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The association of women who have charge of Capital Hill ceme- tery are doing a noble job in re- novating the unkept plot, but are making headway at clearing the briars, ground ivy, weeds and straightening the markers and leveling the top soil. From 1840 to 1867 when Riverside cemetery was incorporated, Capital Hill was the town's principal burying place. Many have been moved to Riverside, but hundreds remain, notably such well-known pioneer families as Johnsonbaugh, Dr. Wayman, Dr. John Wayman, Jes- sup, Wysong, Dr. Nathan John- son, Canfields, Arnolds. Harts, Knox, Underwood, Hare, Vestals, Pritchards, kollins and states of
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From the pages of the local newspaper, editions of June 3, 10, 1920 comes the news of the day.
While there was some reckless driving indulged in by tourists passing through here enroute to and from the races at Indianapo- lis, it was not near so bad as in former years. Some of our own people are even more guilty than the tourists in exceeding the speed limit.
Frank Sumwalt is hauling man- ufactured ice here from Conners- ville and delivering it to busi- ness men.
The Cambridge City coal yards, owned and operated by Buller- dick Bros. of Richmond, have . been sold to the D. W. Harris Co., who recently purchased the W. B. Barefoot & Co. poultry plant. Dr. Littell and Roy Copeland are the first in this place to have awnings attached to the wind- shield of their automobile. Lee Ault, trustee of the town board from the fifth ward has resigned. The board will select a successor from that ward.
The Valley Grove Cemetery as- sociation of south of Milton has elected the following board : Oscar Kirlin, president; David Wise, treasurer; W. M. Wallace, secre- tary.
The Rauch Cigar Co. here has increased force to an even 100.1 The principal part of the em- ployees are boys and girls from 16 years old and up.
Graver's Dept. Store is adver- tising Clarke's Cafeteria Feeders. The World's Best Cafeteria Feed- er-No Freeze Fountain. The . Twentieth Century Way To Feed Hors for Bie Profit.
Edgar R. Beeson, sold 90 adres of land south of Miter tennorge Stant of Connersville for $5,650.
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From the pages of the local newspaper, editions of June 17, 24, 1920, comes the news of the day.
Senator Harding won the Re- publican nomination for President at the convention in Chicago. Ile won on the 10th ballot, getting 692 votes. Other candidates and votes received were Wood 152, Johnson 80, Lowden 12, Hoover 91%, Coolidge 5, Sproul 0. It is noted that Wood and Lowden led the first seven ballots and were still strong on the eighth and ninth ballots but on the 10th bal- lot Lowden's supporters swung to Harding. Coolidge was nominated for vice-president.
The weekly payroll at the Rauch cigar factory is near $1,000. The cigar output is 12,000 daily.
Three ball players from here, Diffenderfer, Lowry and Cregar, played with the Centerville team against New Madison Sunday. Centerville won 11-4.
New potatoes are selling on the market at 13 cents a pound.
The farmers association of the vicinity of Bentonville have bou- ght a car load of granulated sugar for distribution among its mem- bers at 28 cents per pound. A club of persons from Cambridge have been sold a thousand pounds out of the car at the same price.
Some twenty members of the Indiana Artist club paid an all- day visit to the Misses Overbeck studio recently. They were much impressed in the work displayed und demonstrations given by the Misses Overbeck.
Graver's Dept. Store advertises Non-Skid auto tires, 31x4, $19.95. A 33xt tire, fluted is $29.95. Also, MeCormick standard binder twine is 16 cents per pound.
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From the pages of the local newspaper, editions of July 1, 8, 1920 comes the news of the day.
It is reported that the recently appointed motorcycle police oper- ating along all the state roads leading into Richmond is making big earnings out of the fees as-' .sessed by the police authorities from the persons he has arrested exceeding the speed limit of 15 miles per hour. There is much ·unfavorable comment heard about the unfair treatment given to out- [siders by assessing a fin eand cost of $11.20 against them, and giv- jing city truckmen and delivery- men and auto demonstrators, who drive from 30 to 50 miles per hour, only a reprimand. People going to Richmond to trade should be entitled to at least equal con- sideratio nas to violating the law.
J. B. Wilson, John Zeigler and wife and E. Beeson have returned from Detroit, having driven three new automobiles overland.
The Pure Ice Cream Co. is ar- ranging to supply its ice custom- ers with machine ice as soon as the present supply of natural iee Is exhausted. This will be better ice than the canal article, but it will cost more.
The Farmers Association of Fayette county, who so readily disposed of a carload of 50,000 lbs of granulated sugar to its mem- bers at 2812e a pound recently, are buying another shipment of the same size, also they are buying coal, commercial fertilizers and other commodities in ear lots for the benefit of its members.
Gov. J. M. Cox of Ohio and Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York is the Democratic ticket named nt San Francisco. Warren , Harding and Calvin Coolidge are the Republican candidates for president and vice president of our nation.
Both Cox and Harding are newspaper editors and proprietors, and journalism should not com- plain that their campar . re not
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From the part of the local newspaper, edition of July 15, 22, 1920 comes the new, of the day. -1-4.04
Single G, the Cambridge City and Indiana's greatest pacer started his first race of 1920 at North Randall park, Cleveland, Ohio, the opening meeting of the grand circuit, July 10 in the free- for-all pace. He won the two heats in 2.01 3-4 and 2.02 3 t over the following starters: Grave Direct, Louie Grattan, Gladys B, Sanardo, Verlie Patchen and Goldie Todd, the six best pacers in training. : ISingle G, although 10 years old, goes the pace with the same en- durance and speed as ever.
Durwood Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Moore of Mt. Au- burn, met with a serious accident one day recently while at Rowe's ice cream factory. He with some other boys had some powder in a can and one of the boys care- (lessly threw a lighted match caus- 'ing the powder to explode in the ¡Moore boy's face. At first it was thought he would lose his sight, but fortunately such a condition did not develop.
The people of Milton and vicin-' ity were shocked at learning of I the death of Oscar M. Kirlin,' cashier of the Farmers' Bank of Milton by the shooting of himself in the head with a shots in. He was 38 years old. Bank exami- ners were working at the bank the day before the incident and; remained to finish their job. No shortages were noted at this writ- .ing but their job is still incom-1 plete. It is known Mr. Kirlin had complained of ill health and was behind in his book work at the bank.
William H. Behr of Pershing has sold his home to John Kaiser. who will build a shop for auto- mobile repairing Note: John and brother Ed operated the garage for many years. John is now in the plumbing and heating buni ness and Ed remains in the jar- age bu iers
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From the pages of the local newspaper, editions of July 29, and Angust 5, 1920 comes the news of the day.
Bertsch & Co. are building an 80 foot addition to their foundry, which will give them plenty of room for the present, but if busi- ness continues to grow they will! have to expand in all departments.
The Rauch cigar factory is now turning out 100,000 cigars each week, and their payroll last month amounted to $1,457.
Ed Allen, driver of Single G, was fined $500 and suspended for 30 days by the grand circuit judges at Columbus, Ohio, last week. Single G was defeated by Sanardo after pacing the first mile in 2.01, the fastest mile of the season.
Isaac Falls says he can beat Kansas. Ile has a clump of sun- flowers in his back yard 12 feet high und loaded with bloom.
Lorin Ulrich has leased ground of the Pennsylvania railroad on the east side of Walnut street op- posite the freight depot and yards and extended the switch e.ist to his plant where a large pit has been placed to receive the coal. .
The Cambridge City-Jackson township consolidated school board met and organized as fol -. flows for the ensuing year: B. F. Wissler, president; E. R. Huddle- ston, treasurer; Trustee E. A. Ehle, secretary.
Reeservice Mu. ic Co. advertises Brunswick phonographs and rec- ords. A variety of phonographs in styles $115 upwards.
Dayton's The Shop is having a tire sale; 30\\ 1. RacineHorse- shoe Cords are 34.50 .- a tube given free with each tire. Bruns- . wiek tires, 30x3% are 23.88 and Brunswick Cord tires, 30x316 are 35.50.
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From the pages of the local newspaper, editions of August 12, 19, 1920 comes the news of the day.
Edwin Wickes of Pennville is home from the west after an ab- sence of several months pros- pecting. He still holds' his land Fin Nebraska.
O. C. Rowe is not going out of the ice business as reported, but is waiting to get a reliable man to take charge of his de- livery wagon. ITis supply of nat- ural ice is exhausted, but he is getting manufactured ice from Connersville for his ice cream fac- tory and says he will supply his customers as heretofore.
Gradually sugar is receding toward rock bottom. It begins to look now like 20 cents a pound or lower.
Dan Chapman says they have been threshing oats that yielded 50 to 65 bushels per acre and of fine quality. With a market price of 65 cents it is a very profitable crop.
The Dublin Free Fair und Homecoming Sept. 2 will offer "liberal cash premiums in the sev- eral departments, such as horses, mules, cattle, hogs, sheep, poul- ¿try, grain, fruits, vegetables, do- mestic science, art and special prizes.
1 W. B. Barefoot, owner of Sin- gle G has decided to race him in the west rather than go on through the grand circuit. He is entered at Davenport, lowa; Mad- ison, Wis .; and Milwaukee, and will go in exhibition miles at Ilamline, Minnesota State Fair and Omaha, Nebraska.
Billy Sunday, evangelist will be featured at the Richmond Chaut- auqua from August 22 to Septem- ber 5. 1
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Robert Feemster, Robert Leapley,
Local Natives, Die In Florida Plane Crash
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Robert M. (Bob) Feemster and Forrest Robert (Bob) Leapley well known Cambridge City Natives were killed late Monday morning when a small plane spun out of control near Fort Pierce, Florida.
Feemster was the son of the prominent local at- torney, the late Alonzo Feemster and Luella Feem- ster.
Robert Leapley was the son of the late Dayton Leapley, well known automobile dealer of Cambridge City and the late Goldie Leapley Bertsch.
Feemster, 51, was chairman of the executive board of Dow Jones, publishers of the Wall Street Journal and other busi- He had served as chairman of school of the University of Mich- igan. ness publications, and Leapley, 43, managed a motel. Both lived in Day- tona Beach, Fla.
Neemster, who went in- to semi-retirement the first of this year, had just transferred his home to Florida during the Christ- mas season.
Leapley had managed a Day- tona Beach motel owned by Feem ster for the last three years. He also had served as Feemster's pilot and relatives in Cambridge City said they assumed he was piloting the plane when it crash- ed.
Reports said a farm hand on a ranch about 12 miles southwest of Fort Pierce saw the plane spin toward the ground and crash in a wooded area.
Sheriff J. R. Norvell, of St. Lucie county in Florida, and two deputies beat their way through the dense woods and pulled the bodies from the wreckage, accord- ing to reports.
Norvell said the blue and white Cessna 210A plowed a large swath through the underbrush, and the impact scattered wreck-
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Reports said the two men start- ed their flight from Daytona Beach but reportedly did not file a flight plan. Relatives in Cam- bridge City said they believed the two were going to Fort Myers, Fla.
Feemster joined the staff of the Wall Street Journal in 1933 and hecame advertising director in 1938. He became chairman of the executive committee of Dow Jones, which owns the Journal, in 1948. Ile also was owner and pre- sident of the Alexandria, Ind., Daily Times-Tribune and presi- dent and chairman of Brooklyn Heights Periodical, Inc., Brook- lyn, N. Y.
Leapley graduated from Lin- coln high school in Cambridge City in 1937. Ile served in 1953 as first deputy to Wayne County treasurer Kenneth Knight. Previ- ous to that, Leapley was employed by Bertsch & Co., and Jones Pon- tiae agency. here.
Feemster graduated from Lin- coln high school in 1929 and from DePauw university in 1933 where ship. He also attended the law erica, as an executive member of
the National Federation of Sales' Executives, a member of the Newspaper Advertising Executives association and was former chair- man of the New York Sons of In- diana society.
In 1943, he was named the out- standing member of Sigma Delta Chi, journalism honorary frater- nity, in the New York area. He had received an honorary LL.D from Tusculum college, Greenville Tenn. He was a trustee of the college.
Ile also had owned the Orlando Flyers baseball team in the Flor- ida State league.
Survivors include his widow, Ruth, a daughter, Linda, a broth- er, Max Feemster and a sister, Ruth Feemster Murray, both of Hagerstown, a sister Mrs. Helen Talker of Richmond, Virginia. A sister, Miss Martha Feemster of Cambridge City.
Leapley's survivors include, his widow, Louella; one daughter, Mrs. James Clapp of Canton, O : two brothers, Harold, of Cum- bridge City, and Philip, of Nobles- ville; two grandchildren; his step- father, Luther Bertsch, of Rural Route 2, Cambridge City; two stepbrothers, Reuben Bertsch, of R.2, Cambridge City, and James Bertsch, of Richmond.
No definite hour and place for the services for Mr. Feemster were available early Wednesday. Serv- ices for Mr. Leapley have been set tentatively for 2 p. m. Saturday, at the Fisher Mortuary, here, with Rev. A. P. Beale of the But- ler Methodist church of Butler, Ind., officiating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery. Persons should contact the mortuary re- garding visiting hours, as the ar- rival of Leapley's body here is a time element not yet established.
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