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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1919
Page
9
The Eureka Band hosts the First dance of the season at the Fair Grounds on Saturday June 7. Socials include ice cream and cake. Virgil Wilson’s party drew a large crowd. Local residents and visitors were seen at various gatherings and visits around Center and nearby farms.
Ervin Wenning and family moved to Batesville Thursday. Indianapolis visitors came to Albert Siebert’s home. Roy Hoyer bought a Ford tractor last week. Wm Menchhofer family visited Gottlieb Peetz and Henry Peetz at Pleasant Park. John Narwold and family from near Napoleon visited Mrs Fred Narwold. Pearl Hohnert visited Indianapolis relatives who were here visiting his parents. Roy Hoyer and family and Mrs Hoyer recently. Ervin Wenning and wife were in the vicinity Monday evening.
Francis Thackery and family attended the Greensburg high school commencement where their daughter Norma was among the graduates. Memorial services were held at Rossburg, with Alpha Hackery and Mrs. Linville visiting Greensburg. Mr. and Mrs. Wm Schilling welcomed a baby girl. Batesville guests, Mr. and Mrs. John Korte and daughter, spent time with Adolph Sieber. Rolland Palmer and children visited Reuben Harding. Ambrose Hickman hosted Rev. F. Z. Burkette and family for dinner.
Glen Wildman and family hosted friends Sunday in Greensburg while Richard Ehlers returned to Indianapolis after a visit. Mrs Fremdling hosted Cincinnati relatives and Ben Meyer drove to Aurors with Mrs Wildman entertaining her sister from Indianapolis. Additional visits included Mrs Ben Meyer with her sister from Cincinnati and Misses Lisetta Sophia Frht richt Alice Sarringhaus with Nora Fremiling. The piece ends with a quoted passage from Maeterlinck's The Double Garden about time and the present.
Scientists describe ice formations along a river dam where water’s air bubbles rose, burst, and built tall tubular columns. Uniform four to five inch diameters reach up to three and a half feet, capped by snowlike structures curved toward the dam, with wind shaping growth and choking the vented orifice.
In 1917 a New Yorker mailed a lavalliere to his sister in Warwickshire England with a registered letter. The Norwegian ship carrying the package was sunk by a German submarine in March 1917. A Cork County woman later found the unaddressed parcel on a patrol duty coast and seeks guidance on returning it to the sender’s sister in Utica.
Captain R Campbell Thompson with Thomas Higgins and local guides located sites at Abu Shahrain in the desert southwest of Nasiriyah revealing evidence of a Neolithic phase predating Babylonian history. The finds challenge the view that Babylonia had no Neolithic period and shed new light on Mesopotamian prehistory.
A vacuum type machine for plucking fowls is described and illustrated in Popular Mechanics Magazine. A motor driven fan creates suction in a large flexible tube with a special plucking head at the end. Feathers loosen and pass through the tube into a receptacle overhead, taking about five minutes per average bird.
A new principal quickly wins admiration but fails to learn students’ names. After three weeks she knows few children by name, leaving one girl disappointed and concluding the principal favors the bad pupils.
The column records visits by Louis Schone and family Ed Schone and relatives to Hy. Holles Beinke Marticke and Stickford households. Ed Schone called on Chas. Krieger. farmers enjoy good weather. multiple locals hosted guests over the weekend. A Birmingham quip praises local golf links as the town’s pride.
A new electrically powered wheelchair places a storage battery under the seat, drives a motor through gearing, and lets the user control speed with a left arm lever. The device promises greater independence for invalids.
Batesville Indiana agent offers private sales of multiple farms and real estate with contact through Napoleon Exchange for dates. Also includes a medical ad claiming Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrhal deafness with a $100 reward for non cures. Circulation free from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
John Sieg trustee announces monthly township meetings held in Morris on the first Saturday Sunman on the second and third Saturdays and at home on the last Saturday each month Adams Township notices specify locations and schedule.
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