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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1921
Page
4
In Montezuma Indiana a flag station notice marks second class status under the 1879 act. The text reflects standard post office classification and date references for archival filing and mailing matter.
The notice lists subscription prices: Indiana and Illinois at 1.50 dollars per year in advance and all other states at 1.75 dollars per year. No further details provided.
Locals are informed of classified insertion rates 1 cent per word with a 20 cent minimum. Card of thanks costs 25 cents. rates available at the office or upon request.
Local notes reveal visits and health updates including Mrs B A Machin in Rockville and Mrs J Cone and Mrs Henderson improving. Walter Worick in town on business. Fred Montgomery and son from Los Angeles visited Dr Reeder family. Miss Lora Reeder hosted in Indianapolis. Hugh Aikman ill but improving. Mon ezuma Bakery promotes home made bread and oatmeal cookies. J E Hancock returns from Indianapolis. Cummins Pharmacy reports new floor repairs.
The European Relief Association led by Herbert Hoover seeks 33 million dollars to aid starving European children in winter. Agencies include the American Relief Administration and American Red Cross with representatives from Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Knights of Columbus and YMCA among others coordinating local committees to secure funds and supply feeding stations.
Miss Eliza Dodurian, an Armenian survivor, urges aid as Near East Relief reports more than ten thousand Armenian girls rescued from Turkish harems. She cites the suffering of fifteen and sixteen year olds torn from mothers and carried off by soldiers, highlighting rescue home testimonies.
Supper hosts Mr and Mrs Freeman Cox of Rockville. Show starts 7:30 PM with doors at 7:00. Joe Holmes and family of Clinton visited Mr and Mrs O A Holmes. Christian church ladies held a social at Mrs E E Asbury's. M E church Ladies Aid met midweek. Mrs Elizabeth Quinlan and son Dennis visited Attica with Mr and Mrs F M Bever. Terre Haute shoppers included Mesdames Medora Bipus J W Spencer and Wint Cummins. The Montgomery room near the Post Office is being prepared as the Electric Light Plant sales room and office. Mr and Mrs Wm E Carty and Mrs Wm Brockway with Mrs Ella Graham spent a day with Brazil relatives. Mrs Graham stayed longer. Mrs O A Holmes returned from Tangier after illness of her nephew, a Tangier teacher. Dinner Club guests included Major and Mrs O A Newhouse. For constipation, Chamberlains Tablets after supper. The free food for children ends only after medical tests prove undernourishment. The European Relief Council aims to save costs and prevent pauperization while overseeing fund administration.
The item notes a transition from cold windy March to milder April with sunshine. It mentions Leonard Sproulse buying a Ford sedan from Myers Car and Tractor Co and a newspaper subscription deal for the Enterprise and Daily Terre Haute Star. Other items cover Mrs. Perry Reid visiting Dana and attending Bono High School senior play, and a farm anecdote about Chamberlain’s medicine curing rheumatism with a customer testimonial.
Thousands of girls revived in spirit through Near East Relief efforts inspire a fresh appeal to free one hundred thousand more held captive. The campaign emphasizes humanitarian rescue across affected regions and continues urging donor support.
Taxi service call Myers Auto Go. phone 73. Fred Watson of Preventative Medicine urges prevention over cure as pneumonia often follows a cold. The cold weakens the body and invites pneumonia. take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at first cold sign to reduce risk and avoid delay.
7 room two story house with cellar new barn concrete walks outbuildings all with concrete floors well cistern and 3 acres. Lot joins school ground. In good condition. Price $3000. Call phone 102.
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