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Newspaper
Otterbein Sun
Location
Otterbein, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1913
Page
3
Multiple short items list wagons for sale at Opp Hardware and Opp Holwe, visits by Mrs Rebecca Lake in Stockwell and Miss Leona Johnston in Williamsport, plus business trips by John Johnston to Indianapolis. Notices include births, sick lists, a wedding misprint correction, real estate ad, and social event invitations reflecting small town life.
United Brethren notes announce a Fourth Quarterly meeting of the U B Church in the town hall on Wednesday afternoon August 6 at 2. The session will select the lay delegate for the annual conference at Waterloo Indiana and treasurers must submit yearly reports. Rev J I Grimes will be present with us. W B Taylor Pastor.
Local notes report Miss Anna Johnson wrote Otterbein Route Two. families visit highlights include Pitser and family with Fred Taylor and Albert Johnson and Luther Nelson with Arthur Vaughn. Hulda Larson traveled to Bowler for a teaching exam and returned Sunday. The Johnson brothers assisted Frank Spiker in a Monday purchase. Mrs. Ben Gephart spent Friday with the Gephart family. Frank Spiker and family were Fowler visitors Sunday.
Mrs. Everet Prince of Indiana polis visited the past week with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Prince, according to West Side Occurrences. Samuel H. Keller reports on local social notes and visits.
Joseph Warbritton family visited Rufus Day of Chatterton with Garfield Eberley. Ella Brock visited Samuel Keller. William Keller entertained with Wm Schwamberger and John Rowe families. Thieves entered James Wagner and Joe Reynolds homes stealing valuables and damaging dishes. Rev. Roy Killin and Oxford guests stay with Mrs. Mary Killin. Several Keller and Mann family visits noted.
Armstrong Paragrafs by Robert Arvidson notes gatherings as Frank Mann and family and Ben Gephart with Err Gephart visited Boswell Sunday. Bern Gephart John Lemming Edd Buck and John Reed and families attended a surprise at Independence on Mrs Clawson. Mrs Jay Oldham and daughter Kathleen of Eddyville Indiana came Friday to visit Mrs Mary Moore. Thos Bowyer and family visited Otterbein Sunday. Cr L Melfinnis and family visited Otterbein Sunday with B M Bugbee and family.
Warren County commissioners inspected the Banning Harman Gravel Road earlier in the week. Wm Young reported wheat yield an average of 234 bushels per acre. Uncle Wesley Foster arrived in town Monday. The Cooper Bridge on Little Pine is in bad condition and needs immediate repair. An all day Basket Meeting will be held on the school campus Sunday August 10 inviting Otterbein Montmorenci No. 1 and Independence churches.
Miss Ella Reiners writes Shambaugh Corner. Miss Tressa Moore of Otterbein visited with W. G. Homing and family. J. R. Mather and sisters were Lafayette visitors. Married July 19 Mrs Will Coffman to Charlies German of Montmorenci. Threshers busy locally. Geo Kelley and family of Lafayette visited with Tolley family. Mrs Marvin visited grandchildren in New Richmond. Mrs Anna Mulvey visited in Lafayette.
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