Local News Highlights From A Busy Indiana Town
The week featured several visits and family updates with Miss Hazel Hancock in Anderson hosting Miss Edith Barnett, and Miss Hazel Brand of Normal visiting AMliss Marie Haltom. Heat hit the area with record highs, and Wheat threshing began with excellent quality. Community notes include weddings, births, social visits, sales ads, and a cottage prayer meeting next Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazel Hancock of
Anderson
Edith Barnett
Frank Shufflebarger
Johnson County
J. A. Shufflebarger
Hazel Brand
Normal
Ind
Amliss Marie Haltom
M P Church All Day Meeting At Town Park
The M. P. church schedules an all day gathering at the town park on Sunday July 23. Everyone is invited and asked to bring well filled baskets. A program will be printed in the next issue. By order of Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey Sellers
M. P. Church
C A Phillips Dramatic Co to Stage The Broken Arrow at Mooresville
The C A Phillips Dramatic Company of thirty players will perform The Broken Arrow, a western comedy drama, under canvas in Mooresville on Saturday evening July 8. Admission is 20 cents for children and adults vary by seating. A noon outdoor performance on Main Street features cowboy band music outside the tent at 12 PM and the main show at 7:30 PM in front of the big tent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. Phillips Dramatic Co
Mooresville
Mooresville Plant Fly Wheel Blows Hoisting Damages
An engine runaway at Mooresville Water Light Heat and Power caused a massive fly wheel to burst, smashing the ice plant and smokestack, breaking a front window, and hurling debris onto Rain Street. Ammonia fumes forced nearby residents to flee. night engineer Kerley Smitherson was only slightly hurt. Damage seen as heavy. plant owned by Chicago interests with Ben F. Mowery as manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mooresville
Rain Street
Kerley Smitherson
Chicago
Ben F. Mowery
Mowery
Doolittle and Seymore Circus Co Performs For Community Crowd
The Famous Doolittle and Seymore Circus Co staged a garden lawn pageant at H. C. Secarce last Friday evening. The show featured a live lion act, a two year old ring master, acrobats, a snake tamer and a wild man, with toy animals in box cages and a charming village scene. Gate receipts plus popcorn and peanuts raised about $14 amid lemonade and lemon wafers for the spectators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doolittle and Seymore Circus Co
Dextramanus Circle
Ladies and Society
M. BE. Church
H. C. Secarce
Birthday Thanks and Local Notices Amid Holiday Cards
A personal note thanks friends for birthday cards dated July 1 expressing happiness and blessings. The message lists local business offerings from G A Keller and notes visits by Mr. and Mrs BE W Day and Mrs. Rebecca Comer to Dr and Mrs W B Hartsock in Indianapolis, with Mrs. Comer staying through the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ss. A. Shepherd
G. A. Keller’s
BE. W. Day
Rebecca Comer
W. B. Hartsock
Indianapolis
Across the West A Travelogue from Oakland to the Sierra Nevada
A reader recounts a westward journey from Mooresville to St Louis Kansas City Denver Colorado Springs Pike's Peak Garden of the Gods and Royal Gorge. The narrative notes dry weather in Illinois and Missouri wheat, high land prices, and vivid views of mountains canyons and the Cave of the Winds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mooresville
St. Louis
Kansas City
Illinois
Missouri
Kansas
Indiana
Bellville
Rockies
Denver
Col
Paul
Jim
Colorado Springs
Cripple Creek
Mt. Manitou
Eagle Clift
Pike's Peak
William Canyon
Arkansas River
Royal Gorge
Colorado River
Salt Lake City
Great Mormon Church
Great Salt Lake
Shit Lake
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Mooresville News Roundup From California Visit And Local Notes
The letter describes a trip reaching Oakland on Monday June 19 with family reunions in San Francisco and Golden Gate Park. It notes a S. S. convention in session, a request to watch John Bray, and social visits including Miss Katherine Harper. Local notices mention rent, illness, a quiet Fourth, and upcoming visitors from Efland North Carolina along with several dinners and gatherings in Martinsville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plains of
California
Oakland
S. S
San Francisco
Golden Gate Park
Cliff House
W. H. Henderson
P. S
John Bray
Martinsville Doctor Called To See Sick Babe Sunday
Dr. Fred Hadley of Martinsville was called Sunday to treat the ill infant of Mr. and Mrs. Neal Cranley. He visited his mother Mrs. Almira Hadley and family during the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Almira Hadley
Martinsville
Fred Hadley
Mary
Neal Cramley
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Justice of the Peace
C. Schurmann
Farmers Bank Building
THE
Mooresville Bakery
Taggart
Emo Farmers Bank Wall
Henderson
Lindley Block
West Main Street
Hill & Thompson
Moses
G.A. Philips Dramatia
Jasonville
Linton
Bedford
Phillips
Jennie Scott
Keller’s
John Sheets
J. L. Matthews
Evelyn Reeve
Aly
Lawrence Barrett
Camby
Secreen
Shirley
Etta Barnett
James A. Barnett
Charles Townsend
Fowler, Kan
Perfection Oil
Kate Dean
Plainfield
Charles Ferguson
Booker’s
Wm. Wilson
J. W McFall
Oliver Brown
Baby
Bloomington
Thos. Co. Brown
Bertram Jones
Hamilton, O
I. N. Thompson
Mrs. B. Jones
D. Coffin
Hobbs, Ind
Day’s
W. D. Trotter
Mid-day Club of
M. D. Trotter
J. M. Davis
Friends Church
Oakland City
Cal
Bimel
Ross
John Deere
G. A. Keller
Scruggs & CO
Mooresville, Indiana
Roberts Bros
Smith’s Shoeing Shop
Hick Jackson
Katherine Harper
Monrovia
Cora Harper
W. H. Taft
High Street
J. G. Kennedy
E. D. Forrest
Efland
N. C
Afr
Wim. Sumner
Mr. Forrest
Sumner
G.A. Keller
John Robbins
Evelyn Watkins
Carl Mitchell
Callie Matthews
Mellissa Robbins
Minnie Hadley
Helen Robbins
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