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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1922
Page
5
Christmas purchasers embrace Victrolas and Victor records with T C Basye offering a range at Yves Drug and Book Stores. The Victor Company promotes several music books including Stories from the Operas and Music in the Home for owners of talking machines.
The W C T U held its December meeting at Mrs. J C Glackman’s home. Mrs Frank Kerstiens hosted a RI OQ club gathering on Walnut Street. Trinity Lutheran ladies aid meet next Thursday at Mrs Arch Stevenson’s Second Street home. The nine year old son of Mrs Gene Scammahorn lost bones in a tree accident on Christmas Day. Margaret Alice Neal Bishop of Bloom attended at Miss Alice’s home in the city. Hollander’s offered music for an event this week and a Davis colored orchestra will play for a Friday dance. A Christmas dance was held at the ice holiday green red venue with punch enjoyed by attendees.
Misses Morell Wells and Anne Mohr were in Evansville last Saturday for personal plans and social callings, sharing time away from routine tasks.
Naomi Partridge and Ruth Greene spent Christmas in Chrisney enjoying holiday time with local family and friends.
Miss Lelia Cochran of Chicago visits her parents in Grandview. Walter Peddicord of Little Rock visits Rockport relatives. Eugene Wilkinson and Delbert Parker from Golden Gate tour Indiana University staff and family. William Jacobs returns to Indianapolis after Christmas with his mother. Yale’s J Lawrance Cadick vacationing with Grandview parents. Mrs W R Bottonfield returns from Olney nursing her father. Beatrice Klein and son John of Winslow spend Christmas with the Biggs family.
Laird Schoenfeld of the Indian a College of Pharmacy Indiana polis visits with his parents Mr and Mrs Louis Schoenfeld during a family outing.
My and Mrs. Robert Houghland along with daughters Helen and Katherine spent Christmas with Mrs. Katherine Kramer in Boonville visiting over the holiday season.
Miss Helen Rhodes at Mrs Blaker's school in Indianapolis is visiting Hall. Rhodes.
Miss Trene Stewart attends the state normal school at Terre Haute and spends the week with her parents Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Stewart.
Misa Trena Woolfolk of Frankfort Kentucky and Ray Woolfolk of Indianapolis are spending the holidays in Grandview with their parents Mr and Mrs Lewis Woolfolk.
Miss Lucile Richards will depart next Monday for Peru Indiana to visit her roommate Miss Opal Daniels. She then proceeds to Evanston Illinois to attend Northwestern University.
Bill Evans faces a clash of loyalties as a long-ago love Beatrice Shaw announces she will marry him if he still wants her while he is set to wed Eileen Cary the next noon aboard the Matsonia. He considers a double wedding with his best man and Beatrice, fearing exposure and scandal on wedding day. He confides in a friend as gossip looms.
The Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph notes a 19th century Church Missionary Society report showing varied offerings “according to means” from backwoods Episcopal churches. Gifts include groceries, medical chest, a cross cut saw, sieves, a coffee mill, a tub, a safe, a thermometer, hymn books, and a hogshead of tobacco.
Mrs. Lou Thacker of Mount Airy North Carolina marked her 111th birthday at her granddaughter’s home in Greensboro. Born August 20 1811 near Stonesville Rockingham County she walked with a stick after a hip injury. She joked about hogs and housework and sang the old time praise of religion.
A group of travelers returning from a summer resort reached the city to find their engine stalled. An emergency call led searchers through streets to a service station where a rope dangled from a window. A drastic tug by station staff revealed an improvised bell tied to a caretaker, used to summon help in a quirky rescue.
A fragment recounts Elizabeth born at Stodemes palwee Lash. At six civil war erupted and her family faced hardship. Her father Charles spoke to her on the eve of his execution. She died at fifteen, with reports of an intended apprenticeship to a buttonmaker denied by historians. Queen Victoria reportedly funded a monument at Newport church where she is buried.
In the fiscal year ending June 30 1922 the Bureau of Public Roads of the United States Department of Agriculture distributed 3 264 700 pounds of picric acid to farmers as a cheap agricultural explosive.
Fragmentary technical notes describe a process involving drying sounds and moistening with warm water. The text mentions an interior shiny skin and rolling between two objects, with garbled phrases suggesting a manufacturing or assembly step. Ambiguous instructions and corrupted terms obscure full meaning.
A local column advertises worded buy and sell notices at one cent per word with a 25 cent minimum. It urges readers to list items for sale or wanted items, noting many people received cash or checks for Christmas and suggesting Basye's Drugs and Book Stores as a place to purchase a Victrola or Victor records.
Notice from Thornburg warehouse seeking 5000 bushels of clover seed and asking for samples. Pays market price in Boonville. All debtors of W. A. & C. M. Partridge urged to settle with C. M. Partridge. Henry Hoch agent. Mollie Fuelster manager offer solid insurance protection and urge immediate coverage.
Tobacco will not be received that has been sprinkled or out of order as I have no room to hang it up and it will not keep it bulk. H. Marksberry. FOR SALE Six teams of mules. Some are old and some are small. Will pay a liberal difference for good, young, large, and sound mules. Would like to hire some good young men for next season's work.
Twenty improved farms on easy terms with several on the state road Tell City to Newtonville. Also many desirable business houses and private residences in Troy Simon Phillips. Dealer in Real Estate Troy Ind.
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