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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1906
Page
2
Notices show ad rates five cents per line and monthly advertising bills payable on delivery. The column hints at a new railroad and a note on spelling reform affecting dialect writing.
The article urges residents not to chase foreign ventures but trust local merchants who cover most needs. It states citizens finally took steps to secure a railroad, needing only a nudge from newly elected officers to finish the effort.
A Michigan railroad enforces a policy that no drunken man may board its trains. The rule is praised as sensible, as the average lowly consumer selling fruits and books aboard is deemed a nuisance to railway coaches.
An exchange notes that in sex roles men wear colors signifying weight and dignity with black stockings, red suggesting profligate leanings, and pale blue signaling speed and desire. It then asks about the country editor who, by tradition, wears no sex at all.
The piece argues editors are human and respond to fair treatment and patronage. It notes editors will aid those who support their business and friends who share common interests, while warning against expecting one-sided favors.
Miss Laura Egler and Mr. Eusepius Bath were married by Rev. Clement Tuesday morning with only Wm. Egler and Emma Bath as attendants. A wedding dance followed at Sternbergs hall with the Ferdinand Orchestra. Frank Sternberg and family of Huntingburg visit.
Last week reports note Charley Horny is on a rapid road to recovery from a severe typhoid fever spell. Local social mentions include John Sternberg’s Ferdinand business visit and Rev. Othmer of St. Meinrad conducting services with Father Clement ill. A free wedding ball at Sternberg’s hall invites friends, as Eusepius Bath plans marriage to Laura Egley at St. Anthony’s Church Tuesday. Farmers finish sowing wheat and market crops. St. Anthony pays top prices. local doctor’s services easing.
Local column records visitors and calls from Ferdinand and St. Meinrad areas during a Fourty Hour Devotion closing. It notes the engagement of Mary Nord to Peter Schum and reports the death of Paul Witzberger with Y M I council resolutions and mourning drapery planned.
Edward Weaver of Louisville travels to gather his wife for the wedding of Albert Weaver to Mary Olinger of Ferdinand. She had spent weeks away with her children and parents, as the St Meinrad Butter & Cheese Co. was called to order by the preal.
The report shows a first year better than expected. Directors elected four new members. three incumbents remain. New directors are Ferdinand Olinger Paul Ringemann Henry Otto and John Scheffer. Paul Ringemann is president and Robert Widmer is secretary and treasurer. Public sale of farm by Christ Morgan of Perry County drew strong attendance. he plans to move to Troy for a new business. Jacob Eifrig returns from St Louis and will soon rejoin Illinois work. John Trotter, town clerk, travels to Rockport on official business.
Peter Schnell received 1500 in Dubois court this week from an accident in surance for injuries last year from a railroad incident. The Linnes quarry stone for Mr Schnieder’s house. A Model Brewery clerk plans to give Ferdinand’s belle a home. A 15 by 60 foot house-boat moved toward Terre Haute, propelled mainly by poling from Kentucky river. A fire damaged Thomas Locker’s residence. neighbors aided recovery with limited insurance. Thomas Shaw near Fairfield builds a large cider cistern as apple prices fall, preferring cider income.
Si Slocum voices mock astonishment at spending millions for the canal. Rube Robbins speculates the funds might fund a grand towpath paving, turning the sum into a vast investment.
A notice announces a meeting at Senninger's Hotel on the first Monday and Tuesday of each month. Attendees are urged to arrives promptly for the scheduled discussions and activities.
Article advises frost protection for underground water pipes using three dead air spaces. It details building a frost box with internal pipe core, tar paper sealing, and two outer air spaces, plus outer wood boxes. Recommends this method over felt or cork coverings to prevent condensation and frost damage.
In a Baltimore American excerpt a man after a violent act and a fit of indigestion muses philosophically. He remarks that another good man has gone the wrong way, expressing a bleak, wry sentiment about the event.
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