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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1918
Page
6
Pontife is a grand stallion standing 16 hands high and weighing 2000 pounds. Certificate No 5833 under Indiana laws. Offered for the season at the feed barn in Van Buren at 12 dollars to insure foal.
A seven year old jack with white points and good weight is offered for sale. The seller says you will like him and that he is a good type. Season insurance price listed at 12 dollars.
Only 797 tons of refined sugar were shipped from America to neutral nations in the first five months of the year, equal to 8.2 percent of total exports. Mexico took more than half of the neutral-nation sugar, underscoring limited reach abroad.
Mr. and Mrs. Ithamer Fenn relocated to Decatur where Mr. Fenn plans to enter a new business enterprise. The move positions the couple at a fresh home base as they establish their professional activities in the area.
216 acre farm in Huntington County with seven room house, cellar, four wells, barn, cow barn, cribs, granary, tool and scale houses, outbuildings, good fences, tile drainage, 20 acre timber, near school and church. Cash price 135 dollars per acre, trade possible. See Witmer and DePoy at Van Buren Indiana.
320 acres of highly cultivated farmland in a prime Stoddard County neighborhood near the county seat. Not hill land, it offers 95 per acre with cash and 5 year terms, on a main public road with barns, a eight room house, outbuildings, fencing, rural route and telephone access. See or write for details.
Milo residents share a weekend of visits with relatives and friends. Clara Keltner and Myrtle Beekman visit from near Dillman. Charley Blakeley visits Pendleton. Nelson reunion at Matters Park. Will Foust Effie Snyder visit Mt Zion. Emma Mower with Beekman family. Wesleyan camp meeting at Fairmount. multiple families hosted by Duckwalls and Barrows. Eva Bradford reports Loren along to France. Ethel Hodson with friend for Sunday dinner.
Mrs. Blanche Bowers of Indiana Pennsylvania shares that after a year of poor digestion she found relief with Chamberlain's Tablets. She reports her digestion is now fine and credits the product for the improvement.
Local notes report Otto Myers losing a valuable horse last week. Social visits include Mrs. Renbarger and Marie Small with Grandma Carl of Van Buren. Preaching and quarterly meeting planned at Otterbein with Rev. Marble to attend. Families from Wabash Montpelier and Defiance share visits and reunions.
Dora Belle Foster born August 1 1865 died August 21 1918 aged 53 years 20 days. She married Bud Gigvier August 4 1884 and they had six children five sons and one daughter Will Zuck Van Buren Charlie Jesse Levi Olive Hartford City Otto U S Acing three grandchildren and her mother plus other relatives mourn. Funeral services held Friday morning.
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