Miss Bertha Shoaf Visits Crawfordsville Relatives
Miss Bertha Shoaf traveled to Crawfordsville on Saturday to stay with relatives for a few days.
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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1913
Page
2
Miss Bertha Shoaf traveled to Crawfordsville on Saturday to stay with relatives for a few days.
An advertisement claims a home treatment for piles offering immediate relief and permanent care. Readers are urged to send address for instructions and free trial supplies, with local references available. Contact Mrs. M Summers in Notre Dame Indiana or Mrs J C Sanders in Kingman Indiana. Mrs Wm Gaskill visited Pine Village.
A playful Christmas suggestion proposes an eerie game called ghosts. Players exit the room while guests, dressed as ghosts with masks sit in sheets, then reenter to guess identities from numbered apparitions for a prize. Suitable for grownups only.
A Christmas party activity uses a large light weight red tissue paper bag suspended from the chandelier. Children take turns blindfolded with a wand to strike the bag and release bonbons or toys, followed by a playful scramble for prizes.
A lighthearted contest requires players to transfer five large irregular potatoes from two parallel rows to an empty bowl using a teaspoon. No hands or feet may touch the potatoes. if dropped they must be picked up again. The race tests balance, concentration, and humor as the left hand often betrays its aid.
A rainy day activity uses a blank filled tale where players insert tree names such as pine spruce ash palm gum fir elder beech willow pepper rue pear thorn plane plum. The player with the most correct trees wins a prize while a booby performs a playful task for the group.
A description of mind reading games where one player leaves, others agree on a task, and the recalled participant follows a held hand or imagined cue. Explanations include mind influence, chance, or unconscious cues, with leaders often succeeding when guiding others.
A children's party game describes counting to set a chair for each player minus one. Chairs face outward in a double row circle, music plays, it stops, players rush for chairs and one is eliminated each round. Rules forbid touching chairs while marching and govern ties and chair removals.
A small cord is threaded through a ring and tied. Children stand in a circle with one in the center. The ring is passed rapidly until the center child detects it. The player near the finder moves to the center, the finder joins the circle, and play continues until faded interest.
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