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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1920
Page
8
Community visits span Shelbyville to Michigan City with guests from Terre Haute Indianapolis and Detroit. School opens September 13 with Miss Gretta Sink as principal and teachers Ruth Pruitt Caroline Edmonson. Frank Pearcy funeral held at M I church attended by Geo Boreman and others.
Raymond Phillips Earl Wood Willie Childers Ermine Smith Charles Moore and Misses Helen Lucile Velma Bayliss Blanche Winstead Mary Whitt Nancy Stephenson Susie Edwards attended a Sunday picnic at Blue Bluff with neighbors and friends, enjoying a casual outdoor gathering.
A list of upcoming auctions released by B. Fe Arbuckle and Son includes buyers in Brownsburg Hadley Rader and Walker Williams with sales beginning mid September. The Day Fellure Big Type Poland China hog sale is set for September 25 at the Day farm east of town. Additional sales note Hadley Martin Bridgeport Tharp Cartersburg and several farm goods auctions across Clay and Mooresville areas beginning September 15 through September 30 with times starting at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Various farms and households will be liquidated on specified dates and locations.
The revival meeting at this place will run until Sunday evening with a basket dinner on Sunday. Everyone is invited. Miss Ruth Pruitt spent the latter part of last week with her sister Mrs. Emerson Craven. School opens Monday September 13. Hugh Miller and Harold Routh left Thursday for Colorado and Wisconsin to teach. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hayden of Indianapolis visited Sunday with Mrs. Lincoln Hadley. Mrs. Reece Woodward remains about the same.
Mrs. Roscoe Ludlow of Indianapolis vacationed with her mother Mrs. Matilda Duncan. C. O. Osborn and family hosted S S Cravens. Mrs. Mary Reeves and children called afternoon. Mrs. Bertha Beck of Carthage visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson. Arthur Petty and Hubert Westerfield visited relatives. Church was dismissed for Quarterly Meeting at Mill Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stair of Brook visit Mrs. Stair's parents.
The Wapéekeewa Club elected Fred Osborn treasurer to replace Adna Moon who resigned. Following the meeting members dined at Ellis Cafe and the club will relocate to the third floor of the building recently bought by Charles Symons, formerly occupied by the Masonic lodge.
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