Ferdinand area notes and local happenings in Jasper
Local residents receive updates on births deaths and marriages. Business moves include Peter Mueller Sons selling 400 barrels of White Lily to a Louisville firm and Saw mill moves by Remke Weyer to Herman Reckelhoft farm. Community members attend funerals, shop for Christmas goods, and plan annual church events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Mueller & Sons
Louisville
Messrs
Remke & Weyer
Herman Reckelhoft
Ferdinand's Market Listing Prices Latent in Nov 30 Correction
Market notes show COUNTRY PRODUCE with eggs 27c per dozen, butter 15c per pound, potatoes at 0¢ per bushel, various meats including bacon sides 9c per lb and ducks 20c per lb, and wool, roots, mill items, and grain prices. Corn meal 65c per 10 pounds, flour $2.00 per hundredweight, hay $12 per ton, and rye 65¢ per bushel.
Lula Bell Pitts Childrens Request From Ferdinand
A handwritten note from Lula Bell Pitts of Ferdinand Indiana asks for a sleeping doll a rocking chair a story book candies nuts and fruits and asks to remember her brothers parents and married uncle. Lula Bell also mentions her mother wants a dress and her father tobacco.
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Papa
Lula Bell Pitts
Notice to holders of Ferdinand township warrants
Notice to holders of warrants in Ferdinand township announces filing deadlines. Warrant numbers 15 48 67 60 58 dated between 1901 and 1902 are to be presented in the trustee’s office in Dubois County Indiana by January 1 1907. Wm Helming trustee issued the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferdinand Township
Henry Gelhausen
John Seger
H. Neusch
F. Bromm
Leo Wirtzberger
Frank Drach
Wm. Helming
Dubois Co
Ind
St Eberhards Aid Society Elects Officers and Invites Members
The St Eberhards Aid Society held its latest meeting electing Frank N Olinger as President Richard Eiberg as Vice President Dietrich Hollinden as Secretary Wm Wirtzberger as C Secretary Frank Heiden as Book Keeper Leo Snyder as Treasurer Ger Kippenbrock as Marshall and ward officers Chas Bosler Frank Austermann Fred Punch Adam Jacobi as sick committee. The society reports good standing with about 176 members and invites young men to join for their advantage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Eberhards Aid Society
Frank N. Olinger
Richard Eiberg
Dietrich Hollinden
Wm. Wirtzberger
Frank Heiden
Leo Snyder
Ger. Kippenbrock
Marshall
Chas. Bosler
Frank Austermann
Fred
Card of Thanks and Notices from 1907
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for support during illness and after death of Mrs. Mary A. Kunkler. The United States Secret Service reports a new $10 note counterfeit made by photo lithography on two papers with silk fiber. Ferdinand National Bank to elect directors on January 8 1907 at 1 PM in Society Hall. Subscriptions paid by Conrad Meyer Ben Bolte Father Benno Gerber Miss Annie Hemnrich.
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United States Secret Service
United States
Ferdinand National Bank
Society Hall
F. X. Rickelmann
Conrad Meyer
Louisville
Ben Bolte
Ferdinand
Benno Gerber
St. Meinrad
Annie Hemnrich
Murphysboro
Application for Liquor License in Ferdinand Indiana
Notice to citizens that a male resident of Ferdinand age twenty one will apply to the Dubois County Indiana board of commissioners at the next January term 1907 for leave to sell spirituous vinous and malt liquors in quantities under a quart for one year at premises a 24 by 35 room in a two story building on lot 235 Ohio Street Ferdinand with luncheon service connected and shop restrictions attached.
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Ferdinand
Board of Commissioners
Dubois County
Indiana
Ferdinand An
Ohio
Ferdinand Township
Subscriptions Include Tim Tim Tim Tim
The list shows readers signed up for Ferdinand News, the new lending home paper, with names tied to Ferdinand and nearby cities such as Evansville Louisville Cincinnati St Louis and Ferdinand. It records subscribers Ferdinand Klueh Clem Koliker Henry Segers and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tim
FeRdinaNd News
Ferdinand Klueh
Ferdinand
Clem Koliker
Evansville
Francis Weyer
Louisville
Henry Segers
Cincinnati
Henry Huelsmann
H. J. Kunkeler
St. Louis
Agnes Heilera
Notice of liquor license for Ferdinand resident
Notice to residents of Ferdinand Indiana that Hubert Quanie, twenty one years old, of good character and ninety days resident, seeks January 1906 term leave to sell vinous and malt liquors for one year in a ground floor room 5 by 26 feet at the corner of lot 134 on Ohio Street. Licensure subject to act regulating sale of intoxicating liquors and lunching confection business.
Spelling Woes Weave Through a Family Tale
A gracious mother with sharp spelling skill contrasts with a daughter who struggles with common words. An observant eight or nine year old notes the difference as a granddaughter spots a pocket dictionary in a trunk and jokes about not taking grandma on a country trip.
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Ethel
Bierce In a Forsaken Town Visits Williams Arizona
Ambrose Bierce, the San Francisco satirist, received a rush telegram to come east, boarded a train, and then was told to return. He halted in Williams, Arizona, slept all day in a rough-board hotel, and read a local four-page paper announcing his visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ambrose Bierce
San Francisco
Saturday Evening Post
Williams, Ariz
Blerce
Williams
Rough Board
Children See, We Should Set Them a Good Example
Rev. C H Mead of New York praised children’s clear eyes and sharp perception at Chester Heights camp meeting. He warned that children notice behavior and urged adults to set a proper example despite adult forgetfulness. A nursery anecdote illustrated a child interpreting parents' absence as a game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Mead
New York
Chester Heights
Minnie
Ike Tommy
Papa
Chicago Chronicle
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Jasper
Weaver's
Brett
Leo. Snyder
Valentine Fleig
Ferdinand Mills
Andy Almndauer
C.K. of
Jacob ‘Albert
Lower
Ohio Street
Frank Knapp
Hed, Konkeler
Martin Dilger
Martin
Virginia
Lawrence Hobbs
Siberia
Joe Kunkeler
Troy
Otto Durre
Andy Jochim
Mariah Hill
Andy Ia
Richard Windpfenig
Tell City
John G. Beckmann
Mt. Vernon
Chas. Metzger
Ben Gerat
Lucas
Father Alexander
Philip Limp
Wickliffe
City
Ferdinand Lindauer
Fulda
Frank Jacobs
Billa
Our Town
Fleig’s Hall
St. Ferdinand’s Church
the Electric Light Co
Peter Mueller
John Gerber
Joel Daumhauer
Ths
Daunhauer
Fred, Albert and Son
Union For Pitts & Co
Pitts & Co
Jo Oe
Ben. Bolte
J. H. Beckmann-Dilgor Co
Peter Schnell
Johnsburg
Benedict Seifert
Ferdinand, Insurance Co
Hubert Quante
Hubert
J. H. Beckmann
Anton Lange
Lange
Chas, Knapp
Frank
Mary Seger
Deak
George Harlander
Mariah Hil
Herman Theis
Mosby
Ings
J. F. Beardley
Dale
Bertha Bickelmann
Ike’ Senninger
Alice
Cornelia Beckmann
Ben. Gorst
Theresia Wicker
Mrs
Henry Beckmann
Mary Rachmann
Tet City
Henry Bromm
Ike Senninger
Tony Vonbogen
Frank Roos
Victor
Christ Morgan of
Kingsley Hemmer
Frank and
Edward Mueller
Hariet Sweeney
John Durchholz
Sunman
Ripley, Co
Mr. Ramsey
Ferdinand's Market
Turkey
Main Street
Ferdinand, Ind
St. Eberhard’s Aid Society
Mary A. Kunkler
Towit
State of
Hubert Quanie
Grandma
Ore Big Store
Sondermann
SH Beckmann-Dilger Co
Olinger
Chaice Cigars
Cumberland
Brewer's
Sordinand
Conan Didcer
Wiers
Joe Leppert
Gates
B. A. Mosby
Senninger’s Hotel
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