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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1908
Page
7
Local items include post card photo views, New Year appeals, and a $1 annual News subscription offer to U S addresses. Notices of sales on farms, property transfers, and public auctions occur alongside business updates at Ferdinand and Dale Indiana. Community updates mention Gus Barth’s rheumatism, Hubert Quante’s electric light project and parking venture, and railway rail shipments expected next week.
Personal L O Lasher of Tell City visits his brother Ben Lasher and shifts focus to tomato growing for Tell City Canning Co. Peter Klueh of St Meinrad donates a dollar to the News. Numerous clergy, students, and residents travel for Christmas and holiday gatherings, with friends and relatives visiting in Tell City, Ferdinand, Jasper, and Louisville.
Special from St. Meinrad chronicles the death of Rev. Maurus Helfrich O.M.B. born July 6 1847 ordained January 26 1871 and long associated with St Meinrad. He served missions and taught at college seminary and since 1897 led the St Meinrad congregation before his death December 19 at Evansville’s St Marys Hospital. Funeral at Abbey Church followed by solemn Requiem Mass and burial in the community cemetery with pallbearers from various societies.
A detailed program at the Convent of Immaculate Conception featured performances from Benedictine Statera and many students. The schedule included choruses, solos, duets, dialogues, and a Christmas pageant, with Miss Bertha Rickelmann opening and Miss Marie Meyer closing the event.
A long Christmas letter from LuLa Pritts in Saltillo Texas requests a post card album story book dress candy nuts oranges dancing slippers for herself and a gun horn and teddy bear for Teddy plus good wishes for family in Ferdinand Indiana and local schoolmates. A separate notice reports two surprise birthday parties: Ben Wessel on 31 and Fred Oser on 35 with attendees, card games, lunch, music, and birthday wishes.
Obituary poem by W. H. Logsdon from St Marye Indiana mourns Peasant B Logsdon who died May 1 1908. It laments a long illness and honors his memory with prayer and faith in eternal reunion on the Golden Shore. The verse lists names and dates for a commemorative note in the Fort Mary Hoppenians column.
The Wyoming Tribune argues mail order houses will persist in cities, but home merchants deserve more trade if they aggressively advertise. It cautions Cheyenne shopkeepers to keep their ads fresh, align catalogs with local stock, and use the home-paper columns to counter distant catalogs.
The Ferdinand News reports new subscribers and renewals from multiple states. Names include Julius Duvall Louisville Kentucky Katie Horlander Chas Trotter Ferdinand George P Kunkler Katie Schum Mariah Hill Indiana John A Greulich St Meinrad Heitmann Maryville Wm Pfeifer Champaign Also renewing are Mary Gerat Louisville Anton Meyer Peter Klueh St Meinrad Jacob Bottag Glennouville Joh B Lubbers St Henry John Verkamp Me Clara Ned Thomas Egier St Benedict Cornelia Hansfurther Ferdinand Senainger Henry Bickwermert with unclear punctuation in list.
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