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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
8
In Sellersburg Mrs. George Jackson, seriously ill with pneumonia, is improving at home. Her husband serves on the Clark County Board of Review. Mrs. Jackson is the sister of Dr. Francis M. Wells of Jeffersonville.
The annual bazar and turkey dinner of the women of the Otisco Presbyterian church will be held Saturday afternoon and evening at McConnahay's Hall.
Former Sheriff John B. Carr took John Robinson and Kate Owens of this county to the Southeastern Hospital for the Insane at North Madison. Robinson has been an inmate of the county infirmary.
Charles Brown arrived at the Indiana Reformatory from Fort Wayne to serve a sentence of one to eight years. The article notes the reformatory transfer and mentions Paducah and the St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Company in connection with Tennessee River trade.
The Paducah steamer, completed at the Howard shipyards, underwent a renal inspection today by local United States steam boat inspectors Capt. J. E. Abraham and Capt. W. Betts. The boat is set to depart shortly for its next voyage.
A charity ball committee meeting is scheduled for Friday at eight o'clock at Mrs W A Dorsey 440 East Chestnut Street. Attendees are urged to attend.
An old notice advertises a Singer Sewing Machine Model 1206y from Singer Sewing Machine Co at 419 Spring St. It markets the unit as a Christmas present option with a compact sales pitch.
City residents hear Mrs. Joseph G. Moore is recovering and sitting up. Mrs. H W Strauss will visit Detroit relatives. The Morton Memorial church Guild raised nearly fifty dollars at a bazaar and sale. Mrs. Clit Mitchell will host Priscilla Embroidery Club under a shifted holiday date. Mrs. J Edgar Poindexter leaves for Bedford Indiana for holidays with her mother. Mrs. Homer Heller to entertain on Meigs avenue. Mrs. Maria McCoy visiting daughter Mrs Charles Hertzsch of Clarksville. Mr John Schleuter and daughter Helen visiting Mr and Mrs W M Seibert at Watt and
Absent Mrs. Schleuter visits Davenport, Mrs. Kate Lindley to spend winter in Redmond Indiana. Oliver Kerr returns from Dayton Ohio and accepts a position with the American Car and Foundry Co. Charles Durgee ill with La Grippe. Mrs. Robert J. Henry hosts Sewing Club at 217 West Maple. Guests include Mesdames Nagle Nagle Cole Sterz Bennett Hargrove.
About 45 inmates authorized for parole at the November Board meeting remain at the Indiana Reformatory awaiting release. Sixty others authorized for December wait the usual 30 day period and hope to be freed before Christmas to join relatives.
With each purchase customers receive a Christmas Savings Bank from BEN DOOLITTLE'S DRUG STORE, promoting holiday savings and encouraging store visits during the season.
At a board meeting the church disclosed bonded indebtedness of about 82000 that could be canceled. Arrangements are made to burn the bonds at the evening service on December 4 with a program and the installation of newly elected elders.
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