The Mad Winter Winds and Strong Air Shortage
A poem extols harsh winters with wind and snow as catalysts for illness and busy days. It celebrates storms, closed spaces, and scarce light as drivers of renewed activity and industrial energy.
27 Nov 1913
Page 1
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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1913
Page
1
A poem extols harsh winters with wind and snow as catalysts for illness and busy days. It celebrates storms, closed spaces, and scarce light as drivers of renewed activity and industrial energy.
The Montezuma Minstrel group performs Friday night December 19 offering slapjack style sketches and a male double quartet with songs. Proceeds go to the Christmas Cheer fund for the tree for children, promising laughs and uplift for all attendees.
Saturday morning a group of five men led by Prior Warner ignored warnings and entered Joe Mankin’s wheat field to shoot wild geese with pump guns. They killed three of a flock of about fifteen as the birds attempted to take flight. the killings marked the first in some time despite geese feeding in the area each spring and fall.
A shooting match is held today by the West Union Gun Club one mile east of West Union. An oyster supper and Thanksgiving entertainment follow at the Coloma school house tonight with no admission charged and a good time promised for all attendees.
Saturday evening Mr Harry Becker and Mrs Nelle Fullen wider wed at the M E Parsonage with Rev A L Miller officiating. After the ceremony the couple returned to a furnished home as friends offered many useful gifts. Mrs Fulden wider is known in the community as daughter of Richard Bailey the night watchman and recently left her post as assistant postmaster. Mr Becker came from Springfield Missouri about a year ago to work as foreman for Montezuma Sand and Gravel Company pits east of town.
The Chicago Lyceum Company opened its entertainment course with strong audience praise for Mr and Mrs Gar and Miss Waugh. The Maude Stevens Concert Company is due January 97, with a few seats left and season tickets available for 75 cents.
The Town Council held a call meeting on Monday evening and awarded contracts for a concrete walk along the east side of the new Hall and a rest house. They also purchased about six acres south of the current cemetery, on the F. S. Bipus estate, to be laid out in lots conforming with the old portion.
Mr and Mrs Robert Sutton with Ralph W Johnston J Edward Hancock and Misses Grace Oldshue and Hildegard Haspell attended a show in Terre Haute on Wednesday evening. The two men sought pointers for the upcoming Montezuma Minstrels where they are slated as promising end men in blackface.
Mr and Mrs W P Montgomery attended a dance at Rockville on Wednesday evening. A baby girl named Hazel Mae was born to Mr and Mrs Fay Coleman on November 24 weighing two and a half pounds. Miss Lora Reeder left Wednesday morning to spend Thanksgiving with her friend Miss Alien Owens at Garry. pA GS Serpe a Pifeo.
A Clintonian article says Harry Hood a Hillsdale area suspect was arrested in Clinton on a suspected plan to fire a Hillsdale saloon. Witness William Watts claimed Hood offered $50 to start the blaze with others. no fire occurred and Hood was released after questioning.
In Indiana cities the Red Cross Xmas Seals go on sale starting November 28 with an auction of the first bright holiday sticker. Auctions occur at theatres or public meetings and may feature mayors or clubwomen as auctioneers. The first seal often bears the autograph of a prominent person, with autographs from statesmen authors actors and others sought nationwide. Seals frequently fetch 25 to 100 dollars or more.
Mrs Mayme Christy and her sister left Wednesday for St Marie Til where Mrs Christy will spend the winter closing up her residence here.
Methodist Episcopal Church announces Sabbath School at 9 39 a m with T A Weilshans directing and preaching at 10 45 a m On alternate weeks evening services at 7 00 p m and 7 30 p m Thursday prayer meeting led by A B Sieeson pastor.
The Presbyterian church holds a 9 30 a m Sabbath School and a 7 p m preaching service led by Pastor J D Uuay.
A 1913 missive from Santa Claus in Montezuma Indiana invites children to write detailing their Christmas wants and needs. The letter asks for the writer in full including name parentage and age and requests younger siblings’ wishes through the older child’s letter.
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