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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1920
Page
3
Pleasant Park hosts a grand minstrel show and dance at St Clair's Hall Batesville next Saturday evening October 2. The community reports visits and family gatherings at Batesville with multiple households spending time with relatives, birthdays celebrated, and locals socializing at events and sales.
Mrs. Rhoda Palmer, ill but improving, draws well wishers from New Pennington. Kansas native Peter Brunk visits old friends Everett Hart and others as Florence Lyons from Sandusky stays with Ambrose Hickman. Indianapolis relatives Lou Nagles and Monroe Williams come for Rhoda Palmer’s health. Various locals attend an American Legion dance in Batesville and handle farm tasks and dinners around Frank Hart, Charles Williamson, Roy Walker, and Ambrose Hickman.
Batesville residents attend a Pocket Grandminstrel show and dance at St Clair’s Hall next Saturday evening October 2. Local families visit kin and call on friends across Greensburg Huntersville and Huntersville area with Sunday calls and pie social at Pocket Schoolhouse.
A farmer notes fear of rats and reports a neighbor using RAT-SNAP to remove droves. He tried RAT-SNAP and says it killed 17 rats and deterred the rest. RAT-SNAP sold in three sizes for 65c and 1.25, available at Blank's Pharmacy and Meyer Hardware Company.
Clarence Hutson and Ray Dorrel spent Sunday with Elza Dorrel at Happy Hollow. The Center saw visitors from Napoleon and Fink's Corner including George Grow, William Borg, Oliver Bultman and others. A dance was held at Menke's Hall Saturday night and several residents traveled to Indianapolis for the Soldiers' Encampment.
Newpoint Layon Marlin visits with local residents for a few days. Pie socials at Middle branch and Mechanicsburg schools Friday evening drew good attendance. Several townspeople, including Mrs. William Koenigkramer and Mrs. E. O. Beyhmer, were noted in local movements and visits to Indianapolis Cincinnati and Mil ford.
James McGuire, noted hog raiser of New Jersey, endorses RAT-SNAP for rat control. He says spending $1 on RAT-SNAP killed rats that saved the price of a hog. RAT-SNAP sold in three sizes 35c 65c and $1.25 and is guaranteed by Blank's Pharmacy and Meyer Hardware Company.
Tourists visit Arras to stay in a novel hotel made from ordinary railway coaches arranged in a square with a central tent roof serving as reception and dining space. The Arras train hotels hold eighty rooms with four compartments each, catering to guests in a recovering war area. Other Bungalow hotels are being built in the Argonne using timber from shell torn trees for Canadian style cottages.
An Outlook article in Shipping Manila argues Americans overlook geography notes about China proximity and Alaska near Siberia. It suggests America should focus more on Asiatic trade than European, citing Alaska within 50 miles of Siberia and Manila’s position as an American possession.
A new public garage concept proposes loading cars onto a transfer truck to move them to their assigned space, reducing driver annoyance and conserving floor space. The Tribune Office notes a commitment to quality printing as its platform.
Dr Charles W Eliot aged eighty six admits tea aids his writing and speaking, challenging strict temperance views. The New York World notes his stance contrasts with his Harvard presidency and long abstinence from tobacco and alcohol. Moral reform circles may question the acceptability of stimulant use.
The war spurred railroad expansion from Egypt to Palestine and Haifa with plans for a Mediterranean terminus for a Bagdad and India line. British labor and completed Taurus tunnels link Constantinople to Nisbin and Tekrit, promising faster Baghdad routes once normal traffic returns.
The Grendon Underwood estate in Buckinghamshire, owned by Mrs Pigott, is set for sale. The village boasts historic ties including Shakespeare Farm, the Elizabethan house once a wayside inn called the Old Shippe where Shakespeare is said to have stayed en route to Stratford-on-Avon.
The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry notes 2,500,000 acres in Wyoming Idaho Utah and Montana containing phosphate deposits are divided into sections not exceeding 2,500 acres for leasing. Regulations approved by Secretary of the Interior Payne. Applications for leases filed with local land offices for transmission to the secretary of the interior.
Alabama produced 6,840,000 bushels of peanuts in 1919, with five other states ranging from 3.4 to 5.5 million bushels each. U S peanut production totaled about 63,000 bushels valued at 80 million dollars, while last winter the average price was 2.40 dollars per bushel.
Truck use rose to 958 008 at year end 1019 from about 700 000 the previous year a 27 percent gain. Cars rose less and only eighteen states publish truck registrations led by New York with others including Illinois Ohio Pennsylvania California Iowa Texas Nevada at bottom.
The largest farm agency, established in 1900, seeks reliable men to act as local representatives in Indiana farming regions. Prior success not required, but ownership of an automobile is necessary. Earnings potential ranges from 3000 to 7500 dollars yearly. Applicants should state age, experience, property ownership, and request confidentiality.
Township Trustee E C Timmermann announces weekly office hours at the First National Bank Building Batesville for all parties with township business. The notice directs contacting on Tuesdays for official matters and inquiries.
Transact township business on Morris first Saturday Sunman second and third Saturdays and home on the last Saturday of each month. The schedule outlines monthly meetings at each location for local governmental matters and public access.
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