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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1914
Page
6
After years, Ferdinand advances a push for a town waterworks system to lure factories, improve fire protection, dust control, garden preservation, and lower insurance costs. The plan envisions joint ownership by town and citizens with business support behind the effort to secure needed utilities and development. LET'S MAKE A BETTER FERDINAND.
The Pocket Publishers' League held its quarterly gathering on the Chau tauqua grounds near Grandview. Editors arrived Friday night, slept on the tent stage, then toured Grandview including the Monitor office and Main Street. Alden Hearing and Sylvester Smith splashed into the river. meeting adjourned under a tree in Thurman park. next session planned for Wisslow on the second Saturday.
November notes show editor Alden J Hearing of the Winslow Dispatch extending an invitation for an event or discussion.
A surprise party honored Misa Mathilda Hass on her 18th birthday at her parents home near town last Sunday night. Guests included numerous Hollinden Meyer Wilmera Breedhold Lange Laake Niehaus Altmeyer Bogle Schwartz Woebkenberg Metzger Lueken Wirtzberger Daunhauer Uassfurther Hollinden Schilling Meyer Sechow Madson Wilmers Metzger Nord Hassfurther Miller Schlenk and others. The evening featured games and music with bakes and beer served at ten o clock. Guests wished Misa many happy returns.
We thank relatives friends and neighbors who assisted during our daughter Lorena’s illness and passing. Special thanks to Father Ludwig Dr Claude Lomax and William Linniak and to Mr and Mrs Jacob F Ruxer for their support.
Dozens of residents and visitors are listed in a sequence of local social notes. Names include Frank Drach William Luker Joe Bumm Pius Oser Jos Schnauss Miss Mayme Duhmme and many others visiting from Louisville Stendal Jasper Corydon Evansville and Chicago. Several travel through to St Meinrad Celestine Dunnelton Evaneville and nearby towns for visits and business.
Military observers debate German entrenchments on the Aisne and a river defense inside France. Liege forts hold. Belgian, French and German forces trade outpost actions as Belgium fears a German crossing, while Holland and Ottawa prepare neutral responses and US embassies arrange repatriation ships.
A fragmented text mentions Maton and Peter Schmidt in a list style note with unclear context. The readable parts point to names without a clear event date or organization. Further details are unavailable in the provided snippet.
In Terre Haute last Thursday visitors from Clinton Huntingburg and Washington joined relatives for several days. They attended the funeral of Lorena Ruxer at St Meinrad last Saturday. Guests included R J Bockmann Robert Romney Mr and Mrs Valentine Fleig Jos Schlachter Mrs Catherine Fischer and Miss Mary Rickelmann. John Horny of Clinton Sr Albert Horny of Huntingburg and Victor Horny of Washington traveled with him in Johns auto and were hosted by relatives.
Mrs Woodrow Wilson wife of the President died at the White House in Washington last week and was buried in Rome Georgia Tuesday beside her parents. Funeral services were simple and few flowers were taken to the grave with the remainder sent to hospitals in Washington as her final act for the sick.
In Jasper Indiana two women connected by friendship and occupation Miss Norma Milburn daughter of Richard Milburn and Miss Esther Wachner stenographer and teacher both underwent appendectomy at Balby sanitarium yesterday afternoon and both are reported recovering today. They live in the same square and both recently resigned roles at the local telephone company.
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