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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1920
Page
8
Saturday visits and travels across Indianapolis Danville Plainfield and Lafayette noted. Residents share family visits school events birthdays oyster supper and upcoming meetings while Marines and travelers are mentioned among the hazelwood and plainfield communities.
Cartersburg notes entertainments Sunday featured Mr and Mrs Walter Miller of Indianapolis and Mr and Mrs George Howard of Rutherford New Jersey hosted by Forrest Little and family in a social gathering centered on the local community home.
Ed Mattern shows slow improvement while families and neighbors share events. A daughter, Mary Evelyn, born to Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Newby, sparks visits as Elmer Tucker’s family sees Will Stallings at Ame Saturday night. Mrs. Alina Shaw hosts a shower for her daughter Iva Compton Learcanys. Martha Sardy, Eva Scotter’s daughter, dies in a kitchen fire. Center church ladies aid plans a meeting with Carrie Lewis on Jan 28. all members urged to attend.
Miss Alice Terrell spent Sunday with Mrs. Lud Dalton at Bridgeport. Mrs. Sam Delaney rushed to Lafayette for her seriously ill son. Chas. Roark of Avon visited Monday. Ruth and Helen Zimmerton hosted a school friends party Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Wade Mattern of Pennsylvania visited their cousin Mrs. Morris Gilbert last week. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mattern dined with Wm. Mills and wife in Plainfield Friday. Miss Josephine Smith weekend with her mother in Indianapolis. Miss Leota Mattern attended a miscellaneous shower at Mrs. Albert Shaw’s for Eva, a recent bride. Staniel Friedley of Muncie spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Friedley.
The church invites all women to a Women’s Night sermon next Sunday at 7 o’clock on the theme Woman’s Divine Mission. Attendees may bring a male guest and join a women’s chorus. Sunday morning service 10:30 by a guest from First Friends Indianapolis. Sunday School 9:30 led by Supt B W Anderson.
Quotation links biblical manna to today’s drug and chemical trades. It notes Israel’s use of manna for sustenance in the desert and explains that current manna comes from incisions in South European trees. Demand rises for small flake manna, the higher quality from the stem’s upper part, in the primary market.
A playful exchange features Mr Flutters-That praising his fiance Miss Pud din for goddesslike looks while Professor Bonedigger compares her to ancient Aztec carvings, noting a striking resemblance.
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