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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1920
Page
4
Local column records a flurry of travel and visits among residents. Fr Stanton Nickel went to Detroit Monday evening, Miss Roslyn Behlmer of Sunman returned home Friday, and numerous others from Sunman Morris Greensburg Cincinnati and Indianapolis were seen visiting or traveling to or from nearby towns and cities over the week.
Miss Dora Behrman went to Indianapolis Saturday evening. Martin Oswald and his son Richard visited friends at St Paul Friday evening. Mrs Harry Fox of Cincinnati came down Saturday evening to visit home folks here. Elmer Baas went to Indianapolis Saturday evening to spend a couple of days with friends. Ed and Mrs Scherling of Indianapolis visited John Selke and family. Chester Meyer and family spent last week with Mrs Meyer's parents in Bloomington. Fred Schutter and wife, formerly of Schutter's Corner, now of Indianapolis, visited home folks Friday evening. Miss Mary Roth of Cincinnati visited her sister Mrs S H Cresas. Morris Smith and wife, formerly of Sunman, now of Cincinnati, were guests of John Schwartz and family. Mrs Alvin Johnson, here two weeks with her parents, returned to Indianapolis Friday evening. George Ollier, employed at Ault & Wiborg Printing Ink Co in Milwaukee, came home to be with his brother John Ollier. He will visit Cincinnati before returning to Milwaukee. Lester Whitman and family of Chicago, and Mrs Fay Winsor and Mrs Ben Winsor of Versailles were Sunday guests of Henry Winsor and family. Whitman, a nephew of Winsor, traveled from Chicago for Ripley County relatives. Rev L A Schreiber and family returned Saturday from a two weeks vacation in Louisville and elsewhere. They were joined by Mrs Schreiber's father Rev Joseph Lamy of Louisville, who will stay until Friday.
Mrs Henry Winsor district deputy grand chief of the Pythian Sisters Lodge visited Lawrenceburg Friday to organize a temple. Lawrenceburg has lacked a Pythian Sisters chapter for years. Her efforts have already produced temples at Aurora and Metamora, with Lawrenceburg to be the third.
The one year old son of Elmer Crowell and his wife, of Route No. One, sustained a serious scald on his right hand last Monday after reaching into a boiling mass of apple butter in preparation.
James Cardinal Gibbons praises The Confession as the first work of its kind he has endorsed and urges viewers to see it. The photoplay will be shown at the Lyric on August 4 and 5.
Local shop boasts an electric meat chopper bone grinder and coffee mill for improved service. Advertises Hamburg and Steel Cut Coffee with ground bone as a quirky slogan about quality prints and platform focus.
Classified notices show lost items such as an auto license and a silver mesh purse with rewards, and sales including celery plants 15 cents a dozen, a balif range, wagons, a concrete mixer, and eight Batesville residences priced from 1300. Addresses include Batesville, New Pennington, and 108 East Pearl Street.
The Huntersville Specials crushed the Flats 30 to 12 at Otto Wissel Park after a 19 to 5 win last Sunday. Green Johnson and Lawrence Schoetmer pitched, Walter Freeland caught, Alfred and Art Thie started for the Flats, with Otto Wissel and Leo Peetz as umpires. Manager Schrader aims to schedule another game at Huntersville Park next Sunday to keep the streak alive.
The Ripley Franklin County Association schedules its seventh annual reunion for Sunday August 1 at Brookside Park Indianapolis. Attendees travel by East 10th Street car to the end of the line. Officers include President J H Pendergast Vice President J Henry Fisse Treasurer Louis H Schutte and Secretary Ollie Brown with speaking and music planned.
Louis Jager and family of Napoleon and Mr and Mrs J Schlegel of Shelbyville attended the funeral of a two day old daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Sharp of Cincinnati. The body was brought here for burial Monday and taken from the Vierling home to St. John's cemetery for interment.
Feed supplies announced including horse feed dairy feed cattle fattener and bran now on hand. Buy while supply lasts at Batesville Roller Mills.
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