Christmas Club checks in mail set record for local savings
Christmas Club savings at Seymour National Bank and Jackson County Loan Trust total about 50 000 and will be mailed Friday for delivery Saturday morning. The banks report a 20 to 25 percent year over year increase as the program opens for its December to December cycle.
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Seymour National Bank
Jackson County Loan & Trust Company
Herve
Christmas Club
9 Corporation
Christmas Club, Inc
Death of Woodstock Retired Railroader Jerry Miller
Jerry Miller age eighty one of Woodstock dies at home after a year long illness. Funeral services are set for Saturday at 2 PM from Tower Funeral Home with Reverend R S Wilson presiding. Burial will follow in Riverview Cemetery. Miller born March 18 1860 in Macon Georgia was a longtime railroad employee who retired about twenty years ago and is survived by Lena M Baumeister his wife.
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Jerry Miller
Woodstock
Tower Funeral Home
R. S. Wilson
Central Christian Church
Riverview Cemetery
C.F Lodge
Tower Funeral
Mr. Miller
Macon
David
Sophonia Baker Miller
Jackson County
Miller
Medora Retains Horse Shoe As North Vernon Plans Friday Fight
Space limits move sports news from page 2 to page 5. Medora retains the horse shoe title and North Vernon teams prepare for Friday night action under the adjusted schedule.
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Medora
North Vernon
Pagte 5
Good Will Bag Campaign Set By Seymour Lions
Seymour Lions Club announces the Good Will Bag drive to aid the Seymour Welfare Association for Christmas needs. Rev. R. S. Wilson chairs the campaign with committee selection soon. Hi-V and Hi-FY workers will help, targeting shoes and clothing for children, with money or item donations sought.
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Seymour
Seymour Lions Club
Seymour Welfare Association
G. B. Bottorff
Lions Club
R. S. Wilson
Shields High School
Hi-V
Julius C Peter Becomes Partner in Detroit Firm
Julius C Peter son of W F Peter North Chestnut street has been admitted as a general partner in Bennett Smith Co a member of the New York and Detroit exchanges and New York Curb associate. He graduated Yale 1910 and has held senior posts in Paine Webber Detroit Trust Peter Keenan and Beyster Corporation before joining this firm.
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Julius C. Peter
W. F. Peter
North Chestnut Street
Bennett, Smith & Co
New York
Detroit
New York Curb
Peter
Shields High School
Yale
Paine, Webber & Co
Detroit Trust Company
Divorce Suit Filed Between Lucas Spouses In Jackson Circuit
Earl Lucas files for divorce from Josephine Lucas in the Jackson Circuit Court. The couple wed October 31 1937 and October 30 1940.
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Earl Lucas
Josephine Lucas
Jackson
Mber
Delay Persists in Columbus Military Camp Plan
Washington dispatches report that the proposed Columbus cantonment faces prolonged delay as the $8.0 billion defense bill provides no funds for it. General Marshall testified the War Department hopes to be prepared but cannot guarantee timing, while the Justice Department advances land acquisitions for Charlestown powder plant and Kingsbury shell loading factory.
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Washington
Columbus
Don. George C. Marshall
House Appropriations Committee
War Department
House
Ludlow
Ind
Marshall
Justice Department
Charlestown
Kingsbury
Regular monthly inspection of Seymour Post No 7
A regular monthly inspection of Seymour Post No 7 Indiana state police was held at 2 o clock Wednesday afternoon at the post east of the city. Inspecting officers included Lieut Harry Sutherlin supervising lieutenant in charge of field operations and Clarence Grinstead in charge of supplies. Personnel equipment and grounds were inspected.
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Seymour
Indiana
Santa Fund drive started by Seymour Legion for children
The Santa Claus fund hosted by Seymour Post No. 80 American Legion aims to provide toys and treats to Seymour children this Christmas. Contributors will be published Monday, with organizations and individuals urged to donate at 106 North Chestnut Street, Walter Schierling, in the coming days.
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Seymour Post No. 80
American Legion
Seymour
T. A. Phlinkett
The
Legion
Legion Santa Fund
Walter Sehierling
North Chestnut Street
Death of Harry Haley in Amboy Indiana
Mrs. Archie Whitsett learns Harry Haley of Amboy Indiana died Wednesday night at 8 15 o clock. He was a brother of Mrs Kate Ruddick and Isaac Haley of this city. Funeral services were conducted at 1 o clock Saturday afternoon in Amboy.
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Archie Whitsett
Harry Haley
Amboy
Ind
Kate Ruddick
Isaac Haley
Motorist Fined After Collision at Broadway and Sixth
Edmund Goodnight, 54, pleaded guilty to reckless driving after a wreck at Broadway and Sixth streets left three people with injuries and a severely damaged horse killed. He was fined 11 and costs 1 and sentenced to 10 days in jail with suspension pending factory damage arrangements. Passengers included Mrs. Oda Betty Hays and Gladys Roirdan, both injured, and Joe Adams with back injuries.
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Broadway
Sixth Streets
Edmund Goodnight
Charlestown
Columbus
Costa
Stanley A. Switzer
Jackson County
Goodnight
Oda Betty Hays
Bloomington
Gladys Roirdan
Edinburg
Joe Adams
Columbus RS
Bomb blast targets CIO lumber leader estate in Detroit
Patrick J. Currier president of Carrier Lumber Company affiliated with CIO had his northwest Detroit home wrecked by a black powder bomb. Currier, in New York, blamed the AF of L as sole possible culprits. No injuries reported, but a $1000 reward was posted for the attackers.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Patrick J. Carter
Cio-Organized
Carrier Lumber Company
Currier
New York
American Federation of Labor
House Endorses Hard Boiled Bill Amid Labor Tension
The House backed a sweeping cooling off bill by Rep. Smith 252 to 136 to restrain defense labor disputes. It would create 30 to 90 day cooling off periods, bar strikes with union access, halt sympathy actions, and deny Wagner Act benefits to some unions. Senate action and further refinements were anticipated.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Senate
Senate House Committee
Rep. Smith
D-Va
Smith
National Defense Mediation Board
Refrigerator cuts deepen in 1941 production plan
Washington reports a new deeper cut in household mechanical refrigerator output for January and February. The reductions range from 52 percent for larger companies to 30 percent for smaller firms, with prior curtailment of 29 to 45 percent for the last five months of 1941. Companies may borrow January February quotas to maintain higher year end production. The program caps total new refrigerators at 2,007,000 for the year starting August 1.
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Associated Press
Washington
Donald M. Nelson
How They Voted on Defense-Industry Strikes
Indiana representatives voting yesterday on curbs to strikes in defense industries split along party lines. Democrats for none. Republicans for Gillie Halleck Harness Landis Wilson. Democrats against Larrabee Ludlow Sehvite. Republicans against Grant Springer. paired none. not voting Boehne Johnsen.
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Washington
Indiana
White House may probe Tribune army plan report
President seeks clarification after the Chicago Tribune cites a confidential army navy joint board recommending a 5,000,000 man expeditionary force for an offensive against Germany by July 1, 1943. Stephen Early says he has not discussed the report with the President.
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Washington
Stephen Early
White House
Chicago Tribune Today
Germany
Early
Tam
Jer
War Department
Navy Department
Tribune
Stimson
Navy
Knox
Joint Board
United States
Atlantic
Europe
Africa
Telephone companies make employee payment in Indiana
Chicago, December 4 AP Theooas O Malley regional director of the wage and hour division of the Federal labor department announced today three southern Indiana telephone companies are making voluntary payment of $20 174 65 to 242 telephone workers under the fair labor standards act The Indiana Telephone Corporation of Seymour will grant $17 048 59 to 200 of its employees while the Batesville Telephone Corporation of Batesville will pay 181187 to twenty three employees and the Public Telephone Corporation of Greensburg $1 314 19 to nineteen employees.
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Chicago
Theooas O'Malley
Federal Labor Department
Indiana
Indiana Telephone Corporation
Seymour, Ind
Batesville Telephone Corporation
Batesville
Public Telephone Corporation of
Greensburg
O'Brien Sr Undergoes Major Operation In NYC
Word reached Carter Boulevard residents Mr and Mrs George G O'Brien Jr that George G O'Brien Sr underwent a major operation at Medical Center in New York City today. O Brien Sr is a Cragmere Park resident in Mahwah New Jersey about thirty miles from NYC.
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George G. O'Brien
Carter Boulevard
O'Brien
Medical Center
New York City
O’brien
Cragmere Park
Mahwah
New Jersey
Russians Claim Axis Retreat Near Mariupol and Leningrad Link
Russian reports say German forces pulled back headlong toward Mariupol as Reds claim four axis divisions knocked out. Russians also claim gains west of Taganrog and initiative on Kharkov and Moscow fronts while Finland withdraws to reach Leningrad. Meanwhile US leases Turkey military supply aid and North Africa shows renewed battle preparations as the Far East remains quiet.
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Associated Press
Russia
Meriopol
Rostov
Red Army
Novi
Kuibysshev
Moscow
Klin
Kalinin
Stalinogorsk
United States
Turkey
U.S
Britain
Far East
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