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[Rochester Mercury, Thursday, January 24, 1861]
PERSHING
See: Dawson, George V.
PERU CREDIT ASSOCIATION [Rochester, Indiana]
PCA TO MOVE OFFICE TO 705 MAIN STREET SOON
The local officer of the Peru Credit Association will move to the ground floor room in the
Arlington hotel at 705 Main street, H. V.Shank, Fulton county field representative announced
today.
The office is now located above the Shultz Bros. dime store at 700 1/2 Main street.
Redecoration and remodeling is being carried on at the room at 705 Main street to provide office
space. The Association is expected to move to their new headquarters about Dec. 15, Mr. Shank
revealed.
The 10th annual meeting of the local stockholders is to be in the First Baptist church
tonight at 7:30 o’clock. The guest speaker will be Dr. A. W. Cordier, of Manchester College.
Two directors will be elected at tonight’s meeting of the Association and stockholders
will consider reports presented by Association officers.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, November 19, 1943]
PERU DAY [Rochester, Indiana]
See Flood [PERU DAY IN ROCHESTER]
PERU GARMENT FACTORY [Akron, Indiana]
Located over the Akron Locker Plant.
Mary Margaret Rittenhouse Leininger, [Mrs. Harold LeRoy Leininger], was branch
supervisor of the Peru Garment Factory located over the Akron Locker Plant. They made women’s
blouses in this branch. In 1957 she purchased from E. E. Gerig his insurance agency which is now
called Leininger Insurance Agency located on East Rochester Street in Akron.
[Leininger-Krause Family, Charles Daniel Smith, Faye Leininger Smith, Kate Morris
Jennens, and Violet Titterton, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]
See McGlaughlin Garment Factory
PERU GROCERY COMPANY [Peru/Rochester, Indiana]
See Snapp, Cecil
PERU PRODUCTION CREDIT ASSN. [Peru, Indiana]
E. L. MITCHELL RE-ELECTED TO CREDIT ASS’N BOARD
E. L. Mitchell, of this city, and Everett S. Priddy of Warren, Ind., were re-elected to the
board of directors of the Peru Production Credit association in a meeting held at Peru, Wednesday.
Over 800 members of the association were present and the featured address of the meeting was
given by Prof. J. Raymond Schutz, of Manchester college, and Indianapolis.
Officials of the group will be elected by the directors from among their number at a
meeting to be held at an unannounced date in the near future. Present officers are C. Edwin
Moseley, of Miami county, chairman, H. L. Matlock, Kokomo, vice-chairman, and Scott J. Hurst,
Peru, secretary-treasurer.
Serve Three-Year Terms
Directors elected today will serve for a three-year period. The present directorate is
composed of Messrs. Moseley, Mitchell, Priddy, Matlock and Robert O. Justice, of Logansport.
Those in attendance at the meeting were served luncheon in four local churches.