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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1919
Page
6
Gossip from Schnellville and nearby areas lists visits to Bristow Evansville Huntingburg Petersburg and Louisville. Names include Becher Lomax Becher family Bischof Bretz Partenheimer Limp and Kunkler with mentions of a Becher-Egan marriage and a new Chevrolet purchase.
FULDA reports Mr and Mrs Paul Collignon leaving for Elwood Indiana to establish a new home. John Beier is hospitalized in Louisville for an operation. Local farmers prepare ground for wheat sowing as light rain falls. Several residents visit relatives and travel to nearby towns including Owensboro Mt Vernon Ferdinand and East St Louis.
Albert Weaver and Joe Heidel from Perdinand were in town Friday. John and Mrs Buening visited Perdinand Friday. Hannah Leibering and Ruth Cooper visited friends at Lamar over Sunday. Clarence Bockstatler of Dale and Frank Beamer of Holland were in town on business Saturday. H A Hoffmann was in Dale on business Saturday. George Hack of Millwood Kentucky and Airstant Sebnelt spent Sunday at Denny son. J C Kemp and Ira Pride were in Huntingburg Monday. Mrs Marion Martin and daughter Mollie Broover of Huntingbury spent Tuesday with Mrs Naoma Schnell.
A light rain fell in Bretzville on Sunday. Mrs. Leo Bartley visited Huntingburg on Saturday. Andy Wagner and son Hubert were in Huntingburg on Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Philip Bretz and son Rol stayed with relatives in Siberia. Mrs J F J Schurz and children left for Petersburg to visit her mother. Penbrock and daughter mentioned.
Rainy weather surrounds a Ferdinand area gathering as Mr. and Mrs. Ed Tempel, Simon Petry and wives, Gilbert Arehart, Louie Gehlhausen and families attend the Sunday Ferdinand picnic. John Arehart and daughter Mamie took a business trip to Ferdinand, while John Dean and family joined the Ferdinand event. John Arehart later traveled to Uniontown for business, with Pete Bonifer and George Konkler also making a trip there. Hubert Boeglin also made a business trip to Ferdinand on Friday.
Mr and Mrs Win Dilger and three children of Louisville are visiting relatives in this vicinity. Mrs M Mohr and daughter Stella returned to Cincinnati last Friday after a pleasant visit with relatives here.
Governor James P. Goodrich issues proclamation designating Thursday October 9 as Fire Prevention Day. Notices of promotions and local ads mix with commodity listings for coal deliveries by Vaal and candy factory opportunities from Candymakers House.
President Wilson toured California aboard his special train to press adoption of the League of Nations covenant as part of the peace treaty. He cited wartime costs and deaths, urged arbitration over war, and urged lawmakers to ratify the pact despite opposition.
The page lists Ferdinand Railroad timetable for Sunday July 7 with connections to Evansville Louisville and West Baden and notes trains meeting Southern Railway. It includes an oath about Hall's Catarrh Medicine and a Toledo business address, plus 1919 Evansville market prices for wheat corn potatoes cabbage eggs butter and livestock, and a subscription expiry notice urging prompt renewal.
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