Public School Prepares For Opening After Cleaning
The public school will start next Monday September 4. Janitors have worked several days cleaning rooms and will spare everything in readiness by Monday.
01 Sep 1922
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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1922
Page
1
The public school will start next Monday September 4. Janitors have worked several days cleaning rooms and will spare everything in readiness by Monday.
Shelbyville Indiana witnessed the marriage of J E Thompson and Sallie Cross on September 10 1872. Friends in Mooresville plan a 2 to 4 pm Sunday September 10 1922 visit at their home to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary.
The ladies of the Christian church will host a chicken supper at the library hall on Saturday evening September 16. They invite friends to join them for the meal.
Vv. D. Macy is appointed postmaster to replace Emsley Roberts who served eight years. Roberts resigns to take a clerical position with Fall Creek Mfg Co. Macy assumes charge of the post office today and begins duties.
Indianapolis Epworthians plan Sunday evening service at 6 30 with district officers present to launch fall work. Leaguers urged to attend and extend a warm welcome to district leaders.
Day and Cox's Grocery advertises a selection of tasty items for delivery with contact by phone 118.
About seventy Wheeler relatives gathered Sunday at Rogelon for a reunion. The pioneer brick house with old time furnishings hosted a bounteous dinner attended by sisters Mrs. Mary Cox from Winston-Salem Mrs. Alpheus Osborne from Amno and Mrs. Corina Pitta of Indianapolis. The afternoon featured social time under maple and beech trees.
Kyron Thornberry son of Mr and Mrs D H Thornberry east of town and Miss Opal Barnes of Indianapolis were quietly married by Rev E J Cain on Saturday morning August 26. They went to the Thornberry home then to Seymour for the bride’s family and attended a reunion before returning Monday evening. The groom is regarded as a rising young man with many friends who wish the couple prosperity and happiness.
The pastor returns from vacation and invites the congregation and friends to a full day of worship next Sunday. Activities include class meeting at 8 45, Sunday school at 9 30, worship at 10 45, Epworth League service at 6 20 with district Leaguers present, and 7 30 preaching by Rev C B Bacon followed by the Fourth Quarterly Conference.
Multiple civil actions listed including foreclosures on mortgages and notes, accounts, and divisions of estates. Cases feature Citizens Auto Co. versus Becraft, various banks against Wm A Morgan regarding notes, suits by McCollum estate administr ator, and additional actions including divorces and debt collection.
W G Shuflebarger sold his east Main street residence to Mc Kendree Smith of Avon who will move October 1. Shuffle barger also bought the Edith Sturm property on West Washington. Henry Hite sold his east Washington street home to Fred W. Rushton. Mrs Charles Whitaker sold her West Garrison street residence to Herschel E Johnson. All deals through O E Anderson real estate dealer.
On a hillside near Brooklyn Indiana a series of oil and gas blowouts has racked the Carter farm. Edward Barrett, former state geologist, calls the events oil shale gas pockets and says a gas buildup may have caused the blasts. Carter plans a farmer owned company with $200 per member to drill further and awaits state geology review. Rainbow Bend hosts attract visitors with chicken dinners and a stocked lake for bass, while levees are built for a larger lake and future sailboats.
Tilford Antrim died at his home on East Main Street after long illness. He was born May 26 1854 near West Newton Indiana and lived most of his life there before moving to Mooresville in 1818 with his wife Flora Denny and daughter. Funeral services were held at West Newton M E church with burial in West Newton Cemetery.
Family thanks friends neighbors and relatives for kindness sympathy during sorrow for loss of husband and father Flora Antrim and Children.
Lee J. Mayes and Elizabeth Jean Mise of Indianapolis receive a marriage license. Robert Cleo Best and Doris Helen Gregory of Monrovia are licensed. Bryan Brown Thornberry of Morgan County weds Opal Ola Barnes of Indianapolis. Leo Monroe Jones of Bloomington marries Lora May Kleindorfer.
Quick tire service advertised by R. L. Heine, proprietor, with address at 21 North Indiana Street and phone 181.
The host invites visitors to tour two rented cabins and two more under construction. He offers free samples of his mineral water and shows visitors around the farm, with no charge for the tour.
The list of jurors for the Morgan Circuit Court September term to convene next Monday was drawn by commissioners Smith Johnson and A M Smith. Grand Jurors include Henry Kanes Addison Reynolds Luther Elkins Charles Mayer Walter Guyer and others. Petit jurors listed are Jacob Mann Harland Wilson J H McCowen Otto Wilson Ora Egbert and more.
The Sunday School starts at 10:00 with worship at 11:00. A prayer meeting is held Thursday evening at 8:00 led by Pastor J. E. Hartsuck.
The Christian Church offers Sunday School at 10 00 A M. Communion Service and preaching follow at 11 00 A M.
Wanted cream poultry and eggs for money in exchange. Call for prices at Wadley phone 32. Open every day. The Wadley.
Advertising notice from The J. R. Watkins Co. invites agents to sell original Watkins Products in available city territories. Offers include free samples and a favorable invitation to write for details at Columbus Ohio.
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