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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1917
Page
2
Monday and weekend visits fill the community notices with neighbors calling on the Duckwalls Barrows and Beekmans. Buicks change hands as Chester Heffner buys a five passenger vehicle while newborns bring joyful headlines.
The Landess Christian church Sunday class entertained by Miss Ethel Walter and Earl Westfall from 2p m. to evening. They gathered flowers, had lunch, and took a group photo by Dana Kitch. Attendees included Celia Rubincone Ethel Westfall Blanche White Clara Pulley Blanche Korporal Mary Braggs and others.
Harlan Shields on sick list. Lena McDougle named Red Cross chair in the township. Several visits to Fort Wayne and Warren noted. Mrs Beeson, Mrs Pike and others improving from diphtheria. A J Waiton invites attendance at county and state Sunday School meetings this summer.
Community notes list numerous Warren, Marion, Van Buren and Fort Wayne visitors and callers. Includes Miss Freelove Pence, John Leverich, Claude Peters, Wayne Furnish, DePuy, Heeler, Linn, Grundle, and many others visiting relatives, shopping, or attending funerals across nearby towns. Also mentions for sale property and hats at Deane Millinery.
Society news notes an engagement for Miss Gladys Weaver to Charles F Kariger of near Vas Buren with a late June home wedding in a small immediate family setting. The rest covers Needlecraft and Pythian Sisters Sewing Circle gatherings with hostesses and attendees from Marion Coalingzo Gesocistie and nearby towns.
A group of friends hosted a handkerchief shower for Miss Opal Peter. Attendees included Lucile Stackhouse Marie Tulley Harriet Makerson Lena Muchmore Bertalice Scott Mary Fur pieb Eulah White Abbie Doyle Marguerite Whitecotton Dierdra Pilking too Dorothy Duckwall Ivah Cemar Mary Neleon and Golda Eversyle.
A May 18 meeting at the Van Buren Schoolhouse will select delegates and alternates for the county Federated Temperance convention to be held May 23 at Library hall in Marion. One man and one woman from each precinct are to be chosen. a large attendance is urged. J. C. Campbell, Chairman.
Robert White buys the Beeson laundry agency and will run operations from John Wright's barber shop. Alec handles shoe repairs and dry cleaning, with all work called for and delivered.
A farm residence at Barney Sugar was robbed while the family was away Sunday. The burglars escaped with about 100 dollars but left 676 dollars on the floor, securing only about 5 dollars.
An auto tractor accident damaged a Ford auto with a tractor attachment belonging to Studebaker Stock farm. The vehicle was badly damaged and a new bed had to be put on.
A Van Buren businessman's wife suffered dyspepsia and constipation, becoming bloated to the point her clothes wouldn't fit. One spoonful of buckthorn bark glycerine and related ingredients, sold as Adier-i-ka, reportedly relieved her instantly by emptying the intestines. The ad claims quick relief for constipation and gas and asserts it prevents appendicitis.
Dr C B H Good was severely injured Thursday evening while walking to the Commercial club rooms. Reid Clark riding a bicycle struck him near the alley by the traction station, throwing the doctor several feet and causing severe bruises to the legs and head. A fracture of the right ankle is feared.
An advertisement explains catarrhal deafness cannot be cured by local applications because the Eustachian Tube mucous lining inflammation blocks hearing. It promotes Ball's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy with a $100 reward for any uncurable case, attributed to J Ney & Co Toledo.
West bound timetable shows No 3 at 11.23 am and No 8 at 10.37 pm on the St. Louis and Western line with two daily departures.
A vintage health advertorial promotes Jad Salts and Rad Salts as kidney stimulants. It urges high water intake and daily four ounces of salts in water to “keep the kidneys clean and active” and to prevent bladder weakness.
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