28 Nov 1912
Page 1
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Newspaper
Pekin Advance
Location
Pekin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1912
Page
1
Pekin readers note W W Craw was in town Monday and Goa Karnes stopped by Pekin on Monday. Hedrick also visited town Saturday, reflecting a busy spell of local arrivals and departures.
Social meetings held weekly at Church of Christ in Old Pekin with service details. Multiple locals and visitors listed with distances and dates. Pekin M E Church outlines Sunday School times and standard preaching and meeting schedules. Emmanuel and Shilo M E also note service times and Sundays observed.
Church services are listed for Bethel M and Mt Pleasant ME with first and third Sundays and specific times. Daisy Ridge Chapel and Olive Branch Baptist announce Saturday night and Sunday services with Sunday School times. Various local residents are noted visiting, traveling, or returning from trips, with Thanksgiving prayers and community well wishes from Wilfred E. W. Seymour, Indiana.
A reflective Thanksgiving prayer text opens the notice page, followed by brief town items. Ed McKinley of Borden travels in for the day, Curtis' Glathing Store advertises gloves in Washington County, and Mrs Harriet Furgerstn of New Albany attends Aaron Matton's funeral along with other minor local movements in Salem.
Sy Hay seed reflects on why a day of public thanksgiving endures without law, tracing from ancient harvest feasts to the 1621 Plymouth observance and Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation. The piece urges active gratitude toward others and notes personal reminiscences and local anecdotes from a storyteller named Pete.
The oyster supper hosted by News Pekin R.N.A. Saturday night drew a strong attendance despite blustery weather. Music from Spider Webs and Fish Pond enhanced the event. organizers thank contributors and helpers, including waitresses and those who prepared the hall. Local updates mention visitors from Louisville, a Hoosier farm family, and a large Pekin fire scare near Sarah Johnson’s farm that was quickly controlled.
The note mentions Elven Callaway missing early in the week and Walter Phillips appearing unwell. It notes some students using powder and a professor visiting Friday evening. It highlights Thanksgiving and an eight grade test with mentions of Walter, Lotus Church, and Lawrence Hurst playing ball the prior evening and being absent.
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