26 Sep 1918
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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1918
Page
1
Van Buren township fixed its fourth Liberty Loan quota at 132000 dollars. Local supporters vow to buy the full amount quickly to back the township's soldiers and help finance the war effort, likening bond purchases to the boys in France pushing forward.
Miss Geraldine Miller will sing a solo at the Methodist Sunday School next Sunday morning. She has a beautiful voice, and you are invited to come and hear her.
Open with mid season form as Andrews loses decisively to local Huskies. Kern and Melling score 23 and 26 for 49 while Andrews’ DePoy leads with 28 and Shinkel has 5. Final shows Andrews 17 to Huskies 49 with team play praised as a machine.
The American Red Cross asks households in the Lake Division including Van Buren to donate linen during the week of September 30. Families should use old linen and any new pieces to create towels sheets napkins and handkerchiefs for French hospitals. A calf sale raised 121.50 funds to support linens.
Local draft board announces 51 men are to entrain for Camp Taylor Kentucky during October. The call uses the 917 list plus those aged 21 last June and August registrants. Ten from Gas City, ten from Jonesboro, eight from Upland, seven from Fairmount, seven from Swayzee, rest from Van Buren. Names include Ruth Uomer, Heilman, Wilbur Kelley, and many others. Continued on Page Two.
A meeting to boost the fourth Liberty Loan in Van Buren township will be at the opera house next Monday night. Speaker Hon Gus Condo of Marion and a Marion soldier who lately returned from the Western front will attend, with a Marion singer and the newly organized High School orchestra providing music. The township quota is 132000, twice the last loan, and every citizen is urged to attend.
Van Buren Boy Scouts under Linn Kern aided in the liberty loan parade at Marion yesterday. They distributed posters and performed creditably while continuing recruitment and assisting at the M. E. Sunday School.
The undersigned hardware stores will hereafter close on Monday and Thursday nights when the Liberty Guards drill. COREY PILKINGTON VAN BUREN HDW CO.
The Grant county Red Cross asks for seeds of peaches apricots prunes plums olives cherries and dates and shells of walnuts butternuts hickory and Brazil nuts. A chemical from seed pits aids carbon for gas masks and must be dried and sent to Marion Indiana. Barrels placed at Breedlove Bros W A Paxton Co and E L Pierson with Boy Scouts aiding. about 40 bushels of walnuts collected.
The community praises Mr. Sargent for producing high quality bread with a new electric mixer after Marion bread was deemed inferior. Residents report strong patronage and urge local merchants to drop Marion loaves in favor of the home bake.
A marriage license was issued and two births announced. Doyle, a son of Mr and Mrs Lyman Davis of 215 East Fifteenth Street, was born yesterday. Paul Raymond, a son of Mr and Mrs Michael Kelly of 416 North Washington Street, was born yesterday. Marion Chronicle.
The farming community responded positively to the Third Liberty Loan and is urged to support the Fourth. The author links agricultural prosperity to democratic strength and insists farmers must actively back government policy and war efforts, asserting their crops and investments sustain the nation.
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