Harvest News and Local Happenings in Clarksville Area
Harvests begin earlier with corn in good stock and weeds growing despite dry weather. Lowry and wife visited Clarksville relatives. Fourth celebrated by locals with trips to Marshall and visits to friends. A petition for a single commissioner road plan drew about 80 signers and a special election was set. Clarksville Methodist ice cream event served 35 gallons plus peanuts. Sunday school convention drew a large crowd. Sperry Claypool was reelected township president for the coming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will ‘Lowry
John Ross
Clarksville
Marshall
Clarkesville
Sunday Attendances and Family Visits Reported
Sunday activities include school attendance 97 percent with Orval Rockwell and wife visiting Irvin White's group. Harry Nave McDaniel bought an automobile in Jan in partnership. Esther Chamness Eva Nave attend Charleston normal school and visited home Friday through Sunday. Lillie Weber Theresa Rothrock spent Sunday with Opal White. Edith Chamness and Flossa Chamness at home Sunday. Leone Swope and Flossa Chamness visited John Weber's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orval -Rockwell
Irvin
White
Harry
Flossa~Chamness
Leone’ ‘Swope Apent
John Weber
Roga and Stella Sweitzer Visit Terre Haute Family
Hale Roga and Stella Sweitzer of Terre Haute visited over Sunday with their parents Robi Sweitzer and Jennie Beltz and son George in Indiana. Wesley Shotts hosted Sunday with Harve Sweitzer and Ed Tingley families. A paper balloon was found in Aunt Lydis Volkera yard with the inscription Jue lyi Verra Teute Ind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hale
Roga
Stella Sweitzer
Terre Haute
Robi
Sweltzer
Jennie ° ‘Beltz
George
Indiana
Wesley Shotts
Harve Sweitzer
Ed Tingley
Prent
Lydis
Volkera
Ike
Tisara
Death of West Union resident Robert L. Donham
Robert L. Donham, age about 70, longtime West Union resident and Civil War veteran, died Tuesday morning from war wound complications. He leaves a widow and stepdaughter Mrs. Wm. Mann. Also notes local harvest yields from eight to thirty one bushels per acre and a Christian Sunday school visit planned with Hutsonville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L. Donham
West Union
Donham
Indiana
Wm. Mann
Merida Williams
Christian Sunday School
Hutsonville
F. C. Read
Chicago
Methodist Church
Abe Martin Diary Talk Amid Paperhanger Wait
Abe Martin notes folks think Ero Cer keeps a diary instead of earning a living. Mrs Tilford Moots is confined to her home waiting for the paperhangers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abe. Martin
Local Notes From York On Fourth Of July Festivities
Sunday gatherings at the Rocks and a large auto crowd from Shelburn attend an ice cream supper. Visits by Hortense Keys and families from Terre Haute and Chrisman, plus threshing and farm weather notes. A derailed freight car near the National Road delays trains and a death follows illness with interment in Auburn cemetery.
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Ce. Buzzard
al Rot
W. Williams
St. Mary’s Church
Read
Arthur Tarman
Chicago
Beachey
Terre Haute
Marshall
Velda
Bamesberger
Wither “Dittman
Beth Pritchard
Gary
Ind
Mon
Ethel
Randell Blaker
Chrisman
York
Mussel
Isaiah Buckel
U. B
Romine Grove
J. Husted
Pittsborough
Ed Johnson
Terra Haute
National Road Crossing
William Dove
Auburn Cemetery
Houser Farm Change in Danville Buyers Reported
Danville buyers purchased the Houser farm in a transaction noted with Elza Linn and wife traveling from Martinsville on a Sunday. The notice states a July 1 start and adds seven miles to the Rosters tour route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horner
Danville
Houser
Elza Linn
Martinsville
Young America Pushmobile Race Delights Fourth Crowd
Real Live Young sports show rapid air and clever pushmobile stunt at the Fourth of July event. Master Harry Handy designed and built the winning machine. Bob Dulaney steered after Harry was deemed too heavy to push. Two other boys served as push relay, sharing a one dollar premium among the four participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Harry Handy
Robert Dulaney
Harry
Bob
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Je. K.‘ Kerr
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Rock Road
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