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Newspaper
Roanoke Review
Location
Roanoke, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1923
Page
1
Indiana debuts a budget act guiding 17.8 million dollars in state expenditures through Oct 1, 1923 and over two years for 20 state institutions. The Lincoln Memorial Commission seeks a suitable site. lawmakers emphasize affordable tax policy with no immediate rate hike.
A collection of quirky items and aphorisms from local life. Vignettes on law, gardening, posters, and everyday wisdom mix humor and reflection with references to neighbors, courts, and common experiences.
Evangelist R Paul Miller of Los Angeles opens a three week revival at Block Church starting Tuesday May 8. Weekly topics include The Next Great Coming Event of World History and The Signs of the Times plus a revival for souls and Christian awakening. All Roanoke area residents invited.
Dr Daniel Read 55 a Fort Wayne dentist burned to death in Warren Pennsylvania yesterday evening. He had been in town two weeks to handle a farm inheritance and left on the 1 50 train to Jamestown New York with the body to be buried Falconer New York. Survived by widow a stepdaughter Mrs Ruth Lewis and an adopted son Paul Herchel Read. He was born in Grinnell Iowa and studied at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery.
The USDA says each hen averages 10 dozen eggs per year, about one egg every three days. A flock of 10 laying hens would produce 100 dozen annually worth about $40. Eggs also provide garden fertilizer and a reliable local supply.
An act allocates at least 20 acres in Marion county for a new institution with 200000 dollars. The old school site becomes part of the World War Memorial plaza. A separate act creates a three member Deep Waterways Commission to cooperate with other states on Great Lakes Atlantic waterway development, with 12000 dollars annual funding from July 1 1923. The legislature also appropriates 100000 dollars to cover its expenses.
The Sunday schedule lists Sunday School at 9 15 with N L High lands as superintendent. The 10 30 worship theme is A Great Man s Mistake and the 7 30 evening service is Power of the Child. Miss Carnet Smith leads the 6 30 Young People service and the Womans Missionary Society plans a mothers and daughters meeting at Mrs N L Highlands Monday evening with a luck lunch for families.
The Hwanang college and Women's College of South China girls run ten Sunday schools and visit with picture shows to aid undernourished Chinese children. They seek prayers for strength and dedication as future church leaders. Also notes include a church calendar and a Sunday ball game Huntington Agdians versus Roadoke Oak Grove.
Robert Jackson Payton died Sunday at about 2 30 AM from chronic heart trouble. He was born March 14, 1901, in Huntington to Edward and Pearl Payton. He married Havel Cormany of Roanoke and is survived by his widow, two children, a brother Frank Payton, his mother Mrs T J Broome, and grandparents Mr and Mrs Jackson. Funeral was Tuesday at Pleasant Chapel Church with Rev F B Faighner officiating.
John Nussdorfer suffered a severe head wound and facial bruising after a fire truck started as he stood to don his waterproof coat at the Pequignot fire scene. The mishap occurred Wednesday afternoon at the station during the vehicle’s startup.
Work on the new parsonage for St. Joseph Parish began Monday morning with Frank Hatfield holding the carpenter contract. The home is expected to be ready for Father Roederer to occupy within a few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Beman and their children of Fort Wayne visited the end of the week with Mrs. Beman’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Nosh Burdoine.
Reverend G F Byrer and Mrs Earl Miller with Mrs Ernest Welch attend the Woman's Missionary branch meeting of the Rt Joseph Conference at United Brothers Church held in Fulton Indiana.
The Huntington Indians meet the Roanoke Independents in an exhibition at Roanoke Sunday. Lineups include Baxter, Trogressor, Wolf, Burgwald, Bergman, Alrey, Hinkle, Rhinehart, Strands with likely Don White. Roanoke counters Reeves, B Hoke, C Hoke, Garrison, Hughes, Maurer, L Redding, Smith, E Redding, C Redding. No admission. Also fire report and P T A meeting notice follow.
Rev and Mrs G F Byrer travel to Warsaw this Saturday for the wedding of Melvin Gashert oldest son of Rev and Mrs J L Gaskert under whose pastorate the local parsonage was built.
Pleasant Chapel U B Church schedules Sunday School at 9 30 Class meeting at 10 30 Christian Endeavor at 8 40 Preaching service at 7 24 5 S S Supt Perry Miller Class leader Boyd Dinius Co E President Glenn Rupert Pastor Oliver P Givens Everyone welcome
A weekly devotional list outlines daily themes with biblical quotes. Mon to Sat cover escape, belonging, thoughts, liberty, sight, deliverance and healing through scriptures from Psalm 91 Jeremiah 32 Philippians 4 Corinthians 3 Psalm 17 Proverbs 17.
Huntington county prepares to move into its new jail with modern living quarters and specialized cells for first offenders and women. The facility features oak floors, steel barred windows, a single main entrance, automatic locking, and a capacity for eighteen prisoners with separate living and jail sections.
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