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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1915
Page
8
An old advertisement notes selling verithin glass watches and jewelry items during a sale. It mentions a supplier or shop and highlights available timepieces and related adornments for customers.
Wm G Young Sunday schools plan a sequence of Christmas entertainments this week at Marie Street Methodist and other churches. Programs include children presenting plays and musical numbers at First Baptist First Presbyterian and local congregations with ministers coordinating to support needy families.
An old newspaper ad lists Christmas specials at Wood's Market including mixed nuts from 24 cents a dozen and fancy candies at cut prices. It promotes dried fruits such as evaporated peaches and prunes at 71 cents per pound and granulated sugar offered cheaper than refineries by the hundred dollar quantity.
Wholesale retail grocers on Spring and Chestnut announce Christmas Savings Club classes. Class 100 has been closed and all remaining classes are limited. Join at once to secure membership.
Personal notices report Mr. and Mrs. Robert Franz visiting relatives near Drummond Idaho. A Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society meeting is postponed a week. Rev William H Wyle officiated at the marriage of Gilbert Bower and Eva Leigh Spencer. A birthday reunion for John T Potter was held. Tyler Oglesby plans to visit family. Dawn Evans and Roy Condra obtained a marriage license and left to be united elsewhere.
Invitations have been sent out for the annual charity ball to be held at the Knight's of Pythias Armory on New Year's night. The organizing committee includes Mr and Mrs Claude T Lindley, Misses Jean Burke Alma Holzbog and Sue May Whiteside, Messrs Everett Hopkins Homer C Neeley and Ralph Robinson.
Mrs Sarah McCarten of Ohio Falls dies Saturday night a month after her son John E McCarten. Funeral Tuesday at 9 AM at St Augustines Catholic Church withRev Michael Halpin officia ting. She was born January 28 1889 in Louisville and is survived by daughter Miss Genevieve McCarten and son Edward McCarten of New Albany. Burial at St Marys of the Knobs Floyd County.
The Board of County Commissioners will hold its final meeting of the year on December 30. Bids for furnishing books and stationery for 1916 will be opened. Other year end business will be concluded.
A compact note announces daily coverage by The Star with an emphasis on round the clock reporting and comprehensive local and national news. The slogan invites readers to rely on the paper for up-to-date information.
William Tong begins as Sheriff of Clark County on January 1 and will file a $5,000 bond with a surety company, declining personal bonds. Sheriff Isaac G. Phipps, who occupies the residence, plans to vacate after Christmas. Viv Leng appoints deputies John W. Allen George W McKinley Harry Huffstetter Bernard Keanu and Dan Scheller from Borden New Washington Charlestown Sellersburg.
History shows Wall street M. B. church and St Luke's Reformed church held an afternoon canvass. Although reports were incomplete, results were satisfactory and some new pledges were secured from members who had not previously contributed.
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