Sunman Holiday Guests and Local Obituary Report
Sunman residents hosted relatives over Christmas with visits from Powell Bigney Turner and Roepke families, while William Timke and Leonard Beer left Indianapolis and Milan for family time. A death of Henry Timke is noted with praise for his quiet, industrious character. Mary Robinson narrowly escaped choking on molasses taffy, treated by urgent shaking to dislodge the candy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Powell
Cincinnaati
Walter Bigney
Connersville
William Turner
Cincinnati
Fred Tangman
Russell Walker
Indianapolis
Louis Sieg
H. G. Bielby
Denver City
California
Hadley
Allen Trautman
C. Neufarth
St. Paul
Gladys Fink
Greencastle
FE. J. Vincent
Charles Roepke
Frank Tangman
Fatesville
Wilour Bruns
Walter
Naddle Robbins
Milan
Mr. Trager
Henry Timke
Mr. Timke
Sheriff Canning Company
Leonard Beer
Maurice Robinson
Joseph Westrick
W. W. Ferris
Crawfordsville
Spades Professor Raleigh Schorling Visits Over Holidays
Spades reports Raleigh Schorling from Chicago visited relatives Sunday. Several hometown guests over the holidays include H W Leding and family with Mary Fitch of Cincinnati and Walter Fitch of La Fayette staying with Walter Fitch and family. Others travel for Christmas to Marion and Indianapolis while locals host visitors from Dayton Madisonville New Palestine Batesville and Clay Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh Schorling
Chicago
H. W. Leding
Mary Fitch
Cincinnati
Walter Q. Fitch
la Fayette
Walter H. Fitch
Otto J. Franke
Dayton
Ohio
S. F. Abplanalp
Marion
Lizzie Bockstahler
A. Franke
Raymond
Louis Kretzmeier
Clay Center
Kansas
John Dohlmeyer
Madisonville
Andrew Sitzman
Henry Bruns
Indianapolis
Lester Barnes
Hazel
John Gunter
Harry Bohman
Knochsburg
Hacker
New Palestine
Ind
William Golden
Philip Heitzman
Batesville
John Sieg
New Year Greetings and Local Christmas Visits
Pipe Creek residents share New Year wishes as Mary Weaver and daughter Amy of Lawrenceburg visit Fred Abplanalp family. Carrie Grothaus has scarlet fever. Baas siblings from Cincinnati holiday with relatives. Luella Gahn visits Cincinnati kin, returns home Sunday. Local Christmas entertainment at Penntown noted. William Drake of New Bath spends Christmas with Abplanalp kin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Weaver
Amy
Lawrenceburg
Fred Abplanalp
Carrie Grothaus
Hilda
Lillian
Kadenia Baas
Ripley
William Drake
New Bath
Nome
Local residents gather for holiday visits and calls
Gust Weisenbach and Miss Leona Haskamp visit home folks while George Rogers from Greensburg stays with Charles Winkler and family over Christmas. Multiple callers like Leona Bartling, Bertha Volz, Myrtle Victor, Ida Merkel, and Mrs. George Hildebrand visit Batesville or home areas. Several families host kin including the Grunkemeyers, Stock, Glaub, Dupps, and Zillebuehler during Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gust Weisenbach
Leona Haskamp
George Rogers
Greensburg
Charles Winkler
Leona Bartling
Bertha Volz
Batesville
Myrtle Victor
Mike Glaub
Ida Merkel
Indianapolis
George Hildebrand
Ollie Terry
Olive Terry
Spades
Estella Terry
Lower
Herman Grunkemeyer
Ben Grunkemeyer
Ilinois
Estella Grunkemeyer
Frank Schneider
Lawrenceville
Max Stock
Henry Sand
Illinois
Myr
William Garder
Joe
George
John Freel
Maggie Belter
M. Glaub
Esther Nordmeyer
Oldenburg
John Bittner
John Zillebuehler
John Kreinhop
Clarence
Peter Dupps
Lawrenceburg
Nick Dupps
Edward
Raymond Davenport
Edward Merk
Mrs. Bear
Adams Church New Year Notes and Christmas Guests
Adams Church reports a lively holiday period with various Christmas Day and holiday visits. Families joining in at different homes include Heeseman Schutte Drockelman Prakel Bergman and others. A Luther League meeting is announced for Sunday evening January 2 at the Adams Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams Church
Lillian
Selma
Anna Heeseman
Hilda Schutte
Edward Bergman
Elmer Bernard
Fred Drockelman
John Prakel
William Drockelman
Fred Hergman
Frank Selke
George Huessig
Henry Vogt
William Bergman
George Timker
Edna Miller
Alice Drees
Jed Behlmer
Alma
William Bernhard
Ernest Schutte
Babe
George Richter
Batesville
Luther League
Janary
Anna
Lillian Heeseman
Louisville
Happy New Year Greetings and Local Social Notes
Penntown residents report visits and travels last week with Michael Stahley and son trans acting business in Morris. Rev Father J J Rapp and father were seen in our midst last Sunday. Christmas dinners and family visits include Bartling Meyer Irrgang Wittkamper and Theobald households. An entertainment event Saturday night drew a good crowd. A Cincinnati trip and local calls from Dr Robinson and others are noted along with several neighbors returning from Crookville. Printing platform claim closes the notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael J. Stahley
Morris
John Hofmeckel
Sunman
J. J. Rapp
Michael Stahley
Miss Rose
Cincinnati
Mr. Rosfeld
St. Peters
Dr. Robinson
Fred Brumpter
Lewis Meyer
Crookville
Herman Thum
John Bartling
William Meyer
Raleigh Hoff
George Pulskamp
Ira Gesell
Omer Meyer
Adam Huber
Wittkamper
Carrie
Arthur Wittkamper
Real Estate Transfers From Batesville and Osgood Area
A sequence of property transfers lists multiple buyers and sellers in Batesville Osgood and surrounding townships. Transfers include undivided interests in lots 185 and 291 292 and parcels 159 171 170 and 125 and 228 acres in Johnson Napoleon and Adams townships with varied sums from 50 to 7573 dollars. Numerous individuals such as Harry R Moorman Bernard Meer John S Benham Benjamin Dirkhising Everett H Austin William J Burns Ellen Wainscott Margaret Ruoff Clarence Franklin Martha Harding Edith Tucker and others appear with parcels in Osgood Centre and Brown townships and Batesville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry R. Moorman
Frank Jh. Moorman
Batesville
Bernard Meer
John P. Forsyth
John S. Benham
Marietta Bruce
Osgood
Benjamin Dirkhising
Guardian
J. G. Westrick
Adams T'p
Everett H. Austin
Alfred Raper
Johnson ‘T'P
William J. Burns
Mathilda Henshe
Shelby Tp
Emerson Behlmer
Anna Bodenberg
Napoleon
Brainard L. Vawter
Ellen Wainscott
William V. Heech
Frank E. Poulter
David H. Bentley
Undv
Lot
Harriet Mosier
Elzina Lafuya
John W. Mads
Margaret C. Ruoff
Clarence FE. Franklin
James W. Graves
Louis J. Vollmer
Monroe Mosier
Martha E. Harding
Undy
Oxwood
Louis Brockensicker
William H. Reetor
Edith Tucker
Local Holiday Notes and Visits Across Lookout Area
Community diary entries record New Year greetings, callers, and family visits. Ervin Scherling led a Lookout social afternoon while Anthony Eckstein called in Milan. Christmas and vacation periods bring relatives together across Cedar Creek Batesville and Lookout communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ervin Scherling
Lookout
Fred Einhaus
John Prakel
Anthony Eckstein
Milan
Irvin Hunecke
Willie Eckstein
Fred Luers
Frank Meierle
Meierle
Conrad Luers
Cedar Creek
Henry Schierenbeck
Fred Michel
Henry Ahrens
William Krinhop
Fred Kinhaus
Henry Bauman
Alice Huneke
Batesville
Herman Huneke
John
Bos
Local Visitors and Regulars at Sunman and Vicinity
Mrs. C Hutson and daughter Haz el and son Calvin were callers at Sunman Wednesday morning. Wm Baas and Walter Richter called on Conner Hutson's Monday. C M Osburn visited Sunman Wednesday. George Leonard Garteman and Ruben Roberts stopped by Spreckel son's Thursday. A local group attended the Penntown entertainment Saturday evening. Calvin Hutson, long employed at Bath Indiana, plans a short stay with home folks. Mrs Conner Hutson visited Batesville from Saturday to Sunday. Miss Hazel Hudson visited Spades Saturday morning. Tom Freyer and C M Osburn aided Conner Hutson with his butchering one day last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conner Hutson
Batesville
Hazel Hudson
Spades
Tom Freyer
C. M. Osburn
Never Surrender Parpenkie Memoir Note
A reflective excerpt from The New Success on perseverance in technology and the perpetual struggle to develop resilient minds and spirits through constant effort. The text emphasizes effort over immediate results and the shaping of character through persistent testing.
Famous Lineage of Clergymen in Great Names List
A survey of a thousand notable individuals finds 170 were sons of ministers. Names cited include Dryden Addison Goldsmith Reynolds Gerechell Wren Jenner Nelson De ef Rhodes Coleridge Cowper Tennyson Froude Kingsley Slack and other prominent figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dryden
Addison
Goldsmith
Reynolds
Gerechell
Wren
Jenner
Nelson
Deef Rhodes
Coleridge
Cowper
Tennyson
Froude
Kingsley
Slackmore
Meteorological Mote. A man's calm often causes a woman's storm.
A Foaton Transcript line notes how a man's calm can trigger a woman's storm in relationships. The aphorism reflects gendered weather metaphor and domestic dynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foaton
His Narrow Escape At The Summer Resort Veranda
Clarence and his nurse stroll the veranda at a summer resort hotel when a passerby gasps at his reported tumble. He embellishes the tale to later listeners, claiming an extra fall from the top floor to the veranda steps and nearly a cracked skull.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence
Mere Mediocrity and the Artistic Temperament
A quoted exchange pits a self described ordinary man against a critic asserting artistic fire. The speaker admits being a common person while recalling his eleven years of marriage without divorce, and cautions silence to avoid customer disturbance as an advertisement suggestion is offered by the Tribune.
Commissioners' Allowances and Related Expenses Listed
A long list of county expenses including salaries for W D Robinson and C Hertenstein, sheriff and sur veyor costs, election charges, bonding and printing costs, bridge and road repairs, pike work, and sheriff's office expenditures. The records show payments to Herald Publishing Co, Peter Holzer, Jno Rohlfing, Jos Schroder, and many others, totaling numerous small amounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Robinson
Wildman
H. G. Pegee
C. Hertenstein
H. A. Martin
Wm. Beebe
J. W. Campbell
C.F. Murray
Versailles
Peter Holzer
Herald Publishing Co
Clarence H. Andres
Prtg
Otto Thomas
View
Brdge
Wm. Dunbar
Appr
Sch
Versailles Rep
Bks
Blks
Sta
J. H. Letcher
Herald Pub. Co
D. McCallum
Sentinel Prt Co
J. A. Spencer
Tel. Service
J. J. Hiners
Jos. Feldman
Jno
Rohlfing
Brdg
Jos. Schroder
Jos
Henneke
Pike
C. W. Voss
Fred Siebert Jr
Pike Repair
Harry Wernke
Circuit Court Allowances NOVEMBER TERM 1920
Court records show per diem payments for Chris Kassendick Emma Pierce and others including sheriff, bailiffs, jurors and special jurors. Additional expenses cover meals library books probation and attorney services with small clerical and docket fees and a Bobbs Merrill law books entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chris Kassendick
Thos. Harper
Louis Alford
Emma Pierce
Chas. Reynolds
Mort Wycoff
Forest Hartley
Otis Purcell
John Bauer
Harry Rayburn
Wm. Ballman
Jas. E. Davis
Jnok Glauber
Frank Neighbert
Lindsay Borders
Willard Smith
Cleveland Fagan
Chas
O. Dilk
Otto Thomas
Albert Welch
Jos. T. Cathey
Albert H. Butts
Bergman
G. C. D. Brewington
Jor Jas. H. Benefiel
Robi. C. Delay
Edw
Abegglen
Finley Massing
Thompson & Son Bar
Geo. Adams
Hy Laswell
Jno
A. Spencer
Tel
Robt
A. Creigmile
State
Hobart Rose
Bobbs Merrill Co
Law
Awe Dev
Amer, Law Book Co
Law Books
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Pipe Creek
Penntown
M. P. Hubbard
Andrew Irrgang
George Theobald
Casper Irrgang
Henry Price
Casper Bartling
al Meyer
Alois
Henry Bartling
R. R
The
Tribune
Vera
Circuit Court
Leroy Dorrel
Geo. S. Bean
Jas. Coffee
Howard Akers
Michael Dierscher
Peter Heinrich
Jacob Furlow
Arval Grow
Jacob Berg
Donald McMartin
Clifford Booster
iWm
A. Sutton
Everett Bishop
Elmer Davis
Joseph Heimsath
Joseph Pfeiffer
Ira Bradford
Samuel Maxwell
Wm. Black Zir
Wm. R. Dunbar
Vnrw
Roller Mills
H. F. Buck
Kramer
Vine Streets
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