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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1919
Page
7
Classified section advertises earning options selling ornamentals at Graham Nursery Rochester and a marriage ad service by Ralph Hyde in San Francisco. Also promotes Ford crank safety device KETCH A KICK and farm listing services by Witmer & DePoy.
Readable classified style listing farms in North Dakota Indiana Illinois Arkansas and Virginia offering prices per acre and cash or crop payment terms. Includes exchange offers for southern land a seven room business block and contact names such as John B. Fried Co Neal & Company Barnes DePoy Smethers for buyers in markets from Jamestown to Van Buren.
A brief notice invites readers to attend next Sunday for a pleasant and profitable hour, suggesting a religious gathering or activity beyond Sunday School. The tone implies a mild promotional appeal aimed at parishioners.
In Grant Circuit Court Marion Indiana on June 12 1919 creditors heirs and legatees of John G Endsley are required to appear and show cause why final settlement accounts should not be approved and to prove heirship and receive distributive shares. Clerk A Connelly witnesses May 15 1919 May 15 22 29
Creditors heirs and legatees of Margaret Blangy deceased are notified to appear in Indiana Grant Circuit Court on June 20. Clerk S A Connelly signs the notice on May 22 1919. May 29 June 6 12.
No 3301 heirs and legatees of Edmund B Kern deceased must appear in Indiana June 20 1919 to show cause why final settlement accounts should not be approved and to prove heirship and receive distributive shares notice dated May 27 1919 by S A Connelly May 29 to June 5 12
Miss Geneva Beard of Van Buren and Otto Bennett of Montpelier announce their engagement and upcoming June 1 wedding. Miss Beard works as bookkeeper in Marion and is a Marion business college graduate. The couple will live in Hartford City where Bennett is Central Indiana Gas superintendent. Mrs Edna Moler hosted the Needlecraft Club on Friday with crocheting and needlework among attendees.
Invitations for the eighth grade graduates are ready and may be obtained at the News-Eagle office. The trustee provides three to each graduate, with extras also available at the News-Eagle office. Graduates who ordered more should collect them promptly as supplies are limited and cannot be held long.
The Chicago Board of Trade offers 10000 dollars in premiums to exhibitors of grains and hay at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago during the first week in December. The exposition aims to match the renowned live stock displays as the world’s greatest show.
Mr. John Butler received a telegram from his son Nathan stating he has arrived in this country from overseas but cannot yet say when he will return home.
Under shell fire and gas for three weeks the buildings housing his canteen were hit six times. A final shell killed four men, wounded thirty, and sent him to a hospital for two months. Guy A. Wils of Grand Rapids Michigan, a lumberman, has returned on crutches.
From France the zeal of Y M C A canteen men is shown as Willis joined the Three Hundred Fiftieth regiment of the eighty ninth division in the Toul sector. His outfit ran a canteen near Mont Lee Beaumont and made daily trips to supply troops during the St Mihiel and Argonne drives. Willis entered Benny in the St Mihiel drive three hours after German forces were expelled.
A brief exchange recalls a mother's pie recipe and a late father’s purchase of a cookbook. The dialogue frames a child’s attempt to recreate home cooking while balancing respect for family tradition.
Fraudulent aspirin tablets sold by a Brooklyn maker proved largely talcum powder. Advertisements urged consumers to demand genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin, stating they are American made and owned, in the original Bayer package with proper directions.
Dr and Mrs Richardson and their son George travel to Lafontaine this evening for a joint Grant and Wabash County Medical Society meeting. Dr Beeman of Wabash discusses Intestinal Troubles and Dr Shawhan from the Soldiers Home presents an illustrated lecture on X Ray Work in the Service. A 6 30 banquet at the M E Church is arranged by the Ladies Aid.
J S Dillon former editor of the News Eagle bought the La Fontaine Herald from Mrs Vivian Neal and took possession this week. Neal has run the Herald for seven years and is praised for producing a good paper. Dillon plans a strong local role for the paper in Wabash county.
Albert Holmes of Warren area was fined 100 dollars and costs with a suspended jail sentence in Decatur after authorities found six gallons of whiskey in his car near Berne while returning from Chattanooga Ohio. The Bluffton Banner reports the bootlegging charge and sentence.
The Farrville Church has employed Rev. Ernest Treber for the coming year. Prayer meetings have resumed and the Sunday School, under Superintendent Walker Farr, shows strong growth.
The furniture store of H. A. Davis & Co. will be closed all day Friday May 30 for Memorial Day.
The Van Buren post office will close at 9 a.m. Friday May 30 and remain closed for the balance of the day.
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