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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1902
Page
1
Several short items report visits and travels of residents from Oldenburg and nearby towns. Mentions include Mrs. Berry Dickey ill with ague, visits from Cincinnati and Indianapolis, trips to Morris Grand Rapids and Osgood, and relatives visiting Oldenburg. Local business notes include patterns arriving and a water works tower project.
Mrs. C. B. Cook and her little son Clarence of Cincinnati, while returning home from Illinois, stayed overnight with Mrs. Wittendorfer and then visited Mrs. Schutte in Weisburg before continuing to Cincinnati.
Ikd Wisman went to Indianapolis Tuesday night to work. Charles Sauerland and Ed Carmell visited at Haymond Sunday. Mike Benz and family went to New Alsace Sunday to visit relatives. Louis Stemmler and family went to New Alsace Sunday to visit relatives. Harry Greves, of A. Jansen & Co., Cincinnati, was in town on business this week. The Y. M. B. C. have issued invitations for a dance at their hall next Saturday night. The tobacco filler fertilizer is sure to give good crops. It also destroys insects. Behrman & Wisman, Miss Tillie Oswald started in as a typio at the Herald office. We predict she will make a good hand at the business. Will St. Clair and Ed Wismann drove through the southern part of the county on business the latter part of last week. Our pattern department is right up to date and shows many variations of popular fancies. Don’t fail to visit it. Pashion sheets free. H. H. Kramer, Mrs. Sadie Annewehr, of Bloomington, and her sister and daughter, of Chicago, came down Saturday to visit their parents, Rev. Richenmeyer and wife, Merchants! Do you want to advertise through the country? J. F. Drescher is now ready to do work on barns, fences, etc., with paint brush and pencil. See him. The Huntersville Sunday School will give their annual picnic and entertainment at St. Clair's Grove on Saturday, Aug. 16,1902. All kinds of amusements and refreshments to please the mind and satisfy the taste. Everybody is cordially invited.
Manager Jake Engel of the Star baseball club is arranging a Sunday game with a Cincinnati zood club at the Fair Grounds. Engel promises a first class contest by securing top players for local fans.
About a dozen friends accompanied the Lawrenceburg club to Osgood Sunday and defeated the Osgoods and their umpire by the score of 8 to 0. Walter Schwier and Monroe Greeman visited Chicago from St Joseph on an excursion steamer for a 61 mile lake crossing, a cheap trip toward the White City. Huntersville Sunday school plans an August 16 entertainment and picnic at St Clair's Grove with music, dialogues, a flower play, and diplomas for teachers by Rev von Hahmann Arning.
Local notices list a string of social updates with names and travel, plus a smallpox note and illness reports. Births, visits, and health concerns are recorded for residents such as Geo Niese Jr and Mrs Doll. An Oldenburg obituary for Maria Barnhorst is noted with funeral details.
Charles Vick of Sunman was arrested after Chicago authorities alleged bigamy by telegram. Milan Squire Meister held him 24 hours. an affidavit from Milan’s Squire Spencer led to re arrest. Defense by James H. Connelley and Connelley & Gelvin seeks trial or release.
Various brief items describe purchases and errands in Batesville and nearby towns. News mentions pumps at Walsman, croquet sets at Wilker & Co, cement for sale at Keepfle Bros, and multiple residents traveling for work or visiting relatives. One note highlights a town with 427 residents on a Sunday lark and building loan activity of about six thousand dollars in recent weeks.
The column lists farm gear and bargains at Walsman including disc harrows and plows. It notes visits by locals such as Joseph Boehmer and Miss Marcella Fey, a death in Newpoint at John Clark, and various social calls in Batesville and Cincinnati. It mentions street rock in Batesville and a church dedication affecting services at Huntersville.
Mrs. Anna Wessler formerly Mueller from Rushville with sister Emma Mueller visits sister Mrs. Fred Mozer and parents Henry Mueller south-west of town. F H Newell chief hydrographer of the Geological Survey has gone to the Western States for irrigation study. The President plans rapid use of the irrigation fund with care to avoid waste.
Dedication services for the new Lutheran church at Penetown are planned for next Sunday with two services at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Fourteen ministers will attend and a large crowd is expected under the direction of Rev. Merkle of Penntown.
John Moody a former telegraph operator at Newpoint killed himself in Mississippi by lying his head on a railway track as a train passed over. Remains to be shipped to Newpoint Thursday morning for interment in the Ross family cemetery this afternoon. No motive given.
The Knickerpocker suffered a badly crippled engine on a Sunday eastbound run just below the Union factory. A blown cylinder head left no steam and the train rolled more than a mile after losing power before stopping. An auxiliary engine was sent, causing about an hour’s delay.
Several youths traveling from Milan and Moore's Hill to Benton Harbor on Sunday morning sustained facial injuries and a bloody nose after a misadventure described as a fist cuff. One rider bought a new shirt at Lehmkuehler store to replace his bloodstained garment and continued toward Benton Harbor.
A small white dog on a depot platform narrowly escaped death when struck by a cow catcher as passenger train No 1 moved in. The animal, later believed to be Dan Geiger's dog, recovered and slipped away through the tender wheels to reach home, showing little injury.
Brief items list numerous visitors and trips including Mrs Mike Christ visiting Morris, Rev Flantz a Cincinnati passenger, Ben Bruenning and daughter to Cincinnati, a Martinsville excursion at one dollar round trip, Dora Klee visiting from Shelbyville, furniture shipments, John A Hillenbrand business trip to Indianapolis, Miss Pepper sisters in town for dental work, Geo Travis and wife to New Point, Frank Meyer injured at the Meyer factory, E R Adams traveling to Indianapolis for shoe company work, Lid Severinghaus visiting from Chicago, Mr Gibbons visiting Greensburg and helping in New Point, Mrs Redmond and Miss Schafer with Charley Redmond on St Joe excursion, Benton Harbor to Batesville nine and a half hour excursion, and local church society fundraising via Aug Prell's lawn fete with net proceeds. Miss Alice Bruns of Sunman visits and returns from Benton Harbor and St Joe.
A Sunday excursion from Batesville to Benton Harbor carried about eight hundred passengers aboard twelve coaches and a baggage car. The trip included stops at Newpoint and Greensburg and a ride on the steamship City of Chicago in St. Joseph. Manager W T Gardner praised the well behaved crowd and announced another excursion planned for August.
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