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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1918
Page
2
Ed Hutchinson returns home from Kentucky oil fields while Glenn Breedlove reports transfer from Camp Taylor to Alabama. Many visits and social calls across New Paris Tulsa and Marion mingle with marriage licenses, births, Red Cross events, and military updates.
Washington reports the house will compel the president to issue a proclamation banning the use of grain and fruit in making alcohol before this nation’s eleven million dollar Ford emergency bill appropriation becomes available.
Local retailer H A Davis & Co offers twelve foot linoleum at 1.16 per yard while stock lasts. Elmer James assures expert installation and customer satisfaction as demand rises due to burlap shortages from Scotland.
Washington dispatch notes a House record statement by Rep Cald well saying 90,000 soldiers were sent abroad in the first ten days of May. It also forecasts that within a year after the first troop arrival there will be about one million U S soldiers in France with arms and supplies.
Indianapolis physicians report slight improvement in former vice president Charles W. Fairbanks who remains ill at his home. They say he rested more comfortably in the afternoon and evening and appeared stronger, though his condition still causes anxiety.
Eighth grade graduates met at the school house to organize with Bernice Howell as president and Mildred Hewitt as secretary. Class colors are purple and gold and pink carnations as the class flower. Commencement at Van Buren opera house June 15 with Lucile Stackhouse Delores Doyle Lorine Nieewanger as speakers. Invitations via News-Eagle. 29 members listed. Grant County Red Cross drive reports over sixty thousand dollars raised as of last night.
A brief promotional note urging readers to examine the current advertisements by H A Davis & Company highlighted as valuable savings and deals across the week.
Look over 44 acres not far out with no improvements offered at $100 per acre. Contact Witmer and DePoy for details and viewing at once.
Miss Mabel Ketrova of Marion Normal College will give a Bible and musical recital at Center church on Sunday evening June 2. Several local residents visited friends and relatives including Kelley Johnson and wife, Lee Wright and wife, Mr. John Pierce and family, and Jasper Nelson and family. Ralph Fleming returns from Ft. Morgan Alabama on furlough to help on the farm, while Mrs. Roscoe Fleming remains ill with pneumonia.
An 60 acre farm offers new improvements with well tiling at 150 dollars per acre. A 20 acre tract near town lists 2700 dollars with improvements. A 2 acre farm with solid improvements and a adjoining 60 acre tract at 150 dollars per acre. See Witmer and De Poy, Van Buren Indiana.
The notice lists No 3 at 12 33 pm No 6 at 2 58 pm No 5 at 9 42 pm No 4 at 2 07 pm with Nos 3 and 4 30 minutes late on Sunday. Low rate Sunday excursion. For details call H J Ikeri agent and Chas E Rose A G P A Toledo O.
A seller describes multiple farms with varied sizes from 44 to 320 acres near town and Van Buren. Prices range from 135 to 180 per acre, with improvements including houses barns and tile drainage. Several properties promise easy access to streets, schools, and churches, urging prompt visits and purchases.
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