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PEN AND SCISSORS Well Known Reading Man DiesPercy Barre, 50. well known citizen of Reading. Mich. died at his home there Thursday morning from pneumonia. had been active in produce business until short time ago, when he retired. Bryan Factory Swamped with Puzzle Holabird company at Bryan. Ohio, is shipping jig saw puzzles daily and not able to keep up with orders. Production will stepped up to 40,000 daily in a few days. Evidences of Prosperity The business of Ashley have organized club and will give sugar drawings recent sale in Bryan. 55 fine horses sold an average of 150 each handle factories at Hicksville are now operating at 65% of boom time business net indebtedness was reduced by $31,000 during the past year. Methodist Church Fire destroyed Methodist church at Bellvue. Mich. last week. with loss of An overheated furnace was given as the cause. Will Foreclose School Mortgages The of Noble counhave instructed the county auditor to foreclose mortgages given for school fund loans. when the interest is not paid. There is $8.500 of terest money due. for which the county is responsible to the state school funds Hicksville Sued for Sewer Damcity of Hicksville, Ohio. has been made defendant in damage suit by three farmwho allege their lands have been damaged by stream pollution from the city sewer outlets. Receiver Asked for Topeka Bank Indiana state bank department has asked the LaGrange circuit court appoint receiver to wind up affairs of the Topeka State Bank. recently closed. Former Treasurer LaGrange Is Haglind. World war soldier and former LaGrange treasurer. died in the Hines hospital near last Burial made in the National cemetery at Arlington.
