Marion and Back Fare Change Promises Low Rate Travel
The penny zone fare system expands to the Marion line with ten cent to Marion and back, thirteen cents to Warren, and 25 cent round trips. A 100 mile book offers cheap travel for regular patrons as conductors urge prepaid tickets to reduce on board change.
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Marion
van Bere
Landersville
Thanfield
Warren
van Bureno
Iostead
van Duren
Bint Ten
Boxell to Move from K of P Building
Boxell the tailor will leave the K of P lodge room now occupied by Lee's Leather Store after July first. He has run a long established business and will relocate to a larger room to better display stocks. Lee's harness and saddlery stock sold to Ritch & Son with possession July 1.
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Boxell
K.of P
Lee
Ritch & Son
Sameuly 1
Opportunity for Young Men to Go Work
There is a call to able bodied youths out of work to become self supporting by taking on tasks such as mowing lawns repairing screens and general handyman work. A warden will assist with screen doors and other duties while suggesting a canvass of town homes. The message insists loafing should be avoided and effort pursued.
Grafanola contest advances with top vote gains noted
The leader in the grafonola contest reports a gain of over three hundred thousand votes with No 20 also showing strong progress. Five candidates have surpassed two million votes as Mrs. G. Robinson receives last week’s silverware and a new prize of knives and forks awaits the top vote earner.
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No 20
van Buren Furniture Co
NCP
Ceed
Iegeor Cpeedeh Gg Sa
NOTH
Ccc
Metcalisiha Peers
WBS
Popular People Wed Saturday in Marion
Estella Mae Rinehart daughter of Attorney and Mrs T B Dicen and Albert Porter Baton of Tiffin Ohio married by Rev Rollin A Bennett at the Marion parsonage. They will reside at 415 Melmore St Tuttio Ohio after June 1. Baton oil producer with wells in Grant County and Tiffin, Ohio. Mrs Baton a longtime newspaper worker in Marion Logansport Detroit and a founder of Indiana Woman's Press Association.
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Estella Mae Rinehart
T. B Dicken
Albert Porter Baton
Tiftin
Ohio
Rollin A. Bennett
First Christian Church
Marion
Buton
Melmore Street
Tuttio
Grang County
Tiffin
Ohio Pipe Co
Cleveland
Muccle Marion
Logansport
Detroit
Mich
Woman’s Press Association
Indiana
Water Works Election Set for Van Buren Town
The Van Buren board of trustees adopted an ordinance calling a June 24 election on establishing a town water works system. The notice lacks service areas but town clerk W. W. Mott can provide details to interested residents.
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Board of Town Trustees
van Buren
W. W. Mott
Representative from Meneley Chautauqua to visit Van Buren
A Meneley Chautauqua representative will tour Van Buren June 21 to 26. A Friday meeting at the News-Eagle office will discuss tickets and inquiries. Attendees who bought more tickets than needed should attend to settle payments and aid the campaign.
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van Buren
News- Eagle
Chautauqua
Mrs Camblin Dies After Prolonged Illness in Marion
Mrs J S Camblin died Wednesday at 12 30 pm at her Marion home after weeks of suffering from a complication of diseases. She leaves a husband and five children. Funeral is Friday at 2 30 pm from First M E Church with Rev Parker officiating. Burial in local cemetery. She was sister in law of Mrs BE Gillespie of this city. Surviving children include Mrs Lafe Hodson Pleasant Plain Mrs Floy Scott and Mrs Jason Watson Marion Mrs Earl Veach Broadripple and Mrs Fred Stevens Marion.
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J. S. Camblin
Marion
BE. N. Gillespie
M. E
Parker
Seventeen Year Locusts Return Across Northern States
Washington reports the seventeen year cicada brood expected to appear in May and June across northern and central states from the Hudson to the Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina. Two races exist, with the seventeen year race covering much of the east and central U S, while damage remains limited to bark cutting during egg deposition.
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Washington, D. C
Central States
Hudson and
Misissippii
Georgia
South Carolina
United States
Mississippi Valley
Texas
Grant County Soil Surveys Underway In Indiana
Washington June 2 1915 The United States Department of Agriculture will send Bureau of Soils representatives to perform a complete soil survey of Grant County Indiana Similar surveys are under way in Wells and White counties The survey teams will take several months and seek farmer and land owner cooperation Facilities will be provided for borings and soil samples They carry credentials for access A large map will show soil types and locations with roads schools churches railroad lines and watercourses The accompanying report will detail soil nature crop suitability and improvement suggestions including fertilizers cover crops and crop rotations.
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Washington, D. C
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Soils
Grant County
Indiana
Wells
White
Department
Federal Soil Survey
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van Buren State Bank
Palm Beach
Panama
Capitola
Deane
East Main Street
van Buren, Ind
O. N. Crawford
Marion, Ind
Fred Drake
Ticides
Dane
Woot Gabo
Marion and
Fiocer
Che Pubdes
Boxell Geto
The
K. OF P. Building
Gent
Department of Agriculture
Herbert Kaufman
Farmers Trust Company
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