Local Notes As Community Ties Persist
Miss Alice Stroup spent Sunday with Delpha Nelson. James Wilson and family moved from Milo to Van Buren. Raymond Lee visits Huntington relatives. Lucile Stackhouse visited Vera Stackhouse at Marioo. Edna Featherstone of Kokomo visited Delphia Nelson. Mrs. Della Karr visited with Rosa Wright near Hartford City. Avis Deace suffered a nail injury to her foot this week. W C Buez and Josephine Pike visited with Isaiah Nelson Friday afternoon. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society meets Friday afternoon with Mrs. Gilbert. A J Campbell, recently returned to Van Buren from Oklahoma, visits his daughter at Keystone. Warley Hauber and daughter return to Marion after visiting her mother. Hester Dimit assists at the local post office in George Washington Doyle's absence. George Doyle had been in Detroit with his daughter Paul Jones who moved there.
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Hester Dimit
George Washington Doyle
George Doyle
Detroit
Paul Jones
Funeral of Mag. Carah Burgoon
Sarah Elizabeth Golden married Camblin then Burgoon lived 66 years in Grant county Indiana. She died May 8 1916 at age 86 after illness at her daughter’s home in Marion. Funeral conducted by Rev Mrs Leslie at First Baptist church Marion. Interment Odd Fellows Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Elizabeth
Jesse
Susanna Golden
Perry County
Ohio
Glaize County
Jonathan Chamblin
Grant County
Indiana
Marion
Milton
Daniel B
Margaret
G. A. Lemmon
Susan
Virginia
Adams Street
Gas City
Leslie
First Baptist Church
Odd Fellows
Corn Club Meeting Planned by County Agent Otis Crane
County Agent Otis Crane in town to organize a meeting for all interested in the one acre or five acre corn contest. The session is set for Friday evening at 6 45 in the basement of the Van Buren State Bank, before Crane’s 9 00 train to Marion.
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Otis Crane
van Buren State Bank
Crane
Marion
How They Get Next in Mail Order Sales
A Chicago mail order representative outlines tactics to American advertising clubs. He says his firm assigns a bureau to scan weekly country papers for towns where merchants do not advertise locally, then floods the area with literature, achieving strong results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Adv
Wall Paper Cleaner 110cacan at Pax Ton's Drug Store
A note lists a wall paper cleaner priced at 110cacan available at Pax Ton's Drug Store. The fragment suggests a small local product listing from a historic shop page.
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Paxton's Drug Store
For Sale Building Used by Junk Business
Building now housing a junk business is for sale and can be moved at any time. Seller M. J. Forman.
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M. J. Forman
For Sale Incubators and Coops by Hodgson
For sale items include incubators brooders and hen houses sold by J C Hodgson Mra. Hodgson offers used equipment suitable for poultry keeping with potential prices upon inquiry.
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Mra
J. C. Hodgson
Bluffton Rail Schedule Advertises Daily Freight Rates
Time table lists east bound departures at 6:31 am 8:01 am 9:51 am 12:15 am 12:51 pm 11:51 pm and additional freight express car service. Posing as travel deal, it invites readers to call or write the main office in Bluffton Indiana to learn party rates and group travel discounts.
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Bluffton
Ind
Drink Hot Water Before Breakfast Cleansing Claim
A historical health notice urges starting mornings with hot water and limestone phosphate to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and intestines. It claims internal bathing removes poisons toxins and impure matter, improving headaches bilious attacks constipation and general well being.
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Bath
Whooping cough cure praised by Alabama mother
A Brandon Springs Alabama mother, S W McClinton, reports her baby recovered quickly from severe whooping cough after using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The note says the remedy is widely obtained and effective for this disease.
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Chamberlain
S. W McClinton
Brandon Springs
Ala
Canton Glass seeks men for steady work at good wages
Canton Glass Company in Marion seeks men and boys over sixteen for steady employment with good wages. Milton Kraus, Republican candidate for Congress, spoke here Tuesday afternoon and reportedly made a favorable impression on many voters.
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Canton Glass Company
Marion, Lad
Aly
Milton Kraus
Congress
Birth announced in Harrisville for Marsh daughter
Mr. Adam Boller learns of the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Marsh in Harrisville Missouri. Marsh is a cousin of Mr. Boller and a native of the local area. Miss Capitola Deane visited Todianapolis with her sister Miss Eva Deane and bought new millinery for the mid summer opening
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Adam Boller
Lemuel Marsh
Harrisville, Mo
Marsh
Mr. Boller
Capitola Deane
Todianapolis
Eva Deane
Local Teacher Leaves Van Buren for Warren Business Start
Mr W J LaGrande who taught manual training in Van Buren school for two years has decided to leave teaching and will enter business in Warren. His work was satisfactory and many regret his retirement decision.
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W. J. LaGrande
van Burenschuale
Warren
LeGrande
Central Community Notes Include Visits and Birth
Mrs. Srrah Anderson entertained Wednesday with guests including Mrs. Alva Camblin and Opal, and Mrs. Oliva Anderson and Austin. A new baby boy arrived for Mr and Mrs Courtney Farr. Various visitors and family links populate a daybook of social and home life in Central with several Van Buren and Marion connections.
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Srrah Anderson
Alva Camblin
Opal
Oliva Anderson
Austin
Mike Doyle
van Buren
Zepha Pence
Lon Ervin
Mable Blake
Normal College
Marion
Evdeyn Boller
Walter Michand
John Lighfoot
Matt Gunnip
Russell Anderson
Ed Nelson
A. R. Ervin
Wm. Heckard
Levi Dill- Leonard Anderson
John Doyle
Courtney Farr
Ulysses Passmore
Editor narrowly survives after community meeting tribute
Ora McDaniels nearly collapsed in a recent community building gathering but survived thanks to his good heart. The Gaston Gazette notes he was voted an award of thanks for a double column promoting a noble enterprise, highlighting the perils of praising a public figure.
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Ora McDaniels
Gaston Gazette
Also Mentioned on This Page
Brains
Empire Coffee
OCR
Empire
Berdan & Company
Toledo
West Main Street
Storts&son
van Buren, Ind
Kelley Way
Ata Ae
Second and
Washington Streets
News-Eagle
van Buren, Indiana
Communit
E. H. Depoy
Alice Stroup
Delpha Nelson
James Wilson
Milo
Raymond Lee
Huntington
Lucile Stackhouse
Vera Stackhouse
Marioo
Edna Featherstone
Kokomo
Delphia Nelson
Della Karr
Rosa Wright
Hartford City
Avis Deace
W. C. Buez
Josephine Pike
Nooon
Isaiah Nelson
The
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
Gilbert
Loser
A. J. Campbell
Oklahoma
Keystone
Warley Hauber
HS. Knight
Mag
Carah Burgoon
Corn Club
Purdie
Oakland
California
Beliabla Club
Wrubel
Marion‘& Bluffton Tr. Co
van Burenag
T. B. Dicken
Wigger Bloch Marion
F.E. Burgoon
Bennett
E. E. Bennett
Warren, Ind
Ross Passmore
Ed Green
Russel Anderson
Orpha Passmore
John Anderson
Fremont Harvey
Sarah Burgoon
Carl Banter
John Ervin
John J. Howard
E. S. Howard
W.C. Booz
Guy Ducknall
Ass’t
Total
State of Indiana
County of
Grant
Bk. S. Howard
MicHax_ B. Crist
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