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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1913
Page
4
A Mt Calm Texas newspaper column asserts men prefer familiar comforts and routines in dining and drinking. It compares home meals with restaurant seating, chewing tobacco, sharing drinks, and bottle necks to illustrate claimed masculine quirks. The piece presents humorous generalizations about behavior.
A Friday morning program at the Van Buren post office features speakers on temperance, religion, and civic duties. Topics include youth training, tobacco use, public officials moral standards, women police officers, and a music address on woman suffrage.
Clarence Banter aged 20 wed Edith Cercer J6 at Justice McFeely's Marion office. Banter described as a well to do farmer. bride as daughter of Val Cemer and an estimable young lady.
Notice of hearing on a petition filed with the Grant County auditor by Isaac S Tinkle and others seeking to improve a public highway in Van Buren Township by grading draining and paving with crushed stone to form a 36 foot wide road with 24 foot grade and 13 inch stone depth. The petition cites at least 50 signers and outlines drains bridges and tile work, with hearing set for Tuesday April 8 1913 before the Grant County Board of Commissioners.
Indiana endures devastating floods with about a thousand dead and thousands homeless. Rail and interurban traffic halted. Clover Leaf line reported a train derailed near Frankfort to Warren. Communications severed in many areas, rumors unreliable as relief efforts begin.
In Marion the Mississinewa surge inundated Johnstown waveway flooding parts of the city. The Marion Light and Heating plant submerged leaving the city without light and heat. Ballard Packey plant losses reach $20,000 with total city losses undetermined. Over two hundred families became homeless as bridges were saved from collapse.
John Corey reports a call from his sister Dr. Katherine Corey saying an unexpected river rise in Indianapolis drowned 4000 people. The flood reached the second story of Mrs. Fords home and destroyed all furniture.
The city of Peru is reported to have 100 to 100 dead with much of the town underwater and unable to care for stricken residents. About 600 refugees gather in Converse as neighboring towns seek to assist. A bridge over the Salamonte at Warren failed during the night, signaling extensive damage and great losses.
A High School agriculture class outfits a seed testing lab to help farmers. They specialize in testing sprouting quality of seed corn and will report findings from samples sent by local farmers once tests complete. Bulletins from Purdue University guide the process.
Mrs Beo Heaty was honored at a miscellaneous shower hosted by the K. K. K. embroidery club at the Miller home Monday evening. Guests enjoyed a social hour and a dainty lunch. Mrs Heaty received many beautiful gifts as she prepares to move to Marion.
Chester Lalavour and Charles Hall of Marion spent Sunday in Van Buren. The only sign that Friday marked the first day of spring was the calendar reference. Mrs Jane Oxley ofty i 4.
In Van Buren the writer notes difficulty hearing from the outside world due to stalled steam and interurban traffic. The town suffers mail delays and isolation, echoing an old farmer who, stuck without Chicago papers, remarks that no one has heard from them either.
Rural route mail carriers could not complete their Tuesday trips due to high water. They resumed regular routes on Wednesday after conditions improved.
Mr Brandenbury lost a new poultry house in last Friday's wind storm with several other structures damaged. High waters washed holes in local roads and will delay repairs. residents Harvey, Rollef, Nelson, and Ailman families travel between Sims and Liberty Center to visit kin.
In Van Buren on a Wednesday morning a stalled traction car, stuck since Monday after the interurban service suspended, drew a crowd. About fifty people pushed to free it. sparks flew from live wires, Tucker’s drag team fled along Main Street, and the car was moved toward Warren then Marion with railway officials aboard.
Married Wednesday evening at the M. I. Parsonage by Rev L A Levits. The groom Asher Xen Weesner, son of Samuel Lee Weesner of near Landeasaville, and bride Kathleen Elizabeth Garner of near Van Buren. They will reside on the groom's father's farm.
Our weekly issue, due Tuesday from Indianapolis, is delayed as the Biutftoo route and Warren barriers halt prints. Some readers receive 8, 6, or 4 pages and different dates for lessons. The Ross Pulling Machine plant closed parts of the week due to power outage.
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