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Newspaper
Boonville Enquirer
Location
Boonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1923
Page
8
Pure bred White Holland stock turkeys offered for sale by Al Bracher of Boonville Indiana. Telephone 396 Y. Ad runs Dec 14 to Jan 4. Also found item: straw matting rug northeast of Lynnville. Owner to recover from S C Bingham at Lynnville by paying ad costs. Dec 28.
Lula Ashley reports social visits across Jockeytown with family and friends. Names mentioned include Kmma Scales and son Paul with Lila Ashley, Harold Scales and Willie Ashley with Thomas Scales, and France Posey visiting Anna Scales. Mrs J D Lampton travels to St. Louis for holidays.
Electa Crow reports on visits by Mrs. Sylvester Mitchell and daughter Lana Lois to Charles Crow, a well attended Center school program, and other local social visits. Marion Hill and Marie of Chandler joined Charles Crow for Sunday evening, with Earl Batterger and wife also present. Charles Crow traveled to Boonville for business, J H Gentry of Boonville to read the Enquirer again next year. Eat more Bartws Bread.
The Whianis club program committee lists the weekly groups through June 17 with chairmen and assistants. Entries run January to June, naming Floyd H. Nester William Stevens John Mason W. Scales E. Felzer Dr. Youngblood Ora Davis J. Hoover Clark Thomas W. Weyerbacher C C Ferguson Henry Whittinghill Geo Hemenway Roger Gough George Murray Gus Roth Edgar Jarrett Roscoe Hay Judge Lindsey Charles Hebner William Carleton with various assistants and dates.
Amil McMillin and family of Evansville and Green McKinney and family visited Mrs. Mary A. McKinney Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Cabage with daughter Doll Cabage, Mrs. Lennis Ashley, and Gurley Hopper were in Evansville Tuesday. A large crowd attended the Christmas play at the town hall Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Cabage and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Luther Cabage and daughter spent Sunday with Harl Ashley.
Miss Lillian Maxam who attends the State Normal at Terre Haute is home for the holidays.
Mrs. Georgia Miller returned to her Nashville home after visiting her ill father. Irvin Perigo of Cincinnati spends Christmas with his parents. Julian moves from near Tennyson to town. Anna Leslie and Jane Hornbeck visit the Moffetts. Farrah Day business trip to Evansville. School closes for Christmas vacation. Pleasant Chapel Ladies Aid meets January 2. Ada Major and grandchildren Lorena and Percy Harris visit from Evansville. Miss Katie Hossman visits from Newburgh. Willie Perigo family visits from Bullock Hill. Andy McNeeley and family move to Boonville. Henry Feldwisch moves to Clyde Miller's farm.
Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Andy Haas and son Howard, and many other local families such as the Weir, Moore, Marshall, Roberts, McCoy, Binson, Lastie, Weatheral, Haas, Weyerbacher, Gassaway, Berkhart, Dimmit, and Hesson households. Ernest Schmidt returned from Chicago for the holidays. Ed Krusenklaus is ill. Garret Rollér visited Boonville on business, and James Berkhart and Fred Bredecamp with daughter Wilma visited from Evansville for Christmas.
Wendell Barclay and family spent Sunday with Charles Barclay. The Tyner school closed Friday night until January 2 for a Christmas program. Emil Cruse and family visited Ernest Plassmeier on Sunday. Harry Schppel and wife visited Charles Barclay on Monday. John Hoover and Charles Ferguson, high school boys, rolled a Ford touring car near the Newburgh cemetery after a basketball trip, skidding and turning over. they were bruised but uninjured.
The piece rails at a proposed farm wheat gift to Germany as a political ploy by the Coolidge administration, argues for German relief tied to U.S. farm interests, and condemns isolationist policy as harming American trade and farmers. It notes local notables and events including a League dinner, WCTU ministry, a guardian appointment, Spotless Grocery note, and a mine fire loss near Boonville with $4500 damages.
The Sunday school held a Christmas entertainment at the schoolhouse on Christmas Eve. The school adjourned Friday evening and will resume on the 26th due to late building readiness. Roads north of Folsomville are nearly impassable from recent rains as contractors wait for better weather.
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