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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1915
Page
1
Church directory lists Saboath School at 1:30 a.m. with S. J. Holmes, sermon at 10:45 a.m. every other week, Epworth League at 6:00 p.m., preaching at 7:30 p.m. and Thursday prayer meeting at 7:30 p.m. Pastor A. B. Simpson.
Sabbath school sessions at 9 30 a m with preaching at 7 p m led by J D Unay and B F Hoover in alternating weeks. Christian Endeavor at 7 30 p m and a 3 p m sermon schedule under pastors W E Dye and the Unay Hoover congregations each Sabbath alternates.
Catholic Mass held on the second and fourth Sundays each month. Time to be announced. Father A. H. Busald serves as pastor.
The church announces a 9 30 a m Bible School and preaching at 9 30 a m on the second Sunday each month led by Pastor R R Ohaver.
A young man about twenty five with red hair and sandy whiskers weighs around 150 pounds and wears blue overalls with a dark coat. He suffered an apparent epileptic fit, has not spoken, whistles and sings when unobserved, and is confined in the town calaboose. No one locally recognizes him. authorities seek his friends.
The court orders the sale of Turkey Run Bloomingdale Glens and a public spirited donor is urged to buy the virgin forest for state park use. The author laments parceling and timber loss would spoil a premier picnic spot. Frank McCord returned from Attica after visiting his brother at Purdue.
A reflective editor recalls a case of choosing not to publish a damaging story about a vain critic. The piece defends discretion, noting personal influence and public interest shaped the decision. It emphasizes that withholding news can serve the greater good and protect involved families.
A promotional piece arguing there are two merchant classes, advertisers and non advertisers. It claims the advertiser stays visible to the public, showcases goods, and keeps quality and price in public thought, noting people talk about those who advertise because they offer worth.
Frank Lee and family and Miss Lena Coffin motored to Terre Haute Sunday and spent the day with relatives.
A devotional lyric extols the indwelling life as a powerful, healing force that quickens seed, inspires thought, and quiets earthly fret. It praises Life as gracious, guiding beings above worldly aims and sustaining hope through gloom and strife. The piece reflects spiritual reverence and a call to inner light.
Local notices show Miss Hannah Craft visiting Marshall relatives and several residents traveling to Terre Haute Indianapolis and Clinton for events. Community activities include club meetings, market preparations, band organization in Cayuga, and a variety of visits, excursions, and family gatherings across Danville Dana Mecca Wabash and Freeland Park.
Pat Callahan, an Indiana cross country hiker, returned Tuesday morning from Denver and expects to finish his trip home this week. Wat, an Indianapolis man, left February 1 on a $500 wager to reach Denver and return in four months, likely to finish early. He has 3 years in the army, wore uniform and carried a 60 pound pack, logged over 8000 miles, and wears out shoes fast.
The Deering band of Clinton will play at the annual pool opening at Mineral Springs on Sunday May 30. A burglary occurred earlier Sunday at J E Johnston Co store with about $150 taken from the safe. the money was found later in P L Reeds yard. No other items were disturbed and no suspects identified.
L. J. Murdock installed handsome signs on the drug store windows while gutters were cleaned and weeds cut along sidewalks. Miss Corinne Davis drove to Clinton Sunday then to Terre Haute to enter Normal. County auditor invites bids to repair the Montezuma bridge with a floor laid lengthwise across the old one for a substantial improvement.
Real estate transfers listed include Martha Head selling a lot in Rosedale for 150 to William Cuthbertson and Joseph McHargue selling land in Jackson for 3000 to Phoebe Wells. Additional deeds cover Mecca, Waterman, Florida, Rockville, Adams, Sugar Creek, and Adams with amounts from 1 to 8800 dollars and one where a guard transfers land for 1700.
Newhouse and Cole arrived Friday from the Golden Jubilee of the Scottish Rite Masons in Indianapolis. They were introduced to the mysteries along the line and are now 32 degree Masons. Bherna remains noted as a finest French product line at the Gerner Drug Store.
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