Van Buren Public Schools Open With Extra Enrollments
The Van Buren district began the year with higher enrollments in both the high school and grades. High school enrollment reached 102 pupils with 9th and 10th year students totaling 30 and 40. About 225 grade pupils require additional primary teaching staff and near-term book shortages will be resolved as Paxton orders replacements. School hours are 8:30 to 11:40 and 2:50 to 3:44, with regular attendance urged. Music will come once a teacher is hired.
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van Buren
Paxton
Lee Family AOLDD Annual Reunion Held in Matter Park
The Lee families gathered at Matter Park on Sunday September 5 for their annual reunion. Attendees included Berry Lee and family of Fort Wayne T Kersted and family of Fairmount Walter Shofner and George First of Huntington and many others from Marion Van Buren and surrounding towns. Raymond Lee of Van Buren was elected president and Effie Zent of Marion secretary after a sumptuous dinner. The participants reported the gathering as the best reunion yet and many extended families were well represented.
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Lee
Matter Park
Berry Lee
Ft. Wayne
T. Kersted
Fairmount
Walter Shofner
George First
Huntington
Charlie Burnsworth
Lafountain
Ben
John Stiles
Banquo
Elizabeth Marshal
Majonica
Taylor Pritchett
Joe Warnock
Home Corner
Sam Lee
Eun
Tom Lee
Marion
Raymond Lee
van Buren
Effie Zent
Farmers and Merchants Plan Van Buren Fall Festival
A large meeting of Van Buren Township farmers merchants and professionals approved the First Annual Farmers and Merchants Fall Festival and Home Coming set for October 7 8 and 9. The event features free attractions livestock crafts farm products and prize drawings with committees formed to run exhibitions and stalls under township oversight.
Duroc Hog Sale Moved to Van Buren Tent
Charles Lowery a breeder of pure bred Duroc hogs announces a public sale of fifty head moved to a large tent in Van Buren. The sale on Thursday October 7 falls on the opening date of the big fall festival and street fair.
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Charles Lowery
van Buren
New barber joins Wrights' shop with chair number one
Floyd Wright, newly arrived from Muncie, bought a half interest in his brother John Wright's barber shop and began Monday as an active partner. He now occupies chair number one.
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Floyd Wright
Muncie
John Wright
Great Excitement in Landessville Over Bursting Cabbage and Fishing Tale
A midnight racket in Landessville sparked by a bursting cabbage head and a fish story with a boat inside the fish. Neighbors recall a steam whistle, and townsfolk investigate various possible causes while updating on local visitors and community events.
Mrs Beard to Speak at Library Address
Mrs Gertrude Beard of Marion will address township women at the library Friday evening September 10. She speaks under the auspices of the Republican county committee and is described as a good speaker.
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Gertrude Beard
Marion
Indiana Farmers Federation grows with steady statewide organization
Indianapolis reports the Indiana Federation of Farmers Associations prepares for its second annual convention at the Masonic Temple on November 16. Leaders aim for 100 percent state representation across 92 counties, with Brown County newly formed and delegates planned from Odon and Bloomington.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana Federation of Farmers’ Associations
Masonic Temple
Indiana
Farmers’ Association
Brown County
Chas. A. Sims
Odon
Joseph Ratliff
Bloomington
Brown
Board of Directors
E. E. Reynolds
Scott Meiks
Shelyville
E. A. Williams
Lebanon
Hamilton County
Madison County
Hamilton
John G. Brown
Indiana Farmers
California
Farm Bureau
San Joaquin Valley
Central States
Hanford
California Farm Bureau Marketing Association
Middle West
South
Atlantic States
Goal Commission Now Unhampered in Indiana
Indiana's state coal commission moves to control coal price and production after a federal court ruling allowing state police power regulation. Jesse Eschbach, head of the commission, plans to enforce the law fully following dismissal of the mining company's injunction petition.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
State Coal Commission
American Coal Mining Company
Commission
Jesse Eschbach
The
Coal Commission
Burglars at Fairmount Store Prised Cabinet For Cash
A sneak thief broke into the Isaiah Jay Furniture Store on North Main Street in Fairmount Indiana between closing Saturday and Sunday morning. He pried open a cabinet with a bar seeking money but apparently took nothing. He ignored lease notes worth hundreds of dollars and a $100 Liberty bond. No clue to the thief’s identity.
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Fairmount
Ind
Isaiah Jay
North Main Street
Archibalds Return to Oklahoma for Tail Dresser Work
Geo Archibald left Saturday for Sperry Oklahoma where he will be employed as tail dresser. Mrs Archibald is recovering from a recent operation at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs C R Witmer and will join her husband later.
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Geo. Archibald
Sperry
Okla
Mrs. Archibald
C. R. Witmer
Milo W. C. T. U. Meeting Draws Eighty At Delamore Home
The Milo W. C. T. U. met at Mr. and Mrs. Otto Delamore's home with eighty present. Rev. Mow led devotion. Otterbein quartet and Thelma Sands offered musical numbers. prizes for best speeches on the league of nations were awarded to William K. Fraizer and Rev. Mow. Two new members were Sealy and Mrs. Harry Couch.
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Milo W. C. T. U
Otto Delamore
Nellie B. Kelley
America
Mow
Plummer Chapel
Otterbein
Thelma Sands
Hester Roberts
Wilber Shidler
Litttle
League of Nations
William K. Fraizer
van Buren
Aaron Griffith
Carl
Couch
W. K. Fraizer
Griffith
Anna Corey
Bible School and Sermon at Library Sunday
The Bible School will meet at the library at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon followed by preaching at 2 30 by Rev. E L Day of Marion.
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E. L. Day of
Marion
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