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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1909
Page
8
Mr and Mrs Tom Jones welcomed a son last Friday. The Ladies Aid of the M E church held an oyster supper at Logsdons hall last Saturday night with very good proceeds. Dr J C Glackman made a professional visit to Bullocktown on Tuesday.
Orville Carter visited his parents in Perry County this week. There will be a Christmas entertainment at the church here on Christmas Eve. Mrs. Kate Pierce Grandma James Mrs. Ben Mesce and little Nelle Ferguson are all on the sick list this week. Rev N F Gabbert filled his regular appointment at this place last Sunday. Quite an amount of interest manifested at the meeting.
Mrs. Oscar Howard and children visit Dr. O F Howard and family in Princeton. Ed Lloyd and Jim Hamilton stay several days in Evansville. Mrs Sallie Brady has been quite ill. A girl was born last Saturday to Mr and Mrs Hugh Stateville. Tyler Keller returns from Los Angeles for a family visit. Ebbert Mackey and family move to the area.
Two strangers have been in Lamar several days promoting a canning factory project. Charles G. Covert from Evansville and James Shallcross from Cannelton are the visitors driving the discussion.
Local reports note several days of bird shooting in the area. Jo Aldridge of Cannelton and Albert Cooper of this place have been shooting well. Tom Collins, game warden of Cannelton, visits frequently to oversee hunting. Albert Cooper attended Rockport Tuesday.
Mrs Ida Alexander and Miss Alma Schriefer of Buffaloville visited Kenned Station on Tuesday. Mrs D F Kennedy and son Harold shopped in Havansville Saturday. Henry Ravens of Latah Washington bid farewell in town Tuesday before leaving for Larah Mon. Henry Schriefer of Buffaloville visited his daughter Mrs D F Kennedy last week. Mrs Gus Frey visited relatives at Tell City last week.
Maria h hill Miss Monica Bosler arrived Tuesday to spend holidays with sister Mrs. Will Dilger. Miss Emma Hartz of Tell City visited last week. Miss Bertha Bockting returned from Evansville for a short visit. Mrs. Ben Hollander of Tell City visited her mother Mrs. W Schatz. Ed Ringeman of St Meinrad was in town Wednesday morning. Miss Bertha Maslowsky and Sr Coletta attended a Dale teachers institute. Mr and Mrs Andy Gogel were guests of relatives.
Dr J C Jolly remains ill. Miss Lola Haines and Mr Albert Frazier wed last Sunday afternoon by Rev C Pirtle. Mrs Sam Kincaid dies at forty two after brief illness. funeral held Friday in Warrick county. Farmers Institute last Friday and Saturday drew strong attendance with principal speaker Mrs C B Anderson of Velpin Pike county.
Eureka Mr and Mrs Wesley Squiers of Richland City were guests of George Mattingley family Mon Mrs Arthur Bennett and Miss Lula Meeks were in Rockport shipping Tues Ebbert Richardson is quite sick this week with grippe Dan Deeg will arrive from Brush Colo to attend the funeral of his mother Mrs Barbara Deeg aged seventy three died Wednesday afternoon after an illness of several months The funeral will occur Friday Mrs Deeg is survived by four sons Dan George Henry and Will and one daughter Sallie Deeg nine grandchildren Ralph Richardson has returned from a visit in Boonville Mrs Lizzie Mattingley of Hatfield was here calling on friends last Saturday Owen Deeg is at home from Danville Ind where he is attending school to spend the holidays Quite a number of our people attended the oyster supper at Hatfield last Saturday night.
Chris Egnew and wife visited Lamar Saturday while others attended church at Little Pigeon Sunday. John Motweiler of Tennyson visited relatives here Sunday. Alva Porter and Charley Porter with Mrs Porter were in Lincoln City Monday. George Patmore his wife and daughter spent days in Chrisney visiting relatives. Henry Meiers made a business trip to Boonville Monday. Cass Staton and wife of Huntingburg visiting relatives in town this week. Walter Bench wife and son Delmar Lee were in Lincoln City Sunday. Birth to John Schnuck and wife a fine girl last week. Mrs Ida Alexander and Delmar Lee Bench visited friends in Chrisney last week. Sam Bench made a business trip to Lincoln City last week.
A brief reader note mentions Jacob Ruxer returning last week in a Christmas greeting to Democrat readers.
Local items report travel from Chicago to Cincinnati and Glennonville visits. A baby girl born December 16 to Mr and Mrs John Trotter. Ice house filled with eighty tons of five inch ice. Santa Claus arrives Friday evening. Anton Mullis dies in Perry county after serving in the U S Army in the Philippines. Funeral Thursday at the church. he was thirty six and unmarried.
Classified notice offers a general purpose horse for sale with inquiry via the Democrat office. The item is presented plainly as a sale notice in a local newspaper classifieds section.
Frank Swallow, sub-agent for The Fellwock Automobile Co. of Evansville, also acts as Yale Motor Cycles agent. City ordinance bans firing fire crackers torpedoes and firearms within the city. The marshal will enforce the ordinance during the holidays.
Sam quotes the current peak market price at the Baim gaertner warehouse on Washington Street for corn and hay. Good scales and convenient unloading area noted by L. B. Wilkinson.
T C Basye offers readers a trial bottle of oil of wintergreen compound for 25 cents instead of 1 dollar. He states the wash cures eczema by washing the itching skin and promises instant relief. The offer is arranged with D D Laboratories of Chicago for Rockport Indiana readers.
An 1800s advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for an incurable catarrh cure by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Endorsed by J Cheney and firms Walding Kinman Marvin, claiming reliability and internal action. Mentions price and distribution by Toledo wholesalers.
Notice of appointment of administrator for the estate of Lyman V. Pierce, deceased, late of Daviess County Kentucky. The estate is alleged to be solvent. Dated December 21, 1909. David L. Morgan, attorneys Mason & Mason.
Sweden's King Gustave disguised as a stevedore to mingle with workers at Stockholm. He carried coal and learned union views, saying this was only the beginning. The monarch aims to learn conditions by direct participation amid a nationwide strike and fund relief efforts for the unemployed.
A rural art shift urges schools to swap foreign farm scenes for American country life images. James Wilson orders Dutch pictures removed and walls kept bare until U S farm life paintings appear. Art students back the plan, hoping agricultural communities drive the effort after New York schemes faltered.
The Department of Agriculture reports successful experiments with South African calabash gourds as pipe bowls. The vine grows well in U S soil producing large gourds. Imported calabash pipes fetch 8 to 12 dollars due to hand shaping.
An anonymous Yale alumnus has offered a prize of 100000 dollars for the first adequate remedy for tuberculosis. The prize fund is held by Yale University with the Yale Medical School faculty serving as trustees.
A bill by Representative Kahn of California proposes an international exhibition in 1915 to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal and commemorate the 400th anniversary of Balboa’s discovery of the Pacific Ocean. The plan seeks congressional authorization for the event.
A village man known as Kelly received a 20 shilling fine or seven days in jail. He paid the fine using the only car in the village to drive a constable to the prison ten miles away. After arrival he changed his mind and paid the inspector the 20 shillings, then left, leaving the constable to walk back.
Exhumation finds a house likely under repair when Vesuvius erupted. Painters, decorators and workers left tools, whitewash, and pots scattered. A bronze dish held a sucking pig ready to bake, but the oven housed bread rather than the meal. Twenty three crusty loaves remain preserved after about 2000 years.
The Reverend George Whitefield, famed for powerful persuasion, sought marriage in 1740 but was refused by a young couple. He then wed an elderly Welsh widow described as neither rich nor beautiful, and later said her death freed his mind from unrest. Westminster Gazette notes the irony of his unromantic stance.
The article explains how ringtailed and other small monkeys are captured using a split coconut with a banana threaded by a wooden pin. A hole allows the paw to seize the nut, but the wood traps it as the monkey clings to the tree, unable to withdraw.
A boy shows early scientific curiosity drawing внимание from no one. His mother objects to the pursuit while he jokes that his younger brother, a "bouncing baby," would not bounce after being dropped from the porch, only hollering. The scene contrasts ambition with parental restraint.
A brief, humorous note on toucans roosting in an orderly ball of feathers with the tail hidden forward. The piece contrasts bird behavior with human reactions and includes a comic aside from Brother Goodsole and a quip from Rev. Laightly.
Emma insists she must leave immediately to cure for Marienbad following a quip about fashion. A remark about a dressmaker replaces a doctor as the source of the need. Blatter is referenced in a brief exchange.
The Spanish saying presents a trimmed moral on punishment and life, noting that punishment may cripple yet lives persist. It reads as a compact aphorism emphasizing resilience over adversity.
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