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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1909
Page
4
Holy week at St Meinrad offered attractive services and a Pontifical high mass by Rev Odilo Witt on Easter Sunday. The singing and band enhanced the solemnity while Mrs Melchior Klauser traveled to Louisville to aid her son in law Mr Price. Adolf Egloff was reported sick.
Adgeville enjoys pleasant weather as residents fill the day with activities. Teachers John Hills and families visit via Danville and St Meinrad while locals host guests including Misses Schatz Scheffer and Eva Lomax. Frequent trips to Ferdinand and Bristow accompany church attendance and social calls.
The newspaper lists the approaching marriage of Miss Emma Spayd to Andy Gogel published in church notices. F W Wagner has regained mobility after a period confined to his room. Mrs Enos Bosler celebrated her birthday with family and friends. William Gasser of Tell City visited his mother. Cyprian Bomm and family visited Paul Roos relatives. Veronica Bockting of Rockport is visiting home folks for the week.
Mrs. Ed Lindauer, previously very ill, is improving slowly. Andy and Paul Jochim attended the baseball game at Ferdinand Mon Jacob Meyer and family and Mrs. Joseph Jochim visited friends at Fer.
The tale lists Easter gatherings and social visits across Fulda, Huff Wn, Tell City, Ferdinand, Owensboro and Louisville. People like John Kern family Ed Wortmann Fred Roessler Joe Schaffer Zack Kern Vincent Gudorf and others are noted with relatives and shopping trips. A farmer's joke about high wheat prices closes the item.
Jasper Boniface Steinhart, aged 67, died Tuesday morning at 9 oclock at his half brother Paul Steinhart's home from pneumonia. Mrs. W A Traylor, in poor health for weeks, plans to visit West Baden Springs next week seeking relief.
Obituary note reports the death of a child of Mr and Mrs Edward Duppe on Monday and burial Wednesday morning at St Josephs cemetery. Bereaved parents express sympathy. The report accompanies other brief items from the Jasper Herald.
A Mohawk chief Thanakariner, in London for a visit, describes Mohawk governance where women select chiefs. He states that the matriarchal council nominates successors, and men hold no hereditary rights. The council of nine per tribe meets monthly with equal status across chiefs.
The Ontario Medical Council fined Chief Thanakarineh for practicing among whites without registration after he fled to England. Adopting the alias G W Hill he claimed pneumonia cures in half an hour with a single root and water. The Privy Council refused to reopen the case, leaving him limited to prescribing only.
The article argues the U S pays at least 500 million yearly to a bad road fund, with Agriculture Department estimates suggesting over 900 million spent transporting US goods by rail and wagon, two thirds of which could be saved by universal good roads. It criticizes temporary summer repairs that wash out in winter and are redone each spring.
The Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts first recognized highway engineering as a distinct field in autumn 1904 by offering a four year B S degree. This year two seniors completed the course and qualified as highway engineers amid growing endorsement for the discipline.
A Prague correspondent reports in the Chemical Journal that Austria-Hungary's heavy chemical industry enjoyed exceptional prosperity in the second half of 1906. Demand from principal manufacturers caused a scarcity, preventing full meet of consumer requirements despite increased production, and new foreign orders were left unconsidered.
A Swiss factory features a device named Takes Place of Thousand Hands that threads lace needles during a minute at work. The machine prepares eyelets placed later in the loom for lace making, performing most tasks automatically.
A witty exchange centers on a misheard remark about a pauper and sandpaper. The punchline involves clarifying the term sandpaper as the surprising answer, highlighting linguistic confusion in a brief, humorous moment.
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