Dale News, Volume 1, Number 46, Dale, Spencer County, 2 December 1938 — Page 1
IN THE LINCOLN COUNTRY
THE DALE NEWS
5 Ml. TO SANTA CLAUS
VOL. I
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1938
NO. 46
POLITICS BY J1D
P. T. A. To Have
Christmas Program On Tuesday, Dec. 6
I dont know much erbout politics but pears to mesombody is purty bad acairt. There must be somethin in them balot boxes tbet they dont want seen er they wouldnt be so powerful setagin a recount o votes. And thet aint all; I been hearin a lot erbout vote buyin. Well, any skunk that’ll sell his vote aint fit to mix with humans an the feller what’ll buy votes is just as bad. I don’t know much but I am to be a honest American.
A Christmas program will be given by the PTA’s at the school gymnasium on Tuesday evening, Dec. 6. Following is the interesting program to be given: The King of Christmas, a cantata—Mr. Nation The Spirit of Christmas—Mrs. Lnbbebuien Trinity Chimes—Mrs. Heichelbecb Christmas at Mothers—a playet
The Holy City—piano solo—Mrs. A. J. Wedeking
Duet—Mesdames Jenkins and Kelly
Teacher’s To Meet At Rockport On This Saturday
An all-day joint meeting* of the Spencer County Teachers association and Teachers Federation will be held at Rockport Saturday at the assembly room of the courthouse. County School Superintendent Carl Engelbrechtand Mrs. Eugenia S. Hayden,president of the federation, will preside.
Community Singing—Silent Night. Children, parents and others are cordially invited to this PTA Christmas meeting. There is no admission.
Suicide At Huntingburg The Ideal Hotel of Huntingburg was the scene of a suicide Thursday evening, when Bert Jarrett, 60, salesman, formerly of Boonvillo shot himself in the left temple witha32 caliber pistol. Ed Schafer, hotel clerk, went to Jarrett's second floor room after beating the shot and found him lying on the floor, still breathing. Dr. H. K. Stork was called, who tried to revive him, but he died shortly after the doctor’s arrival He left sealed notes tor his wife and sob at Kansas City and Instructions to notify his brother J. Mel Jarrett, at Boonville. His body was taken to Barnett and Son funeral home at Boonville.
The speakers will include Dr. Franzer, professor of English at Indiana university and Miss Mary Burk, representing the Perry county federation. Mr. Bennett of Boonville will demonstrate a movie project used in schools for visual education and a representative of the Evansville school system also will speak.
Santa Claus Will Disappoint Seekers Of Old Postmark
Sanla Clans, Ind.,—The recent finding by this Christmas town’s Postmaster Oscar L. Philipps of Uncle Sam’s first Santa Clans cancellation postmark showing that the town was once named “Santaclaus”—a single word, has brought a flood of requests from collectors and philatelists all over the Nation.
They ask for special cancellations bearing the original one-word name given this Hoosier village by the Postofflce Department June 25, 1895, when a mistake in writing reported the town’s name as “Santaclaus.”
All are to be disappointed. Postmaster Philipps, between preparation for the flood of Christmas mail beginning to pour in asking for the Santa Clans postmark, is informing selectors that since February 13, 1927, when the name was officially divided into two words, the office has not been permitted to use the old cancellation postmark.
Old letters bearing the original spelling are valued oecording to their postmarked priority in dale. Envelope cancellations dated June and July, 1895, bring prices as high a 1100, collectors report.
Issuing the Postal Department’s customary Yuletide announcement today “to mail early for delivery to distant points before Christmas Day,” Postmaster Philipps added,” and to help Santa Claus postoffice expedite its work, where the volume increases 10,000 per cent [the Nation's average is 200 per cent] bring in your letters and packages at once, instead of swamping ns the last week before Christmas.”
The Santa Claus postoffice receives thousands of letters to which a dozen extra clerks affix postage for the senders and mail out at stipulated dates during the Christmas season. From now on the cancellation machine in a town of sixty-seven will whirl from twelve to eighteen hours a dav.
James M. Knapp of Hagerstown was chosen Tuesday by the Republican majority in the Indiana House of Representatives as its
Music will be provided by the Rockport high school orchestra directed by Paul Manger.
Hearse Burned Because Of Superstition
Drilling in the test oil wells over Spencer county was resumed this week. The one on the farm of T. 8. Phillips, cashier of the Chrisney State bank, near the Spencer-Warrick county line is near a depth of 1,000 feet. The one on tbs Haines farm near Rockport is at a depth of 1,400 feet and the one on the Miles farm is about 500 ft. deep. There are about 30,000 acres of Spencer county land under lease for oil drilling.
Mariah Hill, Ind.,—A horse-drawn hearse purchased by Severin Birchler for its extra good springs and wheels declined to serve as an automobile trailer or as a rebuilt spring wagon. At the top of Tempel Hill it became disconnected, rolled backwards, turned over, smashed up.
Birchler burned it believing its refusal to go over the hill was an omen.
Cornelius Wahl, who is in the D. S. Army at Fort Knox, Ky., was married last Saturday to Miss Estelle Allen of near the camp. They will make their home with her mother.
William Deffendoll, who was convicted in Warrick County in 1921 of murder and sentenced to a life sentence, received a commutation of his sentence on Tuesdav from the Indiana Clemency Commission. His sentence now is 18 years to life, making him eligible for parole next year.
Nadine Medcalf, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Medcalf was taken to an Evansville hospital on Wednesday where she submitted to an appendicitis operation. She is getting along nicely.
Fashion Portraits by Chase, Huntingburg.