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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1907
Page
2
Farmers busy planting corn. Ferdinand Railway Co. meeting held Tuesday evening. Cold snap Monday forced hunts for overcoats. Pictures suggested before heat rises. Mrs McKinley dies in Canton. Railway work delayed to July. Thirteen year locusts may arrive this spring. Green Seal paint urged in contracts. New baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Joe Johannem. Hundreds travel to St Meinrad ordinations. Rickelmann removes fence to open Indiana street setting.
Items note New Farmer's Store offers potatoes and Green Seal paint back guarantee. Paint maker promotes safety while J H Beckmann Sauer advertises. June 16 1907 Sundays closed, supply on Saturdays. Electric Light Co introduces new liquid meters. Cumberland Telephone warns against posting bills on polls. Louisville Herald cites price rise to 2 55 for Ferdinand News. Robert N Williams Grandview saloon found with beer bottles amid dry laws crackdown. Prosecutions anticipated.
Late Sunday morning Bishop D O Donoghue administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to 58 children at the local church. He then proceeded to Mariah Hill and Fulda for additional confirmands.
A list of readers subscribed to the new leading home paper Ferdinand News includes Qhas Horney Ferdinand Constance Hendren Louisville Ky Joe Knnust Ferdinand Joe Dischinger Jasper Ind Paul Senninger St Meinrad Ind Mrs Bertha Fobl Belville Ill Karl Schone.
J H Beckmann visited Huntingburg last Friday. Jacob Meyer of Louisiana visited relatives Tuesday. Numerous residents and visitors from St Meinrad Tell City Jasper and Louisville attended events and church activities over the past week including ordinations, plays at St Meinrad and family visits. The item ends with an ad for Green Seal paint by J H Beckmann & Sauer.
Ferdinand township trustee Wh Helming of Dubois county Indiana will attend to township business every Saturday at his Ferdinand office. Residents with township matters are asked to present them on that day.
Friends of Mr and Mrs John Klueh gathered at their country home for a day of pleasure last Sunday. Mrs Klueh served a six oclock turtle soup dinner to a group including Geo Becher and daughter Emma Miss Maggie Becher of St Meinrad F X Rickelmann and family Mr and Mrs Ferdinand Klueh Gerhard Bolte Chas Tretter and Herbert Snyder.
The May 18 examination produced successful graduates from several townships. Columbia Township and Madison Township show notable honors, with Columbia carrying the highest scholarship and Madison leading in total graduates. Listed are township numbers and counts for Columbia Madison Bainbridge Patoka Cass Ferdinand. Townships not listed had no successful applicants.
Hon R J Strutt collects rocks from Branites Cornwall Rhodesia Greenland Victoria Falls Ireland ayenie Norway Vesuvius and more. He estimates only about one thirtieth of Earth's total volume is surface rocks and places the crust depth near 45 miles in line with Prof Milne's earthquake calculations.
The text notes temperatures about 45 miles underground reaching levels that signal iron melting but remain well below platinum’s melting point of 1710 degrees Celsius as measured by Dr. Harker. The implied contrast underscores differing material behaviors at depth.
Mr and Mrs John Olinger were surprised on their 27th anniversary with an evening of encore games. Winners included Rosa Olinger for Ladies first prize a picture frame and Mrs Frank Heidet Jr for second a pretty ornament. Consolations went to Mrs Fred Bromm and Ed Brock. Gents prizes went to F X Rickelmann for first a bottle of wine and Frank Heidel for second a hat rack. Numerous friends attended and extended anniversary wishes along with guests from nearby towns.
A court records Ferdinand Hews receiving a one year sentence in a case noted as closed. The filing provides limited details on charges and jurisdiction.
The passage notes the presidential race approaches and states support for the Democrat ticket by Mr. Watterson and the Courier-Journal. It urges readers to order the combination directly from the weekly paper, contrasting with the Courier-Journal subscription price of $1 a year.
One dollar subscription to the NEWS grants one year access to multiple publications at set prices. Includes Louisville Herald daily at less than four dollars full price, Louisville Courier Journal weekly, Cincinnati Enquirer weekly, and McCall's Magazine monthly.
The article discusses Bordeaux mixture, formed from lime in water and copper sulfate, as a key fungicide. It notes Farmers' Bulletin 38 showing that diluting both solutions before mixing significantly alters the chemical and physical properties of the resulting product.
The author argues that drying concentrated Quide 86 differs chemically from properly prepared S mixtures. Dried suspensions yield coarser particles causing copper oxide to settle quickly rather than remain in suspension, undermining process viability.
Admiral H. St. L. B. Palliser, long noted for Baltic and Black Sea service in the Crimean era and later as Pacific squadron commander, died suddenly at his country house in Cheshire. The article notes his lifelong pursuit of the supposed Cocos Island treasure, a legendary hoard said to lie 500 miles southwest of Panama, with two major alleged consignments in 1822 and 1835 and valued in the millions. The tale links to a hidden treasure belief and Palliser’s final years chasing it.
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