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Newspaper
Roanoke Review
Location
Roanoke, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1919
Page
1
The National Tuberculosis Association urges rural residents to use outdoor sleeping porches and open windows to combat tuberculosis. It notes 150000 deaths yearly from the disease and cites the half billion-dollar annual loss from premature deaths, urging healthier living and living conditions for all.
The Red Cross operated 22 military hospitals in France serving 90 000 patients. It manufactured splints and anesthesia gas, built emergency hospitals, ran diet kitchens and 13 dispensaries, eight infirmaries and 11 convalescent homes while meeting urgent army supply needs. The France Medaille d Honneur and Polish Eagle were awarded to the lead medical officer.
Beech Grove Church hosts opening exercises for the Lafayette Township Farmers Institute featuring an invocation, livestock and crop talks, women’s role in production, and prize awards for youths up to eighteen. Prizes include merchandise, cash, clothing, and household goods awarded by judges. Monetary sponsors listed include First National Bank Roanoke and Farmers State Bank Roanoke with buyers and donors named.
Fort Wayne visitors and local residents frequent the Monson Chapel area events. Clara Jobbs dies. funeral at Beech Grove church. Thanksgiving visits, shoppers, and rides with Car 4:15 from Fort Wayne are noted. Charley Dennis starts at Bowser plant. Fred Fisher visits. Ellis Fisher weights and hunts. Rural social scene includes Hog school house events and Laureld Wilder Roanoke visit.
A Red Cross officer arriving at a Paris warehouse at 1 am secured emergency hospital supplies in short order. Within two hours the items were ready and delivered to the battlefront. The Paris warehousing efficiency and hospital work in France totaled over 1,100,000 days of care.
Mr. Cecil Boyd of Chicago and Mrs. Winnie Thornburg were married in Huntington at the Christian parsonage by Rev. Elmer Ward Cole. After the ceremony they traveled to Chicago to establish their home.
C. O. Drayton national president of the Equity Union of Chicago will address a public meeting in Roanoke on Wednesday December 10 at 1 30 o clock at the I C O F hall Everybody invited.
Jacob Moses Harris of Chicago, an American Jew converted to Christianity, will lecture in Roanoke starting next Sunday. He travels nationally giving free talks on Biblical topics and recently spoke in Columbus, Ohio.
A group of colored workers living in box cars near the Wabash station rioted last Friday night after heavy cider. A white woman fled to the Trainer home door for protection from a man alleged to carry a razor. Sheriff Davis and Marshal Coe jailed several offenders and sent them to Huntington. Nora Edwards Mary Jackson and Wilbur Sexton were fined 21.70 each for rioting. the women paid and were released while Sexton remained jailed for nonpayment.
William Gauntt spent Sunday with his daughter in Fort Wayne. David Enis of Monument City visited Fort Wayne on business and to see old friends. Mr. Dennis, now in the mercantile trade in Monument City, reports he is doing fine with a large trade.
Doc Potter of the Hippodrome offers three Jersey cows to reduce milk costs for twelve chorus girls upset by recent price rises. A drawing assigns three cows to Hippodrome stables with dancers and singers to care for them, using milk for free.
Mr and Mrs D L Withrow receive word from son Eldon working in Huston Texas he says he likes the country finds business prospering and work plentiful.
In Martin's Ferry Ohio on December 3 a local trend sees parents cutting old auto tires to sole their sons shoes due to high shoe repair prices. Boys dislike the substitution but cannot easily slide on icy sidewalks. Russell Johnson returned to Fort Benjamin Harrison Monday after visiting relatives since Thanksgiving.
William Mather Lewis of the treasury department appeals to more than six million War Savings Society members to join a campaign to cut high living costs. He urges wise buying, saving, and conservative investment in War Savings stamps to boost production, reduce waste, and support employment. Harry Edwards Clay backs the drive to enlist 1.5 million Illinois Michigan Iowa Indiana Wisconsin members in the Seventh District.
The Roanoke Library Club holds its regular meeting Tuesday evening December 9 at Mrs Eva Hackett’s home. Hosts are Mrs Eva Hackett Mrs Verna Wasmuth and Mrs May Mitchell. Members discuss What a Public Library Does for x Community Why We Need a Public Library and Libraries a Public Benefaction plus music and social time.
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