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THURSDAY, OCT. 10,

LAMB IS NAMED

TO DENTAL POST

Elected Examiners’ Secre-

tary in Board Vacancy Created by Dr. Hale. Dr. D. Gord

olis has the State

€rs, it was announced today.

Hale, secretary, of Mount Vernon expired and Dr.

place on the Board.

on Lamb of Indiahapbeen elected secretary of Board of Dental Examin-

Dr. Lamb was elected by mail bal4 to fill the vacancy created when € Board membership of Dr. J. N.

Eo, Virgil Key of -+Tinceton was appointed by Governor Townsend to take Dr. Hale's

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Trip to Zionsville With Kerosene and Grease Took Two Days.

By TIM TIPPETT

The oil business has changed considerably in the last 40 years, almost as radically as the maps of the world. Memories of the pioneer days in the oil industry are bouncing around from mind to mind at the fall convention of the Indiana Independent Petroleum Association which opened yesterday and adjourns this afternoon. In the lobby of the Hotel Severin,

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[sessions, is a 300-gallon oil wagon lused 37 years ago. This wagon, way back then, made {the trip to Zionsville on one day and the return trip the next. Kerosene for lamps was the main trade with (axle grease a close second. There were no automobiles then. {In fact it wasn’t until 1912 that | there were 900,000 cars in the whole | United States. Economists at that time announced that an "absolute |saturation point in fownership had been reached. Today the state of Indiana has {that many alone with a good many lof them trying to get through the Circle every evening at 5:15 o'clock. The old timers in the industry today, will form an “Old Timers Club.” | They were honored last night at a {banquet at the Severin. | Costumes (including bustles) kept the hall in laughter. As the pageant | progressed, the bathing girl of the Gay Nineties emerged as the bathling girl of 1940. | The strains of “On the Banks of (the Wabash” and “In My Merry | Oldsmobile” flowed from the ban- { quet hall.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Indiana Has Come a Long BRET HAWKINS OF STAR DEAD

Employee of Newspaper 22 Years Had Been lil Three Months.

Bret Harte Hawkins, assistant Inews editor of The Indianapolis Star and a member of its editorial

department for 22 years, died yesterday at his home, 3517 Brookside Pkwy., South Drive, after an illness of three months. Mr. Hawkins was 50 and was stricken with a heart attack July 16 from which he never recovered. He had worked the night before. He was born in Converse, Dec 11, 1889, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Z. T. Hawkins, who now live in Fairmount. Mr. Hawkins’ first interest in journalism was in cartoon drawing and to prepare himself for this he attended the John Herron Art School and the Chicago Art Insti-

sity classes in journalism and his first full-time newspaper job was on the New Castle Courier. There he did some cartoons, but soon found himself chiefly occupied with editorial work. Worked in Anderson

After eight years on the Courier, Mr. Hawking worked for various periods on a newspaper in Battle Creek, Mich, and the Anderson (Ind.) Herald. He went to the Star in 1918 as a copy reader and was successively

Not so old in years but old timers in the oil “game” . .. (leit to right) N. C. Straber, S. & S. Oil Co., Batesville, Ind.; R. M. Stith,

tute. He attended Indiana Univer- ||

while working at 3719 N. Tuxedo St.|olis, and a brother living in CaliforHe was 54 and a lifelong resident of nia.

Indianapolis. : = , FOR JEWELRY

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Home and burial will be in WashMAKKET ST.

Miss Creeden, 67, Ex-U.S. Aid, Dies

Miss Hannah R. Creeden, an em-| ployee of the Department of 10 terior for 39 years during 21 of which! she lived in Washington, died yes- | terday at her home, 915 8. Delaware | Lawrence. Leonard = Pittman and! St. | Clifford Edward Pittman, Indianap- |

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seven years ago and had lived in| Indianapolis since. A Complete Line of Comnnercial,” / Stationery Supplies, / J

ington Park Cemetery. | 7 Mr. Pittman is survived by his wife, Mrs. Minnie Pittman: three sons, Donald Pittman, New Albany; |

Miss Creeden was a sister of the| Rev. Leo F. Creeden, Loogootee, and | was a. member of St. Patrick's! Catholic Church and the Catholic Order of Foresters. | She is survived also by four sis-| ters, Miss Mary Creeden, Miss] Catherine Creeden and Mrs. Wil-| liam J. Finn, all of Indianapolis, and |} Mrs. Nora Mesier, Detroit, and two brothers, Jerry Creeden and John Creeden of Indianapolis. Funeral services will be at 10 a. m. Saturday in St. Patrick’s Church.

Leonard Pittman

Leonard Pittman, 2256 N. Rural! St., a carpenter, died yesterday!

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Sister Eva John, a teacher at St. Mary's Academy for 10 years, died |

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Fl: : : > > : Wake Up Sys s . HS il C i i old RT i : H. Simon, Olin OU Co. The telegraph editor and makeup editor : 3 until his appointment as assistant | news editor several years ago. land Emmett Farmer, Camby, treas-jand J. E. Fehsenfeld, all of Indian-| pp Hawkins was married to |urer. New members of the board of | 2p0lis; Herbert Davis, Bloomington; | gophia Peters of Marion, Oct. 30, |directors are Beard Shirley, Pendle- | ATi In and H. H. 1915, my) they Wau ines colepraieg | : . : S. i ir silver weadl ‘er (ton, and R. G. Clark, Indianapolis. | > : _ | their th 8 en. former presidents of th ~'| Speakers today included N. Bond this month. : inti en former presidents of the as-| geqden, Chicago, of the Ethyl Gas-| Mr. Hawkins’ hobby was painting (sociation are among the more than oline Corp.: R. A. Ludlow of New and his family and friends pos1300 jobbers and oil men attending York, of the American Petroleum Sessed several of his landscapes and {the convention. They are: { Institute, and Homer L. Chailaux, | Still-lifes. He No 3 mm os De |W. D. Cross, Philadelphia, Pa.; L. national Americanism director of Msihedls 5 Gy RS AM X00 {J. Scheidt, Columbus, Ind.; C. W.|the American Legion, i ¢ Lodge, io, s I . M. Huber, Crown Point, Ind.; R. M.; Adjournment was to follow the Funeral to Be Saturday 3 43 “ac 1 - P av " 3 - . : rimble | adoption of resolutions late today. He is survived by his parents, his ; wife, two sons, Myron Hawkins, a| St t D t} {student at Purdue University, and YATE LJEALIS | Gene Hawkins, a Tech High School MOORELAND—Henry Clay Luellen, 82, Student; two sisters, Mrs. Beryl Survivors: Sons. Ross ang fyer daughters, Gwartney, Los Angeles, Cal., and Mrs. ilbur Waters and Mrs. O. R. Bron- | 2 Y , | ison; sister, Miss Alice Luellen. | Mrs. Brenda Overmyer, Tulsa, |g EVANSVILLE — Mis. Laura Welty, 60. Okla, and a brother, Bryce Haw-| {QUIVIVOrs: ushand, dobert; sisters, Mrs. 71 i Rhoda Perignon and Mrs. Claude McGinnis, | KIDS, Muncie, . : w PRINCETON— William. \Weese, 76. sur.| Funeral services will be .at" 10] OTS: Daughters, Mrs. Earl Downey and a. m. Saturday at the Moore &| She was 48. j Mrs, Ralph Smith; brothers, N. M. and | grip Mortuary, 5342 E. Washington Sister Eva John was born in New| Abner Strawn, 69. Ist, and burial will be in Washing-| { , { .| MOUNT VERNON—George A. Weckesser, | pr em 'y. Alaany and hag heeh oi the Deer | 71, & Suriivert Sons, "Oscar and Raloh, ! ton Park C etery | : DL. ‘ancils I years. ne 1S | brother, Joseph: sister, Mrs. Carri TorJO EL anc 0 RS brother, Josephs ‘mater, Mrs. Carrie Mor- Mpg, Nancy Jane Hocketl | survived by her father, John C.| CANNELTON— Willi Bits Youna, 1a] . i . ANNEL N—Williz 111 C g. z : . |Knoob, New Albany, and four sis- survivors: Sous, Amos, Frank and Evereti;| Funeral services for Mrs. Nancy | ters, Eva and Rose Knoob and Mrs. daughters. Mrs. Ida Tindale, Mrs. Artie| Jane Hockett, who died at her) .". o y Burnett and Mrs. Harvey Speaks. . 1 Frank O'Hara of New Albany, and| pusHVILLE—Henry K. Alsop, 53. Sur-|10ome, 961 N. Olney St, Tuesday | Sister Rose Anna, [vivors: Wife, Grace: son. Law rence; daugh-inight, will be held at the Flanner | Funeral services will be held at gia Nisop: mother Mire Najics Aion: |& Buchanan funeral home at 1:30, 8 a. m, Saturday in the convent stepson Lowell Andicws: Mrs. |p. m. tomorrow. She was 76. | chapel at Oldenburg. Burial will be MY AUIer: brother, Bred. eiet se. | A life-long resident of Indianapat St. Francis cemetery at the con=|survivors: Sons, William. Cécil. Maurice. olis, Mrs. Hockett was the wife of vent. Friends may call at the|Miles and Edwin Jr.; daughter, Mrs. Mary George Hockett, retired. She was) Feeney & Feeney I'unecral Home to- | 'BORDEN—Zachar T. Nicholson. Sur-|@ member of the First ona day until 9 p. m. ors Wire aur, Toyghters, Mrs. Fannie Church, Alfarata Council of Poca2118, Mrs, Ord 3 Vi{ Clark, | ta : | i Mrs. Edna Vitl 1 Georsia Mc: hontas and the United . Ancient Mrs. Anna Hruban Lonis and Josce Nich- Order of Druids, | fo dyin ; we Lyons. Surviving besides the husband | Services will be held at 8 a. m.| lare two daughters, Mrs. Bertha] Saturday at the Holy Trinity Church ‘KT . o i ; ; : ‘ : Nena i Kuhn, Mrs. Josephine Okey and one | for Mrs. Anna Hruban who diea | MRS. SHARPE DIES AT 81 son, Paul A. Hockett, all of In-| ractardav - v nr a J : ; : {oe a . ’ : yesterday at her home, 778 Concord | py nerg) services for Mrs. Harriet |dianapolis. St. Burial will be in St. Joseph Sg S] 5 bli “ool Cemetery. Mrs. Hruban was 60. (I. Sharpe,. former public schoo : A native of Hungary, she came to teacher who died Tuesday, will pe| THOMAS L Cunningham Toannpal in 1809. She os alheld at 10 a. m. tomorrow at the| Thomas J. Cunningham, father of} 0D p r . 7 Cr i : . 3 ~~ . member of the Holy Trinity Church \a1q Funeral Home. Burial will be James F. Cunningham, Center ang the church's altar society, the. a : 5H Township assessor, died last night in Holy Rosary Union and the Berho- in Crown Hill Cemetery. his home, 48 N. Dearborn St. He vay S. L. Association. Mrs. Sharpe, who was 81, served was 76. i | She is survived by her husband, 26 vears as a teacher in the Indian-| Mr, Cunningham was born in Ire-

|Frank; a daughter, Anna, and three apolis public schools before she re-|jand. 'sons, Frank, Joseph and John Hru- tired in 1913. Death followed a long pobyhood and had lived in Indianban, all of Indianapolis. illness. apolis 40 years. He was a Penn-

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