County Notes From Greensburg and Nearby Towns
A roundup of visits and travel shows Dr. Hause and wife with relatives in Greensburg along with multiple residents visiting kin in Greensburg Marion North Vernon Indianapolis and Shelbyville. Memorial and Flag day observances by the W R C and Rebekahs are noted with a cemetery ceremony. Cited movements include S D Layton moving to North Dakota and several locals returning home after visits or work assignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Hause
Greensburg
Hattie Barelsy
Carl Dishinger
North Vernon
George Alexander
Hartford City
Ed Fisher
John Holcomb
Rebekahs
Ora Pickett
Shelbyville
Londa Wright
Jerry Gant
Indianapolis
Lee Cornutt
Anderson
Grandmas Gartin Returns Home and Local Social News
Burney. Grandma Gartin returned home Sunday. Will Smiley bought a new Buick. Will Pavy and wife welcome a fine boy. Emer Laughlin and family spent Sunday at Batesville. Everett Carr shows a new buggy. Fred Elliott and family of Shelby county visited Earl Elliott and wife. Miss Mae Galbraith from Greensburg visited Mrs Pearl Thompson. Mrs S A Wolfe Mrs R Elliott and Miss Thelma Robertson spent days this week atSunman. Thelma Robertson of Columbus visited grandparents S A Wolfe and wife. A large crowd attended the Baptist church program Sunday night. About sixty five guests helped Harold Turley celebrate his sixteenth birthday Monday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May Simmons
Lee Ponsler
Zenas
Frank Surface
Indianapolis
Frank Manuel
Duff McNew
Emma Steining
Near
Lawrence Merriman
Anna Hedrick
Kurtz
Abe Harrell
George Little
Jacob Biddinger
Greensburg
Will Pavy
Emer Laughlin
Batesville
Everett Carr
Fred Elliott
Shelby County
Earl Elliott
Thelma Robertson
Columbus
S. A. Wolfe
Children of the Baptist Church
Newpoint and Greensburg clash in local injuries and games
Roy Hooten shows improvement while Mrs. Dilks remains poorly. C H Walker suffers a leg fracture after a gravel train incident in Greensburg. Sunday ball results: Newpoint 7 St. Paul 6 in the morning, St. Paul 11 Newpoint 2 in the afternoon. Local residents George Powers and wife Elmer Mable with Clara King attended a Millhousen dance hosted by Mike Powers and Jake Hahn. A Fourth of July celebration is planned by the Newpoint Sunday school in L W D Jerman's woods south of town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Walker
Greensburg
St. Paul
Newpoint
George Powers
Elmer Mable
Clara King
Millhousen
Mike Powers
Jake Hahn
L. W
Hartsville Social Notes Span Visits and Local News
Hartsville scene records Mrs. Caroline Smalley visiting Columbus friends and Rev. Horace LeMar from Brookville visiting Raleigh Densmore. Several locals attend aeroplane event in Indianapolis and church rally at Burnsville. A fence fall injures Mrs. Condie Stewart. two marriages occur in Columbus. summer visitors include Prof. Mahaffey and family from Denver and others from Columbus and Westport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline Smalley
Columbus
Horace LeMar
Brookville
Raleigh Densmore
The World Tongue Wins Over Global Travelers
The article notes English serves as a world language for travelers from Smyrna to Cairo and beyond. It highlights encounters with English speaking locals in places like Jerusalem Damascus Cairo and the Nile region. It contrasts friendly teachers and beguiling pest-like chasers who offer information for tips or show off their language skills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tibet
Tierra del Fuego
France
Spain
Italy
Smyrna
Constantinople
Beirut
Jerusalem
Damascus
Cairo
Pyramids
Nile
Sahara Desert
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Meteoric Dust Shower from Meteors Earthward
The Chicago Tribune explains meteoric dust showers as tiny solid spheres formed by vaporized meteor material. Thousands of meteors enter Earth's atmosphere hourly, but only five or six are visible naked eye each hour. Most particles descend invisibly in a perpetual, upper air circulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Chicago ‘Tribune
A Clever French Captive Shows French Counterpoint
An English captain mistook Count de Montrond for General Mouton during captivity. Montrond declined to contradict, noting the captain’s fifty gun frigate versus his pocket pistol. At dinner the captain labeled the French cowards, while Montrond replied that the English are gentlemen but he makes exceptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mouton
Count de Lobau
Count de Montrond
Montrond
General Mouton
Bay Rum Production From Dried Bay Leaves
Bay rum is made from dried leaves of Pimento acris. Leaves are picked and dried, placed in a retort with water, and distilled. The vapor condenses to bay oil, a very small amount needed for each puncheon of rum.
He Cited the River Meander Joke Sparks Domestic Dispute
A humorous contrast between a husband and wife over the phrase meander is recalled from a Chicago Tribune entry. The exchange centers on a river and breakfast as the man defends the term while the wife protests his habit of staying in bed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
Turning the Tables Exchange Quarrel Reveals Regret
A terse exchange shows a bitter quarreling couple trading blunt admissions. He admits he was a fool to marry her, while she concedes the mistake but expected him to improve.
People who fish for compliments seek short lines
A light editorial note suggests that those who fish for compliments prefer brief lines and will find quick successes in shallow water.
King Gambler Pat Sheedy Trumps Outsiders In Draw Poker
In St. Louis at the Planters hotel Pat Sheedy and a friend staged a five dollar limit draw poker game with two strangers using alias names. After a tense first hand showing kings and a full house the others fled when a long‑distance call arrived, with Sheedy remarking it had been twenty years since he had to do that for a living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Pat Sheedy
Planters
Sheedy
The Fortress of Schluesselburg: A Prison on the Neva
A vivid portrait of Schluesselburg Fortress on a Neva island near St. Petersburg. High thick walls cradle an isolated garrison where guards pace hourly and no communication with riverbank residents is allowed. Moss and cracks mark aged walls as the site echoes with historic tragedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schiuesselburg
Neva
Lake
Ladoga
Schluesselburg
Dead Sea
Asia
St. Petersburg
David Soskice
McClure’s Magazine
Fashion Lengths Through Reigns Preserve Dress Styles
The piece notes how fashions endured for years across Louis XIV and Louis XV eras, with little change in Greek and Roman dress. It contrasts past costliness and restraint with present trends of frequent wardrobe turnover, highlighting lasting artistry in historical female attire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis XIV
Louis XV
London
Inebriated One-Shay and Puck Confront Running Lamp Post
In a humorous exchange a buzzing street scene unfolds as Inebriated One-Shay asks about a supposed race with a friend while Stranger-I notes no competitor. Inebriated One-Shay insists they checked a lamppost that allegedly stood still setting a comic image of the moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shay
Mishter
Puck
Trying Work. Thin Haired Man-What!
A London Tit-Bits joke about a barber charging a shilling to cut hair, noting the man’s sparse scalp required individual cuts and provoking outrage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Virtue on Display at the Play
Hazlitt notes how audiences applaud virtue and condemn vice only when it costs nothing but sentiment, observing universal generosity and moral posturing during performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazlitt
Also Mentioned on This Page
Westport
Lewis Idlewine
Robert Morgan
Letts
Lennie Dixon
Grace Talkington
Marion
Jennie Powell
Paul Harrison
S. D. Layton
North Dakota
Harrison McManamon
Raymond Barnes
Butlerville
Burroughs
Ella King
Charles Cain
Ed Cunningham
Mamie Ford
Lizzie Throp
Rushville
Barbara Brison
Dick Willey
Zula Eaton
Charlie Hollenslee
Rush County
Rouse Boicourt
Morgan
Main Street
Charles Deweese
New Castle
Allie Barnes
Richard Bollman
Anna Brownscombe
May Yorger
Frank Harding
J. S. Morris
J. H. Batterton
Burney
Gartin
Will Smiley
Mae Galbraith
Pearl Thompson
R. Elliott
Sunman
Harold Turley
Hisixteenth
Roy Hooten
Mrs. Dilks
Hartsville
Hal White
Robert
Muncie
Charles E. Bruce
F. J. Beck
M. E Church
H.C. Stout
Hope
Joseph E Guffey
Will Mobley
Gentry W. Rominger
Kathryn Sharp
Zelma Lawrence
Clifton A. Lawrence
Condie Stewart
F J. Beck
Lou Carr
Joseph Wieley
Jessie
G. W. Wright
Christian Church
Burnsville
Mesdames A. N
Jasper F. Phillips
Ander
Ruth Phillipy
O. B. Phillipy
Drucia Forest
Philadelphia
J. Wesley Lawrence
Lymands. Rawlings
A. M. Mahaffey
Denver
Col
W.T. Rominger
Elias Mahaffey
Richard Bearhope
Mary
Emma
Marguerite Beatty
Gertrude S. Beck
Anderson Falls
William and
Eldo Robertson
Willard Wright
Ed Whalen
Sheedy and
the Sharps
Carter & CO
First National Bank
Greensburg, Ind
Alaska
Santos
Ins
Lenox
Jaxon
Country Produce
Crooks & West
L. D. Crooks
Indianapolis Star
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