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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1920
Page
3
The F A W Club was entertained last week in Indianapolis. Mrs W H Foster and daughter Miss Anna joined the gathering and spent several days there.
Miss Lena J. Beard led a gymnasium class last night at the I Chestnut Street School with local participants attending the session.
Sunday dinner at Miss May Perkins home on Gravel Road hosted a small group including Mesdames Sallie Eberts and John Perkins and Misses Mary Edith Eberts Josephine Terrill and Elizabeth Miers. Also present were Messrs James Eberts and Edgar Perkins.
The Calumet Club will give a dance Friday evening at their club rooms in New Albany. The event invites members and guests to enjoy music and social time at the local venue.
A number of Rebekahs surprised Mrs Jas Bowman at her home at Fourteenth and Duncan Streets on her birthday. Refreshments were enjoyed and the evening was pleasant. Attendees included Mesdames A E Mahaffey A N Huck leberry O P Hardy Lottie Scheer and others plus Messrs William Spellman John Mohr Jas Sellers Margaret Sample Belle Gaither Maggie Whitlatch.
Mrs. George Rook is well enough to be out again after illness at Thirteenth Street. Miss Mildred Logan is slowly recovering at Meigs Avenue. Mr. William Benner of Purdue University visits for several days. Theodore Lyons is ill at ta. Miss Elizabeth Ritter now at Deaconess Hospital Louisville for surgery. Nina Mitchell returned from Scottsburg visit. Mrs. Albert String on sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert McClure back in Cincinnati after stay here. Belle Gaither hosts Sewing Club in Port Fulton. Mrs. Frank Fordyce improves after facial burns from a can explosion.
The ad from Shuck Motor Car Co warns that January car production suffers from influenza rail freight car shortages and labor uncertainty. It urges readers to order a car truck or tractor now to avoid spring rush and lists 119 121 Spring Street with an advertisement date Feb 26 to Mar 3.
Advertisement for auto overhaul services by Osborn and Vorgang. Contact phone 374 at Coots Building. Runs from February 17 to March 17.
Kentland resident McCray announces for governor in the May 4 primary on a platform of tax law amendments by Republicans, a budget system, liberal teacher salaries, and economy. He touts a clean, efficient business administration built on his farming, business, and banking background.
The widow of Charles Clark of Norview entered a will leaving virtually the entire estate, about $500000, to Smith College and Mount Holyoke College. She stated the gift reflected the wishes of her late sister Mary Powter Clark, a Mount Holyoke graduate, if alive to speak.
In Budapest a local court handed Bela Run ten years in the penitentiary for spreading a rumor. A feuding lawyer claimed the French had entered Budapest and that the Bolsheviks had been overthrown. Vic received ten years in prison for ten words.
Jeffersonville resident Thomas Bittner, a tailor at 423 E Court St, testifies Doan's Kidney Pills relieved his back and kidney troubles after years of stooping and bad pains. He urges readers to ask for Doan's by name at 60 cents a box, as the remedy that helped him. Foster Milburn Co. advertises the product.
Leon Cammen of the Aeronautic Society predicts a future where regular aerial mail lines link Britain and the United States. He cites English experience with air routes and says mail and banking documents would drive early profitability, with newspapers and patents partly enabling passenger service as relay flights. projected rates could reach 18 dollars per pound.
A language critic explains Bolshevik as from bolshe meaning bigger with the suffix vik, contrasting Bolshevik and Menshevik. The piece argues Bolshevism is a foreign construct not native to Russian growth and notes Russians influenced little by the Bolshevist movement.
Special matinee Thursday presents Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's EVANGELINE in a dramatic reading. Thursday and Friday showcase the production with Thursday matinee noted for theater lovers.
To a keen Buyer there is only one place for passenger cars trucks tractors and their equipment and maintenance. If we haven't got what you want we can get it at a saving. It pays to please. We never close. Phone 579 Adv Feb 26 to Mar 3.
For sale in Indiana an ad lists rental of a mill site with steam and electric power for grinding store supply and shipping. Mentions farms and real estate available from WALFE OGLE Agency with two city locations Vevay and Madison. Adv. Feb 26 Mar 4%.
Advert says a piano and vicinola piano-player are for sale via Record Exchange at 015 Spring Steel with advertisement dates February 27 28 and March 1.
New York anecdote reports Levy Johnson, a colored man, sentenced to three months in the workhouse. An official ordered fingerprinting as a precaution. Louis Gottlieb attempted to obtain prints but found only stumps of two wooden legs protruding from Johnson's trousers, defeating identification.
S L Fleetwood of South Macon displays an unusual ear of corn with grains shaped like butter beans okra and beans. The ear was grown in a garden containing the same vegetables.
Classified ad lists Single Comb Rhode Island Red Eyos at $1.50 and $2.50 per setting with contact phone 1288 and date March 11.
A notice from February 17 to March 17 lists care actions at Osborn and Ver ee Dhaene WA in relation to a Brig. Adv. case.
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