Past
Town News
August, 1901
Source: Steuben - Republican Newspaper, Angola, IN 7 Aug 1901.
Nevada Mills - Frank Root spent Sunday with his Aunt Mrs. S.
Parker. Iola Bachelor accompanied Lillian Morse to the Buffalo
Exposition. Arthur
and Harley Webb, accompanied by their wives, went to the exposition
last
week.
Gage - Charles Squires is again ill and confined to his bed.
Mary
Tubbs has returned to Angola for a few weeks visit with relatives. Mrs.
Butler wishes to inform her friends that she is not drowned as was
reported.
Orland - William Harding of Butler, Indiana and nephew A. B.
Jeffery
and son Carl left the first of the week for a bicycle trip to the
southern
part of the state. Charles Twichell writes home that he arrived safe
and
sound at his destination at Kingston, Texas and enjoyed the trip very
much,
but was twenty pounds lighter for the journey which he made on his
bicycle.
Flint - Fred and Grover Brown drove over to Coldwater Sunday to
visit
their uncles Lorenzo and George Brown. Mrs. James Mann visited at James
Brown’s part of last week. David Benninghoff has bought of Dr. Bowen
the old hotel property and the carpenters have commenced work on
repairs. He will run a hotel and meat market.
Hamilton - Forty-one uninvited guests called at the home of Mrs.
T.
H. Dirrim last Monday evening on her 80th birthday. They were kindly
received
and entertained by the hostess. Charles Dunk and wife visited her
sister,
Mrs. V. N. Briner and family at Orland last Saturday. Mrs. Briner and
her
sister Lovina returned with them to the home of their parents, Frank
Farley
and wife.
Page - Gertie Hauver of Angola is visiting her cousin Mrs.
Worthy
Thomas. Ed Rugg and family of Lansing are visiting Mrs. Rugg’s mother
Mrs. Beech.
Pleasant Lake - Ruth Ransburg of Fort Wayne is visiting here.
Lena
and Rena Shoulters of Garrett are visiting Mrs. Lillie Stone and Emma
Dayhuff. The annual Fetterhoff family reunion will meet at the home of
Frank G.
Gilbert, August 22.
Hudson - Mrs. Ona Hess of Hamilton is visiting her parents
Samuel
Harpham and wife. Mrs. Sarah Fink and children from Ohio are visiting
her
parents George Libey and wife and other friends here.
Otsego Center - Dell Armsbaugh and Nellie Dalley went to Detroit
on
an excursion Sunday. J. Knight and family of Pleasant Lake, visited
last
Thursday with Frank Eber and family.
Fremont - Mrs. Ansley and son, who have been visiting her
brother
Rev. W. W. Landis of Pioneer have returned home. The carpet bug is the
subject
of discussions at all gatherings of ladies in town these days.
Sowle Settlement - Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler of Chicago are visiting
at
Fred Schneiders. Mrs. Wheeler being a sister of Fred. They all spent a
few days last week camping at Lake James.
Salem Center - Born Friday, August 2, 1901 to Porter Hughes and
wife,
a son. A. E. Emerson and Mother Mrs. Ashbaugh, and J. D. Dewitt
attended
Hillsdale College Day at Island Park, last week.
York - Mr. and Mrs. John Cox visited her parents in Bethel,
Michigan
last week. Daniel Knisely of Waterloo, Indiana was the guest of his
brother
J. B. Knisely part of last week.
South Jamestown - Mrs. Ward Filo of Flint, visited her son Alva
Spangle
over Sunday. M. R. Clark and family of Fremont is spending a week with
his sister Mrs. Fred Cory and family.
Metz - Mrs. Jones visited her brother and sister John
Trowbridge and
Cyrena Burch a few days last week and returned to Waterloo last Monday
accompanied
by Bertha and Bernice Williams.
Crooked Creek - The funeral of Lorenzo Cornish was held at the
church
last Tuesday. He died at the home of his daughter Mrs. Granville Ward,
near
Fremont, age 69 years 2 months and 15 days old.
Died: Elmer Sutton, son of George and Margaret Sutton.
Married: Mr. Robert Dixon of Angola and Miss Mabel Wyckoff of
Hicksville,
Ohio.
Obituary: Arza Clyde Rathbun, son of La Fayette and Laura
Rathbun
of Nevada Mills.
Notice of Settlement of Estate: James A. Krum
Submitted by: Jean Ann Childers