetings exchanged by many in the city.
Thomas Rinear, Civil War veteran and respected Dupont resident, died at his home at 6 this morning. He was a well-read, intelligent man with many friends and leaves a wife but no children. The funeral will be held at 11 tomorrow morning.
Members gathered last night to form a militia unit with Mephiss Soares as pianist. Capt A 20 Vanosdol spoke on wartime service while Adjutant General and Capt Stintun encouraged enlistment and protection from evils of war. The Adjutant General will install officers next week. Hanover joined the area’s recruitment with a strong turnout and more volunteers expected as needed.
Mrs Rosalee O Sullivan aged 75 widow of Eugene O Sullivan died at her North Madison home at 5 20 PM Saturday after a long illness She was born Rosalee Keller in Germany and lived in Louisville for many years where her husband died 30 years ago The family later moved to North Madison occupying the old parish house of St Patrick s church She is survived by son Joseph and daughter Eugenia both at home and by two sisters who are nuns in New York and Chicago
Mrs Susan Schneider of Church street received word this morning that her sister in law Mrs Robert Genter died at the Cats Home in Chattanooga last night at about six. She was about 64, married in 1865 to Mr Geater, moved south in 1875, and is survived by her husband and seven grown children after a fall two weeks earlier that fractured her hip.
Madison reports Congressman Lincoln Dixon in town today and set to leave for Vevay that night. Local residents Wiley Tague of Monroe Township improves after illness while Mrs. F M Griffith and Grace of Vevay visit Mrs. M K R Sulzer. People travel include Frederick Geisler and Paul returning to Erie Pennsylvania after a family visit. A Augustin Sr and Jr return from a motor trip to Indianapolis. John Dunn of Cortland New York is in town for the Land Dunn wedding and Dr Chris Ramsey is hospitalized after a hip fracture. Local notices reference a North Milberry Street auction and a bank inquiry involving Min S G Bear at Peoples Trust.
Miss Maud E Davis wed Mr H S Corya yesterday afternoon at 60 o clock in the home of the bridegroom's brother Edward Dias. Rev Padi performed the ceremony and the couple will reside at Dupont with many friends hoping for happiness in married life. Miss Ethel Wheate married Mr J Gilbert West at noon November 4 at the Tyler Hotel Louisville NY. The bride, daughter of Mrs Mary H Wheate of Hanover, has worked as bookkeeper for the Indiana Pythian Lodges in Indianapolis. The groom is a prominent Indianapolis businessman and they plan a home on North Mercian Street after December.
Pleasant Point reports the marriage of Elvin Brown and Irdene Etherton last Saturday, with plans to reside with Irdene’s father Vernie Etherton. Nursing graduate Laura Bonnett visits Bloomington and will depart soon for work. Helen Bonnett visits Ohio relatives and will stay through Christmas. Harold Henry returns from Bellflower, Illinois. Joe Augustine moves to Maddox farm. Danner family visits relatives near Manville. New York 1917 farm crops valued at 544,467,720 dollars. Wisconsin 1917 cherry crop at 1,600,000 quarts.
George Yiesla a Vormer resident of Madison died in life in Pa Sunday. The decedent was aged about seventy, survived by his wife, Mrs Ita Youshi Hedet Madison, and several siblings. Funeral arrangements to be announced in Madison.
Quotations for flour and wheat, hay and seed prices, and poultry rates appear alongside community notices. The page cites Madison area traders, creamery inputs, grain prices, and local meeting schedules plus church and school notices with names of residents and organizers.
Virginia Minn teachers find love notes in toys from Pittsburgh makers. German signers ask for friendly correspondence, none admits replying. Also notices the return of Mr and Mrs Clyde Hrindley to Vevay after aunt Mrs Calvin Francis funeral.
Postal officials praise the three cent per ounce postage rule for letters and note lighter work. They urge proper sender and recipient names on parcels with the word ie and From to ensure delivery. The piece also recalls last day for mailing Christmas packages to the boy at the front.
Jefferson county deputy sheriff Lester Custer and lawyer Harry Lemen sought affidavits from locals to establish Harvey Haskell born October 25 1883 in Braytown as son of Richard and Alvinda Haskell. The 32 year old draftee at Camp Taylor faces release after his mother in Tipton county learned of missing birth records.
former Indiana congressman Charles A. Korbly has joined the Law Department of the Alien Property Custodian's office after serving in the Treasury Department. He previously represented Indiana in Congress and now continues public service in a legal role.
Madison resident Mrs. Marsha A. Shoots reports relief from back pain and irregular kidney function after using Dean's Kidney Pills from Rogers' drug store. Ad indicates the product costs 60 cents and names Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY as proprietors.
Mr. John Fireside of Cincinnati returned on yesterday's afternoon train after a visit with relatives in this city.
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