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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
8
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Wanted men who desire to earn over 125 dollars per month. Write us today for salesman positions with opportunity for advancement. Address Central Petroleum Co Cleveland Ohio.
The readable text appears garbled with names and locations unclear. It references Ammercan Car & Poundry Comune and mentions Orlando but lacks coherent events, dates, or outcomes to form a concrete news item. Further legible source data is required to craft a proper summary.
Claude Bo Merde principal of Floward Park schools gains Christmas joy with a daughter, as he prepares to take the post of Prosecuting Attorney of the Circuit Court on January 2. The city notes his dual alliances with Santa Claus in this festive moment.
Incomplete items mention Moss Polaras at home on Watt Street and Miss Cnna Reed of Seymour as the daughter of Der. Other fragments refer to a Christmas Savings Fund drive and a sick relative, with missing details obscuring full events.
The record notes Mr. Ritchie's business ties to a Louisville concern. It also recalls Mrs. Adams' first husband, who died years ago, was an engineer on the fan-board Wash Gray.
Washington township earned its reputation as a turkey producing area with over a thousand dressed birds sent to Eastern markets. Farmers from Nabb Scott and Jefferson counties delivered turkeys to market while others drove their flocks in. Most held birds for Christmas for a higher price, and dealers reported good wholesale values.
Teversonville Lodge No. 340 Free and Accepted Masons will conduct its annual officer election next Tuesday evening. The gathering will decide the lodge leadership for the coming year.
A certificate declares the election of John Fox and Walter Bottorff to Union township road districts. The certificate was filed with County Auditor George W. Stoner by township Trustee Herman Tischer.
Scottsburg Indiana resident John Furnish met friends in the city yesterday. He operates in the restaurant business and is well known to travelers in southern Indiana.
The Jeffersonville Post No. 86 Grand Army of the Republic has elected officers including Isaac Hendricks as commander J M Kisselmark senior vice commander R B Martin junior vice commander J d Waggoner chaplain William Fawcett quartermaster C S McClure adjutant Chris Russ officer of the day John E Whitlow officer of the guard James H Miller representative to State encampment and Chris Kopp as alternate.
County commissioners will award a year long contract for furnishing books blanks and stationery at the courthouse. The job was readvertised after a delay and no special meeting will be held on Saturday.
During the Sunday morning service on December 31, the First Christ Han church will elect church officers. One treasurer two elders and four deacons will be named.
Mrs Martha Adams and Mr S Clarence Ritchie were married at the bride’s home 218 Park Place Port Fulton by Rev S A Dorsey in a small ceremony with immediate relatives. A reception followed and the couple will reside at the bride’s home.
Paris Spurgeon engineer and John Gray superintendent report the Dodds Mill bridge over Fourteen Mile Creek in Charlestown township as completed. Acceptance details to be addressed at the January meeting of the Board of County Commissioners.
Mrs George Jackson of Sellersburg is described as improved from pneumonia but remains in critical condition.
Hagene Hion resigns as constable after being elected road supervisor last Saturday. Township now lacks both Justices of the Peace and a constable. The item notes unrelated notices and a local reformatory admission, plus an ad offering a Haines upright piano at a low price from Pearl street.
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