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Newspaper
Monticello Herald
Location
Monticello, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
5
Monticello area notes include travel visits and family gatherings. Miss Minnie Christensen visits Kanakakee for a sisterly hello. Library Board adds the International Encyclopaedia and Standard Dictionary to shelves.
Mr and Mrs 8 B Hefner and Mr and Mrs Warner Younger and family of Chalmers were guests at the home of Mr and Mrs Charles A Holladay on South Main Street Sunday.
Mrs. M. M. Maxwell and her baby return home after visiting Miss Mary Anheier in this city. Maxwell was formerly Miss Margaret Slenker of this city.
Mrs BE Teach joins husband in Del Ray Illinois where he works at an elevator. The family plans permanent residence in the Illinois town within the coming weeks.
Mrs. Albert Goslee and Florence Rainier return home to Lafayette after visiting Mrs. Goslee's sister Mrs. Alvin Hixon on South Main. Mrs. Jane Daugherty visits Frankfort with brother Charles Hornbeck. Mr. and Mrs. Hornbeck visit, and Mrs. Daugherty returns home with them. M. J. Hoffman travels to Michigan City. his wife visits relatives there before returning to the city. Mrs. O A Scipie of Chalmers, Mrs. W W Hollinger and Opal Thompson return from Marion after attending the Christian Endeavor convention. Mrs. Hal Sheetz of Indianapolis visits cousin Mrs. C D Meeker en route home from Remington. W A Bryan acquires a Royal Center residence for renting, with recent checks there. T E Hanway spends week in Gary and Chicago, attending a National Telephone Association meeting in Chicago. Mr and Mrs Herey Bennett and Harris go to Nokomis for a relatives visit. APs and Mrs Charles Douglas accompany them home and stay with Mrs Douglas' mother on North Tumor street. Mrs J W Cornell of Idaville and Miss Jennie Hall of Chalbers visit Miss Nannie Warfel en route to Washington S D to visit Levi Patton, Mrs Cornell's brother.
Harry Yant, who has been home for two weeks due to illness, has returned to Whiting where he is employed. He was accompanied to Hammond by Bert Franks, who will seek work there.
Mrs. W. N. Lonehry is recovering from an operation performed at St. Elizabeth hospital in Lafayette about two weeks ago. She returned home several days ago and has since improved rapidly.
Roscoe Fraser and Leslie Paschen attended the Carpenter and Ross sale of full blooded cattle in Chicago. They reported a one year old Shorthorn bull selling for 20000. The average price per head was over 1500.
Miss Golda Thomas was guest of honor at a six o'clock dinner last Thursday for her birthday. The event was hosted by Mrs. E. O. Teach at Teach's South Bluff street residence, where Miss Thomas resides with her.
Andrew D. Rauh of Chalmers who left for Camp Sherman and was sent to Nitra West Virginia is ordered to report back to Camp Purdue where his aid office duties are assigned.
Emory B. Goff of Frankfort a brother of W F Goff is at the Mayo Sanitarium Rochester Minnesota for an exploratory operation. This will be the third operation Mr Goff has undergone in recent months.
Miss Nelle Flaningham left Saturday for a weekend visit with her parents at Thorntown and then traveled to Lafayette to attend a meeting of home demonstration agents at Purdue University.
Walter Schlademan of Seafield reported to the Great Lakes Naval Station last week for military duties after being accepted for enlistment days earlier. He was granted time to settle his business affairs before entering active service.
Ti C Meredith attended a meeting in Indianapolis on Tuesday with the Auditing committee of the Funeral Directors Association. The visit focused on association finances and professional standards.
Dith, the state treasurer of the organization, notes heavy rainfall between Frankfort and Indianapolis that kept farmers out of the fields.
Private Schuyler C. Mowrer spent Friday and Saturday with Herbert T. Hanway, then will stay several days with his mother Mrs. Laura V. Mowrer near Reynolds before leaving for France to resume his military duties.
Mrs Samuel Z Todd celebrated her sixty sixth birthday at a surprise dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Charles Kilmer on West Jefferson Street last Sunday. The event marked her birthday with family and friends in attendance.
Data from a questionaire to financial institutions in the Chicago district shows White County's banking resources at 3,709,192 pounds or 0.633 percent of the state total as of December 1917.
Henry J. Reid was elected secretary of the Indiana County Superintendents Association at its sixty second semi annual meeting in Indianapolis. Resolutions were passed opposing teaching German in public schools.
Mrs Wiliam Van Pelt and Miss Esther Parks returned from Huntington after visiting James Van Pelt and family. They were joined by Mrs Van Pelt's grandchildren Irene and Marion Van Pelt who will visit here. The Ladies Social Auxiliary of the Christian church was entertained at Mrs Fred C Snapp's South Main home with help from Mrs Anthony Mikesell Mrs Robert McFlhoes Mrs George Doctor and Mrs J Francis Ashley.
Mr and Mrs Monroe Anwiler Mr and Mrs Dan Anwiler and son Ray and Mrs Anwilers mother Mrs Sarah Mohler drove to Lafayette Sunday for a brief visit with Mrs C A Boigegrain the mother in law of Mrs Anwiler who works as a nurse at the Soldier s Home
The Coterie Club resumes meetings with a Friday picnic at Mrs. P. M. Byrum’s home in Rockfield. Honoring Mrs. Lloyd Kingsbury of Sioux City who is visiting briefly.
Four year old son of Mr and Mrs Murray S Gardiner living south of Idraville was hurt last week when he fell from a haymon. a physician treated the injuries. Gardiner is a well known local graduate of the high school.
Walter Strantz of Chalmers who earned a commission as second lieutenant at the first officers training camp at Ft Benjamin Harrison has been promoted to first lieutenant. He is attached to the depot brigade and has been stationed at Camp Taylor in Louisville Kentucky.
Wilmer Burns Lawrence Phillips and Valor is Henderson joined the Lincoln Chautauqua forces for summer engagements. Wilmer began at Stanford Illinois Phillips at Pittsburg Pennsylvania and Valor is at Carlisle Indiana.
Worley M. Meyers of Monon serves as corporal in Company B Thirty sixth United States Infantry at Ft. Snelling Minnesota per press reports. Col A L Parmeter commander praised the troops saying they are all doing splendidly in a short period of training.
Miss Adah Bush a Kendana suffrage and club leader travels to Washington to take the role of chief clerk and office manager for the woman's committee of the Council of National Defense. Dr Anna Howard Shaw chairs the committee. Bush is known among Monticello women.
George Lowe, Mrs. W. H. Robinson, and Misses Fern Hanway and Faye Davidson traveled by car to Camp Custer Battel Creek and Detroit Michigan. They visited Cornoval John TL. Lowe at Camp Custer who expects to be sent overseas soon and stayed with Mrs. C F E Gleason in Detroit, formerly Miss Katheryn Price.
Mrs. Emily Uhl, chairman of the County Council of Defense women’s section, has been asked by the state Ameri canization committee to appoint a chairman for White County. She expects to comply but has not yet announced the appointment.
Lewis Dellinger and W. H. Thompson returned from Dorsett Minnesota where they spent two weeks fishing for muskies. Weather was ideal but bites were slow. Thompson caught twenty muskies and Dellinger eight, none large.
The Fourth of July event in Rensselaer was called off after a Council of Defense meeting last Thursday. The unanimous vote canceled the planned celebration so farmers and workers could focus on harvest duties, prioritizing practical patriotism over the parade.
The Vincenzo Davide suit against Loughry Bros Milling & Grain Co was moved from Carroll County to Cass Circuit Court on an affidavit for change of venue. The action seeks 875 dollars for breach of contract.
Newton County Enterprise reports two tons of dead hogs collected by Pendergrass and Wilson, a Kentland fertilizer firm, on Monday of last week. The hogs died from intense heat the day before and were sent to the rendering plant. The piece comments on the value of hoes and the need for better care of livestock and food production.
The last Sunday in June marks the annual meeting of the White County Reunion Association of Indianapolis. Members will gather at Brookside Park for an afternoon event expected to draw a full representation of White County families now living in the city.
Miss Lucy True of Rochester an acknowledged local figure narrowly escaped drowning while swimming at Lake Manitou with Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gottlieb of Chicago who could not swim. As the trio walked deeper water they suddenly found themselves in over their heads and Miss True cried out for help until other bathers came to assist.
The Young Ladies Business and Social Club held a delightful picnic at Misses Roberts home in East Monticello Tuesday evening. The dinner followed Food Administration regulations and was served at regular meal time. The club had voted to dispense with serving refreshments at regular meetings.
David Harvey aged seventeen escaped from the Northern In sane Hospital at Longcliff on Friday for the second time in days. He broke through two doors and slid down a newly painted forty foot drainpipe. Found aboard a Vandalia train at Frankfort, he was returned to the hospital. His parents live north of Burnettsville in Cass County and he was declared a person of unsound mind after crimes in several towns.
The funeral of Ed Corn a farmer from Carroll County living about six miles southeast of the city was held Monday. His death followed a brief illness due to gall stones after he was found in the field Friday and died Saturday morning. He leaves a wife and one daughter.
The marriage took place at the bride’s parents home last night at eight o’clock. The couple, both from local families, plan to live on a farm west of the city after their wedding and have already furnished their new home.
Mr and Mrs Herman Wilkins with children were in Kankakee Illinois when they learned of a serious accident involving Mrs Wilkins mother. Her arm was almost torn off in a teed crinder. They were joined by Mrs J P Christensen and daughter Minnie. Harold Wilson, a Christensen grandson, accompanied them home.
A twelve coach troop train passed through last Friday evening en route from Camp Grant Rockford Illinois to Jacksonville Florida. Soldiers from Milwaukee spoke with local citizens for about fifteen minutes and were greeted with cheers after receiving cats offered by residents.
D D Blickenstaff of Nampa Idaho spent winter in Arcadia Florida and traveled by Ford to his western home. He visited C C Fields and family in Idaville, meeting Fields accidentally in Turlock California during Fields western trip. They had known each other in Indiana and discussed it on a brief breakfast encounter.
The Methodist church auditorium was filled for Dr. Wirt Lowther of Logansport who lectured "What the Devil Said to His Junior Partner Kaiser Bill" under Epworth League auspices. Attendees praised the talk and noted close attention, as the lecture was postponed a week due to illness.
Jerry Bostick of Monon has been commissioned a captain and assigned to the 151st Infantry at Camp Shelby Mississippi. He joined the service at Winamac with the National Guard and served on the Mexican border. He rose quickly to second battalion adjutant and singing officer, and has run the regimental canteen.
Captain Richard L. Kramer of Frankfort is credited as inventor of a deadly gas bomb that could change warfare in France. The government plans a million dollar plant for production after tests approved, with Kramer in charge of manufacturing and a factory to be built near the capital.
A meeting at the sheriff's office in the courthouse last Saturday organized preliminary plans for the War Mothers role in the Fourth of July celebration. A follow up call meeting is set for next Saturday afternoon to finalize arrangements. Private Schuyler C. Mowrer could not speak due to a trip to Indianapolis but expects to address them soon. He is ordered to report in Washington, D C on July 9.
Railway detectives were sent to Monon after two boxes of shoes disappeared from a box car in the west yards. The boxes were found the next morning with three pairs missing. A few nights earlier a case of whis-
A quart bottle shipment in transit from Kentucky to Minneapolis was opened at the north end of town. contents removed and no trace of the thief or thieves found. Sherif and Mrs. Williams joined Mr. and Mrs. Bunnell in Jeffersonville, later visiting Louisville, with Aden Nordyke accompanying them and staying with the Bunnel ls army camp. Seven War Mothers from Delphi attended a meeting to form an organization with Mrs. Alice M. French of Indianapolis giving the address.
Delphi residents learn Sapper John J O’Connor of the Canadian forces engineers was not listed as killed in action. A telegram from the Director of Records clarified he is alive, ending family distress after an erroneous death report.
Councilmen W W Richey Daniel Beshear and M Renek visited Lake Cicott last Thursday to contract several carloads of washed gravel for street top dressing. Shipments will arrive daily with a car sent each day until work is finished. the first load arrived Saturday. William Tillett, on the street committee, could not go to Lake Cicott. Gravel is preferred to stone for top dressing, but stone shipments are unavailable and assurances are lacking.
Sevent h Federal Reserve District bankers at a Chicago meeting stated they would meet the government demand by selling their quota of the fourth Liberty loan certificates. The district quota was $105,000.
The article notes a bid of 000 for the first June 25 issue with biweekly payments through October 25 and a crowd total of 840,000,000 for the district. Among endorsers were B A Vogel of Monti cello and a representative from National Tank, White County, at the meeting.
Application filed last Thursday for Joseph Deweese of Brookston to enter the Central Hospital for the Insane at Tabanapolis after an inquest. The 32 year old man suffers deplorable mental illness with delusions of starvation and unvalued crops. Authorities at Indianapolis have not acted yet but hope admission will aid his condition.
O E Ackerson of Bloomfield is among the draft ed men leaving Thursday for Camp Chillicothe Ohio. Ackerson formerly led the agriculture department in local schools for two years and later became Green County county agent with headquarters at Bloomfield. He is a brother of H B Ackerson who served as emergency agent and later Miami County county agent after Rausman’s appointment.
Helen Fagin of Lafayette was acquitted by a Montgomery Circuit Court jury in Crawfordsville of being accessory before the fact in the murder of Greek victim Peter Maxatas. She had been in the company of Mataxas, Clyde Horn, and Florence Bryant. Horn already sentenced for life in Tippecanoe County. The Bryant girl reportedly faces no trial.
Twenty eight children attended the Story Hour last Thursday at the library. Each Thursday afternoon features a children's hour with a younger children story at three o clock followed by a longer tale for older kids. Today, June 27, the new book Chrekeherry Island will be started, and interested children should begin today to catch the first chapters.
Classified line reads for rent a good modern nine room house close in with inquiry directed to the Herald in adv june 27tf.
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