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ANOTHER FALSEREPORT STARTEDStory That Frank Manning WasKilled Is Unfounded.The report which has been widely circulated since Tuesday night, concerning the death of Frank Manning, a Darlington boy with the Rainbow Division inthe folk of their home town avail, they will all come safely home again. Until then let us be considerate of the feelings of these boys parents, whose hearts are already over full of anxiety.Large Crowd Hears Address.One of the largest crowds everin the gymnasium, assembled Tue-day night to hear Prof. Brown ofen-France, has been found to be tirely false.The name of Frank Manningappeared in a list of the dead.published Tuesday evening, and one of our so called leading county dailies, always on the scent of a sensation, began at once spreading the news that it was the Manning from here.One of our sensation seeking citizens was called on the phone and informed of the news andwith the assistance of the telephone girls, the news rapidly spread that Frank Manning had been killed in France. This sensa-seeker went so far as totionWabash College deliver his address on “Why France Held Fast.’' The affair was under the auspices of the schools and the pupils took part in the program. One feature of the evening was the unfurffngof a service flag by Miss Dorothy Booher as Columbia and Tedcall a neighbor of young Mann-Little as Uncle Sam.For more than an hour Prof. Brown held the closest attention of the large audience. By personal contact with the French people during several years in France, where he was making educational research, he was able to bring to his hearers a message direct fromftFrance and to explain to them how the teachings of France has made a spirit, which as he said, is unconquerable.The school feels indebted toMr. A. M. Smith of . Crawfords-ing s parents and asked him to 6T° I ville, for so generously accompan-Ofto their home and tell them, course the neighbor refused and as luck would have it, the Manning family did not hear the report until Wednesday morning, soing Prof. Brown to Darlington.Schools Make Good.TheDarlington schools haveagain shown their high state of they were spared a night of suff- efficiency in penmanship by devel-ering. When they aid hear it,oping its students to the pointthey, of course, were greatly wor-1 that they can be recognized by theried, and wondered whv, were true, they themselves received no information.if ithadIn order to get a correct report,The Herald wired Congressman Fred S. Purnell at Washington,Wednesday morning for information and received the followingmessage the same afternoon:The Frank Manning reportedbusiness college. The last student to receive a certificate of efficiency is Miss Marion Johnson, making in all thirteen students who have been awarded certificates.The Darlington schools are theonly schools in the county outside of Crawfordsville which havelt; (brought the advantages of thebusiness college to the door of the killed was from Brooklyn, N. ^ • I student and school officials deserveThisand not from Darlington.” should surely be sufficient evidence that it is not our Frank.Why do people start such stor-much credit for extending these opportunities to the public.Prof. R. M. Elmore has beenemployed as supervisor of pen-ies? Surely they do not realize I anship fof tfae ]agt three yeafswhat a wonderful lot of anxietyand the efficiency of his studentsand suffering they are causing | show his abiUty as an instructor when they launch such a report.May the time soon come when, in the eyes of the law, it will be considered a crime for individualsHardware Changes Hands.and newspapers to circulate reports of such a nature, without first being convinced of their truth.Not only did the Manning family suffer the agony of suspense, but his many friends as well, as one man said, “I could scarcely sleep £or thinking of it,” and likefrom his friendsexpressionshave been frequently heard. One of the Manning family in discussing the affair said, “Surely peopledo not consider what it means toJohn C. Saidla has sold his store to W. A. Moon of Crawfordsville. The deal was closed the first of the week and the doorswereclosed Wednesday morning for invoice. Wallace Flaningan came over from Mulberry and he and R. B. Cox of the Big Hardware are doing the invoicing.Mr. Saidla will receive in theone, to hear such a report, and to know everyone else in town had been talking about it long before we knew it.”This is the second sensationaldeal a 183 acre farm in Fountain county, between Mellott and Hillsboro. John has made no announcement of his plans for the future but he expects to spendsome time looking over his new property before engaging in other business.Historic NameMr. and Mrs. Jesse Graves who report regarding the death of a' Hve near Thorntown are the par_which was also found to be incorrect. No doubt both came from the same source.If such a thing should occurarrived Saturday night. The little miss has been named Catherine Arizona, the middle name being for the grandmother, Mrs. Still Imel who was named for a shipagain, why not just keep still un- on which her father, the late E. H. til we know that the report is \ Cox, was stationed during thetrue. Seeing a familiar name in; Civil War.Ithe list of casualties should meanthe same name are in the army, and {4 anything, should be evidence that it is not our friend, or son or brother, as no doubt rela-AnnouncementMr. and Mrs. W. A. Buchanan *ives would be informed by the announce the marriage of theirGovernment before the names daughter, Jennie Frances, to appear in the newspapers, Dar- Walter Creighton Kimler, on Oct-lington has many boys in the ar-; ober 29th, in Rock Island, Illinois my an^reg*ral already in France, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Har-but if the , opes and prayers of old M, Goodin.Darlington boy in France, thejentsofa six pound daughter who 11 first being about Harry Harper,Mrs. Graves and daughter are j nothing to us as many men of here at the home of her parents,!,Mr. and Mrs. Still Imel.
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Darlington Herald
Darlington, Indiana, US
Fri, Apr 19, 1918
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