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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1922
Page
1
Sunman residents and visitors are listed with notes on travels to Indianapolis Cincinnati and Connersville. Weather, funerals and community events are reported along with school progress and library additions.
Sunman students report a reading fever with new library books arriving and several illnesses lowering attendance. Freshmen study the Christian Church in ancient Europe while sophomores wrap up logarithms and Caesar's Gallic War. The Sunman basketball team won its third straight game against Batesville after a tight 8 8 halftime, finishing strong.
Mr and Mrs William Emhoff transacted business in Batesville Tuesday evening. Ed Gaueck and several others were callers in Batesville with long lists of visits. Henry Ambrose Schneider from Iowa stayed with relatives for a week. Miss Frances Siefert left for Cincinnati for work. Mrs Vincent Brown of Indianapolis spent a day with Frank Lang and family. Charles Wernke and Ben Schene from Batesville visited Pete Andres Friday.
Sunday visits and Monday calls anchor a string of small town social notes. Families including the Bohlke and Prakel households plus the Huneke and Meierle clans appear across Greensburg Batesville and Sunman with dental work travel and visits to relatives and doctors in Indiana communities.
Walter Richter and family from Sunman spent Sunday with John Dieselberg and wife. Harry Eberg's family hosted Charles Kammeyer and wife Norman Mendel and families. Lucile Shazer is recovering from illness. Ottie Holwadel and daughter Glenna visited Cincinnati relatives. Mrs. Harry Eberg sprained her hand. Adolph Levy of Cincinnati was in town on business. Norman Mendel did work for Roland Robinson’s building. Ottie Freyer and son Donald visited Shelbyville friends. Albert Voege visited Richard Kunath for a day.
Allen Sykes and family spend Sunday with Lafe Jones in Batesville. Forty hour devotion ends at St. Mary’s of the Rock. Frank Grunkemeyer, hustling fur buyer, in town Monday buying furs at top prices. Protracted meeting begins at Center Chapel. Quarterly meeting at Oak Forest. Alden Jones and wife visit Jessie White. Frank White and wife visit C. C. Shackel. Frank White saws wood for Roy Quinlin. Joe Lannig and wife of Whitcomb visit Robert White. Rain fell during the week.
A fragmentary report suggests a figure named Bacos comments on a world where hearts bind distant islands into a single continent. The text hints at unity beyond separation, though details are unclear.
Community notes report visits by Mrs. George Stuart and family in Cincinnati and other locals traveling to see relatives. Ed Thomas moves into the Lutheran parsonage with family. the church signals a Sunday program with practice next Sunday at 1 00 pm. A school house fish fry drew a large crowd amid a mild chickenpox outbreak. Howard Robinson moves to the Dan Freyer property and acts as postmaster with Elizabeth Franke assisting. John Kammeyer of Route One is in poor health.
Louis Timke and Fred Selke haul logs to Sunman while John Prakel Jr. hauls firewood to the church. Will Drockelman and family spent Sunday with Frank Steinfort and called at Fred Drockelman’s. Many attended the funeral of former resident John Einhaus at Napoleon Tuesday. A welcome rain last week helped farmers hauling water. Anna Heeseman was home Saturday and Sunday.
A reflective aphorism on courage praising the quality as essential to virtue and worthy of respect even when linked to vice attributed to Dr. Johnson.
Edward Hempke and John Scholl made business calls in Cincinnati on Tuesday and Wednesday. George Gutzwiller received a carload of coal on Tuesday. Miss Minerva Stutz and John Hill visited in Cincinnati on Monday. Sunman and Batesville sites saw several local residents travel for games and visiting kin including Mrs Hohman at a Sunman High School win and families visiting Mr David Minnemann near Southgate.
The piece warns that neglecting a cold weakens the lungs and invites serious illness. It urges avoiding desperation and promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a affordable cure for bad colds.
A primitive moss doll from Russia symbolizes loneliness in forest regions. It is roughly carved from wood with a sad face, dressed in mossy forest attire, and the male figure is identified by a hatchet carried.
Report notes a South American catfish adapts to upstream flow by leaving water and crawling around falls with its armored side fins acting as feet. It then reenters water on the far side. The article also mentions lettuce and onion as sleep aids, with sedative juice and a mellowing effect.
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