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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1913
Page
5
Ms. Harry Moore on sick list. Ed Green visited Warren Friday. Paxton's runs a 20 percent discount sale. Haynes Machine garage roof replaced last week. BE Landers family at the park Sunday. Mrs Steinhoff taken to Marion hospital for a second operation. City Drug Store promotes Ice Cream flavors. Lee returned from Illinois. Volunteer fire department discussed. Truths and fiction cited.
A Michigan man swapped a horse for a wife in a reckless exchange. An observer warned there may be something wrong with the horse or the owner would not have deceived so brazenly.
Indianapolis visitor L L Goowell. Mrs E L Pierson in Jonesboro. M E Zoda on business to Lima Ohio. Mrs Joe Lease takes Griffith's store job. Miss Stella Bollhoefer hosts Eva Swope Warren. Cobler sisters visit Marion hospital. City Drug Store Harvester Oil and 20 percent off Paxton's sale. Crossings accepted by town board. Ice cream at City Drug Store. Boneta Lucille born to Hovey Wilson couple. Paxton's 20 percent sale continues July.
Misses Fay Pierson Helen Cobler Leoline Struble Vivian Cobler Ida Woodard Helen Struble Martha Carr and Thelma Pierson were in Marion Sunday afternoon.
Miss Helen Cobbler thanks all who helped her in last week’s Lyric contest where she won a 27 piece silverware set.
Fairmount News reports hog cholera outbreak across Grant county with many prominent farmers in Fairmount Liberty and Mill townships losing valuable hogs of all sizes.
Charles Muchmore visited Upland on Monday. Mr and Mrs Harry Sullivan were seen in Marion on Tuesday. Harry Witmer attended the Boy Scout meeting in Marion Tuesday night. Miss Katherine Cruse returned to Marion after a short visit with Van Buren friends. T Tilman of Anderson with Mrs J A Baird and Mary Luise Tilman of Jonesboro visited E H DePoy and family on Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Esta Swibart of Van Buren hosted Mrs Swibart's brother Mr Harry Carnes and two boys from North Vernon Ind.
Gray Keffer of Monroe pike remains in serious condition ten days after heat exposure with partial paralysis beginning to appear. The report appears in Matthews Progress, noting his extended illness and deteriorating condition.
Robert Pilkington and wife with John Duckwall and wife drove to Mr. Pilkington's farm near Greton Green near Warsaw on Sunday. Pilkington reports crops in splendid condition.
Charles Muchmore and daughter Lena Margaret return from Laurel Indiana where they visited relatives. He reports the wheat crop in that area is about the best ever known for the io section.
M. J. Forman took his family to Chicago Sunday for a two week visit with Mrs. Forman and the children visiting relatives. From Chicago they will travel to Kalamazoo Michigan for about two weeks with Mr Forman's relatives. Mr Forman has already returned home this week.
Crowds visit Paxton's store offering 20 percent off on dry goods shoes and underwear. George Jeffries of Grand Rapids and the Toledo visitors joined Geo L Jeffries family at their home. Noah Nelson and Dora Hefner wed recently. Studabaker and DePoy families traveled to Warren by machine. Dean Daughtery fell from a cherry tree injuring his left wrist but is recovering. Semi annual funds distribution and June settlement between local auditors and treasurer noted. Van Buren township received 433.2 percent of some fund.
The Farrville Ladies' Aid Society schedules an ice cream social on Saturday evening July 12 on the church lawn for church benefit. If rain, the event moves to the Farrville school house. Mrs T Mason of Kansas visited the Jeffries family on June 22, an old neighbor who enjoyed returning to her old home and attending a Dunkard meeting at Winona Lake. Oren Woodard son of Mr and Mrs Chaney Woodard near Van Buren suffered a sunstroke Friday while putting up hay, remains under care and is improving.
Mrs Anna Cruse and son LaRue Mrs Wil Fogleson and son Lawrence and Misses Florence Dandy and Catherine Cruse all of Marion were delightfully entertained at the home of Mrs Emma Sutler last Sunday. A big chicken dinner was the main feature of the day.
For sale eighty acres eight miles northwest of Hartford City with fair improvements. Two thirds black. Address J. W. Edger Marion Indiana 2204.
The document states at close of business June 4 1913 the Van Buren Bank Grant County Indiana lists assets including loans and discounts 169089.23 cash items 248.61 and total assets 320620.31 while liabilities show capital stock 392982.53 demand deposits 230620.41 and profit loss 203116.53 with cashier E B Howard swearing the accuracy before J P Michael B Crist on June 11 1913.
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