Dale News, Volume 4, Number 28, Dale, Spencer County, 8 August 1941 — Page 1
THE DALE NEWS
VOL. IV
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1941
NUMBER 28
BROWN FAMILIES HOLD FOURTH ANNUAL REUNION
MISS FRANCIS E. LUBBEHUSEN UNITED IN MARRIAGE SATURDAY
STATE FAIR HALF-PRICED TICKET SALE REPORTED HEAVY
In 1854, Samuel Frederic and Anna Barbara Anderagg Braun came from Allsace-Lorraine, section of Germany and France, to America with their family, Adeline, Albert, and Adolph. Two daughters, Wilhemina and Louisa, were born later here in America. The father died in 1857 and the mother in 1908. All the children have passed on, too.
Miss Frances E. Lubbehusen, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Lubbehusen and Charles H. Kerr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Kerr of Gentryville, were united in marriage in an early morning ceremony last Saturday, August 2, at St. Joseph’s Church, Rev. Celestine Sanders officiating. The attendants were the sisters of the bride, Misses Mary and Margaret Lubbehusen.
Each year the Indiana State Fair Board offers several thousand halfpriced 25-cent admission tickets to the great Hoosier Exposition which have proved to be unusually popular with Indiana State Fair goers. The original amount of tickets offered was 50,000, and that amount has been increased 25,000 each year until this year the total amount offered for sale July 14 was 250,000.
Last Sunday, August 3, some of the descendants of those five children met at the cottages of Frank and Bert Brown on Santa Claus Lake in their fourth annual reunion. A basket dinner was served at noon and lemonade and ice cream were served during the afternoon. There were 75 present. The descendants and families of Minnie and Louisa were all present. Thirteen of Adelines family were present, with thirty absent. Twenty-nine of Albert’s family v/ere present, with thirteen absent. Twenty of Adolph’s family were present, with fifty-nine absent.
Mrs. Kerr has been connected with the office of The Hesmer Food Distributors, Inc. as comptometer operator, for more than a year. Mr. Kerr, who enlisted in the marines almost a year ago, is stationed at Quantica, Va., where he will be joined later by Mrs. Kerr.
All tickets are sold on a cash by the State Fair Board, but so popular are these tickets with the public that drug stores, banks, business concerns, County Agents and Farm Bureau Secretaries purchase the tickets and resell them without profit as a courtesy to their customers and members. Today less than 20,000 tickets remain unsold at the Fair Board offices on the State Fair Grounds, Indianapolis, and the supply is diminishing fast. Every effort has been made to give the tickets state-wide distribution, and the supply has been limited to these firms. Hooks and Haags Drug Stores, the Farm Bureaus, and others who are offering them for sale report them moving rapidly. If you plan to purchase half-price tickets, better act now. Thousands have been disappointed in past years, and once the supply is exhausted, no additional will be printed.
An early luncheon was served to the immediate families at the home of the bride’s parents.
In about a month from now the huge 215-acre State Fair Grounds in Indianapolis will be a hot-bed of activity. The Eighty-Ninth Annual Indiana State Fair will open Friday, August 29, and close Friday night, September 5. Eight big days and nights, and this is an event that you can’t afford to miss.
The following officers were elected: President, Dr. P. W. Brown, Dale, Ind.; Vice President, Fred Berger, Louisville, Ky.; Secretary, Louise Blackburn, 35 S. Green St., Henderson, Ky.; Treasurer, Ora V. Brown, Dale, Ind.; History committee, Mildred Garrett, 513 S. Prince St., Princeton, Ind. and Grace, Brown, Dale, Ind.
Mrs. Francis Spanuth of Bloomington, Ind. spent last week end with Mrs. Flora Williams. Mr. and Mrs. James Spanuth; also of Bloomington, who spent the week end with the latter’s parents at Rome, visited Mrs. Williams Sunday afternoon and accompanied Mr. Spanuth’s mother back home.
Louis Wahl, who is in training at Camp Wolters, Texas, and who has been on furlough the past week here with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Fedalia Wahl, returned to the camp Thursday.
The history committee is hoping to have a complete history of the family published next year. The reunion will be held the first Sunday in August, 1942, at or near Huntingburg. It is hoped that those in other states will plan their vacation trip or visit home for that time.
A. J. Wedeking and John McCullough received a car load of sheep the first part of the week for the Wedeking farm south of town.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCallister of Evansville were here Tuesday vacating the home of the latter’s mother, Mrs. Louis Schroer. Mrs. Schroer is locating m Evansville with her daughters.
Some of those present last Sunday hadn’t seen each other for twentyseven years. Everybody enjoyed the day together.
Miss Gemma Elliott has returned from Louisville, Ky. where she attended college the past few months.
Dr. and Mrs. Merit Pennington and son Jack attended the funeral of the tormer’s aunt, Mrs. Minnie Pennington at Union Chapel Monday afternoon.
William Clarence Brown, who is stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., arrived here Monday evening for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Brown and family.
The wind Tuesday night blew in the front part of the building now occupied by Jake’s Shoe Shop.
Miss Dorothy Medcalf, bookkeeper at the Dale State Bank is spending her vacation with relatives in Chicago Ill. Miss Margurite Heichebech is assisting in the Bank during her absence.
Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Barrow are leaving this week end for a two week’s vacation trip through Canada and other interesting points enroute.
Bobby Herr is improving nicely at his home here from injuries received in a recent auto wreck.