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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1913
Page
6
Carmel Indiana March 14 after Sundays blaze destroyed nearly the entire business district supplies are scarce and shoppers improvise buying calico at a barber shop sugar at a piano store and bread from one restaurant inspectors expected to adjust postoffice affairs. the lone surviving grocery reports strong sales while mail and stamps face disruption.
Brownstown March 12. Searching parties over two hundred strong try to recover Tilden Smith of Valouia and Lafayette Quire of Jonesville after they vanished while duck hunting on White river between Medora and Sparksville. Their empty water-logged boat was seen floating downstream near Sparksville. Dynamite used to raise bodies. fears of underdrift. Smith left Wallonia Friday. last seen 5 PM Saturday. A $500 reward posted by Smith family. Smith, Elk, son of Thomas Smith, active in Jackson county politics. Quire, about 65, fisherman and hunter, long time resident along White river in Jackson County.
A collage of old advertisements tout Mrs Winslow’s soothing syrup Mrs Austin’s pancake and other patent medicines. Also notes King Alfonso of Spain’s fatalist streak and a royal near miss with an assassin mentioning a knife and bombed horses rugs.
In a colloquial aside a character asks what trim mings means. The reply explains it as a pipe a package of tobacco and a box of matches. The exchange uses rustic dialect and highlights small, practical items.
Warsaw council orders the purchase of a life net for the fire department. Rushville sees John Ryan fined for assaulting John Vogel. Sullivan notes Homer Tate wins the W U contest. Frederick Seeger dies of pneumonia in Warrenton. Hagerstown reappoints all teachers for September. Richmond skeptical on natural gas revival. Alfred Underhill fined for assaulting George Hamilton. Terre Haute ministers split on Big Sunday plans. South Bend grocers push to enforce garblee law payments. Sullivan suit seeks 5000 from James Sproat over township funds. Petersburg boiler explosion likely involved dynamite. Connersville reports parcel post limit reached with snow-filled thermos prank. Brazil lineman sues for 15000 after pole fall. Greensburg asked to release former carriage factory building for fertilizer plant. Carmel censures Lt Governor ONeill for interrupting a prayer. Goshen burial for Edward Clark, who fell from a train during an epileptic fit. Gary saloon owners blame Mayor Knotts for relief bill failure. governor blamed. Richmond Odd Fellows plan county meeting March 29. Franklin presses Franklin Telephone Company take over of Bell system. auto system to be installed. South Bend suburb River Park reports measles. schools to remain open. Gas City notes Mayor Sullivan resigns. successor chosen March 25. Brattain also resigns. Greenabury golden anniversary for Dr and Mrs J W Jerman. Richmond student Roy Campbell injured by a horse. Richmond high school debaters challenge Kokomo on Board of Arbitration question.
Lawrenceburg on March 12 reports Joseph R. Houston, president of the Aurora Public Library, bought the old homestead for 3598 to the heirs of Mrs. Catherine Steintel. The 1821 building will be torn down and the Sutton library building funded by Harley H. Sutton with 10000 will begin construction soon.
The "blind tiger" case against Lee Stuart drug store was taken up before Justice Simpson Robertson. Attorneys for Stuart argue the justice of the peace lacks jurisdiction. if upheld, the liquor must be returned.
John Prout, 40, viewing a moving picture on March 14, believes a woman named Evabelle Prout in a sketch resembles his missing sister. He plans to trace the original to confirm the likeness and reunite with his sibling after years apart.
A Bell Telephone Company lineman responding to a trouble call near Leesville encountered a large hoat owl entangled in wires. The bird remained alert and fought, but was captured alive after a brief struggle.
Rats caused a fire in a James Spilman tenant house when gnawing sacks brushed a second floor stovepipe. Torn sacks ignited by rat activity. fire was extinguished before serious damage.
Hazel Deavers, fifteen months, of Avery Deavers, choked on a button while near a sewing machine and died in Newcastle on March 14. Gerald Fowler, four, son of Walter Fowler, was fatally scalded by boiling water in Petersburg while his mother washed. Albert Chapel, twenty one, a brakeman, died after being crushed while coupling cars in Anderson's Big Four yards on March 12.
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