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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1915
Page
1
Church directory lists Sunday school at 9 39 a m with S J G Hirsbrunner in charge followed by preaching at 10 45 a m every other week. Epworth League at 6 00 p m and evening preaching at 7 30 p m with prayer meeting Thursday at 7 30 p m led by Pastor A B Simpson.
The church holds Sabbath School at 9:30 a.m. Worship at 10:45 a.m. Evening preaching at 7:00 p.m. Pastor J. D. Ulay oversees the services.
The United Brethren church lists 9 30 a m Sabbath School led by Mrs Ed Smith on September 7 30 p m Christian Endeavor and 3 00 p m preaching every other Sabbath Pastor W E Dyz conducts the services.
The church will hold Mass on the second and fourth Sundays each month. Time will be announced. Father A. H. Busald serves as pastor.
Christian church announces Bible School at 9 30 a m and preaching at 7 00 p m with preaching every second Sunday of each month led by Pastor R R Ohaver.
Iris Black accompanied by his mother Mrs. C. G. Lowry and a Clinton physician traveled to Terre Haute hospital Tuesday afternoon where doctors removed his right eye after a steel foreign body could not be fully extracted in Indianapolis. The loss aims to protect the other eye. Orris, formerly of Montezuma and an employee at Montezuma Machine Works and Pitman & Son garage, is mourned by many friends.
The Christian Church ladies announce a market in the King hotel north room on Saturday October 23 at 2 30 P M. Home made bread cakes pies chickens and baked beans will be on sale.
We thank friends for kindness shown during the sickness and death of our little darling Rutha. Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Alexander and daughter Dortha.
The Scherer children and brothers thank friends and neighbors for kindness during mother and sister's illness and death. A musical comedy titled Three Chauffeurs will be presented Friday Oct. 22 under the Presbyterian Aid Society. Also an ad promotes Cole's High Oven Range promising easier work and lower coal bills.
Bershal Phillips was hit by a car with four men as he rode his bicycle on Main Street near Mrs. D C Barnes residence. He suffered a bruised left leg and torn left pedal, then was taken home by W L McCord. The car fled south as smoke from leaves obscured the scene.
A clever musical comedy titled Three Chauffeurs will be staged Friday night October 22 at the Montezuma Opera House. Presented by the Ladies Aid of the Presbyterian Church the show features Melody Pike and a house party plot of mistaken identity with many choruses and drills. About one hundred performers under Hummel Entertainment Bureau oversee the production.
Reserve Penn and Liberty townships joined forces for a township institute in Tangier with thirty three teachers. The program featured Reserve teachers including Adams Noble Moore Baker and Pickard. A large dinner in the basement pleased attendees as Tangier citizens and officials watched. The next meeting will be at Montezuma High School with Frank Anderson as chairman and J G Hirsbrunner as secretary.
Mrs Mary C Scherer of Montezuma dies at her daughter's home at seven in the morning at age 73. She and her husband ran a meat market and grocery in the Scherer building. Survivors include three brothers three sons and four daughters.
Rockville Indiana real estate transfers show Mary E. Gibson et al selling a lot to Local Union 1325 UMWA for 150 dollars. Caroline Kirkman transfers lots in Lyford City to Josephine Chrisman guardian for 3250 dollars. Jessie C. Strong and others sell land in Green for 1 dollar. William R. McCord sells a Montezuma lot to Harry R McLaughlin for 500 dollars. Sarah M. Branson to William B. Snow 80 acres in Adams for 2900 dollars. Harriett E. Penny to Guy Alden a Bloomingdale lot for 1 dollar. John T. Hart to Guy Alden land in Penn for 1600 dollars. William C. Myers to William O. Lynch et al 160 acres on Sugar Creek for 85000 dollars.
A collage of 1900s deed notices lists land transfers in Florida, Union, Reserve, and Montezuma with various sums, followed by an advertisement urging subscriptions to The Youths Companion for 1916 offering free remaining 1915 issues and a 1916 forecast, plus a note about a business trip to Rockville.
Wheeler McMillen of Fountain County sets example while preparing an address for Centennial use. F B Barnes South Bend recreation chief chosen by F A Miller as pageant master for St Joseph County Centennial. South Bend joins the state's Centennial with a semi centennial observance.
Fountain County will gather and place on record data on the county life including historical agricultural and educational phases to raise awareness of resources and attractions. Centennial chairmen appointed include Homer L. Rogers Union S. W. Creed Kosinsko Harriet Frazier Gibson C. G. Bradley Henry G. M. Barnard DeKalb Walter Stump Pike J. W. Wilson Newton C . Kent Carroll Mrs. Chas Buckley.
Wabash College creates a strong committee to work with Crawfordsville groups for a big Mont gomery County celebration. A monster pageant is discussed as the centerpiece of the event.
Dr W D Schwartz chairman for Jay County expresses surprise and delight at strong enthusiasm as the four day celebration includes a re creation of a live Indian village.
In its centennial observance Tipton County launches a movement to build an auditorium and shelter house at Tipton Park as a Centennial Memorial outlining a future landmark for the community.
Coach C. C. Childs of Indiana University has been appointed chairman of the committee to arrange a grand athletic carnival as part of the state celebration at Indianapolis.
County chairman announces historians and writers for the community drama and lists township chairmen for Adams Florida Green Howard Liberty Penn Raccoon Reserve Sugar Creek Unice Barr Wabash and others as part of the centennial effort.
Residents report visits and travels among neighbors from Terre Haute to Clinton Greencastle Danville Indianapolis and Milligan. Merritt Johnson improves after hospital stay. William S. Hendricks dies in Indianapolis and burial planned locally. Dr Swain to fit glasses in Montezuma. Master Robert Ingerton visits grandparents.
Salted peanuts advertised at 10c a pound and other Corner Drug Store bargains appear alongside local social news. The piece notes visitors, weddings, funerals, mail carrier vacations, awning installations, and a G A R funeral attended by Hillsdale comrades, with details of residents and several nearby towns.
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