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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1900
Page
1
Batesville market and social items show visits by Cincinnati and Versailles residents, speeches by Fairbanks and Beveridge, and various travels for business and medical duty. Local residents Peter, Kurtz, and Hartemöller appear with housing, insurance, and job notes reflecting McKinley era activities.
The Beck family thanks neighbors friends and Tribune readers for sympathy shown during the illness death and burial of their daughter Stella. They especially thank teachers pupils and pallbearers of the public schools. May God reward you all. John and Lizzie Beck.
Local items list social visits and travels from Walsman stoves to visits by Mrs. Boehmer in St Peters and trips to Cincinnati. A stray dog alert, sale notices, and home goods promotions appear alongside political remarks and a Republican speaker’s critique of Bryan.
Doors open seven o clock and exercises start at 7 30. Ladies with a pie enter free while all others except school children pay ten cents. Come enjoy and help the children pay for their school organ.
Local notes report many residents visiting Cincinnati Columbus and Indianapolis on weekends and Mondays. mentions include George Fischer Mrs Nick Blank Dr L E Boyd Dr Zitike Kern Beveridge meeting and healing of Mrs Henry after an eye injury.
Henry Meyer aged 84 and his wife leave after living with their son in law William Sieck and daughter to establish a new home in Cincinnati. The couple appear to be around 84 and near 80 years old respectively as they begin this move.
Reformation services will be held at the Huntersville church on Sunday October 28 1900 with morning and afternoon sessions. The Ladies Society will serve dinner at noon and supper after the afternoon services at the Huntersville school house. Meals are 15 cents each. Everyone is invited.
Local coroner reports Ben Harte Moeller found dead beside east rail line after being struck while sitting on a railroad cross tie. He likely was hit by westbound No 36 or 37 trains, with holes in his skull matching a cylinder's impact. He leaves a wife and three children.
Teachers and pupils plan an evening program on Friday October 26 at 7 30 pm to raise funds for a school organ. A community crowd attended Mount Aetna area Republican events including a 95 foot pole with three flags. Senator Beveridge spoke in Greensburg to a large, enthusiastic audience supporting the campaign.
Local items include sales ads for two building lots and seed cash, social calls to Cincinnati visitors, a birth announced for Herman Kaiser’s family, and a Queen birth noted as Batesville’s first Kaiser queen. Community lectures at St Marks church and an election social hosted by the McKinley Glee Club are listed with admission details. A political kerfuffle over seating at a Kern speech ends with a critique of party limits.
Short notes mention Smoke Shorts Pride of Cuba and various visitors and travels. Walsman shops offer pumps of all kinds. Dora Klee travels to Covington Kentucky. Local residents attend events and visit relatives in Greensburg Morris Newport Cincinnati Brookville Valley Junction and Benham with several names cited.
Trustee George H Goyert announces township business at his Cross Roads residence on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Campaign figures J Cully Henri Bogart and Geo L Gray spoke on local politics at Wessels hall Huntersville. Harry Laswell reports Ripley county workers may not vote. Senator Fairbanks delivers a strong, well received address at St Clair's Hall to a large orderly crowd.
The family mourns the death of their father and grandfather who died on October 13 1900 after a long illness. They express faith and gratitude for support from friends and neighbors during sickness death and burial and ask for continued prayers as they face the loss.
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