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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1920
Page
8
The Milan Sunman Street Fair spans September 10 and 11. Various social visits and travel note residents from Milan and nearby towns, including Yesterdays and Sundays with friends in Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Chicago. Local people attend concerts, halls, and religious conferences while family visits and trips are recorded.
Mrs Flora Shiear and children of Cincinnati visit Chris Legenhause and family. Henry Kinnop and family spent Sunday with John Thielbar and family. Charles Fellerman visited John Fellerman on Sunday. Mrs Laura Sembach stayed with Henry Rohls. Charles Fellerman visited William Meyer at Game Center. George Hunterman and family hosted guests from Cincinnati and Sunman. Charles Sembach and wife returned from a trip to West Virginia. Louis Graue bought and hauled lo cust posts for Charles Fellerman on Monday. Mat Arnold and wife spent Sunday with Chris Legenhause.
Senator Watson attended a Versailles event at Osgood with Attorney M F Bohland of Batesville. Howard Akers and family visited Lebanon Indiana. Cassius Osburn Gilbert Sieg of Sunman and Robert Reister of Morris called at the Court House. Mrs G T Beckett visits Newcastle with Dr G T Beckett. Gus Brunner Estal Nieman came in to promote the Sunman Carnival. H F E Schrader Albert Zierer were at the Court House. Miss Mary Thompson temporarily manages the Treasurer’s office during Mrs Beckett’s absence.
Mr Vaughn describes his prize seed corn消 missing after rats swiped it from a roof rope. He says he used RAT-SNAP and found five dead rats the next morning. The product, sold by Blank's Pharmacy and Meyer Hardware, comes in three sizes priced 36c 65c and $1.25 with a guarantee.
OSGOOD Miss Eloda Decker and Miss Alma Saurs of Cincinnati visited near Vine Springs. Beatrice Decker returned to Cincinnati after a visit. F E Poulter and wife with Mrs Beckett visit Columbus and Newcastle. Republican Rally at Fair Grounds Friday at 1 45 PM with Hon James E Watson as chief speaker and a women voters speaker. Various local residents noted for travel, visits and birthdays. A birthday celebration for Aunt Lis Poulter marked her 80th year with family and friends attending at her home prior to August 20 next year.
Osgood R R No 1 resident John Herman visited his brother on Sunday. George Ferather and wife returned home after a ten day visit with son Charles in Kokomo. Clarence and Melinda Brebberman hosted friends this Sunday. Miss Clara Finke went back to Cincinnati with grandmother Mrs. Oliver who had visited here weeks. Herman Harlemert and family visited John Klusman family. Henry Showers and wife from Greensburg spent Thursday with Henry Menke family. Mrs Harry Schwab and children, after months away, returned to Greensburg en route to Snidanapolis. Lawrence Kestler and family were Sunday guests of relatives at Sunman.
King Charlemagne’s Frankish army fled Saxon pursuit and found no fording point on the Main until a sudden cart crossed, revealing a ford. The Franks crossed the river at that spot and the place was named Frankfurt, meaning the ford of the Franks.
A Dupuyer Montana hotel man, F. H. Dear, recalls four years of remarkable results with Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy and says he has since recommended it to friends.
During Siam’s long trade with China fine porcelain pieces entered royal collections. This article notes that over centuries unknown quantities of the finest china were brought to Siam and occasionally such pieces surface for purchase by collectors.
Doings at the Court House include guardians named for minor Mo ood y heirs and executors appointed for decedents with bonds posted, new cases filed such as a divorce and accounts, plus a long list of real estate transfers across Milan, Sunman, Osgood and nearby townships. Marriage license issued for Heitzman and Rohnk. Also an advertisement for RAT SNAP pest trap.
The text notes Shakespeare's vocabulary exceeds 25 000 words while an educated person commonly knows about 2 500 words and an uneducated person fewer than 800 words. It contrasts literary virtuosity with everyday language.
Registered Dairy Cattle County Agent Calvin Griffith and local farmers returned from Ohio and Kentucky with 25 registered heifers for club work. Nineteen Jersey and six Holstein cows from Barnesville Ohio and Bardstown Kentucky carry strong bloodlines, priced 150 to 250 dollars. Heifers will be distributed at the Osgood Farmers' Picnic on August 28 as part of a broader livestock improvement effort and a new contesting association is being discussed.
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