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Newspaper
Monticello Herald
Location
Monticello, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1918
Page
5
Monticello notes list weekend visitors and locals’ activities across town. Names include J B Roach Ellen Daugherty Gladys Pickering Lillie Bailey Inez Henry and many others visiting relatives, attending schools, or recovering from illnesses. Several travel to Chicago Indianapolis South Bend and Danville for visits.
Capt Gardner joins Fort Harrison training and Camp Lee posting as soldiers prepared for overseas service. A one cent per mile railroad fare plan eases home visits for troops. Funeral of Aaron Britton with Tippecanoe Post G A R present. Local residents and visitors travel between Monon Delphi Kankakee and Thorntown. aviation corps acceptance for Donald Sadler. Del Ray job move for O O Teach. Avaline Kindig to spend summer with Lebanon parents after returning home.
Don Jones returned to Gilman with his mother Mrs. Margaret Jones after a weekend in town. Katherine Otstot leaves for Newcastle to work at Trish Bros. and live with her brother Woodbury. War Mother Alice M. French travels to Kentland to address Newton County War Mothers. Hazel Hodshire departs for Terre Haute and State Normal for a 12 week teaching course. Captain Frank M. Van Pelt of Anderson returns home after visiting his brother. S. W. Thompson and Lewis Dellinger plan a two week fishing trip to Dorsett Minnesota. Corts and Garling families hold their annual City Park reunion today.
Mrs Earl Johnsonbaugh and son Sanford, Mrs T W O Connor and son Richard, Miss Alma Gustavel and Reed Van Voorst left this Thursday morning for an automobile trip to Rantoul Illinois to visit the aviation station.
S. A. Carson Jacob Hibner Misses Nellie Rickey and Ethel Bryan attend the State Sunday School convention at South Bend this week. They accompany J. W. Gardner of Reynolds and traveled in Gardner’s automobile.
F. M. Briggs and John Bush of Portland Maine stopped Saturday night to visit Mr. and Mrs. Earl Johnsonbaugh in this city before resuming their cross country automobile journey to Los Angeles California Monday morning.
Captain Henry Snyder, spending winters in Eureka Springs Arkansas, has bought a home there and likely will not return to Monticello this summer. He has become very enthusiastic about the southern city.
Miss Bertha Peet and her nephew Spencer Peet Nordyke of Williams Arizona visit to spend the summer with Mrs. Julia S Peet their grandmother and mother. Peet has served as director of music in Williams schools for several years.
Dr. John B. Harbert and family of Belfountaine Ohio will visit Dr. and Mrs. J. D. McCann this weekend after a Chicago motor trip. Miss Grace Roberts and Fred Roberts visit Mrs. A. R. Stages in Anderson. Roberts recently taught in Seattle. Mrs. M. L. Price toured Idaville with Roy McCord, whose recovery after a tree accident continues. Hilliard of Rensselaer takes deputy merchant role for Jasper County. Ora Hamill runs a clothing firm with Hilliard. Asa Lods and wife near Chalmers welcome son John Lods Jr., named for a brother in service. Galen E. Clark, in England with American forces, reports good health and army life. A Georgia Fisher surprise birthday is noted. Red Cross Lake Division exceeds quota. Indiana raised over $2.6 million. Children’s Day services draw large crowds. Nelle Flaningham to Burrettsville for cold pack canning demo. Lieutenant Gwin Thomas, OT C, arrives overseas with Company I, 58th Infantry.
Under a new ruling by Director General McAdoo going into effect July 1, all parties who do not pay freight charges on delivery must post a bond. This affects both shippers with prepaid freight and receivers delivered without payment.
Lieut. John M. Miller departed Monday for Camp Perry near Sandusky Ohio after a stay with Miss Ruth Vogel He has been stationed at Camp Shelby Hattiesburg Mississippi and travels to Camp Perry for a month of school of fire training before reporting back to Camp Shelby Mississippi
The Enworth League invites the public to a lecture by Dr Wirt Lowther on What the Devil Said to His Timior Partner Kaiser Bill The Hun. The lecture will be at the church next Tuesday evening June 18 with proceeds benefiting the League.
The speaker who gave the commencement address delighted listeners and will present another lecture next Tuesday night. Dr Lowther has earned a strong reputation from talks in Indiana cities and commands admission prices of fifteen and twenty-five cents. Miss Geraldine Kindig recently finished teaching at Elmhurst High School and returns home for summer vacation before taking a mathematics post at Kankakee High School.
Lieut Horace K Heath writes May 18 that he has seen Lieut Clarence Rotruck and Verle Read in France since arriving there. This is the first word from Heath since notices reached residents about the safe arrival of the ship he sailed on.
Attendees listed for Mrs Malinda Hanawalt funeral include Howard Simons and family Clyde Fisher and family of Gary. Mr and Mrs Henry Downing of Goodland. Ed Fisher and family. Will Foy and Will Neff of Logansport. Merde Fisher and wife of La Porte. William Fisher and family of Winamac. Frank Boigegrain of Chicago.
The city of St Louis is credited with offering one in twenty four residents for US war service. A pamphlet calls it the Convention City, noting twenty four conventions planned there in the coming weeks and a total of three hundred for 1918.
Mrs Homer Cotton formerly Marion Vosburgh director of music in local schools will instruct at the Normal School in Muncie for the summer term and teach in a Chicago school where Mr Cotton, recently deceased, once taught. Mr Cotton was a well known local figure and had served as high school principal for some time.
Robert McClure and Homer Burkett, who failed the physical earlier, underwent operations and were finally examined in Indianapolis. Both were sent to Paris Island for training after leaving Indianapolis Friday. The piece also notes casualty figures and extended family visits related to wartime losses, including details about Hintz relatives and the Mansons from Grand Rapids.
Mr and Mrs C C Coble and their sons attended a birthday dinner for Mrs Lavina Million near Hopedale last Saturday. Held at Charles V Hoover’s home, the eightieth birthday drew thirty relatives and all of Mrs Million’s children and their spouses except one family. The event was reported as a most delightful time.
The record lists Miss Marie Million, Eber Hoover, Paul Million and wife among attendees at a family gathering. It notes thirteen grandchildren and three great grandchildren were present along with other relatives.
Sixty four federal and fifty four state employees are engaged this year in fighting animal tuberculosis across 31 states. Headquarters in 12 centers supervise the program with an annual loss estimated at 25 million dollars.
John Rothrock and Fred Hassel, recent graduates, traveled by Monon to Chicago on Monday evening to report for duty at the Great Lakes Naval Station after eight days furlough. A large group of friends saw them off at the train as they left following commencement.
William Hoover, longtime University of Wisconsin Madison instructor, has moved to Washington to work in the war department. A 1909 Monticello high school graduate, he specialized in perfecting army rifle parts and had begun the work prior to his call to service.
Mr and Mrs Gifford Jones of Red Key Indiana spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs T F Hanway then traveled to Francesville to visit Mrs Hanways and Mrs Jones mother. They then went to Rensselaer to see their daughter and will return this week after visiting Knox.
John G. Brown of Monon was chosen as Indiana member of the Federated Meat Producing Association executive committee. He attended a Chicago meeting of the committee last week to participate in planned discussions and organizational business.
The organization elected its officers: Chairman John G. Brown of Monon, Vice-Chairman M. A. Hughes of Lexington Kentucky, and Secretary-Treasurer S. T. Huston from Maka Bend Missouri, finalizing its structure.
Alvin J. Davidson bound over to the circuit court after a preliminary hearing before Justice B G Smith. He was released on a $700 bond pending trial likely at the September term. Davidson was arrested after an altercation with Frank M Burker of Burnettsville. He has a large family to support and will not spend the summer months in jail.
George Burns, long in Wisconsin, returned to his county home recently and was arrested Saturday afternoon by Sheriff J. C. Williams on charges of wife and child desertion. Warrants had been held for some time but delay occurred due to lack of appropriation.
An unidentified man facing charges was arrested after a pursuit to Wisconsin following Burns. He posted bonds of 1000 per charge and was released. The case may be heard at the September term of the circuit court. He sought aid from Sheriff Williams to secure bonds and to visit relatives for signatories.
A 1891 Sweetser Indiana ad from Sweetser Drain Tile Co. urges customers to place orders now to avoid spring delays. The notice emphasizes acting quickly and not letting seasonal work interfere with delivery.
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