Chautauqua Opens With Variety of Entertainment Aug 14
Community Chautauqua at Plainfield unveils a varied five day program starting August 14 with the Cartwright Brothers Quartet and an electric megaphone quartet. The second day features Philippine Islands natives with banjo mandolin and guitar. Other highlights include Louis Brownell saxophone performances, Zelma MacConnell, Dorothea Leclerc, Beverly Hoffman, and a live performance of The Chimes of Normandy with Maude Willis. The Cremona Orchestra closes the week with a seven member string ensemble and a memorable concert. Season tickets available through local committee.
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Cartwright Brothers Quartet
Cartwrights
Philippine Islands
Youll
Brownell
Louis Brownell
Zelma MacConnell
Dorothea lLeClerc
Beverly Hoffman
Normandy
America
Boston
New York
Chimes of
The
Cremonas
Plainfield
Junior Chautauqua in Plainfield Announces Civic Play and Parade
Plainfield invites boys and girls to a Junior Chautauqua with daily nine to ten community meetings and ten thirty a.m. games. On day two officers will be elected to govern their tent and town. The pageant is set for Saturday afternoon with costumes and prizes for the two best outfits.
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Plainfield
Friends Church Yard
Bridgeport PTA Ice Cream Festival at Masonic Lot
The Bridgeport Parent Teachers Association hosts an ice cream festival at the Masonic lot in Bridgeport on Saturday evening August 20. A variety of refreshments will be served and a program with special music by the orchestra will conclude the event. The public is invited.
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Parent-Teachers’ Association of Bridgeport
Masonic Lot
Bridgeport
Parent-Teachers Association
Quarterly Meeting at Bridgeport Draws Local Friends
A number of Friends of the Plainfield church attended the quarterly meeting at Bridgeport Saturday. A noon lawn dinner followed. Willis Beede of Friends Foreign Missions spoke and Ed Edwards gave a talk for Reidmount Academy.
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Friends
Plainfield Church
Bridgeport
Willis Beede
Friends Foreign Missions
Edwards
Reidmount Academy
Aged Woman Succumbs After Illness at Morgan Home
Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Bell widow of Rev. Napoleon Bell died at the Morgan residence on Mill street early Tuesday of acute indigestion at age 86. She leaves two sisters in Chicago and Kansas City with many nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held Thursday at ten in the morning from the home, with burial at Crown Hill cemetery, Indianapolis.
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Elizabeth Ann Bell
Napoleon Bell
Morgan
Mill Street
P. A. Hagee
A. P. W. Bridges
Mary Morgan
Nannie Morgan
Joseph
This Place
P. W. Morgan
Kansas City
K. N. Shaw
C. W. Mendenall
Chicago
A. M. Shaw
Bridgeport
A. L Meredith
Crown Hill Cemetery
Indianapolis
Stock Sale At Mercer Barn August 27 Near Town
George Mercer and Hadley Almond announce a stock sale at the Mercer barn one-fourth mile north of town on Saturday August 27. The sale includes 65 head of mostly dairy cows 40 to 50 hogs and 50 sheep.
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George Mercer
Hadley Almond
Mercer Barn
Public Auction by Sugar Grove Health Club at Dixon Home
Sugar Grove Health and Home Making Club holds a public auction at the Dixon home on Tuesday August 16 at 7 30 p m. Items include cakes pies candies and needlework with proceeds funding the club winner’s trip to the Boys and Girls Round-up at Purdue.
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Sugar Grove Health and Home Making Club
O EH
Dixon
Purdue
Meeting of Eastern Star Tonight
C E S announces a meeting of the order of Eastern Star this evening on August 11.
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Order of Eastern Star
Means of Grace Sermon and Sabbath School at Methodist Church
Church notices announce 9:30 Sabbath school and 10:30 morning service. The theme is Means of Grace with exhortations to tend wounded souls, share redemption, and whisper the story of grace. A. L. Meredith signs the message urging spiritual renewal and hope in heaven.
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God
Bible School and Services Announced for Week
The church calendar lists Bible school at 9 30 a m and morning worship at 10 45 with Rev Harry Davis district superintendent of Churches of Christ as speaker All church members urged to attend Christian Endeavor at 6 45 led by Edwin Light Evening services omitted due to chautauqua Mid week prayer praise and Bible study at 7 30 Wednesday Sunday beckons Reverend W H Hedges pastor Baptist 3 30 Sunday school A P Barlow superintendent devotional service at 10 30 and 6 30 B Y Y P U Wednesday 7 30 You are cordially invited to attend all services S L Essick pastor Friends 9 30 Sunday school cordially invited
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Bible School
Harry Davis
The
Churches of Christ
Christian Endeavor
Edwin Light
W. H. Hedges
A. P. Barlow
P. U
S. L. Essick
Talented quartet highlights Community Chautauqua program
The Le Brownell Concert Company leads a quartet including saxophone harp flute violin and piano in a program of classic and popular tunes at the Community tent. Other attractions this week are the Philippine Quartet Cartwright Brothers Quartet and the Cremona Orchestra. Obtain a program folder for full list and details.
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LE Brownell Concert Company
Chautauqua
Philippine Quartet
Cartwright Brothers Quartet
Cremona Orchestra
Public Meeting on Constitutional Amendments
Clinton Givan of Indianapolis will address a free public meeting at the opera house Jere tonparrow Friday evening. The talk will discuss proposed amendments to the constitution and is open to all.
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Clinton Givan
Indianapolis
Opera House
Jere
Tonparrow
Rooms for rent during Yearly Meeting NEEDED
Notify Jessie Mercer Wendell Dixon Inez Reeve Wm Chandler or Carrie Hobbs about available rooms for the Yearly Meeting. Seekers should contact the listed names to arrange accommodations.
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Jessie Mercer
Wendell Dixon
Inez Reeve
Wm. Chandler
Carrie Hobbs
Legion Sponsors Horse Show in Brownsburg
Pat Roach commander of Brownsburg Lincoln Post No 331 and Dr Earl Ferree visited Tuesday to promote a Legion sponsored horse show and home coming on Saturday August 20 in Brownsburg. A drawing offers a team of two year old males at 4 p m and cash prizes in sixteen classes with no entry fee. Plainfield residents receive a special invitation and a good time is promised.
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Pat Roach
Brownsburg
Lincoln Post
American Legion
Earl Ferree
Plainfield
Watsons Honored at Farewell Services
Mrs. Lenna Watson delivered the principal sermon at the Friends church farewell service. Rev. C. O. Watson also spoke. The church presented the couple with a 9 by 12 Wilton rug for four years of service at Plainfield Friends church. A large dinner followed with 175 to 200 attendees and another devotional meeting in the afternoon.
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Lenna Watson
Friends Church
C. O. Watson
W. A. Rushton
Cartersburg Old Settlers Picnic Set for August 13
The 39th annual Old Settlers Picnic in Cartersburg will be held Saturday week August 13. Organizer Mr Holderman has secured several prominent speakers. The event will include the usual features and a color jazz band.
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Old Settlers
Cartersburg
Holderman
Aeroplane Pilot Saves Life at Indiana Fair
Ernest Cutrell, pilot for the Indianapolis Aerial Association, saved trapeze performer Omar Davis during a flying act at the Henry County Fair in Maddle town. Davis, exhausted on a 20 foot rope, hung from the aircraft as Cutrell steered toward a hay stack a mile away, landing safely at sixty miles per hour.
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Ernest Cutrell
Indianapolis Aerial Association
Omar Davis
Maddletown
Ind
Cutrell
Davis
Gordon Holder
Mooresville
Little family reunion set for August 19 at Clayton school store
The annual Little family reunion will be held Friday August 19 at the school store in Clayton. Family members are urged to attend and share updates.
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Clayton
Ross Family 20th Reunion Set for August 3
The 20th annual Ross family reunion is scheduled at the Friends Church campus on Wednesday, August 3. Organizers invite all descendants to attend and share memories.
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Ross
Friends Church
Hardware store sold to A Pagett of Fillmore
The Stanley hardware store has been sold in the past few days to A Pagett of Fillmore who has taken possession. Ar Stanley made many friends in Plainfield during his brief tenure and the Stanleys will remain in Plainfield as their home.
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Stanley Hardware
Fillmore
Ar. Stanley
Stanleys
Plainfield
12 in records for 50c at Symons
A brief item notes 12 records offered at 50 cents each at Symons with a sense of urgency urging readers to hurry.
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Symons
Hurry
Hendrick County Guernsey Calf Show Planned for Plainfield
Arrangements for the Hendrick County Guernsey calf club show at Plainfield August 20 are nearly complete. Calves and owners will parade at the Friends church yard with a basket dinner to follow. Calves will be judged by R L George of Georseland Farm and Prof C R George of Purdue University will give the main afternoon address.
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Hendrickg County Guernsey
Plainfield
Friends Church
R. L. George
Georseland Farm
Lebanon
Indiana
George
C. R. George
Purdue University
U. S
Purdue tomato yields exceed state average in breeding trial
Agricultural Experiment Station at Purdue University reports a yield of 20 tons per acre from 1.3 acres by August 1, far above the state average of 4.5 bushels. The project aims to boost canning crops, using greenhouse start on March 16 and field transplanting May 15 with 400 pounds of acid phosphate per acre to speed maturity.
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Purdue University
Ladoga Building Loan Fund Sues Davidson for Mortgage Foreclosure
Civil action by Ladoga Building Loan Fund and Savings Assn against Colonel J. Davidson Grant Sellers and Ida C. Selers to foreclose a mortgage and obtain possession of real estate.
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Ladoga Bldg. Loan Fund & Savings Assn
J. Davidson
Ida C. Selers
Bank Appointed Guardian for Irene Vestal in Plainfield
Citizens State Bank of Plainfield Indiana has been named guardian of Irene Vestal. No bond is required.
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Citizens State Bank of
Marriage Licenses Issued In various Indiana towns
George W Palmer Jameston to Lula May Osborn Lizton Roscoe M Pike Mooresville to Let tie F Cooprider Clayton C R F D Robert C Gibson Vincennes to Lillian K Robertson Brownsburg Walter Pinkston Indianapolis to Florence Pierson Indianapolis Scott Bippus Houston to Pearl Melvine Danville
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George W. Palmer
Jameston
Lula May Osborn
Lizton
Roscoe M. Pike
Mooresville
Lettie F. Cooprider
Clayton
Robert C. Gibson
Vincennes
Lillian K. Robertson
Brownsburg
Walter Pinkston
Indianapolis
Ind
Florence Pierson
Scott Bippus
Houston
Texas
Pearl Melvine
Danville
Six Points Visitors and Local Family News
Martha Bacon of Ben Davis visits Grace Zimmerman and family. Mr and Mrs Hoyt Gilbert of Detroit visit Morris Gilbert’s family. Ethel and Nelle Terrell travel to Chicago then Lake Mackinac Island. Forrest Turpin and family of Indianapolis visit Harry Morris. Frank Milhous and family visit Indianapolis. George Armstrong and family stay with James Armstrong near Clayton. Parent Teachers Association to host ice cream festival in Bridgeport on Saturday Aug 20 with music and program. public invited.
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Martha Bacon
Ben Davis
Grace Zimmerman
Mrs. Hoyt Gilbert
Detroit
Ethel
Nelle Terrell
Chicago
Noble
Lake Mackinac Island
Forrest Turpin
Indianapolis
Harry Morris
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