14 Dec 1893
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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1893
Page
1
Train timetable lists westbound No 1 daily and No 5 Sundays only with morning and evening departures. Eastbound No 10 daily and other through services with limited Sundays operations. Indicates through tickets, baggage check, and accident tickets sold by H M Starpson Agent.
Local items report new mixed nuts at the Gold Mine and at Mike Becker’s, illnesses including Miss Anna Kaiser and Hulbert, travel notes for Jax Wintz and Phil Weymar, and various shopping promotions. Community mentions include Decker Go to Greemann Wilker Co for fruit, Harne ss and dry goods ads, and invoices about coal, harness, wallpaper, and furniture stores.
City Bakery promises Christmas cakes and fancy candies at low prices. Thieman and Bloemer offer a variety including lota while Gus is noted in a humorous scene. A. A. Hackman in Oldenburg markets pigs for breeding, urging prompt visits as stock sells fast.
Classified items urge renting rooms on Walnut Street through John Oberle and suggest gifts from Gold Mine and Union Furniture. Reports cover a Batesville Printing Co directors’ meeting, Christmas travel, tobacco and health ads, stove sales, and factory holiday schedule amid general holiday season activity.
Community announcements include a Christmas Sunday preaching at G A R Hall by Rev W F Smith, coal ad by Greenwan Bros Mora Co, and Goop Mink family notices. The Gold Mine advertises deep discounts on cloaks and jackets. Doll show features various dolls. Maggie Gilland returns home amid illness in Arcme Gilland’s child.
The American Union Sunday school plans a Christmas program at Town Hall on Friday evening December 22 at 7 o'clock town time. Good singing and recitations are promised and all are invited to bring children. A funeral for Clarence John Wernke Jr occurred Saturday morning at 9 o'clock at the Catholic cemetery following a 15 month old illness.
We thank neighbors and friends who helped during the sickness death and burial of our little boy Clarence May our Heavenly Father reward them for their kindness in our hours of bereavement sincere prayer of Joan Wernke Jr and wife
Shel byville laborers facing long unemployment propose accepting 25 percent less than last year’s wages to restart factories. One plant reportedly reopened at the reduced pay rate to accommodate workers. The Indianapolis Sentinel notes Batesville’s Jefferson club as the state’s largest Democratic group, while a Batesville writer modestly hedges on being nationally top. Marriage news from Penntown: Otis Stowe wed Alice Flowers as relatives witness the knot and begin housekeeping on Smoky Road. Hillenbrand firm changes hands to Hillenbrand Mitchell Co, with John Hillenbrand Sr transferring interests to the new trio who acquire the electric plant, lumber and saw mill businesses.
An infallible cure for catarrh and deafness from Frank Worth Co of Wasau Wisconsin promises relief from mucus, ringing, and hacking coughs. Circulars available on Drawer 1029. Also reports a December 9 birthday surprise for Edna Beck with many local children listed and a cheerful party description.
Five Batesville men Chas Meyer John Meyer Frank Meyer Ben Oberle and Nate Walters gathered ammunition and firearms then hunted large game in Franklin County. They traveled about forty nine miles across creeks and hills returning with three spring rabbits two young squirrels and colds for all.
Judge Brown rules the late law reversing unexpended school balances to the state is unconstitutional and void. If upheld, Batesville and other towns may recover about 240 dollars to 500 thousand dollars, with Attorney General Green Clay Smith taking a 50 thousand dollar fee. Community teachers’ institute in Laughery township urges patronage and active school involvement to defend public education and liberty.
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