22 Jan 1915
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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1915
Page
1
Local items note Richard Edwards with scarlet fever a light form. Residents and visitors include Mr and Mrs Charles Hadley with the Brewers, Miss Martha Scearce visiting Danville, plus many travels among Scearces and Scruggs families. A chicken supper fundraiser and library plans are announced with community figures and dates.
Friday double header featured Mooresville Independents defeating Liga Alpha Thetas 56 to 16. M H S first team topped the second 24 to 1. A marquee game is slated for February 5 when Martinsville HS visits M H S first team.
The Bay View Club held a top meeting last Thursday led by Mrs Ralph Jackson and Mrs W A VanCuben who discussed town and city improvements. Mrs A W Farmer shared an engaging account of her trip to the eastern coast. The Magazine Study explored art in depicting Christ life and how visual works move hearts beyond spoken word.
The Majestic Range demonstration at TL Wi Lisdles hardware store draws large crowds this week. A live baking event showed the cake flatten under weight then return to shape, after which it was cut and shared. Hot biscuits and osmol cakes were served and children received tango hops as souvenirs while the event continues.
Woe reports a direct tell line from Havelwood and The Mearesville Telephone Company. The notice mentions a telecommunication outage or service update affecting local residents and businesses. Further details appear limited in the fragment.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Roy Ennis and Nora Aliler, Arthur Barlow and Beryle Laughlin, and residents of Brooklyn. It references private sale, a pork feria, and payment terms, but many words are garbled, yielding an unreadable notice with no coherent event details.
The Bay View Club asks women to donate warm clothing for Belgian children via the Relief Station in New York City. They seek ten cent dark outing flannel for dresses and bloomers for three year olds, with patterns in the collective rest room. Donations due by Thursday January 28.
The Tuesday evening entertainment at the school house featured grade read and 3rd grade performances. The assembly room was filled as teachers and pupils presented recitations songs and dramatizations. Highlights included a First Grade dramatization of a story and multiple grade level acts by Maybell Elliott Glen Marshall Naghier and Nia Kiser among others.
Judge Smith McPherson of Red Oak died January 17 after six months illness from heat exposure last summer. Born February 14, 1848 near Mooresville, he studied at Friends Academy and Iowa University class of 1870, served as State Attorney General, chaired the Republican state committee, and was elected to Congress July 17, 1896 by a record margin. He served one year before renomination to a federal judgeship. He leaves siblings Clara and Orrin McPherson and was buried in Red Oak after marriage in-laws.
A compiled list of numerous real estate transfers in Martinsville Mooresville and surrounding areas. Transfers include lots in orig plats and added tracts with names such as Charles T Johnson Emma I Johnson W F Hadley Grace Gregory Howard V Johnson Mary Batts Virgil Day Omer Tutterow Theodore Veall Savannah Bryce Arthur Leroy Slough Daniel R Kirk Bail Rose Cyrus Whetzel Walter Rosenbalm Alfred Watson Henry Summers Stephen Summers Silas Kivett and others. The documents show sales deeds trusteeships and bequests across Eminence Morgantown and nearby additions.
A garbled 19th or early 20th century Martinsville section item lists numerous property transfers and lot additions. It names Mooresville and Martinsville addresses, Factory Club deeds, cemetery plots, and various individuals such as Susan A. Geitry, Henry Ennis, and Chas. FE. Grown. The fragment mentions Union Cemetery and Union Suits, with prices and apparel items interspersed, indicating a mixed listing of land deeds and retail notices.
Fragmentary report notes revival services led by Rev Walter Brown and Ernest Keys at Weat Union. Mentions John Griffith and Ernest Griffith on a business trip to Indianapolis. References to travel, relatives, and unclear local happenings with scattered names and places.
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