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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1914
Page
13
Obituary notices report Otto Gehlhansen and Joseph Oser passing after illnesses, with interments at St Ferdinand and St Henry cemeteries. Olivia Oner dies of typhoid. house-warming and local business notes accompany community updates and a baseball game recap featuring the Greys versus the Selvin Reds with disputed play and scoring details.
The page lists weddings and family events for various families including Eversmann Kippenbrock Verkamp and Dall Fleck plus relatives of John Verkamp and Mre W Koust. A factory accident injured Claude Lindauer at the macchine works causing him to miss several nights this week.
August Gehlhausen and many others from Jasper Evansville Louisville Huntingburg St. Anthony Mariah Hill Tell City Loulaville Mount Vernon St Meinrad French Lick Paris and Cincinnati visited town or traveled through last week. Several families, including the Leinanbach and Drach households, hosted relatives while others attended the Huntingburg fair and local funerals.
Coroner Salb of Jasper investigates a fatal auto crash west of Huntingburg last Thursday killing Dr. Whaley of Winslow and Miss Barnett of Evansville. Witness Jacob Nabler testified he and his sister found the upside down car in a ditch and tried to lift it off the victims without success. The coroner has not yet issued a verdict and may pursue further inquiries.
Louisville was the guest of Miss Mamie Drach last week. J. M. Olinger returned to Glennonville after two weeks with relatives to clear land he bought last spring. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Goepfrich and children with others visited St. Anthony at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stetter. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Seger of Cincinnati, a cigar manufacturer, visited relatives and left samples, noting Ferdi nand shops sell his product.
Pope Pius X died in Rome Wednesday evening at 7 30 Ferdinand Time after several days illness. Grief over the war weighed on him and he spoke of the Almighty sparing him the horrors. Born Giuseppe Melchibierre Sarto on June 2 1835 in Riese Treviso he held various church posts before becoming bishop of Mantua and Venice. He was elected pope on August 4 and crowned August 9 1913.
Waterworks becomes the town focus as residents debate need and funding for a major improvement. Citizens urged business leaders workers and families to support the project to boost employment and property values and to follow exemplars from other towns.
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