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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1905
Page
1
The item highlights a sale at Meyer's Hardware Store featuring horse blankets, watches, records, and a full line of holiday offerings. Mentions big events and nearby trades, with references to residents visiting Cincinnati and local officials attending meetings.
Butcher's knives at Thie & Vonderheide's and Pioneer carbon steel fence offered. Mrs A Lindemeyer and Mrs William Miechemeyer visited Cincinnati and Lafayette. Holiday cloak sale at Blank's store with 20 to 30 percent off. Huntersville Sunday School hosts Christmas program. St Mark's church evening services canceled next Sunday.
The St Mark's Sunday school will present a Christmas program on Christmas Eve at 7 p.m. All are warmly invited. Dr L F P Martin, secretary of the board of health, attended the State Board of Health meeting in Indianapolis last Wednesday with about four hundred physicians discussing Indiana public health.
A New Year's ball will be held at St. Clair's on Friday December 29 with two bands and refreshments. The event moves up a day since New Year's Eve falls on Sunday. A local wreck report last week misstates a curved track. there was no curve between Hyde tower and Batesville depot. the local ran Batesville to Hyde during the accident.
Names listed as unclaimed letters to be sent to the Dead Letter Office in Washington, D. C. if not called for by December 80. Individuals include Dennis Caster Reuben Casey S A Crawford H R Elsworth Mrs Lula Davis Henry Griggs Mrs Leana Groves H W McIntyre John Moot Pete Master Albert Muir Mrs Jos Reibel Mrs Mary Seals J VanDewege Miss Daisy Spencer J Wexler Walter L Walker D McCatnum P M.
Holiday bargains fill local ads with offers on ladies capes at P Rosse Co and dress goods at N Blank. Oysters at Meyer's restaurant and toys at Nick Blank's attract families. Gold rings at R J Timmerman and ranges at Thie Vanderheide. Rentals offered at Frank Walsman. Several locals visit relatives and return home.
The Big Four provides special low rates for holiday visitors with a long return limit. Tickets go on sale December 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, 1905 and January 1, 1906, valid for return to and including January 3, 1906.
The message reflects on the closing of 1905, noting prosperity and peace in America. It urges gratitude for blessings and observes Christmas storefronts beginning to display cheer and gifts. It appeals to readers to buy for friends and, for humanity’s sake, also for the poor.
The Batesville District Fair Association stockholders will meet Monday January 8 at 9 am in the Sherman House parlor to transact business as may come before the meeting. A. W. Romweber, Secretary.
The Ladies Auxiliary will hold a country store at Nichol hall on December 27 1905 with an evening euchre party. Proceeds support St Ludwig's church. Also notes delays on the new depot at Central and Eastern avenues with rumors of relocation, though authorities expect completion when needed.
A Washington post office order requires all mail recipients to check addresses before opening and return letters not theirs unopened. Fines up to 200 dollars apply for careless openings, and blame cannot be shifted to the postmaster. The rule targets the common habit of opening every letter received.
Miss Cleo Starks and Bert Mattox of Rushville Ind were married at the Starks home west of town last Sunday at five oclock in a ceremony conducted by Rev W H Thompson of the E M E church. Attendants were Harry Allen of Rushville and Stella Heidt. About thirty five relatives and friends attended and a social evening followed. The couple will reside in Rushville after a wedding trip.
Buggy storm fronts at Meyers spark a special sale of stoves at the Big Hardware Store. Walman ranges are suggested as a Christmas gift while Thie and Vonderheide offer lard presses and meat cutters. R. J. Timmerman features jewelry and watches with Elgin and Waltham lines. Mamie Bedoonah returned from Milan and Miss Alice Andres left Weisburg after attending the Mattox Starkie wedding.
The Huntersville Sunday school presents its annual Christmas entertainment on Sunday December 24 at 7 00 p m Acantata is featured among the program numbers The school aims to deliver a good show The Indianapolis Dentists specialists in painless extractions have opened an office at Batesville and will be at the Ripley hotel on Saturdays They have long visited Greensburg and are known for their easy system of removing diseased teeth
Tim Lyons formerly of Ballstown was arrested by the marshal and brought before Squire Stone Monday morning. He received a fine of five dollars plus costs totaling about one thousand dollars after being found guilty of drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
The large funeral for conductor James King, killed last Tuesday, drew relatives and many from Batesville and Greensburg. Dug under Fraternal Order of Eagles, Odd Fellows, and railroad fraternity auspices, with Rev Goodnight preaching at Christian church. Burial was at Rossburg cemetery.
Local ads tout guns and shells at Walsman s with prices as low as the lowest. Amas also advertised skating knives sleds and guns at Walsman s while Thie and Vonderheide received a car load of fencing. Frank Walsman and H A Kramer spotlight holiday slippers coats and ready to wear skirts. A stray female pup roams the Tribune office awaiting its owner to claim and settle for missing dog meat.
All Batesville telephone line owners are asked to contact the Tribune office or request the Batesville Telephone Directory. The directory covers Batesville and connecting lines with names of nearly all telephone owners, free to all who want a copy.
The new annex at Walnut and Peart streets expands Enterprise Casket Co with a private office, hardware department, and a bridge to the main plant. The three story addition adds 9,000 square feet, boosting Batesville’s industrial capacity and linking to the existing factory.
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