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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1910
Page
8
Residents and relatives are listed with travel from Oakland Evansville and Lincoln County. Kiley Keller Edith Hartley Miss Hartley and others return to cities for work and family, with several on the sick list. Deaths, births, and local visits mark a week of community activity across multiple towns.
Mariah Hilu and Miss Bertha Maslowsky spent a week in the country. Miss Emma Jones of near Huffman enjoyed a few days in town last week. Her sister Mrs. Dr A J.
Maslowsky accompanied her home Monday to spend a week with her parent. Miss Christina Balbach, accompanied by Louis Gogel, spent Sunday at St. Henry.
After holidays residents resume routines as Perry County locals visit friends and family. John Geppar visits William Schriefer and Demily Tash while Barros Crvinkwman and family call on Wetel's. George Schriefer family visits son Jess in Clay City. Gusev trips to Vrey waterday. Watley Grinkman returns to Evansville for Lockyear's Business college. A Sunday gathering at D. J. Kennedy's honors daughter Maary's nineteenth birthday with many guests, meals, music, and socializing into the night.
Tom McCoy of Griffin visits with Mrs Wayne Nunn. S L Crooks of Grandview greets friends during holidays. Mrs C A Bullock visits Boonville. Katherine spends holidays in Evansville. Mr and Mrs Myers of Midway visit town. Mr and Mrs Salem Parker stay with Mrs Frank Carlisle in Evansville. Mrs Pearl Straw leaves for Pennsylvania after visit with Pattie family. Pearl Fortune spends New Years in Richland. Bernice Crooks and Mabel Stuart guests of L Logsdon. Chas Hildebrandt buys Scammam horn property and opens blacksmith shop nearby.
Mike Friedeloff and Tillie Hollander are set to marry, with the engagement and wedding plans appearing in the notice. The event details are not fully specified in the fragment.
The dispatch lists residents visiting relatives in Kentucky and Indiana, church announcements, and town board actions. It notes Adam Waeth of Louisville visiting his son John, Charles Bart in town, business trips by Jacob Buxer and George Becker, a New Year visit by Dr. James’s family, and a tobacco trip by Wn. Tretier. It records newly elected trustees, clerk, treasurer, and marshal, plus township Democratic officers. Clifton Abbott reports from Pinan Laguna P I about a pie supper and American schooling in Binan with a humorous school dress anecdote and garden talk, ending with Winslow Dispatch observations.
Cardinal Satolli, born 1839 in Marsciano Italy, rose from theology professor to archbishop of Lepanto. He served as the first apostolic delegate to the United States guiding church matters in Washington. He became a cardinal in 1895 and was known as the American cardinal for his love of the United States.
A New York teacher confronts a Austrian pupil who insists Columbus is the capital of Ohio. Despite maps and texts, the student remains firm with Cincinnati as the answer, claiming her geography back home supports her view. The dispute continues as the teacher tests her on the capital question.
The purser reports the ship’s soap supply depleted so crew members go ashore to collect natural soap from whelks eggs. Whelk eggs form a light yellow mass of five to six hundred capsules per shellfish, with one fish producing millions yearly. Found on Atlantic shores and especially abundant on intertropical coral reefs, sailors bring back large quantities.
A Brooklyn lawyer recalls Patrick H. McCarren as a man who outsmarted both straightforward and tricky opponents. He recounts a story comparing McCarren to the rich Peter Higgins, who settles debts with sharp recollection and clever ruses. The tale underscores McCarren’s reputed policy of wits over force.
An elderly East Indian colonel famed for calm demeanor loses his temper in a notorious devils punchbowl bunker. After fifteen minutes of failed attempts to move the ball he shatters clubs against a jagged rock, declaring it better to break clubs than to lose his temper. The caddie collects the pieces.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure treats catarrh as a constitutional disease, taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. The company offers one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure and asks for testimonials. Sold by druggists at 75 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Ambassador Bryce outlines William Ewart Gladstone s greatness in a Carnegie Hall talk marking the centenary of his birth. He cites oratory, steadfast duty, broad grasp of finance, caution, intellectual curiosity, force of character, self restraint and fidelity to followers, plus admiration for Washington and liberal liberty. Bryce notes Gladstone’s stance on arbitration of Alabama claims and describes public misperceptions of Civil War views.
Colonel James Gordon of Okolona Mississippi is named to succeed the late Senator A J McLaurin, amid reports of a wartime Lincoln assassination link. Once sought by federal authorities with a 10000 reward, he fled to Canada then returned after confirming he played no part in the plot. He had courted Booth, fought a New York cavalry colonel, and later vouched to General Dix before returning home to Chickasaw County.
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