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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1923
Page
3
Marion residents and visitors are listed visiting friends and attending events. Citizens such as Mrs Herald Plummer and the Sanderman families appear in calls and gatherings. A Marion H S commencement is noted, and a Union Chapel meeting ends with a fiery cross observed nearby.
Miss Vilna and Thelma Smith visited Marion on Saturday evening. Rena and Beatrice Beck spent the weekend with Marion relatives. Mrs Ida Conwell called on Tuesday. The Haupthof family and daughter Helen were Huntington visitors Saturday. Mr and Mrs Henry Denton visited Mr and Mrs Otto Barrow Friday evening. Hilma Knote has mumps. Helen Haupthof helps Mrs George Wilson with house work. Ed Minor and wife welcomed a baby daughter. Artie Conwell traveled to Liberty Center Tuesday. Farmers busy with Alpheus Green road work. Mrs Guy Helms on sick list. Francis Nelson and children of Marion and Mary and Bernice Carey visited W J Smith family Sunday. Sunday School each Sunday at 9:30. Everyone welcome. Ida Conwell and daughter Ethel visited Dora Knote family Sunday afternoon. Alonzo Cochran spent Sunday with his mother.
Detroit dominates US automobile manufacturing with about 60 percent of output. Ford Motor Co. will produce more than half of the nation's cars this year. Detroit also leads in bodies axles and other parts as new 1923 production records are set.
Notice is given that William K. Fraizer has been appointed executor of the estate of Sarah C. Sumner, deceased, late of Van Buren Township, Grant County, Indiana. The estate is believed solvent. Attorney: T. B. Dicken and Lett & Lett. Dates: May 10, 17, 24.
Local society notes list frequent visits and dinners across towns like Angola Fairmount and Wabash. Residents includ e Mr Sam Weicht Mrs Ed Linenger Mr Otto Baumgartner Mrs Emma Beck Rev E E Lutes and many others visiting relatives and attending operations and banquets.
Mrs E J Cloud of Van Buren reports severe backache dizziness and nervous strain from kidney trouble. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills from Conwell's Drug Store with restoring health and urges neighbors to try the remedy. 60c at dealers Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The poem narrates a community’s complicity in a death, describing locked doors and a jailholding a man from Monday to Friday. It recalls a somber confession of collective guilt and roadside mercy gone wrong. The speaker condemns the rich and powerful while highlighting neglect of the poor.
Farmers from Green Liberty Jefferson and Fairmount townships announce a Fall Festival on Fairmount streets October 9 12. The event features old fashioned fair exhibits including horses cattle swine sheep poultry and agriculture horticulture. A baby clinic 2 women's departments and a boys corn growing contest are included.
About fifty Dutch farmers who arrived at Ellis Island say they left Holland to escape high taxes. Their final destination remains unknown and no further details are provided.
Mayor Lew Shank of Indianapolis will speak at Memorial day exercises on Sunday May 27 at Pearosa's Mill northwest of Marion. Marion Boys Band and a Urbana Indiana quartet provide music for the event.
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