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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1909
Page
7
notices list several residents traveling to Indianapolis Cincinnati and Tipton for visits business trips and family events occurring across Batesville and nearby towns. Local ads invite hires at Batesville Casket Co and Meyers hardware promotes ranges while a euchre party is announced at Morris Fire Company hall.
Sandrew Oberle now from Portland Oregon and his wife visited his parents Ben Oberle and his wife Monday morning. The Oberles then went to Spades Tuesday morning to visit other relatives.
A compilation of brief items: residents traveling to Cincinnati and Greensburg, visitors from Shelbyville and Indianapolis, office notices, a found spectacles ad, hardware promotions for grain drills, funeral attendances, lighting services, and a sale announcement for John H. Wilker store with August dates. Includes band concert report and business dissolution at J. H. Kessing Sons with address changes. Also ads for engines and farm machinery prices and fertilizer offers.
Tripp Bros of North Vernon publish notices of residents leaving for Danville and Cincinnati. Several births and vacations are noted, including a boy born to Tom Voegele and wife. Many residents visit friends and relatives in Greensburg Cincinnati Indianapolis Danville and Dayton with travel on weekends and Mondays.
Will Dickman sustained a severe cut to the back knuckle of his left hand last week. The wound appeared serious but is improving now and shows signs of healing with no blood poisoning.
Leonard Kirschbaum fell from the loft of Mrs. Fred Schrader's barn where his threshing machine is kept. He suffered a severe shock and bruises but no serious injury. Dr. Gibson attended and found bruises on his arms and body with no broken bones.
Newphnntow reports Edith and Elsie Miller of Cincinnati visiting Anna Korte and Mrs Nellie Hickman. The funeral of Chassover at Cross Roads drew attendees. Clara Norwald from Wintersville stayed with Lillie Korte. Ambrose Hickman hosted Thackery and family. John Abptanalp visited Jefferson Williams family. Albert Gommel spent with relatives. Mrs red Meyer of Lafayette visits Mrs Henry Koenigkramer.
A man arrested for speeding pleads he was rushing to fetch a doctor. The judge weighs extenuating circumstances and the officer recalls the plan to take the doctor and two young ladies for a ride. Sentence: thirty dollars and costs.
A famed art dealer Wertheimer spotted a sale of a departed nobleman household. He offered £5,000 for everything, keeping only a nine inch Dresden piece marked with the wand of Aesculapius. He later sold that statue for £10,000, leaving dealers to regret missing the treasure. Bond Street recalls the tale as a tradition in keen speculation.
Polly compliments the horizon and jokes about a vacuum cleaner at sea. The narrator admits forgetting the device, while Polly insists it would massage the reader's brains, adding a playful, literary banter aboard the steamer.
A Cumberland Presbyterian editorial argues ministers need sufficient books to serve their people. It notes many pastors earn too little to buy essentials and support their families, harming the church by depriving pastors of needed reading material.
The piece explains that etiquette is no longer necessary in modern times yet the phrase that's the ticket echoes the French etiq uette meaning ticket. It notes that etiquette signified the ceremonies to be observed at formal events, analogous to a program.
The passage explains an alibi as a claim you could not have committed a crime where you are not, and stronger alibis arise when you can be shown to be in two other places.
A Philadelphia Record quotation contrasts views on marriage as a lottery and as a game of skill, highlighting a debate between a "wise guy" and a "simple mug" about modern marriage.
A Philadelphia Record blurb notes a man who ignores his alarm clock and rises as he pleases, illustrating the triumph of mind over matter in a humorous morning routine.
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