Memorial Day Observance Set at Methodist Church
Memorial Day services will be held at the Methodist Church next Sunday at 2 PM with music by the Masonic Band and an address by Rev. E E Lutes. The event includes grave decorating in Van Buren township cemeteries and a march formation list of participating groups. A compiled soldiers list from local cemeteries is offered, with appeals for additions to H H Scott or the News Eagle for a permanent record.
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Methodist Church
Lutes
Masonic
E. E. Lutes
van Buren
van Buren Township
Masonic Band
Woman’s Relief Corps
Sons of Veterans
War Mothers
H. H. Scott
Corey
Wiley Anderson
Thomas Mann
John Duckwall
James Campbell
James Conwell
Samuel Roush
Henry Barnes
Joseph Corey
Dick Lyons
William Whitaker
Asoin Williamson
James M. Bradbury
Lee
John Lee
Steven Lee
Peter Havens
Abraham Cemer
R. B. Boxell
Edward Jeffries
William Endsely
George Kirkpatrick
Elihu G. Scott
Joseph Lugar
David Barrow
Clinton LeFavour
Martin Dillon
Joseph Roland
Josiah Passmore
Jesse Horsman
Reid
Lewis Lemons
William Miller
John A. Stephens
Landersville
Free Ballard
Simon Clevenger
Wm. Knight
Morgan Melkam
Everett Oliver
Joseph Lee
Jacob Tinkle
John Powell
Amos Hill
McKinney
Walter Maddux
Union Chapel
Lewis Beekman
Burson
Adam Boller
The
News-Eagle
Minstrel Show Brings Largest Opera House Crowd
Mose Wright led the home talent minstrel at the opera house to a capacity crowd the largest ever seen there. The program featured Ned Conwell and Boller, Guy Duckwall, Clarence Henderson and others with Spide Harry Boxell as interlutor. Performers delivered encores and vivid turns, ending with reflections on local life and happiness.
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van Buren
Opera House
Missouri
Mose Wright
Ned Conwell
Mr. Boller
Guy Duckwall
Clarence Henderson
L. M. Hydorn
Trace Draper
Floyd Wright
John Wright
Clay Bradford
Lewis Paxton
Harry Boxell
Spide
Madgell
Mose
Mamy
Alabama
Walter Creviston
Ed Howard
Neal Barnes
Hack Johnson
Dixie
Old Alabam
Fat Paxton
Mike DePoy
Why An Annual Farm Edition
The article explains how a 1914 booster idea linked farmers and town merchants for mutual profit, forming a fivefold community pillar with farmer merchant manufacturer banker and professional. The News-Eagle presents Grant County merchants and professionals in its Fifth Annual Farm Edition to foster better understanding and patronage.
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Middle West
News-Eagle
Grant County
The
Wm Kirkpatrick to Open Van Buren Office
Wm Kirkpatrick local representative for R L Dollings Co of Indianapolis will open an office in Van Buren. He secured space at the front of the News Eagle office. He became connected April 8 and led the month as top salesman, after trips to Indianapolis and Columbus to evaluate the firm.
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Wm. Kirkpatrick
R. L. Dollings Co
Indianapolis
van Buren
News-Eagle
Kirkpatrick
Dollings
Dollings Company
Indiana
Columbus
Ohio
David Studabaker Receives Annapolis Commission
Miss Rebecca Studabaker reports her brother David Studabaker has passed Annapolis Naval Academy exams and will receive his commission at next week's graduation exercises. He noted the government’s reduced naval forces limited commissions, with 500 graduates this year and over 150 others failing or resigning. He is a former Van Buren resident who studied locally before moving to Bluffton.
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Rebecca Studabaker
David Studabaker
Annapolis Naval Academy
Bluffton Banner
Studabaker
van Buren
Bluffton
Exemption Granted for Marion Teacher Florence Curtis
The state board of education approved a lifelong teaching exemption for Miss Florence Curtis of Marion city schools after notification to county superintendent Albert R. Hall. The exemption allows her to teach without further exams as long as she remains continuously employed. Curtis previously taught in Van Buren schools and is well known locally.
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State Board of Education
Florence Curtis
Marion
Albert R. Hall
Epworth League Rally Attends Jonesboro Meet
Mrs E E Lutes and members of the Epworth League visited Jonesboro Sunday afternoon to join the M E Church in promoting the Epworth League convention to be held at La Fontaine in late June. Attendees included Elsie Barrow Bertha Barrow Cleo Sanderman Harriet Makemson Mary Drake Abbie Doyle Margaret DePoy Edith DePoy Glen Losure Ray Baker Kenneth Furnish Kenneth Nelson Joyce Lutes. Several Epworth League members from this area plan to attend the La Fontaine district meeting.
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E. E. Lutes
Epworth League
Jonesboro
M. E. Church
Place
la Fontaine
Elsie
Bertha Barrow
Cleo Sanderman
Harriet Makemson
Mary Drake
Abbie Doyle
Margaret DePoy
Edith DePoy
Glen Losure
Kenneth Furnish
Ray Baker
Kenneth Nelson
Joyce Lutes
LaFontaine
Picnic at River Near Conners Mill
Misses Lucille Stackhouse Sibyl Blake and Delores Doyle and Messrs Homer Losure Clarence Henderson and Lewis Green enjoyed a picnic dinner at Conners Mill on Sunday.
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Lucille Stackhouse
Sibyl Blake
Delores Doyle
Homer Losure
Clarence Henderson
Lewis Green
Conners Mill
Silk Train Passes Through Van Buren With Million Dollar Cargo
A six car special train loaded with silk fabrics from Japan passed through Van Buren early Wednesday. The cargo, valued at over a million dollars, traveled from the Pacific coast to New York over the Clover Leaf. Guards accompanied the shipment and a coach was provided for shippers' representatives. The prior day a passenger train carried two carloads of strawberries east over the Clover Leaf via St. Louis.
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City
van Buren
Japan
Pacific Coast
New York
Alrely
St. Louis
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