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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1920
Page
1
Sunman features a Jazz dance at St Clair s Church in Batesville on Saturday evening May 22. The notice lists locals and visitors and notes illness and social visits among residents with several family updates and a marriage.
Henry Spreckleson and wife visited Batesville Saturday afternoon. Conner Hutson and wife called at Batesville Thursday. Henry Pohlar and wife and Albert Pohlar and family visited John Pohlar Sunday. Anna and Norma Cardwell called at Batesville Saturday. Elvera and Anna Hutson visited the Cardwell girls Sunday. Louis Wittkamper and son Fred called at St Marys Friday. Ted Wittkamper and sister called at Sunman Friday afternoon. Mrs Conner Hutson and daughter called at Penntown Tuesday evening. If you would be healthy wealthy and wise work all day and advertise.
A series of social calls and visits described across the area include Frank Meierle hosting Fred Luers and Willi e Werbach with Behl mer’s Corner, and Al bert Schrader family in attendance. Other households from Watseka to Batesville and St Pius share Sunday gatherings and shopping trips, with numerous relatives noted visiting and returning home.
William Bergman bought a buggy and horse. Nick Wissel made business calls at Morris Friday. Rev H Heeseman visited Mrs Schutte Sunday evening. Edna Miller spent Sunday with Anna and Lillian Heeseman. Elmer Bernhardt visited Charles and August Bergman. Mrs H Heeseman visited Mrs Wm Drockelman Sr. Fred Drees and Edith were business callers at Batesville Wednesday. Henry Stehlman and family from Cincinnati spent weekend with relatives here. Mr and Mrs Harvey Steinfort recently visited Mr and Mrs Fritsch, the latter being sick. Fred Miller and daughter Edna were callers at Batesville Saturday. Ida Wissel and Harvey Wissel and family spent Sunday with Nick Wissel couple. Louis Timke and family and Mrs H Schnitker and sons spent Sunday with Fred Selke family. Henry Vogel and daughters of Napoleon and Clayton Littell spent Sunday with Henry Vogel family. Mr and Mrs Fred Behlmer and child of Batesville spent weekend with William Bernhard family.
Garner Hill Gladstone N J advertises RAT-SNAP claiming it kills rats with no smell from petrified carcass and comes in 25cc 50c and 1 00 cakes. Cats or dogs won t touch it and it is sold and guaranteed by Meyer Hardware Co and Blank s Pharmacy.
Howard Robinson of Spades, agent for McNess Medicine Co, dined with Jacob and Lizzie Abplanalp last week. Mrs Rosfeld has stomach trouble and stayed in bed. Jacob Abplanalp and Charles Jenner hauled logs to Geo Hoff mill Friday and Saturday. George Huber and wife visited Sunman Saturday. Dan Reddert and family near Sunman visited Ollie Baas. Fred Abplanalp and family visited Elsie Wiedeman near Eastern Ripley. Several attended Philip Hoff funeral at Blue Creek Monday.
U S Government bulletins show rats are a cause of egg shortages and RAT S N A P is advertised as a solution. Break a cake into small pieces for rats to travel to. RAT SNAP comes in 25c 50c and $1.00 sizes. Sold by Meyer Hardware Co and Blank’s Pharmacy.
On Pentecost Sunday May 23 Penntown Church holds English communion service. A class of adults includes Mr and Mrs C Schomber and Wm Drake for confirmation. Mesrs G Gartenmann and J Bender to be initiated as members. Mrs George Pulskamp assisted her mother with housecleaning recently. Various local residents are noted for visits and social calls in Batesville Greensburg Brookville Lawrenceville Sunman and Westwood with families and neighbors.
Morris Mrs. Joe D Victore of Indianapolis spent Sunday and Monday with relatives here. Mrs. M Bedel made a Batesville call Monday. Art Miller and wife drove to Cincinnati Saturday. Amelia Hold grieving returned home for several days. Mr. and Mrs. Chas Bramlage and daughter Doloris were at Brookville. Jeff Reister resumed duties at KR F Reister's Garage. Mrs. George Schulte visiting relatives in Cincinnati. Mrs. F Lang and daughter Lillian spent Thursday at Spades with relatives. Dauth spent Thursday in Cincinnati. Mrs. Henry Cordes visited relatives in Cincinnati last week. Edward and Tom Davenport of Indianapolis spent weekend with Charles Winkler family. A G Bischoff of Covington Ky spent days with Al Bischoff Mart and Dan Prickel and Mrs Clara Hildebrand in Cincinnati.
Mr B E Carpenter of Woodbridge New Jersey reports using RAT-SNAP to trap seven large dead rats the next morning after losing 18 small chicks in one night. The cake bait is available in three sizes 25c 50c and 1 00 sold and guaranteed by Meyer Hardware Co and Blank's Pharmacy.
Mrs Wm Golden traveled to Indiana on Wednesday. Miss Ella Becker from Cincinnati visited Howard Robinson and wife over the weekend. Lew Curran of Shelbyville visited Sunday. Mrs James Miller and Mrs Sherman Mason spent Saturday in Cincinnati. Ed Franke and wife with August Franke Jr and family from Columbus Indiana visited relatives here. Mrs Kate Dollenmeyer came from Madisonville Kentucky to visit relatives. Mrs Arthur Gillespie returned home to see her parents. John Gunter and family visited his brother Fred over Sunday.
The advice suggests a diet suited to age and occupation to keep bowels regular. If you feel overfull or constipated, take one Chamberlain's Tablet.
Quote from Arthur Helps on weariness of life and the duty of loving fellow creatures urging compassion and social responsibility.
The farmer faces low corn prices and high hog costs while feed scarcity and bad weather shrink crops. Hail sleet and freezes hurt fruit buds and leaves though peaches in Indiana look promising. Grapevine beetle causes damage. arsenate of lead spray helps. Forage crops offer savings and resilience for hog feeding.
Arthur Senefeld, a World War I veteran and Brookville native now living in Connersville, has recovered a gold locket once lost in the Argonne. A stranger in Batesville found it and returned it after matching the inscription with the veteran and his brother Stanley. The source notes surprise that a local elder has recently been in Europe and the Argonne field.
The passage describes sacred whiskers among Jews and Turks with ritual beliefs. It notes that Jewish and Turkish followers revered facial hair, with sultans combing and burying removed hairs after prayer to aid in spiritual passage. The text emphasizes the hair's perceived mystical value across cultures.
The text notes that the unreformed calendar persists in eastern Europe under the Greek church and in parts of England. It mentions Christmas on December 25 but government Christmas dividends are not paid until Twelfth Day, and midsummer dividends arrive July 5 instead of June 24.
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