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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1920
Page
4
Public notices and ads mix with a quip laden digression as the piece jokes about small doughnuts, larger noses, and a mock group the Survivors of the Flu while noting Americas milk output at 2.5 billion pounds a year and global shipments. It frames a whimsical, opinionated small-town advertising page with various rates and readers.
A survey by the Interchurch World Movement highlights migrant sheep shearers as highly mobile workers cut off from urban life. It urges regional churches to provide social and welfare facilities to relieve isolation and improve their living conditions on inland uplands from the Canadian border to Mexico.
Remains brought from Lafayette Soldiers Home were laid to rest in Lakeview Cemetery after a Friday afternoon funeral at the M E Church on East Main Street. Rev Smith officiated the service.
Mrs Lula Old3 and her daughter visited from Elkhart with Mr and Mrs A S Sprigg. Mr and Mrs Chester Bashore visited from Chicago at Bashore Paulus and Warner homes. Charles Hanes travels to Martinsville for rheumatic treatment. Mrs Ed Gaskill from Warsaw helps care for Andrew Scott ill with pneumonia. Ralph Creager near here sick with pneumonia. his wife ill with influenza while their newborn babe remains at home.
Elizabeth Jane Blair born December 23 1842 in Knox County Ohio died February 17 1920 at age 77. She lived in Fulton County Indiana most of life and married twice Mark Bowen and William E Wood. Survived by husband William E Wood daughter Mary L Hill son Alvin H Bowen sister Mahala Brant and many nieces and nephews.
We express heartfelt gratitude to the Church ladies for the beautiful flowers and to all who helped in our time of sorrow in parting with our wife and mother. William E. B. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hill and daughter Gertrude, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bowen.
Mary Etta Leckrone daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Kline was born December 25 1845 near Dayton Ohio. She moved to Indiana with her family at age four and lived six miles west of North Manchester. She married Peter Leckrone in December 1873 and had three daughters Gertrude Spitzer Jesse Fisher Martha who died in infancy. She joined the church about 26 years before her death and died January 28 1920 at age 74.
To those who offered comfort during our sorrow we express sincere thanks for kind words and acts. S. P. Leckrone Gertrude Spitzer Jessie Fisher.
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