Seymour Owls Fall Short in Close 22-21 Loss at Franklin
Seymour Owls, winless in ten straight, drop a heartbreaker at Franklin 22 to 21. Demas sparked a late rally with four second half points while Randolph sealed the win for Franklin in the final minutes.
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Shields High School Owls
Franklin
Walter Surface
Seymour
Owls
Demas
Randolph
Clark
Kieser
Henderson
Myers
Nativity Pageant Highlights Seymour High Holiday Program
Seymour city schools began holiday breaks after Friday afternoon. Shields High School staged On the Road to Bethlehem directed by Mina McHenry with scenes in Bethlehem Judea and a cave near David’s sheep, featuring music by the high school orchestra under Grace Hemmer.
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Shields High School
Mina McHenry
Bethlehem
Grace Hemmer
Judea
David
Christmas Sales At Kirsch's Café And Sonnenberg's
Store notices advertise boxed candy from 25 cents and popular brands along with cigars cigarettes and tobaccos at Kirsch's Café. Sonnenberg's promotes Xmas specials on occasional chairs and living room suits in a compact holiday offer.
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Kirsch’s
Sonnenberg’s
Post Office Opens Afternoon Hours At Seymour
Walter H. Droege acting postmaster announced the Seymour office will keep windows open this afternoon until 6 oclock rather than 1 oclock on Saturdays due to heavy Christmas mailing. Stamp windows registry and money order windows will all be open to aid the public.
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Walter H. Droege
Seymour
Funeral Rites Set for Redding Township Farmer Deems H. Combs
Deems H. Combs 75 died at Schneck Memorial Hospital after sustaining a broken back in a car crash on U S Route 31 between Crothersville and Uniontown last Sunday. Funeral from the home then Reddington Christian Church with Rev. William Richmond, burial in Reddington Cemetery. Survived by widow Anna Prather two sons Charles C and Claude four grandchildren and six great grandchildren a half brother and half sister and many friends.
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Deems H. Comps
Redding Township
Schneck Memorial Hospital
U. S
Reddington Christian Church
William Richmond
Reddington Cemetery
Mr. Combs
Goldboro
N. C
Jackson County
Anna Prather
Combs
Reddington
Shooting trial continues in Cosby case in Jackson Circuit Court
The Jackson Circuit Court hears the involuntary manslaughter case of railroad detective C. N. Cosby after the state admitted a death statement from Tom Paul Jones of Harlan Kentucky. Jury selection stretched over Thursday and Friday with Cosby’s defense presenting witnesses and motions and the trial expected to last into the next Monday.
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C. N. Cosby
Jackson
Cosby
Tom Paul Jones
Harlan
Pennsylvania Railroad
Jones
David Long
Virgil Dixon Dies at 79 in Ft. Ritner
Virgil Dixon aged 79 and brother of George Dixon died at his Ft. Ritner home Friday night after a three week illness. Funeral services were conducted at 1 PM Sunday at Ft. Ritner with burial in Ft. Ritner Cemetery. He was lifelong resident of Ft. Ritner and never married. He visited Seymour often and left many mourners here.
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Virgil Dixon
George Dixon
Walnut Street
Ft. Ritner
Mr. Dixon
Seymour
Death of Mrs Mary Bivens in Jennings County
Mrs Mary A Bivens 76 of Sey mour rural route 1 Jennings died at home after seven weeks illness. Funeral at Reddington Christian Church with Rev DeHart. burial in Reddington Cemetery. Born February 5 1859 she married Frank Bivens in 1877. Survived by husband, children Alice Judd Carrie Bennett Mertie Cox a brother Jabez Matheny sisters Hazel Cordes Harris, 16 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren.
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Mary A. Bivens
Seymour
Jennings County
Reddington
Frank Bivens
Church of the Nazarene
Alice Judd
Carrie Bennett
Anderson
Ind
Mertie Cox
Greenfield
Jabez
Christmas Cantatas Highlight Seymour Church Services
Seymour churches plan extensive Christmas programs with cantatas at Trinity Methodist First Methodist and Central Christian. The Adoration by Nevin and Cline will open Sunday morning, plus Why The Chimes Rang in the evening. Two choirs perform The Christmas King at Central Christian and First Baptist venues.
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Trinity Methodist Church
First Methodist Choir
Santa Claus Riddle Solved by Store Lamb Offering
A Chicago store's shopping service faces a curious challenge when an invalid grandmother asks for a snow-white live lamb for her granddaughter. The department receives a letter describing the desired gift and the store must navigate the request.
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State Street
Askine
Coldest night of the winter hits Seymour and region
Seymour residents awoke to the coldest night of the season as temperatures plunged to zero, ten degrees below Thursday. Downriver stores brace for Saturday traffic while trains and mail face delays from heavy weather and calm winds across the Midwest and Great Plains.
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Seymour
Mercury
Associated Press
Chicago
Winter
South Dakota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Rocky Mountains
Plains
Nebraska
Montana
Wyoming
North Dakota
Weather Bureau
Great Plains States
Rocky Mountain
Great Lakes
East Gulf States
Atlantic Coast
Vernon Township Farm Bureau Names 1936 Officers
Vernon Township Farm Bureau announces officers for 1936 with Albert Moody reelected president and Mrs Moody as social and educational leader. Pauline Horst succeeds Fern Lett as secretary treasurer. Under the Moodys the 1956 membership shows a substantial increase over last year.
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Vernon Township
Albert Moody
Great Britain Turns To Sanction Policies
London news reports Neville Chamberlain declared Britain again pursues sanctions and urged League of Nations members to resist any attack. He addressed Birmingham conservatives amid shifts after theHalo-Ethiopian crisis, the Sleare resignation, and pro League support moves. Britain weighs how other nations will back penalties at Geneva.
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London
Great Britain
League of Nations
Neville Chamberlain
Birmingham
League
Samuel Sleare
House of Commons
Whitehall
Brita
Mediterranean
Geneva
Italy
Mile of Pennies Day Observed in Jackson County
The Jackson County Tuberculosis Association observed the second annual Mile of Pennies day with Boy Scouts and volunteers lining a Second Street stretch between Indianapolis and Chestnut. W. H. Hughes chairs the Christmas seal sale as schools across the county contribute, expecting a larger total by night.
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Jackson County Tuberculosis Association
W. H. Hughes
Second Street
Indianapolis Avenue
Chestnut Street
Hughes
Local man wounded in hunting accident near Beech Street
Holmes Hunsucker aged about thirty living on Beech Street was taken to Schneck Memorial Hospital shortly before noon today in critical condition from a shotgun wound near the hip. Details of the accident were not immediately learned, but it occurred as he prepared to go hunting.
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Holmes Hunsucker
Beech Street
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Tunsucker
Romine Receives Full Pardon for 1913 Murder Conviction
Henry Romine a 89 year old Civil War veteran from Jennings county has been granted a full pardon by the State Clemency Commission with Governor McNutt’s approval. Convicted March 6 1913 in Bartholomew Circuit Court for the murders of John and Charles McQuaid Romine had earlier been paroled in 1928 but remained the only Civil War veteran on state parole. The pardon ends decades of public discussion in Seymour and Jackson counties.
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Henry
Romine
Jennings County
Erie
Seymour
Jackson County
State Clemency Commission
Paul V. McNutt
Ed Jackson
United States
Bartholomew Circuit
John
Charles McQuaid
North Vernonn
North Vernon
McQuaid
Federal agents press Milne kidnaping mystery in Philadelphia
Federal agents questioned Caleb Jones Milne in a hospital room as investigators pursue details of his alleged kidnaping in New York. Two men identifying as New York detectives clashed with officers over access. Agents said the abductors demanded 20 thousand dollars but no ransom was paid. no one is in custody.
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Doylestown
Caleb Jones Milne
Verson
New York
John Develin
Fifteenth Police District
George Keechin
Milne
Harold O. Nathan
United States Bureau of Investigation
Washington
Philadelphia
Nathan
Thelma Todd Death Probe Dropped by Police
Los Angeles police end the probe into Thelma Todd death ruling the actress died accidentally from carbon monoxide poisoning in her Santa Monica garage after a Hollywood party. The county autopsy surgeon and coroner’s jury support the accidental death finding.
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Thelma Todd
George Rochester
Los Angeles
Bert Wallis
Homicide Squad
Joe Taynor
Santa Monica
Hollywood
George Johnson
Mussolini Poses Armed Strength Amid Sanctions Clash
Rome dispatch reports Premier Mussolini asserting unity of the Italian people against Sanctionist nations and League of Nations measures. He predicts victory in Ethiopia, rejects British peace proposals, and plans intensified resistance with thousands of Blackshirts dispatched to Africa. The Grand Council claims sanctions fail and Italy will push on.
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Associated
Rome
Olini
Ethiopia
Seoming
Britain
League of Nations
Opia
League
Tr Duce
Mussolini
Ettopia
I! Duce
Paris
Guiseppe
Italy
Fini
East
Tl Ducedi
Lombardia
Africa
Sourccer
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Seymour Boys Knot
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Deems H. Combs
Mary Bivens
Trinity M. E. Cantata
Adoration
George B. Nevin
Lillian C
Santa Claus
St. Nick
Ruth Cowan
Trey
Premier Laval
Samuel Hoare
Tuberculosis Association
Federal
Riley Goble
The
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