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Newspaper
Shirley News
Location
Shirley, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
4
A playful history verse recounts events like 1492 and figures such as Columbus Washington and Pocahontas, interwoven with local notices from Sugar Creek. It shifts into community notes about cattle, visits, inspections, and a precinct election result, ending with a newborn in a local family.
Center Chapel residents report a weekend with guests from Warrington and near New Castle. Mr and Mrs John Noland hosted Sunday dinner for Charles Van Hoy. W A Davenport shows partial recovery. Reynolds family relations include Richard Reynolds helper with butchering and Ben Reynolds visiting his mother Mary Reynolds. The Cloy Callahan family and Thelma join Floyd Callahan and daughter in a Tuesday trip.
A brief local item notes visits with Mrs. Callahan and her parents Mr and Mrs John Hodson of Anderson. Congregants attended revival services at Hedrick church Sunday night. Ben Goudy and family helped Geo Green with butchering Monday. Clifford Hedrick and his wife visited the Hedrick parents Mr and Mrs John Hedrick Sunday. Richard Reynolds and Robert Callahan were in New Castle on Wednesday.
Mrs Raleigh Rigney spent last week in Indianapolis visiting her son Tom Rigney and family. Eli Cook is on the sick list but improving. Aileen Collier dined with Arleneth McDaniel. John Morris and family visited his mother Mrs Maggie Morris for dinner. Mrs Eli Cook was shopping in New Castle Monday. J R Adams and family shopped in Anderson Monday. Carl Reger was a Sunday dinner guest of Ott Bridges.
Guardian of Florence Margaret Hallie Fern and Helen C Delph offers for sale by order of Henry Circuit Court the Armstrong place in Brown Township Hancock County Indiana. Sale at 10 A M Wednesday January 3 1917 on the premises. Described tracts total 117 acres more or less with detailed descriptions and exclusions. Cash payment at or above the appraised value subject to court approval. Lafayette Deep.
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