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Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette Fort Wayne, Indiana Wednesday, July 21, 1920 Page 10
OSSIAN NEWS
OSSIAN, Ind., July 20. -- The Sanitary grocery owned and operated by C. J. Wagner and Dale
Derr has now become the sole property of Mr. Derr, by a deal completed this week. Mr.
Derr purchased the half interest of Mr. Wagner and will continue to operate the business
himself assisted by his brother, Russell Derr. Mr. Wagner will find employment in Fort
Wayne.
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Somers have as guests in their home this week, Mrs. Edna Omo, and
daughters, of Chicago. Mrs. Omo is a daughter of Mrs. Margaret Black, also of Chicago,
who is here spending the summer with Mr. and Mrs. Somers.
Mrs. G. E. Flanigan and daughter, Edith, of New Albany, came Thursday for a visit with the
former's mother, Mrs. Clementina Hostetter and her sister, Mrs. Ella Flanigan.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vananda have as their guest since Wednesday, Mrs. Belle Patterson, of
Warren.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Donaghy, a son, on Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Koons had as their guest for a few days their daughter, Mrs. R. A.
Hatfield, of Winona Lake. She came especially to attend the Koons' reunion.
Dr. and Mrs. D. C. Wybourn had as their guests recently, Mr. and Mrs. John Wybourn, of
Sturgis, Mich.
C. S. Miller, of Parker, passed through Ossian Wednesday on his way to Whitley county on a
business trip. His niece, Esther Hamilton, of Lynn, accompanied him and stopped off here
for a visit with Lavan Rector and Marjorie Flanigan.
Raymond Goshorn, of the Wilson Bros.' hardware force, is unable to be at work this
week on account of a threatened attack of typhoid fever.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hanna and Mrs. George Hanna and their children, of Newcastle, Pa., who
have been visiting among relatives here for the past ten days left yesterday by auto for
Ashtabula, O., en route home.
Mrs. Hanna J. Woodward, of Delphos, O., came recently for a visit among relatives in this
vicinity.
Samuel Kreigh left Tuesday for a fishing trip to Rome City. He went with William and
Thomas Sowards, of Pugney.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Trotler, of Fredericksburg, who are en route by auto for Lowell, Mass.,
to visit with their daughter, Mrs. Harold Putnam, stopped off in Ossian Thursday to visit
until Saturday with Mrs. Trotler's mother, Mrs. Clementina Hostetter, her sister, Mrs.
Ella Flanigan and her brother Charles and W. E. Hostetter. They leave Saturday and Mrs.
Flanigan will accompany them as far as Niagara Falls.
Mrs. Elmer Springer and Mrs. Theo Werling were notified Thursday night by telephone of the
death of their brother, Henry Wittie, of Fort Wayne. Death was caused by drowning.
Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Brecheisen have as their guests this week the former's sister, Mrs.
W. W. Ward and daughter, of Rushville.
Miss Mae Wilson, of Fort Wayne, is visiting this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus
Wilson.