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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1922
Page
1
Sunman residents share New Year greetings and holiday tidings as Louis Bruns advertises specialized Christmas packing service linked to his Sunman Bank role. Allen Cottingham dies in Paris Kentucky, with funeral in Paris and survivors listed. myriad visits and travel notes from local families fill the holiday period.
Sunman School will close Friday for holidays and reopen Monday January 1st to begin the last half term. Mid term exams January 4 and 5 will assess general standing. Honor roll for the fourth month includes juniors Wallace Dreyer Evelyn Darling Selma Wipple. sophomores Ralph Dreyer Orville Ahring Estel Minneman Irene Huber Lorraine Nedderman Lucile Brinkman Romilda Wipple. freshmen Roy Bohlke Elton Wipple Mildred Behlmer Holly Lange Mamie Bergman Norma Cardwell Estella Roepke Alice Gutzwiller Marie Mehrley. Citizens urged to follow state legislative work in January. bills include county unit bill and teacher qualification improvements.
Flora Voege and daughter Myrtle visit Cincinnati relatives. Ottie Freyer and wife host Batesville guests. Dave Maloney and wife from Cincinnati stay with Sha zer family over holidays. Mrs. A E Nickel called on Anna Eberg. Harvey Eberg spent Friday with Stanley Holwadel. Fischer family and Edward Shazer called at Milan. Bert Anderson and wife were Milan visitors. Albert Voege and son Wilbur visited Harry Eberg. Ralph Wuellner and Melvin Nickel with Harvey Eberg Sunday. Mildred Eberg visited Gale Kinney. Fisher family spent Christmas with Indiana relatives.
Sylvanus Steinfort Walter Bernhard and Henry Heeseman visited the Drockelman boys at Lookout Christ mas Day. Miss Lillian Heeseman employed in Indianapolis visited home folks during Christmas vacation. Ed Bernhard and Miss Alice Huneke visited Mr and Mrs William Bernhard and family. Ernest Schutte and family visited J F Schutte and family. William Pohlman and family near Newpoint visited Henry Vogel and family on Christmas Day. Fred Gunter visited George Timpke and family. Selma Lillian and Anna Heeseman visited Ada and Bertha Vogel. Luther League Social well attended. Next election week. Timpke School closed December 22 for vacation until January 2. Pupils’ program Friday evening well attended.
Indianapolis visitor Jacob Fritsch stayed with parents Lawrence Fritsch and wife while Mrs Dr Robinson and mother attended Christmas services. Newport Ky Miss Mary Stolz spent Christmas at home. Balstown couple Henrietta Bessler and Fred Schmitt visited the area. Cincinnati guests Marie Brunsman Bertha Clara Ida Riehle joined others from Indianapolis Batesville and Batesville guests. Henry Gindling injured his right hand playing basketball when he forced through a wall side tine window.
Visitors and locals share news from Lookout Batesville and Versailles. John Prakel and wife called at Lookout. Mang School Christmas program held Friday afternoon. Albert Prakel and family visited Batesville. Everett Schrader returned from Cincinnati for vacation with his father. Fred Luers and son John visited Batesville for dental work. Beulah Castner, Mang School teacher, spent vacation at Versailles. Charles Baetke and Ererett Schrader visited from Cincinnati for holidays with Albert Schrader’s family.
Local families and friends share Christmas greetings and visits in Batesville and surrounding areas. Guests include the Walters, Luken, Reuter, Grunkemeyer, Walter, and Zil lebuehler households with travels to Cincinnati Indianapolis and Sunman. Numerous calls and transacting business mark the holiday period.
Christmas greetings wrap a list of visits among Bruns Lang Fishmer Franke and families in Indiana Ohio and Kentucky. Relatives from Liberty Cincinnati Bloomington Indianapolis New Palestine and Shelbyville spend holidays with local households. The message ends with a desire to see all the children at Sunday School.
Happy New Year wishes and social visits appear in Pipe Creek notes. Attendees at Mrs. Werner’s funeral in Penntown, visits by Jenner and his daughter, and kin from Cincinnati for Christmas are listed along with a sick horse treated by Veterinary Knerr of Sunman.
George Pohlar Sr. and wife and Paul Gaab and wife visited Henry Wittkamper and family for Christmas. Louis Wittkamper Mrs Henry Wittkamper George Pohlar Jr. and daughters Estella and Evelyn were visitors at Batesville. Henry Reddert Jr. stayed with his father Henry Reddert Sr. and family at Sunman. Louis Wittkamper and wife and daughter Irene visited John Kokenge and family. Estella and Evelyn Pohlar called on Dorothea and Irene Wittkamper Christmas morning.
Charley Jenner and family spent Christmas with Alfred Jenner and daughter at Spades. Jacob and Lizzie Abplanalp visited Charles Jenner’s family. Calvin Hutson and Walter Hildebrand called at Brookville. Jacob Berg and wife called at Batesville. Hugh Manis visited Sunman. Christmas guests of Jacob Abplanalp included Jacob Berg and wife Godfrey Huber Charles Abplanalp and son Paul and Berdella. Frank Mosmeier and wife returned from Cincinnati after a week visiting friends. Henry Wehrmeyer’s family joined by Mrs C Hutson and Calvin motored to Batesville for dental work on Friday.
A prisoner finds entertainment through imagination, crafting landscapes more beautiful than nature. His mind builds vistas that surpass any real view, turning confinement into a theater of inner travel and wonder.
The article traces how New Year dates shifted across cultures and eras from March and late months to January 1. It notes reforms by Julius Caesar, Pope Gregory, and France’s 1792 calendar, including a ten day week and months named after seasons, later repealed after the revolution.
Trustee announces monthly township meetings in Morris on the first Saturday, Sunman on the second and third Saturdays, and at home on the last Saturday of each month for official business.
The under signed has been appointed by the Ripley Circuit Court as Receiver for Alfred C. Foerster. All accounts owing to Mr. Foerster should be paid to the receiver, The Batesville Bank. E. C. Timmermann, Manager Trust Department.
The Atchison Globe praises a useful dictionary concept to settle disputes and elevate ordinary chairs to high status, describing it as a good idea for living and for the home.
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