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Newspaper
Boonville Enquirer
Location
Boonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1923
Page
6
Sunday edition reports a plaster explosion at the home of Willi S. Hatfield a Boonville attorney. Sally the colored kitchen maid fled shouting about the devil as guests from Owensboro Ky looked on. No one injured though plaster littered the dining room.
K H Weyerbacher secretary of Boonville Kiwanis Club returned Friday from the Atlanta Kiwanis convention impressed by the gathering. Indiana delegates included Boonville Evansville Princeton Huntingburg and about 150 from the state.
Mr and Mrs W J Veeck left Tuesday for Bloomington to attend daughter Florence's Indiana University graduation. Mrs Dora Miller returned home to Hardinsburg Ky after visiting her niece Mrs C E Powell. Mr and Mrs John Duncan of Huntingburg bought a West Main street lot from Mr and Mrs Charles Nester to build a bungalow and move to Boonville.
Albert Carey proclaimed divine instruction as he beat his elderly parents with a whip. He said God sent messages ordering him to chastise them and was later found digging furrows in a cornfield. Justice Bullock deemed him insane and sent him to Woodmere asylum.
An Elbert Hubbard quotation extols initiative as doing the right thing without instruction and emphasizes different response levels. It contrasts those who act on first cue, those who wait for repeated orders, and those who fail without guidance, noting rewards accordingly.
City engineers last Thursday secured a natural drain from No 3 mine to No 2 mine to divert overflow and purge copper contaminated water from the new city lake used with the old lake for the water supply.
Mr and Mrs Herb Laswell and their children have returned to Henderson Kentucky after a brief visit with relatives here.
A 10 year old boy named Carrol Williams living near Newburgh was left alone when his parents visited neighbors. He heard a noise, armed with a 22 rifle, and shot at a dark object in the garden. The object was a man stealing corn. he dropped the sack and fled.
May brought solid activity for Roth Motor Company with reported sales of Ford trucks Fordson tractors and Ford cars. The list of buyers includes Louis Michel Lucian Pursley Alta Hart Walter W Wilke J W Wilkin son W T Roberts Leonard Fetter Owen Lenn George Martin and many others from local firms and households.
Hershall Forston age 19 was found guilty of burglarizing the Stevens store in Stevensport. Judge Lindsey sentenced him to one year on the state penal farm and a ten dollar fine, both remitted with a warning that a second appearance would trigger immediate execution of the sentence.
Naturalization applications were heard in the Warrick county circuit court yesterday for Jacob Elwood of Elberfeld Peter Martin Chas Schmidt John Schmidt Jr of Newburgh Herman Schmidt Boonville Lorence Luck Boonville and Jake Moesner of Tennyson.
Farmers complain that higher living costs hurt profits while consumers pay more. They charge big packers and cold storage operators benefit from the price gap, buying cheap from farmers last fall and selling high now. Producers lack time to hold livestock and produce for better markets, unlike large corporations with capital to store commodities until a seller’s market returns.
John Schurmeier former Indiana state legislator was bruised when a car hit his buggy a mile below Boonville. He was taken home on West Walnut and may stay in his room for a few days. The Rockport Democrat item notes arrival of a son to Mr and Mrs Myrl Webb of Grayville Illinois formerly of Boonville.
The Rev. T. J. Shrode pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Loranger Louisiana and his wife visit Boonville several days to see his sister Mrs Harmon Vote. He taught in Warrick county years ago and left the county in 1892 having spent many years in the ministry.
Howard Hickman husband of film star Bessie Barriscale spent the week end with Mr and Mrs Thomas D Hasket in Boonville. Barriscale planned to join but had a New York business trip and may visit later. Hickman departed for St Louis early in the week.
A. Powell of Owensboro Kentucky, guest of his son C E Powell and wife, was summoned to Cannelton Friday by the illness of a brother.
Eight to ten fine Duroc sows and pigs all farrowed since March 15 offered for breeding. Also males 3 to 5 years old available individually. Baled hay and yellow Dent seed corn. Pasture for horses and milk cows. Contact C Ferguson Boonville Indiana residence 152 J farm 166 J. May 18 tf)
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