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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1902
Page
1
Trains Going East and West listed with daily and Sunday services. Through tickets sold to all points east west north or south with baggage checked through. Accident tickets on sale. Charles J Doll, Agent.
Local items note Smoke Schorrs Havana Blossoms and a Saturday night hot soup at St Clair s. The column lists visitors from Cincinnati and Greensburg, supper plans, sales pitches, births, and a political caucus preparing for election day with supplies and drinks arranged.
In a Davis Kentucky store C T Smith promotes Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds as a universal cure. He claims six years of sales with no failures and notes doctors and mothers rely on it while G A Baas guarantees refunds. Trial bottles are free with regular sizes 50c and 1.
Cotton blankets and rain gear headline listings at P Bosse Co while J H Wilker Co promotes rain day skirts 1 50 to 5 00. Local notices record births visits sermons and travel with election returns due next Tuesday night at the Park House.
Local notices advertise job seekers at Adams and Curtis Shoe factory and retail promotions. Community births deaths and visits from Cincinnati and Indianapolis tied to families such as Rev Richter v Hahmann Wuest Koehler Meiler and others. Community commerce includes coats cloaks underwear and holiday cards as stores like P Bosse Co H H Kramer and Schafer Bohland promote goods.
Last Tuesday evening October 28 at the German M E church Mr Carl Rosenmund and Miss Martha Prell were united in wedlock by Rev Graessle. The couple will begin housekeeping soon in Wm Kriegers new Main St residence. We wish them success.
On and after Nov 9 Benz Bros meat market will be closed on Sundays. The shop will be open until 10 p m on Saturday evenings. A box social is planned at District No 5 just west of Cross Roads on Saturday evening Nov 8 with a short program. Ladies are asked to bring boxes. Cora Unnewerr, Teacher.
Mrs Feist and her sister Miss Rosa Miller of Cincinnati visited their relatives in New Pennington and Batesville on an excursion Sunday. Miss Miller returned Sunday evening while Mrs Feist came back Monday morning. They expect a rural route from Newpoint soon, delaying Batesville routes until regular order and patient mail delivery follows.
Professor L J Rettger will deliver the first number of the lecture course for the school library at St Clair s Hall on Friday evening October 31. The lecture promises humor and instruction. All are invited to attend.
St. Johns church in Huntersville, under Rev. E v Hahmann Arning, unites church societies to finance artistic windows. The fund foundation began last spring after a ten year reunion, with generous donations from the Ladies Society, the president and vice president, Ed Timmerman, and contributions from the Men's Society and Sunday School to fund transom doors and overall improvements.
The Permanent Building and Loan Association will receive dues on Wednesday November 5 on account of the election. Frank Wallman, secretary reports a pie social at Miss Tara Ward's school two miles southeast of town was a social and financial success with a large local turnout.
Aldred Bee of Wel fare Texas on illness with biliousness and backache describes how Electric Bitters revived his health. He could not eat or sleep before, but after using the remedy he sleeps well, eats freely, gains strength, and can work hard. Baas' drug store sells them for 50c.
A local political clash centers on Nick Cornet pushing for a nine month Auditor term, contingent on Nick Hill's success in Shelby township. Cornet backs Hill and Oliver LaRue, holding night meetings at Hill's house, while distrust is shown toward John Meyer. The plan targets Nick Volz, Nick Hill, and Newt Jackson as core allies, with Henry Voss likely sacrificed to bolster Volz and Hill, as losses threaten Voss’s influence.
Stoves and linoleums advertised by Hilienbrand Mitchell Co and John Meyer & Bro. Linoleum prints and inlays featured. A car load of red cedar shingles just arrived. Mrs Joseph Haverkos of Oldenburg visited Cincinnati. H. H. Val Ollier from Chicago to Cincinnati via local stop. Complete fall hat and coat lineup promoted by Nick Blank. New dress goods arriving in fall colors.
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