Rockport merchants report record holiday sales in December
Local shops from shoes to groceries say Christmas trade exceeded prior years with many running out of stock. Storeowners including James G Taylor T C Basye J T McKenney Savage Kehrer A Sargent F Fishback C W Halbruge L M John and others describe unprecedented demand, two weeks before Christmas and the two days prior as peak, with steady customer rushes and higher quality purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockport
the Democrat
James G. Taylor
Savage & Kehrer
Atd. A
Sam Rise
F. Fishback
C. W. Halbruge Co’s
C. W. Halbruge
A. B
North Rockport
Henry Hoch
J. G. Baum
George B. Hibbs
L. M. John
Laird & Mohr
Mammoth
J. H. Walker
Nuetzel Bros
Fred
Rockport Schools Reorganize Grades and Add Domestic Science
Increased high school attendance and new domestic science courses prompt a shift of grades six to eight to the Seminary building on January 3. The domestic science department will occupy the second floor with a donated range from the Rockport Woman's Club. First to fourth grades will stay in the new building, and the board has purchased more ground at the Seminary for a future playground.
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Rockport
Woman’s Club of
Settling Embarrassing Questions in Temperance Debates
The Supreme Court upholds the county prohibition law from Governor Hanly's session, while Republicans claim the temperance issue is settled and politics should end. Anti-Saloon League disagrees and pushes that state prohibition remain possible. the piece argues no question is truly settled as voters ultimately judge policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Hanly
Anti-Saloon League
Wall Street
Republican Party
Sewer Extension Planned Through Pearl and Sixth Streets
City plans the main sewer extension from Fifth Street to Greenwood Street with a $16,000 estimated cost. Civil Engineer E B Shirley of Owensboro, Kentucky submitted the plans, divided into three parts, designed to be financed without tax increases and without delaying city business.
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Fifth Street
Greenwood Street
E. B. Shirley
Owensboro
Ead
5Th Street
Pearl
Sixth Street
Seminary Street
Fifth
Sixth
Greenwood
Sixth Streets
Help in the Home at the Farm Institute
Mrs. Jeff Ray speaks at the Farmer's Institute on the value of helping in the home and improving conditions for working girls. She urges respectful treatment, moral guidance, and dignity in labor as Christian duty, warning of neglect and poor outcomes for female workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeff Ray
Farmer’s Institute
Suit for Retransfer of Rockport Stock in Spencer Circuit
Andreas Kopp as guardian of John G. Kopp sues Margaret Kopp in Spencer circuit court to annul a $8000 Rockport Milling stock transfer and $2500 life insurance policies fraudulently issued by John G. Kopp, alleging lack of consideration and guardianship misuse. Court hearings set for January 8. docket lists numerous divorce, contract, lien, note, mortgage, will, real estate, and criminal matters. jurors named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andreas Kopp
John G. Kopp
Spencer Circuit
Margaret Kopp
Rockport Milling Company
Floyd
Rockport
Stotsenburg and Weathers
New Albany
Circuit Court
Will
Kopp
Grand Jury
Charles Kincaid
Ohio Township
Wayne Montgomery
Luce
Frank Hufnagel
George Fendel
Harrison
Hii Grigsby
Jacob Dendinger
Jackson
Petit Jury
Thomas Lusk
Joseph Fendel
James Bartrim
J. N. McCoy
Charles Anderson
W. J. Gabbert
Hammond
James W. Cooper
Gottlieb Eberhardt
Carter
William Phillips
J. A. Hagan
Louis Bridges
Fred Fueger
Grass
Yuletide at Byers Home Recounts Old Time Festival
An old time Yuletide celebration was hosted at Uriah Byers home near Nyenson last Saturday. Guests worked on spinning and carding wool while candles lit the winter scene. They shared mush and milk and pumpkin pie and played games such as Quaker meeting in a standing room only gathering.
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Uriah Byers
Ofennyson
Roberts Berrick Marriage Blesses Christmas Morning
Miss Ethel Roberts daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Roberts wed Mr Harry Berrick of Chicago on Christmas morning at nine o clock with Rev A A Godbey presiding. They traveled to Danville Illinois then Chicago to begin residence there with relatives of the groom.
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Ethel Roberts
Ed Roberts
Harry Berrick
Chicago
A. A. Godbey
Danville
Ill
Working girl in the home urged for kinder regard
The speaker notes a married couple now living in a western town with real estate income and asks for a higher standard of treatment and gentler consideration for the working girl in the home.
Real Estate Transfers and Related Records This Week
A week of property transfers includes John A. Schaeffer to Frank A. Schaeffer and others in Rockport and Grandview cemetery with amounts listed. Multiple parcels change hands in towns like Rockport and Grandview, with values ranging from 25 to 6000 dollars. Thirteen mortgages, seventeen releases, four assignments, one will and one certificate of election were recorded during the past week.
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John A. Schaeffer
Frank A. Schaeffer
J. G. Rimstidt
Ben F. Huffman
Ida Hulsey
Rockport
Henry Helmick
William Hoops
Marie Lamert
Jefferson Ray
Grandview Cemetery
Gene Scamahorn
Mina
Opr
Hildarbrant
John Walter
David Walter
Swand
Lydia James
Margaret A. Perrin
P. H. Axton
Theresia Thomas
Frank Arnold
August Kauffeld
John A. Jochum
William Stevenson
Louis B. Wilkinson
Louis N. Savage
George W
Wayne T. Meredith
Clara Giles
W. A. Reineger
Sheriff
Henry W. Smith
Will of John G. Roll Probated and Wording of Heirs Named
The will of the late John G. Roll has been probated. The deceased estate is devised to his wife for life, with the remainder to son Gottfried Roll on condition he pays each of the other children Catherine E. , Wm. W. George, John and Frederick W. fifty dollars. Jacob Fahr named executor, executed April 1901, witnessed by Jacob Fahr and John A. Poellein.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John G. Roll
Gottfried Roll
Catherine E
George
John
Frederick
Jacob Fahr
John A. Poellein
Marriage Licenses and Sale Of Sallee Farm
Frederick C. Busald 29 and Irma Floyd 28 marry by Esq Jones. Henry H. Barrick 28 weds Ethel M. Roberts 24. Christopher Smith 19 weds Carrie Hasenmyer 21. Frank W. Oldham 23 weds Alice E. Jones 20. Alfred Harris 25 weds Ella F. Ludwig 26. E L Boyd sells forty acres of the Sallee farm near Rockport for 2050 to James and Sam Hill. funds to cover costs of Sallee estate suits in Spencer circuit court.
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Frederick C. Busald
Evansville
Irma Floyd
M. Jones
Henry H. Barrick
Illinois
Ethel M. Roberts
Spencer County
Christopher Smith
Carrie Hasenmyer
Frank W. Oldham
Alice E. Jones
Spenicer
Alfred Harris
Ella F. Ludwig
E. L. Boyd
Sallee
Rockport
Court House
James and
Sam Hill
Spencer
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Rockport Public Schools
Pearl and
Nazarine
Rockfort Milling Company
Yuletide
York
Roberts
Berrick
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