Fenns
The Indianapolis Star
October 24, 1915
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SHELBYVILLE -- J. C. Smith's
general store at Fenns, south of here, was entered by burglars, $40 worth of
merchandise and $8 in money being taken. Residents of the community saw
two men with sacks on their backs walking toward this city at midnight and they
are believed to be the guilty parties.
Contributed by Virginia Latta Curulla
The Shelby Democrat
December 31, 1903
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FENNS, Dec. 30. ---- The Sunday school here was well attended Sunday. The school presented the children with large sacks filled with candy and popcorn. The school also elected the following named persons to take charge of the school Sunday, January 3, 1904.
Superintendent, Roscoe Lee.
Assistant Supt., David Hey.
Treasurer. Roscoe Lee.
Secretary, Miss Pearl M. Cherry.
Assistant Sec'y, Miss Nancy A. Bruce.
Organist, Miss Hazel Harris.
Assistant Organist, Miss Nellie Cherry.
Teachers, David Hey, Opal Harris, Otto A. Lee, Cora Sanders, Leota Stephans, Margurite Davisson.
The township presiednt[sic], C. C. Dobbins, was present. He says the officers are well qualified to discharge their duties and predicts another prosperous year for our school.
"Old Santa" was here and made many of our folks happy.
Miss Grace Yarber visited her mother during Christmas week.
Mr. Robert Cherry received a handsome new violin for his present.
Smith & Nading have their large crib completed.
Cholera is still prevailing among the hogs in this vicinity.
C. E. Ensminger will move to a farm near the Wray church in the spring.
Several persons attended the play "The Christmas Carol" at Smithland Christmas eve. They were well pleased and say the attendance was large. About $20. was received as door fee.
Mr. William Fix and John Hey are spending the winter in California.
Mr. William J. Jackson and family have been here a few days visiting relatives.
Misses Grace L. Cherry, Jennie F. Drager and Pearl M. Cherry were the guests of their counsin[sic] Carey C. Dobbins Sunday.
Carey C. Dobbins is spending the holidays at home north of this place.
The storm Christmas night was the worst ever experienced in this vicinity. Several persons lost their hats, buggies were nearly blown over and people were frightened but no serious damage has been reported here.
We understand Shelby township has two candidates for trustee, namely, John Scheffler and Stephen D. Cherry.
Rob Smith has about recovered from his recent illness.
Copied by PhyllisMillerFleming
The Shelby Daily
Democrat
Saturday, July 29, 1899
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FENN'S.
Special correspondence to The Democrat.
FENNS, Ind., July 28, 1899.
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Mr. J. K. Devening is able to be out again.
June Pherigo has returned from Minnesota.
Dave Hey visited Jesse Howe over
Sunday.
Joseph Woods is visiting relatives at this place.
The basket meeting was well attended last Sunday.
Mr. Charles Jackson lost a valuable horse last
week.
Mr. Leora Fix and wife spent Sunday with the
latter's parents.
A. J. Cherry made a business trip to Boggstown
last Wednesday.
John Hey contemplates bulding a house on his
farm north of this place.
William Henry, of Shelbyville, was here Thursday,
watchin' 'em thresh wheat.
Miss Zella Markley and Miss Fannie Collins
spent Thursday with Mrs. 'Bert Cherry.
Miss Lillie Drager, a beautiful young lady of
this place, spent last week with Indianapolis relatives.
Wiley Stafford had his best girl at church Sunday
night. Wiley is all right if he is a little "Gray".
Our grain merchants are paying the highest price for
all kinds of grain. Farmers should see them before they sell.
A. J. Cherry reported that he had thirteen acres
of wheat that averaged twenty-eight bushels per acre. Pretty good, Uncle Andy.
There will be a Sunday School convention held at the
Morrison school house, on the Norristown pike, Sunday evening, at 1:30 p.m. All are cordially invited to
attend and make this a good meeting, as they have done in the past. President Fix is a hustler.
There will be an entertainment held at the Christian
church on Friday evening, Aug. 4th. It will consist of music, songs, etc, and promises to be a grand affair.
The proceeds of this entertinment is for the benefit of the Sunday School. A cordial invitation is extended
to all. Come everybody. Admission ten cents.
PUMPKIN PIE.
Submitted by Phyllis Miller Fleming
The Shelby Democrat
Thursday, February 25, 1892
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Mrs. J. C. Smith
and children have been visiting her parents near Boggstown.
The farmers of this
vicinity are making preparations to begin spring work.
June Pherigo looks
very sad; he must have got the "hooks" Sunday night.
Misses Zellie
Hess and Leota Fix were callers on Mr. and
Mrs. Jackson, Sunday.
Mr. Henry Mahley
is a retired farmer, having rented his farm to J. V. B. Fix.
Mrs. Hezekiah Smith,
of this place is spending a few days with relatives at Shelbyville.
Mr. James Lee
and family spent Sunday with his father-in-law, Rev. John Jackson.
I am sorry that I
intruded on Out of Sign's territory, and will try and not do so again.
Mr. William Fix
is all smiles and grins now, his best girl has returned home from a visit to
Illinois.
Harry Long, the
jovial Irish boy of the Slough, said he caught a "bear" last Thursday,
but I s'pect it was a coon.
Messrs. Fix,
Parrish and Pherigo are grumbling about losing money
because they have not stock enough to drink up the water.
Mr. Ben McCarty,
the noted coonhunter of this section has caught seven coons and a large number
of oppossums in the past few weeks.
The McCarty's
school celebrated Washington's birth-day very appropriately last Friday, a nict
time was had, and some splendid music was furnished by the "Cabinsville
quartet."
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming
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