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Newspaper
Monticello Herald
Location
Monticello, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1923
Page
7
White County items recount Christmas visits and gatherings across Brookston. Notables include Mrs. Augustus Hilderbrandt visiting Indianapolis and returning with Robert for the holidays. multiple church societies meeting. school programs. and numerous families hosting dinners and attending services in Lafayette and nearby towns.
Mr and Mrs Fred Baker and children along with Mrs Brandenburg were guests of S Brandenburg Sunday with Mrs Brandenburg remaining for a few days. Ed and Mrs Quade host holiday guest Mrs Roy Shaffer of Saugatuck Michigan. Fred Godlove and daughter Inez join Marvin and Hannah Spear and Percy Sawyer with W A Kendall and daughter Gladys. Mary Scott visits cousins Mary and Rosa Scott. Mabel Baxter visits Lorena and Opal Kellenburger. Cephas Spear and Harry Querry join C A Ballard family for Sunday. Brethren church services planned next Sunday after Sunday School with a missionary program in the evening. Laura Grady visiting her mother Mrs Sickler. J F Kellenburger and daughter Flossie with Daisy Ballard and Mrs Cora Pettit visit Cecil Sickler. Joe Scott and Miss Marie Farrar of Boswell visit Charles Scott. Locals attend Christmas program at Pike Creek Sunday evening. Lizzie Seward and Flossie Kellenburger attend Reynolds school program Friday afternoon.
In Chalmers and nearby areas families share Christmas visits with relatives in Indiana Ohio and Michigan City. Ce l ebrations include marriages births and community events as residents move homes attend services and host relatives.
The Christian Sunday school presented a Christmas program at the church Sunday morning. Mrs. Amy Rand and children visit with Mr. and Mrs. William Hickman. Lloyd VanMeter and father Jacob VanMeter visit J. A. Hinshaw over Christmas. Lew Watkins hosted her Sunday school class at home. Murrell Johnson and sister Gertrude from Lakewood NL visit grandparents M. A. Hughes. Thirty six guests join Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Hughes for Christmas dinner including Galetta Hughes and Max, and Lloyd Davis with his children.
Mrs Meyers and Mrs Roush are sisters. Margaret Keller visits her sister in Chicago. Mr Deller of Kentland was in town on business. Guy Burkenpas and family of Lafayette were guests of Gus Werner. Mr and Mrs W F Snyder visited Christmas with their son Charles. Martha Bunnell entertained Clarence Shields and family Ellis Baer and William Parson. Lemuel Morrow of Danville and Monroe Morrow of New Richmond were Christmas guests of the Morrows. Lynetta Pugh taught in New Harmony spending holidays with Ed Pugh. Bert Gilbert and son Newton went to Peoria for holidays. Harold Blume Gillespie Bertha Cowgill Lucile Phillips at DePauw came home for holidays. Raymond Spencer returned from Chicago for holidays. Luther Lucas from Indianapolis Dental College spent holidays with his parents. Albert Dunn and family spent Christmas with Mrs George Warden in Remington. Russell Dye from Champaign spent holidays with parents George and wife. Floyd Lux of Lafayette visited relatives. Miss Hines teaches here and visits Terre Haute for vacationwith her parents.
Burnettsville the Miss Mayme Stuart hosted by Indianapolis friends for Christmas. Miss Margaret Chilcott and Marjory Cochran return from Lafayette where they attend Purdue. Jack Moore and Ernest Chilcott visit from Wabash College. Mrs. Nellie Marsh sails to Boulder Colorado as surgical nurse. Deborah Arvin home from Bloomington. Ruth Duffy arrives from Cheyenne to spend Christmas with the Duffy family. Elsa Showalter back from Marion where she teaches. Mrs. Lee Hutton visits her parents. Perry Beshear returns from Danville Illinois. Wm. McElheny with relatives in Nancy for the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. George McLeland guests of J. R. Dean in Frankfort last week. Frank Campbell and Lena Shull visit Columbia City sister.
Mrs Harper Rogers and Ruth of Benton Harbor Michigan visit Emory Klepinger family. Florence Handley returns home from Bloomington Indiana University for holidays. Clyde C Tull of Mt Vernon Iowa visits relatives. Harold Robinson from Purdue is home for holidays. Mrs Albert Dickinson visits son Charles and Dorothy Kuhns from Indiana University comes home for holidays. Mrs Laura Gother and Beatrice of Greencastle visit relatives. Myrtle Wright and Alvine visit J P Gwin family. Mark Hemphill of Chicago visits relatives.
Names attendings include Mrs Harold Jenkins and Mr A F Eisert as funeral for Mrs Eisert’s aunt at Lucerne last Sunday is noted. The death resulted from an explosion while a fire was being built on Thursday. Dorothy Cosgray and Marie Knorr were among locals visiting relatives.
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