Local Notes From Camby Area Include Visits and Club Reports
Residents recount visits to cousins in Jeffersonville and Modoc, camping trips near Spencer, and news of Riley Scott’s funeral. The Conner Club met after the funeral, Ruth Dix taught canning, and the Camby Community Church event featured colonial costumes and a Boston Tea Party reenactment. The Camby orchestra rehearses weekly, and families travel or relocate, with remarks on a Penn yards accident and a Pennsylvanian station worker.
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Conner Club
Riley Scott
Ruth Dix
Wilson Furnas
Ernest Lewis
Léland Mills
Otis Burk
Camby
Boston
Patrick Henry
Clara Ratliffe
Sutton
Noted educator to lecture on power at Chautauqua
Dr Wassam of the University of Iowa will close the Chautauqua with a community building lecture titled The Secret of Power. He promises a simple eloquent talk about increasing power with uplifting, smiling speaking that stirs enthusiasm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Octor
Wassam
University of Iowa
Delightful Entertainers to Appear at Chautauqua Third Day
Miss Sheehan praised as the greatest reader and storyteller at Community Chautauquas will headline with associate entertainers. Sheehan is joined by Marthalyn Trippeer, Claudia Peck, and an ensemble of vocal and instrumental talent. Two concerts are planned, one afternoon and one evening, showcasing combined star power.
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Miss Sheehan
Chautauquas
Sheehan
Marthalynn
Trippeer
Claudia Peck
Local Legion Leader Guides Moran Post in County Wide Ban
Rev. H. G. Scoggins, Moran Legion commander and former infantryman, leads a Moran post that bans membership in the county. The county, deemed larger than Rhode Island, honors a former sergeant of ordnance as its highest ranking ex soldier.
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Texas
Rhore Island
Legion
Moran
H. G. Scoggins
Infantry
Mulvaney
Chair of woven reeds gifts Commander MacNider office throne
A chair made of woven reeds, gifted to Commander Hanford MacNider of the American Legion by the Department of the Philippines, sits in his office. Modeled on a Moro chieftain throne, it is built without nails or paint, using split bamboo and tropical reeds assembled in Manila.
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Hanford MacNider
American Legion
Department of the Philippines
Manila
Old Gouverneur Morris Grave in Morrisania Faces City Growth
A historic burial vault of Gouverneur Morris at St. Ann's Church Morrisania endures while New York's Bronx expansion crowds the yard and decays gather around the iron fence. The piece notes Morris wrote the Constitution draft as secretary of the Constitutional Convention. Local notices mention illness and visitors including Mrs Albani Bauman of Indianapolis and Rev John S Martin of Greenwood with Mr and Mrs George W Manno hosting guests.
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Gouverneur Morris
St. Ann’s Church
Morrisania
The
United States
Morris
Bronx
New York
John S. Martin
Greenwood
Defends Negro Appointee to Annapolis Naval Academy
Representative Martin Ansorge of New York defends Emile Treville Holley, a freshman at the College of the City of New York, as a matter of justice to the large colored population and in recognition of the valor of 500,000 colored servicemen in World War I. Harvard asserts no discrimination against negroes. Numerous social notes follow, detailing visits and family news from Indianapolis and surrounding communities.
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Annapolis Naval Academy
Martin Ansorge
New York
United States
Emile Treville Holley
College
City of
Harvard University
American Legion
Carrying On With the American Legion
Veterans and wartime agencies push for postwar reorganization and benefits. Maryland plans monthly war service pay with overseas bonuses. 195 officers leave Washington as a drawdown continues. Hibben proposes draft-board reform to aid veterans. Indiana Legionnaires survey 130000 servicemen and 1500 disability and bond claims. A Paris veteran seeks Eiffel Tower climb for French veterans charity while Detroit courtofjustice backs paid jury service for ex soldiers.
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William. ‘Strother
Houston
Tex
Paris
France
Eiffel Tower
Local Visits and Social Notes From Cartersburg and Beyond
Cartersburg Ora cooks family visits to Johnson county. Mrs Manda Tomlinson spent the week with Guy Seatons of Plainfield. John Wells and Julia of Amo visited his son John Wells and family. Sewing club picnic at the Springs. Annie Cox very low. Lucile Wood with Elizabeth Davis. Mildred McCormick returned from Martinsville visit. Olive Winsted of Plainfield visiting Mrs James McCormick. Relatives of Ohio and Everett Quinn spent Sunday with Samuel Holderman.
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Manda Tomlinson
Guy Seatons
Plainfield
John Wells
Julia
Amo
Ohio
Everett Quinn
Samuel Holderman
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Plainfield, Ind
CAMRY
Harry Gibson
Stella May Gibson
Jennie Wilson
Jeffersonville
Mable Newby
Memphis
Charles Newby
Guy Edwards
Modoc
Wilson
Mobile
Ala
Sam Hisks
Allen Routon
Morriis
Spencer
Mr. Dyer
Pennsylvania Station
Friends Here
Dorothy
Donald Ellis
Sheboygan, Wis
Indianapolis
Mike Hicks
Scott
Harry
Hintion
Camby Orchestra
Herschel Price
Lucille
Gridley
Clarence Price
Eli Stalker
Westfield
Friends Church
IE. D. Caraway and
Cacrer
DR. C. W. Wassam
Theresa Sheehan Concert
H. G.ssoggins
Buck
Strong American Legion Organization
Waur
Elacorate
Flac
iNider
Albani. Bauman
Indiananapolis
Buckeye Station
Carl Price
George Clodfelter
Elmwood
A. E. Landworth
Arthur Lux
California
John Lux
Eugene Osborne
Friends
William Price
Rosamond
Charles Smith
Peter Poland
Gladys Stanley
Mildred Cutrell
Mary Louise Poland
Day
Sugar Grove
Sylvia Nester
Sam Shavers
C. E. Parnell
Robert Price
Win Morris
Virgil Hurin
Opal Parnell
Win Ragen
Bridgeport
Osie Hawkins
Nancy Clodfelter
Rollo Jenkins
Kate Jenkins Winnings
Tilden
Ruth Hadley
Danville
Beulah Jones
Avon School
Wildwood
Sarah Lucile Parnell
Wilbur Jenkins
John
North Sea
World War Veterans of
Maryland
Washington
Capital
John Grier Hibben
Princeton University
Indiana
Hoosier Legionnaires
Detroit
Mich
Cartersburg
Ora. Cook
Johnson County
Rosa Ward
Annie Cox
Lucile Wood
Elizabeth Davis
Mildred McCormick
Martinsville
Olive Winsted
Cousi
James McCormick
Here
Reagan & Johnson
Gol
Sam Reagan
Ben Davis
Col
ED Johnson
Pizinfield
William Farnum
Sharles
William Farnums
Harold Lloyd
Conway Tearle
Man OF Stone
Tarzan
Gaming
Kathrine McDonald
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