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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1900
Page
1
Daily train schedule items list westbound routes No. 1 11 19 5 35 3 with exceptions and through tickets to all points. Local notices mention sales, visits, birthdays, weddings, and obituaries. includes Miss Cora Starks and Miss Clara Lehmkuehler events, shop ads, and an August 1900 telegraph college ad.
George H Govert trustee announces township business at Cross Roads residence Tuesdays and Saturdays. A jubilee service will be held next Sunday at Huntersville church in memory of the fiftieth anniversary of Eden College at St Louis Missouri the theological seminary of the evang Synod of North America. Everyone is invited.
Seymour Furniture Co. of Seymour Indiana honored photographer Ed Schafer by shipping a fine furniture suit to his studio for a photographing session. It is said Schafer’s furniture photographs were the best on the road last season.
Burgettstown resident G.H. Willson tests Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after severe stomach pains. He reports quick relief from one dose at Miller Curdy's drug store and declares it worth fifty times its price. Sold by J Gauck.
Batesville School Board members offer twenty five dollars to anyone providing information that identifies the person or persons who broke windows in the old school house in Dist. No.6. The informer will receive the money with no name disclosed. Signed by Frank M. Starks and others.
A town report denounces boys who gather at the new school house playground on Sundays to play ball. The group is said to use profane language and defile school out houses, staining them with the actions of low grade ruffians. The town marshal and Justice of the Peace are urged to arrest and make an example of the offenders.
Local notes record daily ice cream at Engel's and mowers at Walsman's, with travel updates for residents including John Pfalsgraff to Indianapolis, the Riedemans to Waldron, and visits by Ben Moorman family and Covington resident Ed Steenken. With personal trips to Cincinnati and Newpoint, and employment ads and household visits, the column compiles a mosaic of movement and daily life.
The piece notes social visits as relatives tour to see John Meister and Becker relatives. It highlights Chas Johnson’s property improvements as signs of prosperity, and includes a debtor’s notice urging settlement to meet Morris purchases. Mrs Wiegler travels visiting Newport and New York before Paris for summer.
The 1900 Baptist Young People's Union of America International Convention in Cincinnati runs July 12 to 15. Iron clad tickets cost 1.45 with return by July 17, deposit 50c by July 14 extends to August 10. Inquiries to ticket agent C J Doll.
An advertisement argues starvation worsens dyspepsia and digestion is aided by Kodol Dyspepsia Cure which claims to digest food and nourish the body while organs recover. It is promoted as the only preparation that instant relief from stomach troubles. Geo Baas endorses its use.
Beginning Thursday July 5 stores will close after 6 p m standard time each Thursday. Listed firms include Greemann Wilker Co H H Kramer Chas Meyer Nick Blank A G Zierer Co P Bosse Co Gregor Spiegel Co A Lindenmeier Son.
A dense page lists buy and sell items, job offers, and social notices. Items include binder twine at Walsman, sweet potato plants for sale, a German church ice cream social, and house help ads. Several local residents and visitors are named with brief activities in Versailles and Cincinnati, plus school commencement dates across Ripley county.
Letters addressed to Bruner Ida Fhilandeau Frank Care L Holler Gouert James Homer A Hotchkiss Hilen Wickett Hon Wa D McCalllum P M John R Gentry advise dead letter return by June 30 1900. John R Gentry testifies Liquid Sulphur Oil heals cuts bruises in horses and dogs praising its effectiveness. Sold by G A Baas.
A movement aims to establish a chair factory in Batesville, with many residents believing it could boost growth. The piece warns that stagnation risks decline, property loss, and hollow town health, urging decisive action and investment to push the venture to success.
Half rates to Kansas City via the Big Four Route for the Democratic National Convention. One fare roundtrip. Tickets on sale July 1 2 and 3 good for continuous passage in each direction and valid for return leaving Kansas City no later than July 9. For details call on Big Four Route agents.
Local circus visits inspired boys to try acts and many fell or were injured. One rode a horse on its back and was shaken up, another sprained an ankle on the trapeze, a third bumped his head, and a fourth attempted the trapeze in an attic, colliding with the ceiling and falling to the room below.
The column records visits from Mrs. Mierle of Ballstown to Greensburg, Fred Richardson of Indianapolis to Miss Emma Sager, and many Cincinnati visitors to local families. It also mentions the Colorado Green’s Show at Batesville and a physician’s note on rheumatism with Chamberlain’s Pain Balm testimonial.
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