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Newspaper
Otterbein Sun
Location
Otterbein, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1901
Page
3
Otterbein residents and visitors fill the local column with social calls church gatherings and family visits. Mentions Collyer’s barber shop Messner’s shop promotion and Waddell Bros clothing store expanding offerings to men and boys amid town growth and upcoming Epworth League event.
Memorial services were conducted Thursday afternoon at the M. E. Church with Rev. Leeson of Fowler delivering an impressive address. The church, flags and flowers decorated the interior and business was suspended for the ceremony. A large attendance showed the town’s respect and the speaker denounced anarchy and the free circulation of pernicious literature as crime.
Melon patch raiders stole ripe melons from John Moore and Tom Plummer's field. Vandalism left the patch damaged with melons cut and missing, and a gatling gun reportedly to be mounted next year. Other items note a Peru divorce, a jokey letter about kissing and bad breath, new preachers in Otterbein, Kemp’s return from Conference, and a planned Biddler’s Contest on the 19th under Anus Hayseed’s management.
One week from next Sunday Otterbein will host the corner stone laying of the new Catholic church. The event will draw many visitors. town leaders urge cleansing and tidying to present a welcoming, pleasant town. Father J R Dioney of Lafayette will preside with several priests. The afternoon service is at 3 o clock. Catholic ladies will serve dinner under a large tent.
The stone foundation for the Cath lic is rapidly tail and in a few days it will be imptered. Thomas Ward renewed a Sun subscription for his cousin Phos tluehes in Hutkier Vermont. Chas Colyer was in Indipoucence yesterday. Ward and Burns went to Anderson to purchase the Diivit for the church.
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