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News-Sentinel, The Fort Wayne, Indiana Wednesday, May 10, 1922 Page 6
OSSIAN NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Harley Somers and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pocock and families, of Fort Wayne, were
Sunday guests with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clark.
Mrs. M. N. Knight and daughter, Neenah, and Mrs. Walter Gibler and daughter, Marjorie,
left Saturday for a week's visit with Mrs. Knight's mother, Mrs. Mary Lawrence,
near Roanoke.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bailey and family were near Uniondale Sunday visiting with Mr. and Mrs.
L. F. Schorey, the latter an aunt of Mr. Bailey.
Theodore Crowl, who has been at the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne, following a serious
accident which happened to him while he was blasting stumps on his son's farm near
Five Points, was home for the week-end but returned Monday to the hospital for further
treatment. His one eye is still in a serious condition and it is yet uncertain whether he
will regain the sight of this eye.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Timbrook and family were in Bluffton Sunday afternoon visiting in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Woodward.
Ernest Vananda, the eighth grade teacher here, is planning to go to Peoria, Ill, where he
will take a six weeks' course in manual training and college work at the Bradley
Polytechnic Institute. He leaves about June 18.
Mriss Rozelle Finnigan, of Muncie, spent the weekend in Ossian visiting in the home of her
aunt, Mrs. Ella Flanigan.
Mrs. Alice Derr, of Fort Waye (sic), was a week-end guest with Mrs. Will Woodward.
Mrs. Jeanie Stine, of Bluffton, returned to Ossian Sunday evening to care for her mother,
Mrs. L. M. Hunter, who continues in very frail health. Mrs. Hunter had an attack of the
flu some weeks ago and has not been able to regain her usual health.
Miss Fay Melching, who is attending Tri State Normal at Angola, spent the week-end with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Melching.
Miss Nellie Crabill, of Muncie, visited over the week end with Miss Mary Spencer and in
honor of her visit they entertained at Sunday dinner, Elizabeth Hatfield, Fay Rector and
Frances Swaim.
A surprise reception and pot-luck supper were featured Monday night at the M. E. church in
honor of their new pastor, the Rev. W. T. Daly.
Mrs. Alice White returned Sunday evening from Decatur where she had been visiting in the
home of her daughter, Mrs. A. C. Sutton.