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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1920
Page
6
Residents and visitors from Cincinnati Indianapolis Dayton and Sandusky are listed during the Christmas holidays with families. Local marriages and deaths are noted including the sudden death of Rev. Allen and funeral details for Vincennes.
John Meyer helps Walter Love cut wood at Otter Creek. Will Meyers from north of Napoleon spent Saturday evening with John Thielbar. Charles Fellerman and family visited George Richter in Batesville and George Fellerman’s Cincinnati family visited Charles Fellerman. Christmas Day gatherings with H H Menke and family. New Year coffee planned by Mrs Legenhouse Mrs Albert Butt and Mrs John Legenhouse at Napoleon Lutheran school. Names Legenhouse Butts Legenhouse Thielbar Fellerman nearby families appear in Christmas weekend records.
Bert Ross visits relatives in Cincinnati. Mrs August Cutter travels to Aurora. Milan hosts attendees from the area for a Saturday show. Edward Bohner of Stockland visits home folks. Lillie Bohner spends days with Milan relatives. Nora and Lane Hountz host friends Sunday. Frank Dieckman travels to Cincinnati for his ill daughter Emma. Larnie Heck from Cincinnati visits August Cutter family.
Local residents from Osgood R. R. No. 1 share holiday activities and family gatherings. Miss Elsie Erfmeyer visits Miss Martha Horn. Miss Cecil Dickey of Batesville stays with Mrs. Wm. Dean. Millard Showers and family spend Christmas with C. L. Wager. Families from Cincinnati and Indianapolis visit relatives here. church Christmas program at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church is well attended. Clara Finke returns to Cincinnati after holidays. numerous family get togethers noted across the community.
Clinton School raised 61701 at a pie social. Milan residents Nicholas and Eberg are noted social attendees. Families in Milan and nearby towns joined Christmas visits with hosts including Barnfibre Severs Sunman and Eberg families. Several couples spent Christmas and Sunday gatherings with local families in Cross Plains and St Paul.
Noel Cook and wife visited Richard Hafft on Sunday. Daniel Titus and family spent Sunday with John Castner. John Stewart and family with Walter Matthews. Roy Kirk and family with Jeff Rodgers and family. Wm Ferguson and family on Christmas at Alert and Sardinia. Florence Hafft with her parents at White Hall. R Sutter and wife and George Hyatt of Michigan with Everett Pickett for Christmas Day. Fred Hafft families with Henry Hafft and others at Xmas. Attendees at Holton Xmas Eve included Arthur Furgeson Walter Hafft Everett Hafft and Joe Kiefer. Printing office contact appears.
Napoleon Bredemeier Sr. visits his mother in Napoleon while Dorothy Dammeyer spends Xmas in Indianapolis. Miss Helen Lutes and Miss Mabel Behlmer visit Indianapolis and Emerson Behlmer’s family. Mrs. Abplanalp and Mrs. Abplanalp join relatives in Indianapolis for the holiday. Harry Behlmer and family spend Christmas with John Wise family. Misses Hazel Kent Olga Huneke and Carl Huneke visit from Cincinnati. Violet Toph returns to Versailles for holiday visits. Relatives attend the funeral of Mrs. Alexander from distant locations. she died December 27 near Napoleon at sixty two. Funeral held at Napoleon M E Church.
Little Harvey Jobst is sick. Fred Rimstidt visited Mrs J Massing and family. Dance at Menkes Hall Saturday. Britney Rimstidt and wife visited C F Sellers. C F Sellers and son Charles helped Ralph Jones butcher Monday. A B Wycoff and Batesville family spent Sunday with C F Sellers. Jake Massing visiting sister in Louisville Kentucky. Henry Bode family spent Xmas with John Dean near Napoleon. Christmas party at schoolhouse Wednesday. Charles Sellers Albert George Bode visited Frank Herbert and Howard Henneke Christmas night. Herbert Henneke of Culver returned Sunday after visiting Howard and Frank Henneke. There is only one kind of printing worth anything the right kind.
Trustee states monthly township business will be transacted in Morris on the first Saturday, in Sunman on the second and third Saturdays, and at home on the last Saturday of each month.
Ripley County and Franklin County boards of commissioners invite sealed bids for macadamizing a county line road in Butler Township Franklin County and Adams Township Ripley County. Bids due February 4, 1920 at 11 a.m. in Batesville. Bonds double bid amount required. Work completion time set after letting. Affidavit of non collusion required. Right to reject bids reserved. E C Timmermann Township Trustee to docket business days Tuesdays.
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