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Williamsport Review Republican (Newspaper) - October 25, 1917, Williamsport, Indiana Only two Days left to buy a Liberty Bonds Back up the boys at Tholf pintle Revie Kew series vol. , Wathen Coutt is Diana thursday october 25, 1917. Is Imber Pence couple Are married Lela Wood and Lester Martin Are made Mau and wedding. J k on saturday afternoon october 20th, at 2 30, at the Home of the brides parents in Pence occurred the marriage of miss Lela Wood to or Lester Martin p. J. Lough of Waynetown taking the nuptial vows the ring ceremony being used. The wedding party was unattended and stood under a Bower of Smilax and autumn Leaf decorations the immediate families Only being present. After the ceremony a three course luncheon was served in the dining room. Misses Orpha my candles and Bessie Gilespie being in charge. The Bride was beautifully gowned in White and carried a Wreath of bridal roses the Groom was dressed in the conventional Black. The wedding cake was a work of Art and was built and decorated by or. And mrs. Hack. The Happy couple left on the evening train for Chicago and other Points Ard will be at Home to their friends after december first. Or. And mrs. Martin Are son and daughter of or. And mrs. James Martin and or. And mrs. A. M. Wood leading merchants of Pence and Are numbered among the Best Young people in Warren county they will continue to reside in the Village and the congratulation of their Many friends Are extended to them. The marriage of miss Gladys n. Farrell and George p. Gross occurred at six o clock monday morning at the Catholic Church in Dunning ton ind. The Bride is a popular Young school teacher of this county and was employed this year As teacher at the Skelton school House. She is the quot daughter of James Farrell residing Miles North of Locust Grove Church. The Groom is the son of John Gross of Ambia. The Best wishes of the friends of the Young couple them. To a Stop facing the opposite direction from which it was going. Both rear wheels were broken to pieces the rear Axle was Bent and torn from its place the Springs broken and the fender and running Board on the right Side torn away. The car was brought to Thornton s garage wednesday noon for repairs where it is estimated that the damage will be about $200. By a Peculiar Freak the entire wheel was torn out from inside a Metal rim and the rim itself badly Bent exposing the inner tube yet neither the tube nor casing was Ledger. Many follow marriage licenses the following marriage licenses have been issued by clerk Cowgill since our last report. C. L. Johnson son of Samuel Johnson of West Lebanon to Bessie safer daughter of David Sater of Danville. The Groom had been married once before and was divorced in april 1916. The licenses was issued monday. Danial l. Martin to Lela Alta Wood both of Pence. John p. Gross of Ambia and Gladys Farrell of Prairie township. Chas. H. Mckinzie aged 50, and Mary Stephens age 57, from Tilton 111. They were married yesterday Forenoon by Rev. John e. Mccloud. Each party had been married once before. Locust Grove Home coming the Home coming at Locust Grove Church sunday attracted a Large crowd and a most delightful Day was enjoyed by All. The Day s services opened in the morning with sunday school which was followed by preaching service. Rev. Steward a former pastor delivering a powerful and aspiring Sermon. Then came the mid Day meal which had been prepared by the Good wives of the Community and As the writer was one of the fortunate ones present can vouch for the statement j that it was quot some meal quot. After din Ner a very enjoyable hour was spent in a social Way after which Rev. Kuonen of Ambia preached a found demented woman marshal Russell was called to old town monday by a message stat ing that a woman was lying along the Banks of the Wabash either dead or unconscious. He answered the Call and with a body guard of five Stalwart men including or. Porter made a search for the woman finding her half dazed and shivering with the cold along the River Back of the old Herricks place. The woman was a pitiful sight with her unkempt hair and water soaked garments. She was covered with burs of every description one Slipper Vas lying half buried in the mud and the other had disappeared completely. Upon questioning her she gave her name As Belle Gunther wife of Gus Gunther of Attica and stated that she had walked through the Corn Field to the place where she was found. She was evidently not altogether in her right mind but whether this was due to exposure or not it was impossible to Tell. The unfortunate woman was brought to town and placed in the county jail until she thawed out. Mrs. Loyd Mcferren and mrs. Frank Crumpton worked with her All afternoon and in the evening her husband came Over after her. Although she showed an evident reluctance to go she was finally persuaded to return with him to Attica. News from our Soldier boys from Raymond Bush the following letter was Recd Ved monday from Raymond Bush by Robt a Butler and wife. Oct. 3. Dear Bob and wife a will not forget to write you a line before i go out of the y. M. C. A. As we Are rather Busy at the present doing everything. Well we arrived All quot of. and it is a wonder i did t get quot sea quot sick but i Felt Fine and am getting along nicely. I cannot explain much in fact we cannot give any information what so Ever As you know All our mail is censored. He drives a truck for the government and Steinhour went Back to Aberdeen s. D. And i went to Spokane Washington where i worked in a garage after a couple of weeks there i went to Portland Oregon and worked in a garage and then by an Ocean liner to san Francisco where i also worked and at Berkeley which is just across the by from there. While at Berkeley i worked for the Hall Scott motor co. Which builds aeroplane motors for the government. The officers Reserve corp had opened at Frisco at that time and i saw that it was time for me to do my Little bit in the situation which faces but on find you should see the Beautiful seen ,.ery which i never would have f quot of. Thought that i could have sch a he work was m Togo great pleasure to witness with my own eyes. I never saw so Many Beautiful Flowers and gardens All Over the country. The weather is fair quot and Cool and Nome try and geometry i gave that up and joined in the same Branch the signal corp in the aviation departments As mechanician for aeroplanes in service and was sent tou j quot quot quot i Angel Island which is ten Miles out we have had but one ram m two. A a a.,. A a 1,1 m the Ocean from Frisco and at pre weeks but crops Are not bothered. �?�4.1. J 1.u n a 4 sent there Are about ten thousand with Droutas like m our country Ujj r men quartered Here and we receive All kinds of fruits except oranges j u bananas and few Lemons grow Here quot Fon action and squad Drill but As will sure say that the styles eating Are very different to that of ours for everybody lines up and awaits their turn. Especially those who indulge in drinking wine or Pale ale and Beer. No whiskey. Nevertheless i do not use it As there Are too Many As it is that use it and it would make any one sick to even smell the dope. Our feed is Good and we have plenty of it and also we have Good weatherproof shacks to sleep in in fact taking the country As a whole it is sure made use of in some Way. Please write me All the news in quot Bingo quot and excuse this Pencil As this letter is written in a hurry. My address is Raymond Bush. Bat. A. 8th Reg. C. A. C. A. E. F. To postmaster new York and i will soon get it. Tell everybody i said hello and for them to write me. Long u. S. But Are sent to All to their respective the meeting at West Lebanon a Large and enthusiastic meeting assembled at wet Lebanon last Fri splendid Sermon and at night the Day night which was held m an regular pastor. Rev. Simpson gave Effort to boost the Sale of the second an eloquent address. Liberty loan Bonds. Following the special music was furnished for j concert by the West Lebanon band All services of an orchestra from i accompanied by m. N. Coffing on the Danville and a big choir from the Cornet e. Guy Sutton of this place Community. By a Una Minous vote Sang a Solo and e. F. Mccabe de it was decided to make the affair j slivered a stirring Appeal to the peo an annual event and it is planned ple of Warren county to get in line to make it bigger and better next year. Revival services Are being held there this week a Good attendance and Strong interest being reported. A and prevent old Warren from winning the reputation of being inhabited with quot financial after the speech or. Sutton gave another selection followed by a Short closing concert by the band. As a result of the meeting several Auto smash near Brick Plant while on their Way to Lafayette of Money Back of in a Hup touring car. Wednesday i f the front. Amidst the night a party of men from Liam sport wrecked the rear system of the car and had a close Call to serious or fatal injury themselves from Leonard Etnire sept. 29, 1917 dear parents and sister a i have a few moments to myself this p. M. During which time i will try and write a few letters. This is a Beautiful Day just cold enough to make it pleasant for one to be out in fact we have had a Nice week. I find the climate Here very much like that of Indiana. We have no Nice warm fires or Beautiful Homes to spend our evenings but we Are doing our bit for Uncle Sam and we can not expect to live in the flowery Beds of ease. I Don t want you to worry about me for i will be All o. K. We have a Fine Bunch of Fellows in the company and the officers Are a no. 1. In fact you could not find a better set of officers if you looked the world Over All you have to do is be Square and they Are with you to the finish. I have not received mail that was written since i left san Antonio aug. 6. Tell Merle Odle i received the aug. 2nd and 9th issues of the review Republican. Not stay parts of stations. I will be sent to fort san Houston Texas about the last of the week where i will get training on aeroplane motors. We have Dandy Beds and Good eats and a Fine Bunch of Fellows As most of them left Good positions and Are of Well to do families and there is no reason. That a lad could not be contented for the y. M. C. A. Furnishes amusements every evening. Several of the Fellows were sick when we were vaccinated but i came through All right. Fort Mcdowel is located Here and the guns guard Golden Gate Entrance from the Ocean. In conclusion will say i am Well satisfied and like it All right so far and will write you from Houston Texas when 1 get there. Yours Ralph Cirl Bunch Camp Taylor oct. 6. Hello dear folks a How Are you i am Well and getting along Fine and Hope you Are the same. Have written four letters this afternoon and have one More to write. We were transferred last monday. How do you like those cards i sent i was going to have my picture taken but it was raining and i did not go. How is the weather up there we have had Only one or two frosts since i came. It frosted last night and the wind has been blowing awful hard. The Days however Are still warm am going without my overcoat. I was out in the country the other Day for the first time since i have come and it looked like Home to me to see the Corn Fields and chickens. They raise some potatoes and have some Large Fields. Some of the cavalry boys Are leaving tomorrow for Hattiesburg mass. I got a letter from Bill Bunch today it was sure and he says he was getting Longan old paper. George Holtz of Rossville iii., was in town saturday and showed us a copy of the old Warren Republican dated september 14,1882. The paper had lain in the Bot Ftp of an old trunk at his Home and was just recently brought to Light. Many items of special interest to the older readers Are found in its columns. Among them Are the following p. S. Slauter is on the sick list. A James Cal ton is on the sick list. John Hodgson is on the sick list. Bilious Ness. Henry held and family attended the fair yesterday. Or. S. M. Reid of Independence was in town tuesday. Auditor Morfitt went to Indianapolis monday on business. R. A. Chandler of Steuben spent saturday and sunday in town. Lew Helwig is seriously ill with typhoid fever or. Ross attending. Commissioners Barr and Alexander the fair at Lafayette Friday. Mrs. G. B. Mclaflin and mrs. Charles High left to Day for a visit in Kansas. Evans Claypool is building a new two Story Brick residence in the North part of town. E. D. Thomas purchased two Fine Breeding hogs at the Tippecanoe county fair last week. Tru. High has opened a grocery store in the room lately occupied by James d. Livengood. Rhodes amp Rabourn have moved their Law office to the room Over i. H. Benson s grocery store. D. R. Sewell the Pioneer school teacher of Pine Village will have a spelling match at amp Fox have commenced burning their second Kiln of Brick. They bum 200,000 in this Kiln. Stephen s. Slauter has opened up a first class Coal vein on his land in Liberty township along Pine Creek. Among the advertisers appear the names of f. P. Longley we. T. Moore the Thomas co., w. T. Nich ols w. C. Fearns i. H. Benson Geo. Hay amp co., and Nebeker s drug store. William Wolfe advertised a fresh Supply of coffins. In a Temperance program Maud Nodurft was on for a scripture lesson Toel d. Sutton gave a select Reading music by Charles Bryant Ned Mccabe and Mary Sutton Flora Cameron gave a declamation a speech by j. P. Hunter duet by Frank and Ethel Gregory and a Short talk by i. H. Benson. The Market at this place Waas follows wheat 88c Corg 60c Oats 26c Rye 60c flour $7.20 a barrel Hay $8 a ton potatoes 50c a Bushel. Sugar 8� to 1210 per Pound Coffee 12 to 30c per Pound Coal Oil 20c a gallon butter 25c per Pound eggs 15c a dozen hams 17c per Pound Bacon 18c per Pound lard 16c a Pound gasoline 25c a system to of All men to be fixed before Call eases work of local draft boards tor of the presbyterian Chirich announced that the Church Board had talked the matter Over and that Good to receive the paper just like a message from Home. I also received a Box of Candy sent to me on aug. 3rd. It was in fair condition. Tell everyone hello for me and that i am All o. son and brother pvt. Leonard d. Etnire amb. Co 2 Amer. Expend. Force. Via new York. Near the Poston Brick Plant just i the Church would take $1,000 Worth of Bonds. To North of this City. The car belonged to Ike Julian a Well known Resi c a i j d c Dent of that place and he was Drav a a al and Box Bupper ing. At the Culvert across the Brook there will be a parcel Post social near the Brick Plant the car skidded and Box supper at the Goodwine until one rear wheel was caught by school on Friday night nov. 2. The Cement parapet of the Culvert there will be a Good program and the car was going very fast and so plenty of music. The program will great was its momentum that it was begin at eight o clock and the us hurled onto the Road before it came lie is cordially invited to attend. From Ralph Hunter Angel Island Cal. Bet. 14-1917. Dear Merlei have never written you since i left Home in the Spring so will drop a few lines before lights Are out at nine o clock. We had a wonderful trip As far As Hobson Montana where we met Clint. Butler who found work for us and made us feel at Home. From there we separated Cordell going to Powers Montana where Fine. Will close now for it is about supper time and i Don t want to be late for Retreat. If i do i will get some kind of duty and that is some thing i want to keep out of. I have not had any of that to do yet. So goodbye. From your son America e. Bunch co. F 309 eng. Regt. Camp Taylor by. New draft regulations postponing the physical examination of the remaining 7,000,000 draft registrants until they Are called for military service and assigning the men to five classes thus determining the order of their Call to the colors were announced by Provost marshal Gen. Chowder recently. Under the new regulations it will be possible for a registrant to determine whether he will be called in the first 500,000 additional men to be summoned the second 500,000 or later contingents. The changed system will reduce the labors of local boards by 80 per cent by reversing the present process of first conducting physical examinations and then hearing exemption claims. Hereafter All economic questions will be settled before the physical examination is held. Five classes of draft registrants Are established approximately As follows first men with absolutely no dependents. Second skilled farm labourers or others slightly less available for military service than the first class. Third skilled labourers and men whose work is deemed vital in War industries. Fourth married men with children whose families Are wholly dependent upon them for support. Fifth cripples mental defectives and Hose specifically exempted from military service. Registrants will be assigned to one of these classes from detailed information they furnish local boards in reply to a detailed form of questions Sti omitted to them. They have the right to Appeal to be placed in a lower class. After such appeals Are passed on by the District Board or if no Appeal is made their status is officially fixed. Thereafter when Call is made for the second 500,000 under the present draft Law local boards will fix quotas and fill their quotas completely from class 1, starting with class 2 Only when the first class is wholly exhausted. The men needed to fill each quota will then present themselves for physical examination. The order in which the men Are fixed in their classes will be the same order in which they now stand in the ability list under the draft drawing conducted last on War president Wilson has led the people of the United states into the maelstrom of the european conflict. Why to make War impossible to make democracy Safe. Is there any higher idealism in this world the political Leader of a great nation seeking not political capital and advancement but for the Sake of humanity this sentiment this causes Belli is perhaps beyond the depth of the average Man today for we have primarily for our own interests. When this War is Over and time has had opportune from Frank Hunter Camp Zachary Taylor. Louisville by. Oct. 21,1917, Merle Odle editor review Republican Williamsport Indiana. Dear Friend Merle a since seeing letters in your paper from so Anjany of the Home boys i will Send you a letter of conditions a continued on Page six to the Odd Fellows. All Odd Fellows of Warren county and All sojourning Brothers Are requested to meet with Warren Lodge in their Lodge room at 9 o clock a. M. On sunday morning october 28, 1917, and March in a body to the m. E. Church 9 00 a. Lodge open j been used to batting Hove. 10 00 a. meeting. 10 15 a. into line ity to weigh motives president Wil of March. I son s step into this world War will 10 20 a. to Church be foun to have lifted our people a 10 30 a. by or. A. A. A Tep higher in the scale of civilize Spears grand a t i. By order of committee. But even a War for humanity must be supported with material mrs. John Borem of Shelby. Ind., things and subscriptions to the Sec came Down monday and visited in end Liberty Bonds Are ase entail til tuesday with her brother Walter f though this nation were fighting Mathis and family. Tuesday morn aggrandizement for territory ing the two went to Lafayette where for Power. They Weire joined by another sister mrs. Ernest Shortridge of Crown Point they were called together by the illness of their father Ephraim Mathis who was to be operated on tuesday Forenoon at the Soldier s Home Hospital this mrs Borem s first visit Money is the sinews of War. Notice having bought out the Jones Bros interests in the Grain business at this place it is necessary to close up the old firm s business so parties know to her old Home ing themselves indebted to the old Here in thirty two years acid she firm will please Call and Settle with found but few of the old landmarks out further notice. Remaining. It. Milton Keister. In my Rill a a

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