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Newspaper
Roanoke Review
Location
Roanoke, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1923
Page
7
Fashion notes describe evening gowns with front lines and velvet ribbons, crepe de chine, and elaborate trims. New ribbons, metallic threads, and beaded embroidery appear on lingerie and gowns, with wide velvet bows and girdles of satin ribbons as focal accents.
Compote recipes describe fruit based dishes served in tall glasses. Apple Currant Strawberry Banana and Pear variants combine fruit with syrups, whipped cream or egg whites and require cooling freezing or serving over the fruit with lemon juice and garnish.
A reflective note argues true self knowledge comes from recognizing what you lack and how you fall short. The piece highlights humility, patience, and inner scrutiny as paths to personal growth.
A collection of old style salad preparations includes beet cups filled with salmon and cucumber, tomato shrimp salad with gelatin mold, frozen cheese salad with pimento and tomato puree, and early cabbage salad with pork fat dressing. Each method emphasizes simple pantry ingredients and room temperature serving practices.
The annual Huntington county farmers picnic took place at Hier's Park on September 3 with about six hundred attendees. An Erie picnic was held at Manitou Lake near Rochester, with a special railroad train provided for the event.
W. J. Herbst, aged forty eight, died after being whirled around the shaft of a motor used to cut locomotive boiler flues in the New York Central shops at Elkhart. The incident is reported as a fatal industrial accident with details limited.
The Elwood State bank purchased property adjoining its current site from Mrs. Josie Starkey and the lot it occupies from Mrs. Charles C. DeHarity. It plans a modern bank building on the combined 69.5 foot frontage site.
H K Snively reports a Purdue led survey shows Bartholomew County has 83 barbery bushes across 16 properties, with the county currently free of bushes according to the assistant state leader in the eradication movement.
After Henry Perry aged thirty and Timothy Godlfoyle aged thirty eight both broom makers from New Albany were arrested for allegedly stealing chickens from Louis Meyer on Charlestown road a meeting of the Floyd County Horsethief Detective association was held to arrange assistance in the case.
Taxpayers in 1924 face a higher state tax levy of B2 cents per $100 of assessed property rather than 27 cents. Officials including the state board of tax commissioners Governor McCray and State Auditor Bracken say the higher rate is needed to lift Indiana from financial distress.
The Spiritual Alliance Mediums association has purchased sixty acres near Philadelphia and taken options on 260 more with plans to invest 200000 in a college sanatorium cottages hotel and a twelve acre lake. The project will be named Nervana Spiritual camp.
Mrs. Irva Marshall Morris of New York City headlined a concert at the Presbyterian church staged by the Business and Professional Women’s club of Lebanon to support the club’s scholarship loan fund. She was assisted by Ruth Rainier of Indianapolis on harp and Dorothy Knight Green of Indianapolis on piano.
Rev Charles Curran announced Holy Trinity parochial schools in New Albany will be free from primary through eighth grade this year. Schools opened September 4 with Sisters of Providence in charge led by Sister Louis Josephine and seven teachers.
The state board of health investigates a typhoid outbreak in the southwestern section of Fort Wayne. Dr Arthur L Oster, a member of the state board and Indiana representative of the Rockefeller Foundation, announced the findings at a rural nursing committee meeting of the Red Cross public health nursing service. The Harter family reunion occurred at Memorial Park two miles northwest of Newcastle on September 2.
The Ku Klux Klan held a tri state meeting in Rushville with an estimated twenty thousand Klansmen and families from Ohio Kentucky and Indiana in attendance. Spiritualists from several states closed their Indiana camp meeting at Chesterfield and members began returning home. Rock Creek township farmers held the first farm bureau picnic in Knote’s grove east of Rock Creek Center.
Elwood council adopts a 1.19 levy per 100 of taxables, down three cents from last year. The budget includes 5000 for a new fire alarm system.
Hugh Lynn, a town special policeman of Burnham near Hammond, was wounded at night when bandits robbed the Speedway inn road house of $12,000 before escaping.
In southern Kosciusko county farmers report wolf activity. Many chickens were killed and livestock attacked. Two large timber wolves were sighted on Fred Montel’s farm near Rose Hill.
The Kontpelier farmers co operative store, run for three months, reports strong success in marketing farmers products and cooperative buying, according to a farm bureau meeting.
Clarence Herber and James Staley chosen to represent Adams Post No. 43 at the annual state American Legion convention in Michigan City on September 10 11 and 12. Alternate delegates named are Joe Laurent and Dallas Brown.
The annual Clinton county farm bureau picnic at Frankfort is indefinitely postponed as principal speakers W. H. Settle president of the state farm bureau and L. B. Clore secretary of the Federal Land bank Louisville cannot attend.
G I Christie of Purdue University staff and Mrs Charles Sewell of Otterbein spoke at the annual farmers picnic in Hartford City under the Blackford County Farm Bureau. More than 1 000 people attended with horseshoe pitching, foot races and other games.
Dr J E McMullen, dean of the education department at Oakland City College, was moved to Walker hospital in Evansville. A veteran educator, he has long worked in Indiana colleges at Marion Muncie and North Manchester and is well known to the state’s teachers.
The Pulaski county teachers institute took place in Winimac from August 27 to 31. Speakers included Dr. Robert J. Aley president of Butler College George H. Schiafer of Indiana University Ira W. Howerth of Colorado State Teachers College Dr Roscoe Gilmore Stott Franklin M. V. O Shea of the University of Wisconsin and Harlow Lindley director of the Indiana Historical Commission.
Milo H. Stuart and W. E. Fisher led the fifty ninth annual session in Noblesville with about two hundred teachers in attendance. W. R. Fertig spoke on state and federal constitutions as part of the program. The Silver Creek Baptist church near Sellersburg undergoes reorganization with revival services led by several bishops and pastors. Shelbyville Chautauqua directors report a net loss of 888.25 dollars, leaving 1 007.59 in the treasury from the previous year. John Stephenson, 41, of Atlanta, a Union Traction lineman, was electrocuted south of Tipton after contact with a high tension wire.
A campaign to grow Columbus Chamber of Commerce membership will be launched soon. The group is considering admitting women in business to join as members.
The London Opinion quotes a reader saying holidays are simple when the boss orders the timing and the wife dictates the destination, framing a humorous clash of authority in holiday planning.
Classic 30 year old advertisement highlights Fletcher's Castoria as a harmless substitute for Castor Oil Paregoric teething drops and soothing syrups with no narcotics. It emphasizes proven directions on package and physician endorsement bearing the genuine signature.
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