Glimpses from the past john sorrell, secretary november, 1949 a houdini seance for halloween was planned after individual shows at local hospitals. jack dean's deep freeze and a magazine test were fine. jack, under the cover of hellstromism, stole his victim's watch and handkerchief. the atomic rabbbit, a neat routine of sebra evans, was shown next. phil huckabee, the grapette magician, his wife and john moore, a representative of the grapette company, were guests of the club. phil performed a sensational show for us, opening with cane to silk. three-to-one rope, liquor vanish, color change silk, glass vanish, six-card repeat, comedy waterfall, multilated parasol, chattering teeth, miser's dream, four-coin transposition, untying silk, blooming bouquet, rabbit production and vanish, and silk to sock, closed a very entertaining and mystifying evening of magic. huckabee has a fine show and it was appreciated by all. december, 1949 john booth is due in town and mandrake will play a few weeks at the slipper. january, 1950 the december meeting was held at the peaody community center where we had access to a fine stage. vance jacobs emceed a fine show and introduced james buffaloe who performed his fine thimble routine. a fast moving linking ring presentation and an egg bag routine by president bill larue were enjoyed. sebra evans followed with a rabbit production and vanish. he also showed his dollar bill tear routine, foo can and funnel, die box, milk pitcher, rising cards, cigarette through hankkerchief and rabbit production which closed an entertaining evening of fine magic. february, 1950 jb bobo is to visit us with his lecture. magic for the night included jack dean's bill in lemon, doctor king's english block penetration, and bill larue's interesting experiment in hypnotism. fred jordan, visiting comedian-magician, playing the balinese room at the hotel claridge, performed several excellent effects for us.
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Friends? lovers? how do they behave? look? move?" her mother asked about all of itor, as much as she could in an hour. clara's visits didn't last long. she felt restless, now, in her mother's house and would pace around the bedroom, grabbing objects from the dresser, the desk, the hope chest. "are you even listening?" her mother would say. "put that down." clara was listening; she was rarely bored on the visitsthe woman always had something interesting to say. and still, clara caught herself calculating the minutes left before she could leave. "visiting, " nicholas said, "is not the same. and all this is worthless, anyway. you'll move back home. this is stupid." "why?" said clara. "i'm not moving back. why would think that?" "you've never had a roommate, " he said. "you've never lived anywhere." "i have now, " clara said. he reached to grab the door frame with both hands. "you have a sick mother, clara, " he suddenly yelled. "do you remember that? your mother is a cripple." clara stared, horrified. "you can't say that, " she wanted to scream, but she stopped. he could, in fact, say it. it was true. it had been true for six years and clara was tired of it being true. she could forget, when away, about her mother's condition. she could diminish the memories bringing her mother glass after glass of vodka, shaving her useless legs over the side of the bed, unfolding and folding again the wheel chair. clara hated the wheel chair. touching itall cold metal and rubberstruggling with it, yanking it from cars and through doors disgusted her. she could have attacked it, could have ripped it apart with joy. and there was nicholas, who had shared it all, done all of it with her, in her doorway now, glaring, accusing. had he never felt this way? but she wouldn't ask, and instead, "i hate you!" she screamed. 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Farm for sale. lying 5 miles east of rochester, on the akron road. large twostory frame dwelling on it, also a good barn. large and excellent orchard. a fine brick school house is suitably located. r. n. rannells, rochester, ind. local and miscellaneous miss lill davenport, of warsaw, lately visited her cousin, miss mollie horton, in this place. frank zortman, the well known boot and shoe clerk, is enjoying himself among his friends in this place. after a long and pleasant visit with her relatives in this place, miss emma graff, of ft. wayne, returned to her home last wednesday. the only man who hangs around the toledo board of trade in his shirt sleeves, is the noted i. w. brown, of the wabash valley. of late his wheat speculations have been very profitable for himself and the goslins. mr. and mrs. doc collins returned from waukesha, wisconsin, last week. they enjoyed their long stay . robert wallace, t. j. mcclary, prof. williams and lyman brackett went to sevastopol last saturday night and talked to the natives about the advantages of signing a murphy pledge. fredrick h. cornelius & bro. will soon open a fine stock of groceries in the north room of the cornelius block. at last the pottawatamie flouring mill property has come into the possession of our townsmen. it was formerly owned by the smiths and tabers, of logansport, but last week the enterprising firm of elliott, leiter & hickman purchased it for the modest sum of twelve thousand dollars. died. -yestrday morning we were informed of the death of two prominent and good citizens of this county -- hugh sturgeon, of aubbeenaubbee township, and david shafer, of henry township. both were stricken down with disease and died after less than a week's illness. mr. sturgeon was a brother of enoch sturgeon, of this place, and a twin brother of wm. sturgeon, who died a few years ago. the deceased was about fifty vears of age and was loved and respected by the whole community as was his counterpart who preceeded him a few vears to the unknown world. mr. shafer was also well and favorably known throughout the county as an honest and up right gentleman, and good citizen. his age was about 65 vears. roundabout by specs we understand that chris. lawrence has sold out and will stir the soil and dodge the bowie knives in arkansas in the future. peter conger and family will pull up stakes in a week or two and will depart for greensburg, ind., where they will locate. john bastow, who has been farming a few miles southwest of town for several vears, has sold his personal property, and he and his family will start for their old home, in virginia, next tuesday. ignoring steam, the journey will be made in a covered wagon, and will occupy about four week's time. kewanna items by eli leiter j. leiter has sold his interest in the dry goods and grocery store of phillips & leiter, to his partner, h. phillips, who will still continue at the old stand. anderson & millisor have commenced work on a new barn for jabel cook. thomas mills and wife have left our quiet village for a season!