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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1912
Page
7
A small town paper notes visitors from Owensboro and Henderson. Residents discuss registration day and voter turnout last May while several locals attend dances, visits to Ferdinand and Huntingburg, and routine social visits. The infant of Mr and Mrs Herman Vaal dies. local builders update Weaver school roof.
Mr and Mrs John Sehartz attended Huntinguare Sung. Mrs Kakie Poopreta with Moss Rose Landasrt of Louisville spent Thursday at St Marks. Mrs John Line and daughter travelled to Tuhtingburg on business. Hugo Sehneck of Huntingburg and Will Limp of Petersburg visited Miss Rena Limp who is ill. Mrs John W Limp and daughter Irene visiting relatives. Miss Anna Partenheimer at Huntingburg. Miss Clara Verkamp returned from Louisville.
Mariah Hill reports Mr and Mrs Mike Wendling and children of Henderson Kentucky visited relatives here last week. Theresa Heicken and Robert Gebhart returned to Louisville after a three week visit with Heicken's parents. County Surveyor Robert Widtrer of Rockport attended Distress Monday. Theresa Thoma came back from Goutsede after a week with relatives. Mrs Sarah Kronenwetter of Louisville and Mary Ann Ritter of Huntingburg visited the Heidhlebeeks near town.
ST. MEINRAD. dos Beyke and sister Lena of Negia CO are here for a few Weeks stay with friends and relatives. Edward Ruxer who has been spending a few weeks with home folks returned home Monday. The Ven. Sisters came back home last Tuesday to prepare for the next school term which will start next week. Frank Miller and wife of Jackson Miss. Mr. and Mrs. Billings and daughter Ethel of Nashville Tenn. are there spending their vacation in the country the latter returning home. Miss Angeline Sturm of Indianapolis is there spending a few days with relatives. Mrs. Jos M and Mrs. A A Sturm and son Frederick are here spending a few days with Miss Lula Ruxer left for Louisville Thursday to spend the winter there. Mrs. Margareth Weaver of Louisville spent a few days with home folks.
Father John of Ferdinand visited town yesterday along with Mr and Mrs Val Fleig of Ferdinand. A switch near Dubois moved to Crystal. Philip Trotter and Lave Henry of St Anthony enlisted in the US infantry at Evansville last Friday and will go to Jefferson Barracks. Sheriff Schwenke arrested Lloyd Farmer on a seduction charge. he is about 20, with his parents employed by Traylor and Krempp Construction.
Sealed bids are invited at the office of Augnat F Gehlhausen town clerk up to 6 p.m. September 3 for a concrete culvert crossing extension on Ohio street Wagner street. Plans and specifications are available at the town clerk's office. The board of trustees may reject any bid. Benedict Seufert Henry Haake Trustees.
Shentelmansa of te chury reports Father Qdilo appointed by the abbot of Jas per College. Louis Hoing’s four month old baby died last Saturday and was buried Sunday. John Koet of St Meinrad ordered posters for a Monday night dance with Huntingburg musicians. Frank Reckelhoff jokes about hair and aging after a Cincinnati trip. Joe Barth plans scalp improvements.
The Ferdinand Township advisory board proposes 1913 expenditures and levies at a September meeting led by Trustee Henry B. Dall. Figures include township, local tuition, special school, road, and poor expenditures with respective per hundred dollar tax rates. total expenditures amount to 3255.00 and total tax to 0. TE cents per hundred. Taxable property totals and valuations are listed, with 154 polls and a net tax base of 460,770.00. The filing is dated August 60, 1917.
New York report says Mrs. Woodrow Wilson pressed a letter to the State Journal denying an interview endorsing women smoking. She stated no woman in the White House will smoke, and Governor Wilson supported the clarification amid editorial controversy.
A string of visits and trips fills the week as families from Bellville Providence and surrounding towns travel to Mt Meinrad Corydon Rockport Evanville and Albuquerque. Relatives attend dances and fairs while health concerns prompt a trip to New Mexico.
Fragmentary note mentions supporters and extra fonts of I s and Teddy speaking. It hints at colonial style and an outenat but contains no clear events.
Train operations begin at 12 01 p m with daily runs. Ferdinand Huntingburg schedules list trains 1 through 12 with connections to Evansville Rockport Cannelton Louisville West Baden and Princeton. Delays capped: train 2 waits up to 3 minutes for train 4 and train 4 up to 40 minutes for trains 6 10 and 11. All trains use the Southern Railway depot at Huntingburg under their rules.
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