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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1919
Page
6
A long list of local families visited friends and relatives across several farms and towns. Birth announced for Rollin Hoyer and wife’s newborn girl. Soldiers attended a parade in Indianapolis and many local households hosted guests during the week.
Frank Hart spent last week in Indianapolis visiting relatives. Mr and Mrs Otis Brooks and son of Anderson were guests here. Stella Palmer entertained her cousin Lillian Hughes. Norworld is visiting in Cincinnati. William Schorling of Greensburg stayed with Mr and Mrs Charles Williams. Sunday School plans Children's Exercises for the first Sunday in June. William Price of Middlebranch spent the weekend with relatives here. Leona Colson called on Nora Williams. Harry Siebert and wife spent Sunday with Ambrose Hickman. Bert Hart of Indianapolis visited home folks. Anna Hickman Linville guest of Chrissie Meyer Palmer. Hurley Vickery Jeff Williams and family were Batesville callers. Sherman Hart made a business call at Batesville.
Fred Gortemoeller and wife visited sister Mrs Will Klusman near Morris Monday. Della Dieckman is a leg injury victim. Will Siebert and Henry F Peetz families hosted John Wiseman. Adam’s church man Clarence Prakel started work for Chas Dieckman. Funeral at St Marks Batesville for Henry Koch. Mat Weigel of Batesville visited Wiseman. Mrs Gotlieb Peetz and son Henry visited Dieckman family. Stockinger completed a school term. Siebert couple helped celebrate Herman Bornemeier anniversary.
Raymond Butts took a business trip to Greensburg last Wednesday. Albert Butts Sand Hy delivered cattle to Osgood last Tuesday. Ray attended Sandusky graduation exercises Monday evening. Charles Fellerman owns a new Ford touring car. William Meyer and wife of Game Center visited Christ Loganhouse town Sunday. Chas Sembach returned home after honorable discharge from the army following battle service. Thielbar assists her mother in Osgood cleaning house. Mrs Meyer helped Mrs Fellerman paper last Tuesday. Albert Butt and family visited J Thielbar Sunday evening. Clarence Fellerman, sick at Ora Ray's, visited home last Wednesday.
In and around Bennington Square Mrs Brooks and her son from Anderson waited for relatives Elma Narwold left for Cincinnati to visit friends last Thursday Harry Piles of Shelbyville visited Adolph Siebert Ernest Narwold and family traveled to Batesville Monday Several Narwolds called on Ernest Narweld and family A Children's Day event is planned for about June 1 with more details to follow.
A London Tit-Bits brief recalls a reformer who, after converting to temperance, follows a wayward member to a saloon. The pastor confronts the man, who explains he could not wait because he only had enough money for one drink.
Yale Professor William Lyon Phelps recalls how P. T. Barnum advertised a cherry colored cat as a side show oddity in New Haven. A black house cat appeared, crowds felt duped, but word spread and many urged others to see the supposed marvel.
A Baltimore Sun item urges united support for national effort during crisis. It condemns unnecessary meddling and whining as treasonous while praising action and resolve. It warns smallness and meanness in critics harm the country and honors soldiers abroad.
France stands as the source of Gothic architecture with Notre Dame Paris Rouen Chartres Reims Amiens and other cathedrals cited as unmatched marvels. Cass Gilbert lauds their design as expressions of national refinement and spiritual aspiration amid German threats.
During an after supper porch gathering Oldman Cabon taunts the administration over wartime spending and calls for action. He taps a hammer on the porch swing and jokes about being in Washington to show them something while his wife retorts about their unruly poodle.
Cartoon style dialogue notes two soldiers joking about a map as Germany's key to France. First speaker claims the map shows Germany’s advantage while the second suggests it will instead prevent Germany from reaching France. The exchange highlights wartime humor on strategy.
Washington reads of back pay due to Northern soldiers forced into road building in the South during the war. The federal government will pay the back wages, charged against Southern states’ highway-funding share. A notable Virginia project linked Washington to Camp Humphreys shows stark pay gaps between enlisted men and Black laborers.
The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger frames a retreating German land as a dead country a land of death and ruined peace. It contrasts the invader’s triumph with moral judgment on brutality and crime, predicting damnation for demagogy and brutal conquest.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces a rural carrier examination for Ripley County Indiana to be held in Batesville on June 14 1919 to fill Batesville rural carrier and related vacancies. Open to male citizens domiciled in the county with other Form No 1977 requirements. Applications available from local offices or the Civil Service Commission Washington. Women may enter only if unmarried or as wives of service members.
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