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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1917
Page
5
George Boeglin led Siberia team to Cannelton last Monday. Dozens visit relatives and attend weddings in Ferdinand, Jasper, Fransville, and St Meinrad. Local families travel by Grand Six to Waldhier-Sergesketter wedding. parochial school resumes next Monday with Sisters Blandina and Martina teaching. Jacob Pfeiffer, 94, still active, walks to church weekly.
Mariah Hill reports Mr. and Mrs. Wm Zachmann of Evansville visited relatives here Sunday. Mrs. Mary Bettag left for Owensboro for a few weeks with her daughter. Mr. and Mrs John Bredhold welcomed a daughter. Joe Gaesser and Minnie Bettag of Tell City visited Sunday. Rev A Bauer and Max Kern were in Huntingburg on business. Minnie Maslowsky returned to Owensboro after two weeks recreation. Misses Tillie Wolf and Delia Corbett returned to Louisville after a week with Delia’s mother. Olivia Boucherie left Wakefield Ill for home after visiting relatives.
Dr and Mrs Claud Lomax were at Evansville last Thursday. Mr and Mrs Albert Schnellenberger and children visited Jake Egler’s home near Adgeville on Sunday. Regina Becher and Clara Schnellenberger left for Cincinnati Monday morning. Jake Sifrig Edwin Yent Joe Berger and Paul Ernst came from Evansville Sunday in Jake s Ford. F C Gehlhausen of Evansville was in town Monday Mr and Mrs Evigene Dupont
Ranger spent Sunday here with relatives. J A Greulich visited Peter Klueh near Ferdinand on Tuesday. Ben Bischof and family from Louisville are visiting his parents here. J F Buxer unloaded silos at Dale Tuesday. Hollander family from Fulda Galena and Metcalfs from Louisville attended a funeral here Wednesday. Buxers, Beykes guests from Xenia Ohio returned after four weeks with cousins Lena Joseph and Erwin arriving Tuesday in Joe’s car.
Ferdinand Indiana listing offers a work horse for sale and fine quality large tomatoes priced at 60 cents a bushel. Orders can be placed by telephone with Peter Durchholz.
Edward Hungerford recalls New England sailors keeping to traditional tools while admitting the dangers of relying on precision devices. A Gloucester sailor's chronometer fails after three days at sea, forcing a return to the sextant and a close call near Portugal.
The writer laments modern speakers versus the old time orators and recalls three favorites. The first spoke at a funeral of youth and age, noting spring greens giving way to December hues. The second recalled childhood by a spring, seeing a once bright boy become a broken elder. The third praised a royal flush as the most beautiful bouquet before the speaker’s eyes.
A science authority explains how spiders move their eight legs. Spiders are tired by swimming and then released to walk slowly, revealing which legs lead and how joints bend. The pattern shows leg pairs moving in coordinated, alternating steps.
The Boston Transcript describes a horse as one of the best listeners in the world. It notes he turns his ears toward sounds of interest and pricks them forward when curious, with backward ears when driven. It mentions horses hear another horse’s whinny farther than average humans.
The American housewife carries a big bag of clothespins each Monday while The Christian Herald notes a Chinese method of using two clotheslines. It argues that clothespins and Western inventions may affect Chinese labor and leisure, possibly extending work hours or encouraging unwholesome pleasures when work ends.
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