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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1913
Page
5
Local items list shopping visits and calls in Marion with names such as Miss Nora Byall Mrs. Catherine Sanderman and Mr. Miller. Mentions of purchases like 8250 Ice Cream at City Drug Store rubber stamps from News-Eagle and a Ford machine. Social visits span Osage Huntington Gas City Hartford City and Brnffton with family ties.
A local notice list shows Mrs. Rufus Ballard ill with stomach trouble and plans to form a booster club. Reports include millinery buys by Mrs. J A Grindle in Indianapolis, meetings of the Ladies Aid, show windows updated by Corey and Pilkington, and travel by Mrs. Floyd Miller and son. Also mentions Arcott Co. visitors, Captiola Deane’s millinery consignments, and Byers Stow’s Tuesday appearance drawing crowds. County marriage licenses totaled fifty two for July, with June traditionally busier per County Clerk Fred Drake.
Mr and Mrs John Sweikhardt entertained to dinner Sunday hosting Mrs Chas Durrah Mrs Odell and son Arthur of Anderson and Mrs Amanda Pickens of Marion in a friendly social gathering.
Miss Marjory Bish severely burned her arm while working at a Marion laundry. A physician treated her immediately and reports she is progressing well.
Miss Cora Compton retires from Mason Ohio after a vacation with her brother. She is accompanied home by her nephew Leslie Compton who is visiting at the Compton home.
Velma and Myrtle Levits depart Friday for Green's Fork to visit Dr. W. W. Neff's family, then proceed to Albany for a short visit with friends, returning Tuesday. The Indiana fire loss in the third week of July totals 547481, with 446000 in Indianapolis wholesale district and 100000 elsewhere, across 131 fires. Lightning caused 27 fires in the period.
The fire marshal department prepares a bulletin detailing rules for fire drills in all Indiana schools. The law directs the marshal and assistants to require teachers to conduct one drill each month and keep doors and exits unlocked during school hours.
Messrs. Van Valer and Leach publishers visited the office with boosters on Monday afternoon. They are practical newspaper men giving Gas City a first class sheet. The editor, who started thirteen years ago, notes many improvements under the new publishers.
Mrs. H. C. Creviston and Russel Creviston depart Friday for Fort Wayne. They will meet daughter Mrs. H. Bigley and then travel to Kendalville to be guests of E. A. Keller and wife.
Mrs. Mionie Wilson was removed from Marion hospital Sunday morning and taken to the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Henry Shultz south of town. She behaved well on the trip and it is believed she will recover rapidly.
Russell Sine fourteen year old son of Alva Line of route 28 rode away Sunday on a bicycle with a suit of clothes. His parents feared for days before relatives in Majenica located him and urged his return home.
A congenial company from Van Buren spent the day picnicking at Heiney's Bend on Sunday. Four automobiles carried the party to the bend and included Mr. and Mrs. Fred Drake Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Fraizer Mr. and Mrs Frank Lease Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Gildersleeve Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Eshelman Misses Eva Fraizer Edna Drake Mabel Handschey Lois Eshelman Lillian McCallister Mrs. Mary Lease Mrs. Coray Messrs Webb Lugar Ross Julian Dr. G G Richardson and Masters Dow and George Richardson.
Miss Capitola Deane will depart Monday for Indianapolis to attend fall millinery markets then travel to Chicago for several days. She plans to display at her new store this fall and winter the handsomest millinery yet shown in the area, joined by Miss Zua Eversole for instruction and later during the coming season.
Sunday evening two hold ups were reported with no clues yet. Earl Calvin of Van Buren lost several dollars near the Mason cemetery at about 11:39 p.m. Clifford Fetters, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fetters of Bluffton, was approached at Clover Leaf Station and ordered to surrender about five dollars. Warren Tribune.
Bill Blangy defends account of last Wednesday's horse incident saying the animal went wild when Skeet Paxton approached within ten feet. Paxton was pulled through by the horse after it leaped through the collar, while Blangy claims he had no accident on a different route to Marion Monday.
James Sullivan arrives from Illinois Tuesday evening. Hazel Harper visits Marion and Mrs. Everett Lee. Mrs. John Rbyan visits A. A. Bollhoefer home. James and Harry Sullivan in Marion Tuesday. Mabel Handschey returns to Gas City from Edna Drake visit. E. E. Compton returns from Ohio. Earl Trout of New Castle visits his parents. Prohibition sentiment noted as a hard road. EB Landess returns from Winona visit. Van Buren advertised as best place to trade. Local money matters priced five cents per line. E L Pierson reports wife and Forrest safe in Minnewaka North Dakota. Critique of debtors noted. Some people climb to wallow.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Jacobson of Marifoo visited Monday with Mrs. Sadie Akers. They were joined by their son Ronald who has spent two weeks with Mrs. Akers and accompanied them home.
A biblical reference describes a figure who, after tending swine, would fill his bread basket with husks but later loses appetite around certain hog pens due to sensory knowledge of the hogs' environment.
S EB Hitchcock and his wife visited Mr and Mrs Ed Sunier in Van Buren on Sunday. Their daughter Helen returned home with them after a two week visit with the Sunier family.
Miss Jessie Creviston hosted Thursday dinner with Mr and Mrs Ken Jones of Muncie Mr and Mrs E A Keller of Kendallville Miss Clara Landgrave of Peru Miss Mary Landgrave of Peru and Georgianna Dicken They later attended afternoon races at Warren for entertainment.
The Roger Jesse James Show played Tuesday night to standing room only. The vaudeville cast impressed with a fine band and neat outfits. A good company of ladies and gentlemen made numerous friends in Palatka Florida according to the Herald.
Hartford City boasts a prize baby believed to be the United States’ finest. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Menning is five months and twenty four days old and reportedly weighs 234 pounds with measurements including 2 1/16 inches height and 17 inch head.
Miss Edna Drake entertained the K. K. girls at her East Main Street home with music and games. A two course lunch was served and the guests departed late, praising Miss Edna as a royal hostess. Attending were Zua Eversole Ethel Held Lulus Pilkington Fay Stackhouse Lillian Pilkingtone Maud Belen Howard Lillian Mc Callister Lois Eshelman Mrs. Lillian Drake and Hattie Saxon.
Mrs. Gabrielle Havens of Fowlerton born February 25, 1880, still active at 93, visiting Fairmount. She credits her mental sharpness and memory to sixty years as a Bible student, having read the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation fifty four times and now starting II Kings on her fifty fifth reading. She visited daughter Mrs. W. H. Mann on South Mill Street in Fairmount.
Boxell advertises Buckeye overalls and jumpers with factory direct supply and a guarantee of satisfaction on all goods.
Board of Directors of the Van Buren Creamery Company will sell the entire plant on the 23rd day of August 1415 between 9:30 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. at the secretary office in Van Buren Tadissa. Sale includes Lots 23 and 24 in Grice's Addition, Creamery Factory Building, machinery, equipment and supplies. Sale cash to highest bidder. if not sold, daily private sale from the secretary’s office until sold. By order of the Board. Secretary J. E. Liles. President Wim Dovie.
The Trustees of Van Buren Towne Grant County announce 1913 expenditures and tax levies at the advisory board meeting on September Zed day 1913 at 2 p m. Total expenditures listed seventy four thousand four hundred dollars with taxes per hundred dollars on various funds. Net taxable property totals 1 820 545 with 452 polls. Signed WM DOYLE Trustee August 1 1913.
The mortgage is described as a self supporting yet crushing burden on farmers. It endures cheap or dear wheat and harsh weather, never fails to demand cash, and follows the farmer everywhere robbing meals clothing and dignity while driving toil and worry. It is termed an inexorable task monster and a menace to liberty.
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