HISTORICAL TRIVIA 1931-1935 Fulton County, Indiana From The Rochester News-Sentinel Selected, copied and indexed by Wendell C. Tombaugh Special thanks to Jack K. Overmyer for suggesting the Title. = = = = = = = = = = = PRODUCERS CREAMERY To Have New Creamery The News-Sentinel, Jan. 3, 1931 Kewanna milk producers are signing contracts to sell their products to a creamery that is to be established at Kewanna. Contracts were to be signed by 400 patrons. The creamery will be operated by the Marion Producers company. SWINE BREEDERS ASSN. Levi P. Moore, Secretary The News-Sentinel, Jan. 6, 1931 Levi P. Moore, of Rochester, was re-elected secretary and treasurer of the Indiana Swine Breeders Association at the fifty-fourth annual meeting of that organization at Indianapolis Monday evening. - - - - - - - TELEVISION Invention Improves Television Machines The News-Sentinel, Jan. 13, 1931 Brazil, Ind., Jan. 13 (U.P.) -- A scanning, proposed to take the place of disc and thus overcome one of the main stumbling blocks to commercialization of television, has been patented by John W. German, Brazil. - - - - - - - - - COLONIAL HOTEL Sunday Dancing Will Be Resumed at Colonial The News-Sentinel, Jan. 15, 1931 Heinie Lybrook and Jack Marsh, of Logansport, and Vance Callahan, of Kewanna, have leased the Japanese dance hall at the Colonial hotel on the north shore of Lake Manitou and will operate (1) dances there during the remainder of the winter and during the spring months. The opening dance will be Sunday night, Feb. 1 and every Sunday night and holiday thereafter. - - - - - - ZIMMERMAN BROS. FUNERAL HOME New Funeral Home To Hold Informal Opening The News-Sentinel, Jan. 16, 1931 An informal opening of The Zimmerman Bros. new funeral home located at 1420 South Main street will be held from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The entire first floor of the elegant residence, familiarly known as the Ostie Davis home, will be devoted exclusively to mortuary use. - - - - - - - - BUS STATION, KOKOMO Frank Kern. Manager The News-Sentinel, Jan. 17, 1931 Frank Kern has been named agent for a new bus station at Kokomo which will be the terminal for all the bus lines entering that city including the Indiana Motor Bus Company. The station will be located on North Main Street. In addition to being the agent Kern will operate a lunch room in the station lobby. KING’S JESTERS Band in Indianapolis The News-Sentinel, Jan. 19, 1931 George Howard, Fritz Bastow and John Ravencroft (King’s Jesters), who are members of the Paul Whiteman orchestra have notified friends in this city that the Whiteman band will appear at the Indiana ballroom in Indianapolis for a dance on the night of Sunday, February 1. DITMIRE FUNERAL HOME Fulton Is To Have A Modern Funeral Home The News-Sentinel, Jan. 22, 1931 The Ditmire Undertaking establishment is undergoing changes which will give Fulton a modern funeral home. The work was started the first of the week and will be rushed to completion. The whole of the store will be changed. On the upper floor partitions will be removed and a large casket display room will be made. (2) The main part of the first floor will be made into a funeral chapel, and the office, which will be modernly furnished, will be moved to the front of the building. The building is an ideal one for the arrangement and it is a thing that has long been needed in Fulton. No furniture will be handled in Fulton, the present stock being moved to the Macy store. Ditmires, in making this step of advancement, have added a great deal to the progress of Fulton. PRODUCERS CREAMERY Producers Creamery To Open At Kewanna Feb. 1 The News-Sentinel, Jan. 27, 1931 Kewanna, Jan. 27.-- Formal opening of the Producers creamery being organized by farmers of Cass, Fulton and Pulaski counties, has been set for February 1, officials of the firm announce. The creamery is to be operated on a co-operative rebate plan similar to the one operated at Marion, Indiana. A building has been purchased by the organization, and the equipment is being installed. CHECKER TOURNAMENT AT ROCHESTER Feb. 2-3, Plans Complete The News-Sentinel, Jan. 27, 1931 Plans are now being completed for the holding of the State Checker Tournament in Rochester on February 2nd and 3rd when 50 or more men players will come here to decide who is the champion for 1931. The tourney will be held in the Eagles Hall and there will be 25 or more games in progress all at the same time with the very best players in the state engaged. Most of the players will arrive Sunday night. The games will start Monday morning and will run on continuously until Tuesday night. If there should be tie games and there probably will it might be necessary to hold an extra session Wednesday morning. Local arrangements are being cared for by the Kiwanis Club and J.O. Clemans, a member of the state association. Rex B. Wood of Gary is secretary and has handled the publicity in connection with the tourney. He reports that he has sent out more than 600 letters and notices advertising the championship meeting and that Rochester has been well advertised not only in Indiana but over the entire country. It is estimated that the visitors will spend more than $500 in Rochester for hotel rooms, meals and automobile upkeep. The merchants of the city are being solicited this week to help (3) meet the expenses of the tourney which will total around $100. This includes paying the prize money offered and miscellaneous expenses. DEBATES High School - Rochester Versus Peru The News-Sentinel, Jan. 28, 1931 Arrangements were completed yesterday between the local high school and the coach of the Peru debating team, Victor F. Dawald, to the effect that a dual meet has been scheduled between the two schools. The first debate will be held next Tuesday evening, February 3, at seven thirty o’clock, in the local high school assembly. The question for discussion is the one adopted this year by the Indiana State Debating League - Resolved: That the Present System of Installment Buying of Consumptive Goods Should Be Condemned. The negative team, from Peru, will argue for the retention of the system, and the affirmative speakers - LeRoy Frobish, Wendell Tombaugh and Mary Alice Shonk - will advance arguments to show that it is undesirable and should therefore be condemned. - - - Inter-school debating is a new project in Rochester High. For the past several weeks installment buying has been studied as a part of the work in the public speaking class, the members of which have now completed briefs of the proposition and drafted constructive speeches. LeRoy Frobish, ‘31, Captain of the affirmative team, has had roles in two class plays and is high school yell leader, senior editor of Station R.H.S. and a member of Hi-Y. Mary Alice Shonk, ‘31, has also had experience in dramatics. Wendell Tombaugh, ‘32, is one of the news editors of the high school paper. - - - - On Tuesday, February 10th, our negative speakers - Edna Nichols (31), George Dague (31) and John Shipley (31) - will clash with the Peruvian affirmative, there. - - - - CHECKER TOURNAMENT State Checker Tourney Under Way, Eagle’s Hall The News-Sentinel, Feb. 2, 1931 The state checker tournament, which will decide who will hold the checker championship for 1931 in Indiana got under way in the Eagle’s Hall here today with 60 players in action. - - - - - - The tournament was opened Monday morning with a business session. J.O. Clemans, local checker enthusiast, made a few opening remarks preceding which the members sang America and prayer was (4) given. Hugh A. Barnhart made the address of welcome on behalf of the city and the Kiwanis Club, and the response was made by John K. Stewart, president, of Westfield, Rex B. Wood, secretary, of Gary, spoke briefly thanking the community for its fine co-operation.- - - - - GRINDING MILL New Grinding Mill The News-Sentinel, Feb. 3, 1931 Fred Rowe has installed a new feed grinding mill at his place of business on East Seventh street. Mr. Rowe is now equipped to do all kind of feed grinding and is also able to compound feeds which require the mixing of molasses. PYLE, MARY Contrbutes Poem To National Magazine The News-Sentinel, Feb. 4, 1931 In February’s issue of the Junior Home magazine, a comely little Rochester girl, Mary Pyle, 13, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Chas. Pyle, comes in for a bit of nation-wide publicity through a contribution of a Valentine poem which appeared on the junior’s page. The poem, which is entitled “My Valentine” follows: Yesterday my dad came home And with him he did bring A great big box of pasteboard Tied up with colored string I hurriedly unwrapped it; And what do you think I saw-- A tiny little kitten And he gave a loud, “meow.” I cherish that gray kitten More than anything of mine, I love him so because he is My Dad’s valentine. CHECKER TOURNAMENT Checker Championship Is Won By Lee Munger Again The News-Sentinel, Feb. 5, 1931 Young Indianapolis player holds title second year. (5) LINDSEY, ELIZABETH Plan To Exhume Body Of Fulton County Pioneer The News-Sentinel, Feb. 16, 1931 Val Zimmerman to move body of first white woman to die in Fulton County. Val Zimmerman, local undertaker today made application to the State Board of Health at Indianapolis for permission to move the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsey from a burial place on East Race Street on ground now owned by Ed Kime to the Odd Fellows cemetery.