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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1920
Page
7
The Versailles area records a special county session led by Auditor W. D. Robinson to approve a few more year’s expenditures. The County Commissioners will meet again Friday to close the year’s business amid local social notes and court news.
Misses and Mrs and Messrs from Cincinnati Indianapolis and Muncie are spending time with relatives. Beatrice Reckeweg returned to Indianapolis after Christmas with her parents. Carl Huneke and Olga visit uncle Charles Binnie. J O Waters and daughter Cressa visit Dayton Kentucky. Hazel Kent and Edward Lott spend time with friends and relatives. Dorothy Dammeyer from Indianapolis visits. John Bauer and wife visit Irene Beckenbaugh in Muncie. Luella Gookins hosts a party. George Taylor and wife transact business in Osgood. Clayton Littell spends Christmas with his mother Dora Littell.
OTTER CREEK Chris Legenhause entertained the following guests Christmas Albert Butt and family John Legenhause and wife Charles Fellerman and family Louis Graue and wife andrs Barney Butt Harry Fink and wife of Cincinnati are visiting relatives in this vicinity Those who attended the surprise party last Sunday at Fred Meyer's at Fink's Church were Charles Feller man and family Willie Meyer and family of Game Center Henry Meyer and family of Huntersville George Richter and family of Batesville Ernest Schutte and family of Adams Church H H Menke and family of Fink's Church All departed after supper wishing Fred many more happy birthdays. John Rohls and wife visited Fred Sembach and family Christmas Day Mrs John Legenhause is visiting friends at Sunman this week Tribune Job Printing Always Pleases.
The piece surveys New Year kissing traditions from Lancashire churchyard races to Basque and Wensleydale customs. It notes midnight keyhole kissing for luck, porch kissing in Lancashire, and Basque rites of kissing four quarters of the universe with remedies using bells and coffins. It contrasts historic mayoral duties with earlier centuries' practices.
Cecil and Kathryn Sunman spent Sunday with Violet Richardson. Jake Garrison and wife visited Bert Anderson family. Frank Fischmer and family of Spades plus Rosa Franke of Columbus spent Christmas with Will Schuerman family. Edith Eberg stayed with home folks Friday to Sunday. Will Schuerman and Rosa Franke attended Penntown entertainment with their families. Louise and Harry Robinson visited Edith and Russell Eberg. Oscar Mittendorf spent Christmas with relatives in Cincinnati. Edward Barnfibre and family spent Christmas with his parents in Sunman. Edward Bohlke and Stella Hortemiller spent Christmas with Christ Robinson family. sa Franke visited Frank Fischmer at Spades.
Hopewell Baptist Church held services Sunday at the usual hour. Residents attended the Bethel entertainment Saturday night. Zr Ralstin and wife visited J D Lanes near May's Defeat Saturday. Miss Helen Daubenheyer of Butlerville spent Christmas with friends here.
Fragmentary line notes reach to every home and mentions buyers through a federal program or initiative. No clear events, dates, or entities are readable beyond general references to distribution and purchase channels.
GAFF residents attended a Christmas entertainment at Benham Saturday night. Roy Hunterman and family celebrated Christmas with James Benefiel and family. Vern Sutter and wife visited the latter's parents, Roy Kirk and wife and family. Henry Hafft and sons assisted Richard Haifft in butchering. Fred Hafft lost a mule last week. William Wright and wife shared Christmas with John Stewart. Robert Sutton and wife visited his brother at Lougoote. Press Ferguson and wife spent Christmas at Benham. Arthur Ferguson of Fort Wayne holidaying with William Ferguson and family. Christmas entertainment at New Marion Friday night.
Community note lists New Year gathering at Menke's Hall in Menke's corner. Mentions Miss Erma Dahle returning from Indianapolis and Fred Meyer's 68th birthday on Dec 26 with a surprise party of local families. Christmas program at St Peters Evan Lutheran well attended.
An account of old customs where New Year’s kisses were exchanged for drink or fines. Examples include Oxfordshire tenants kissing parish pumps or paying a drink fine and London pubs offering ale for a kiss, sometimes fueling rows and riots.
A New Year's message wishing joy for dear friends and ten months of happiness for others. The author extends goodwill to all, expressing hope that even those who dislike the writer may find good luck until the end of a year in the future.
Holiday notices list residents and families visiting relatives in Cincinnati Illinois and local area during Christmas and New Year. Names include Harry Finke Clara Finke John Breban George Kirchoff John Bergman Mary Steinfelt Viola Weinberg and others with numerous family gatherings and dinners across multiple households.
The article traces Minos’s rule over Crete, detailing his dominance at sea, expulsion of Carians, and suppression of piracy. It notes Crete’s strategic position for maritime power, the later rise of a confederacy that ended her dominion, and the king’s policy to relax manners in hope of milder behavior. It describes Cretans as skilled in military affairs with strict governance and a ten-member regulator system.
Secret proposals in the senate defined reforms to land use dividing the country into twelve portions for farming and commerce while slaves tilled soil and citizens gathered in public dealings.
The article notes a shift among U S electrical firms from free fuse replacement to a service charge. Utilities must staff at all hours to restore service quickly, a cost burden prompting the proposal. Some firms advocate customers stock fuses sold at cost to self-serve when blows occur.
A mother and her young daughter aboard a ferry observe the vessel. The girl, impressed by the boat, answers questions with a remark about the spare life buoy, showing curiosity about the watercraft.
A Japan New Year feature shows a grass rope stretched from house to house with symbolic decorations. Believed to ward off evil spirits during the celebrations, it marks a traditional display of luck for the coming year.
A brief London time gossip note notes ongoing tenancy friction as a personal dispute surfaces. The column mentions a caller seeking space but an individual declines continuing the living arrangement amid tense personal boundaries.
A Brazilian report notes only a few steamship lines are contemplated to run between Italian and Brazilian ports.
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