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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1900
Page
1
Local notes show Christ Bos of Morris and ER F. Starks of Newpoint in town or on business. Several residents travel to Greensburg Indianapolis Cincinnati Rushville and Cincinnati for visits. Blackberry picking is active and Hauruft of Madison and family visited Oldenburg before returning home via Cincinnati.
Local notices list numerous residents traveling to towns including Greensburg Rushville Cincinnati Columbus Indianapolis and Metamora for visits business or social events. The column also mentions a weekly Saturday lunch at John Lehmkuehler's and a planned church service schedule by Rev Bowers in Batenville with public invitation.
A light bay gelding about 15 hands high and 900 pounds was taken up one mile south of Batesville in Ripley County Indiana on Monday July 9 1900. Owner must call prove ownership pay expenses and take possession. Gregor Oser.
On July 1 the large Swamp Root medicine plant of Dr. Kilmer and Co. in Binghamton New York burned. The loss in building and supplies reached about 500000 dollars. The property was insured and by July 2 the Kilmers began operations in temporary premises turning out 60000 bottles daily.
Miss Roemer, John Schultz, Thomas Cravens, and others visit Indianapolis or nearby towns after the Fourth. Several return home Sunday or Thursday, including Mrs. Ella Waterson, Miss Edith Klee, Lizzie Minger, Clara Parker, Stella Heidt, Veronica Weber, Henry Behlmer and family, Rabbe family, John Borgstedt Jr., Arthur Schultz, and Joe Bowman who died in Knochsburg after a fall. St. Mark's Sunday school plans a July 21 outing at St. Clair's grove with refreshments.
Burt Kennedy and Miss Lizzie Klee of Cincinnati spent the Fourth in town. Kennedy planned to return to Cincinnati Thursday while Klee, with her sister Mrs. William Vlick, would travel to Indianapolis.
Barrington resident Lawson Elvidge touts Foley's Honey and Tar as a cure for chronic asthma. An advertisement urges against substitutes while a local fair week notes large, well behaved crowds at Batesville picnics and St Clair's hall. Decatur county girls, up all night at the July 4 picnic, looked worn early.
Local items report sales at Wals man store with binder twine 10 to 13 cents. Several residents travel to Sunman Cincinnati Indianapolis and Covington for visits work or leisure. The show Ten Nights in a Bar Room arrives in two cars. Monuments and caskets ordered in Sunman. Albert Alden former DeKalb county legislator dies at 78.
Jacob Engel and a group including George W Gelvin Fred Morgan E C Timmerman John Pfalsgraff and George Wm Schuler among others left the city Tuesday morning for Laughery Creek to fish for a day They packed enough food for 40 men for five days despite friends' jest about hunger and hardship noting abundant fish and water will sustain them.
A patron at a St. Clair grove bar paid with a one dollar bill altered to look like ten. If ten drinks cost 14 cents each and fifty cents worth of other drinks were consumed, how much did the bar lose when passing a fake ten? The problem asks for the net loss from accepting the altered bill as ten dollars.
A miscellaneous Batesville page records social visits and travels of Ed Hancock and others from Versailles, Shelbyville, and Indianapolis. library hours, an ice cream social planned for July 19 1900, and a real estate offer. Notices include a lost pocketbook incident on a train and a testimonial for Littell's Liquid Sulphur Oil for horse wounds sold by G A Baas.
Calvin Otting traveled to Martinsville three, while Henry Hahn headed to Cincinnati Tuesday morning. John O Kaiser went to Greensburg on business. Miss Lizzie Duhme visited Columbus last Saturday to see Miss Emma Hahn of Cincinnati visiting grandparents John H. Bosse and wife this week. William Benz and Frank Kellerman of Indianapolis visited Frank Benz family. Lulu Lang, visiting C S Ward family, returned to Weisburg Saturday noon. K Dopp and family of Osgood visited John O Kaiser's last Sunday. Miss Mamie Dopp stayed to visit with her aunt Mrs Kaiser. Fred Mozer and family, Millie Moz er, Mrs Mary Schinneman and Otto Wessel all went to Smyrna last Sunday to visit Henry Miller family. Young folks went to Morris Sunday to watch Brookville vs Morris. Morris lost 15 to 4.
Proposals discuss straightening the bend on the Big Four from Morris to Newpoint by routing along North Street and Smoky Road. Broadway would be vacated and become the sole through street, effectively a new town boulevard for Batesville.
Louis Serva and his wife traveled to Cincinnati Sunday morning and returned in the evening with their nephews and nieces Joseph and Mary Herbert who will spend a few weeks here with family in the city.
Eight graduates at the German M E Church exercises Thursday night delivered creditable performances. Hot weather reduced the audience but did not lessen the effort. Music aided the pleasant time as diplomas were presented in well chosen words by Superintendent Royce after a prayer by Rev. Beyer.
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