The Everitt Family in The Chronicle -1925
January 14
Vienna: Mrs. James Carter visited her daughter here one day last week.
Thomas, Sallie and Forest Everitt of Indianapolis attended the funeral of their father here Friday.
William R. (Rose) Everitt, a well known farmer of the Vienna neighborhood, died Wednesday night at Cragmont hospital, North Madison, where he had been taken for treatment several months ago. Mr. Everitt was a member of a prominent family and had been a resident of Scott county all his life. He leaves a widow and several children and also two brothers, Eugene and Charles Everitt. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the family home near Vienna, followed by interment in the Everitt cemetery.
January 21
Robert Hougland, wife and daughter Frances are spending a few days at Columbus visiting her sister Mrs. Emmett Everitt.
Circuit Court: In the matter of guardianship of Wm. R. Everitt, Lula Everitt, guardian. Final report approved.
Lexington: C. H. Everitt, of Nabb, was a business caller here one day last week.
January 28
Jno. R. Hougland, W. I. Fewell, L. W. and Robert Hougland and Joseph Hougland, of Scottsburg; Clyde and D. M. Hougland, of Franklin, and Emmett and Frank Everitt, of Columbus are attending the National Canners' Association at Cincinnati this week.
Vienna: Leona Bridgewater visited relatives at Scottsburg a few days last week.
February 4
Emmett Everitt, of Columbus, was here Monday.
Scott County's Birthday Party
Scott County enjoyed the birthday party given her by the Historical Society at the library, Jan. 12, 1925...Special thanks are due...Mrs. Eliza Everitt,...for collections...
February 11
Nabb: There are now three radios in our small town as Messrs. Gray, Johnson and Everitt each have had one installed in their home.
Ray No. 6: Max, son of Fred Everitt, has pneumonia, and the two youngest children are also real sick. Amos and Floyd Richey have each purchased a team of mules from Chas. Mount, near Zion.
February 18
A daughter was born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Carter.
The Columbus Packing Company, that built a $100,000 packing plant there last year and operated it for packing tomatoes, has announced that it will build a $50,000 unit to the plant for the packing of sweet corn. Work on the new unit will be started in the early spring.
Ray No. 6: The four children of Fred Everitt, who have been sick, are improving.
Miss Lizzie Worthington, of Glasgow, Ky., visited here with her aunt, Mrs. Josephine Lawson, one night last week while on her way home from a visit with relatives at Litchfield, Ills.
Pigeon Roost Valley (Intended for last week): Arthur Gates has moved from this vicinity to Austin.
February 25
C. B. Gritten, of Louisville, has been quite ill the past week at the home of Mrs. Josephine Lawson, in this place, where he was rooming while here on business...
Nabb: Mrs. C. W. Evans and Mrs. Herman Everitt motored to Madison last Friday.
Vienna: Frank O. Bridgewater, who is employed at Lebanon, Ky., spent Sunday here with his brother, Glenn.
March 4
Emmett and Frank Everitt, of Columbus, were here Thursday.
March 11
Lexington: Mrs. C. H. Everitt, of Nabb, was calling on friends here and at Scottsburg one day last week.
Ray No. 6: Max Everitt left Monday for Illinois where he has employment.
Mrs. L. F. Everitt and daughter, Mrs. Jacob Bell, of Noblesville, are spending a few days with Mrs. Lewis Jones.
Emmett Everitt, of Columbus, was here Thursday.
March 18
Frank Everitt, of Columbus, was here Saturday.
March 25
Carter Everitt and family are home from Miami, Fla., where they spent the winter. Mr. Everitt had his race horse there and is reported to have made a "killing."
Transfers of Real Estate:
Charles E. Everitt to Otis E. Adams, two lots, Fairview addition, Nabb, $30.
April 1
Mrs. Jesse H. Everitt, Mrs. Annis Everitt, Mrs. Henry H. McCormick and Mrs. Margaret Fodge visited Madison, Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Korte, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse H. Everitt, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Walker attended a theater at Louisville, Monday night.
Prof. Lee Craig and Prof. Mohler gave a banquet to the members of the Scottsburg Basket Ball team last Wednesday evening at the New Commercial Hotel and on Sunday evening, Rev. Coleman was host to the same club at the M. E. Parsonage...Those present, members of the first team were..., and members of the second team present were...Robert Everitt...
April 15
Mrs. Josephine Lawson and daughter, Mary, visited friends at Zoah, Saturday and Sunday.
Nabb: Mrs. Staples and Mrs. Everitt took some children and went to the creek for an egg roast Sunday.
April 22
Miss Velma Everitt is home from Indianapolis, where she has spent the past five months as a dietitian at the City Hospital.
April 29
Herman Everitt, of Nabb, transacted business here last Wednesday.
Emmett Everitt, of Columbus, was here on business one day last week.
The following persons went from here to Indianapolis last week to attend the meeting of the Indiana Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star:...Mrs. C. H. Everitt, Nabb...
Transfers of Real Estate:
Vernon Comer to John W. Murphy, lot 513 Maple Grove addition, to Scottsburg, $1.
May 6
Underwood (Intended for last week): Walter Hardy and Paul Everitt plastered nine large rooms in Sellersburg last week.
May 13
Mrs. Pearl Everett Kennedy, wife of Emanuel Kennedy, of Louisville, Ky., died May 9 at a hospital in that city. Aged 30 years. She is survived by the husband and four sisters. She was a daughter of John Ed Everett, who died here several years ago.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Richey, of Finley township, last Wednesday, a daughter.
May 20
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Smith and her mother, Mrs. Rebecca Murphy, visited Frank and Emmet Everitt and families at Columbus Wednesday.
May 27
Frank Everitt, of Columbus, was here the first of the week.
Elwin Lawson went to Indianapolis last week to seek employment.
Goshen: James Everitt, of Columbus, will arrive this week to be the guest of relatives.
June 3
Mrs. Frank Everitt and children, of Columbus, are visiting Mr. Everitt's mother and her step-mother, Mrs. H. C. Dismore.
Elwin Lawson has returned from Indianapolis.
Goshen: Frank Everitt and family of Columbus; Mrs. Clyde Hougland and children, of Franklin; W. I. Fewell, wife and son, of Scottsburg, and Fred Wilk and family were guests of Lambert Dismore and wife, Sunday.
June 10
Goshen: Mrs. Frank Everitt and son, Henry Lee; Miss Jean Ellen Storen and Mrs. L. E. Dismore and children were guests of Mrs. Lola Dismore last Tuesday.
June 17
Goshen: Henry Kimmick and family of Mt. Zion, George Wilk and wife, Frank Ringold and wife, Lambert Dismore and family and James Everitt were the guests of Fred Wilk and family, Sunday.
Transfers of Real Estate:
Leland W. Hougland to Fred Everitt, lot 13 original plat, and lot 157 Estil's west addition, and tract, Scottsburg, $1.
June 24
Frank and Emmett Everitt came down from Columbus, Sunday, to attend the funeral of Charity Jennings.
Mrs. Will Storen and daughter, Jean Ellen, are visiting Mrs. F. H. Everitt, at Columbus.
July 1
Mrs. H. T. Faris, Mrs. Amanda Perrin and Mrs. Josephine Lawson and son and daughter, of Scottsburg, attended church at Zoah Sunday.
Goshen: James Everitt, who has been visiting Fred Wilk and family, left Saturday for his home in Columbus, and was accompanied by Miss Gladys Wilk, who will visit relatives in Columbus and Franklin.
Underwood (Intended for last week): Will Bobbs and wife and Sylvester Jones and family, of Jackson Co., and W. D. Everitt and family, of Vienna, visited R. B. Jones and family Sunday.
July 8
Circuit Court Notes:
W. H. Everitt vs I. A. Bridgewater et al, on note. Judgement for $245. This was a suit on a note given in 1915.
July 29
Mrs. Lide Smith left Monday for Indianapolis to visit her sister, Mrs. Ella Meadors. She will also visit her sister, Mrs. Lon Everitt, at Noblesville before returning home.
Lexington: C. H. Everitt, of Nabb, was in town last week.
Frank H. Everitt, of Columbus, was here on business Thursday. He is greatly pleased with the canning prospects there.
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Royster, of Indianapolis, visited here a short time last week with the latter's mother, Mrs. Mary Murphy, and her brother ans sisters, John Murphy and family, Mrs. Josephine Lawson and family and Miss Garnett Murphy.
August 5
Floyd Everitt, 30, of Scottsburg, and Miss Bertha Buzzard, 22, of Austin, were married at Jeffersonville last week by Justice Alonzo Paddacks.
August 12
Thieves recently broke into the smokehouse at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Richey, west of Vienna, and carried away about 200 pounds of hams and side meat.
Boy Scouts on Outing
Scout Master Clement Studebaker and the following boy scouts:...Morris Carter,...went to Hanover beach on the Ohio river, Monday, for a five day outing.
Emmet Everitt, of Columbus, transacted business here last Wednesday.
August 19
Milton Murphy and son, Elbert, of near Oxford, Ind., motored here Friday night and returned home Sunday, accompanied by Mrs. Murphy and daughter, who had been visiting here for several days.
Ernest Everitt is in the government military training camp at Indianapolis.
Mrs. Jones is very poorly with liver trouble at the home of Herman Everitt and wife.
Mrs. Herman Everitt and Mrs. Hilton Jones went to Louisville, Sunday, to visit Mr. and Mrs. Eberts.
Vienna: Mrs. W. R. Everitt and sons visited relatives at Indianapolis last week.
James (Red) Carter is somewhat of a rook player. But he is the hardest loser in the county.
Mrs. Milton Murphy and daughter, Miss Harriet, of near Oxford, Ind., visited here last week.
August 26
Mrs. Agnes Everitt, who was one of the republican ladies who attended the Republican love feast at West Baden recently, has received a letter of thanks from Senator Watson's private secretary thanking her on the senator's behalf and especially for the work for the party she accomplished last year. Mrs. Everitt was accompanied by Mrs. Ed. M. Ray, Mrs. Howard Atcheson, Mrs. Daisy McCaslin.
September 2
Nabb (Intended for last week): Ernest Everitt of this place, who has been in training at Indianapolis, merited a trip to Michigan City, and with 75 boys, have gone for a weeks visit on a battle ship.
September 9
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Montgomery were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Everitt and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Everitt at Columbus, Sunday.
Pigeon Roost Historical Meeting At Monument
The Pigeon Roost Pioneers and the South Eastern Indiana Historical Society, invited by the Scott County Historical Society, met at the Pigeon Roost Monument, Thursday, Sept. 3, to participate in the annual program given in honor of those massacred at Pigeon Roost, Sept. 2, 1812....The orchestra comprised of...Frances Everitt,...
September 16
Nabb: Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Eberts of Louisville visited Mrs. Herman Everitt here Sunday.
September 30
Mrs. Oliver Smith spent the week-end with her sons, Emmet and Frank Everitt, at Columbus, Ind.
October 7
Town Tickets Are Named
The Republicans of Scottsburg met in mass convention at the court house on Wednesday night of last week...For trustee of the First District John A. Ritter, Mark Smith and Fred L. Everitt were placed in nomination. Smith declined...A vote by ballot resulted: Ritter, 29; Everitt, 61; Wes Hartley, 1; George A. Mount, 1; blank, 1. Everitt was declared the nominee...After a few short remarks by Candidates Everitt and Martin and by Chairman Ray, the convention adjourned.
October 21
Combination Sale!
Saturday Oct. 24, ‘25 at 1 P.M.
On the above date we will hold an Auction Sale at Fred Everitt's barn, one square south of the post office in Scottsburg. Articles to be sold will include:
Household goods, cows, hogs, farming implements,
and any kind of property that might be brought in to dispose of at this auction.
If you have property that you do not need, bring it in and we will sell it for you. And if you want to buy, you had better attend this sale, as there will be some good property sold on this date.
Come. Meet your friends, and help to make a market at home where the buyer and seller can get together.
Fred Everitt.
W. S. Whitlock, Auctioneer
October 28
Basketball Squad
The personnel of the 1925-26 Scottsburg High School basketball squad has been announced as follows:...Robert Everitt...
November 4
Emmett Everitt, of Columbus, was here Friday
Mrs. John Wilson and little daughter, of Zoah, visited Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. Josephine Lawson.
Lexington: C. H. Everitt, of Nabb, was in town on business last week.
November 11
Democrats Win Whole Ticket
Town Election Results in Election of Two Democratic Trustees and Clerk-Treasurer
Strict Party Lines Disregarded
November 3 was an ideal day for an election - pleasant and sunshiny - calculated to put everybody in a good humor, and a desire to exercise the right of franchise.
The interest was intense, but good humored, each side trying to get out the vote, not so much the party vote, as the individual, Republicans going to the polls in Democratic conveyances, and Democrats in Republican cars.
The Republican candidates were Fred L. Everitt and William E. Gray for trustees...A total of 825 ballots were cast, of which 72 were absent voters' ballots. The result was:
For Trustee First Ward.
William F. Alvis, Dem.....522
Fred L. Everitt, Rep........276
Alvis' majority................246...
November 18
Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Everitt, of Columbus, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Will Storen, and on Saturday visited Fred Wilk and wife, Lambert E. Dismore and wife and her brother, Frank P. Dismore.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hougland and children, of Franklin; Frank Dismore, of Chicago; Paul Tanner, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Everitt and sons, of Columbus; Miss Freida Wilk, of Louisville; Mrs. Lola Dismore and Mr. and Mrs. Lambert Dismore and children were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilk and daughters Sunday.
Leota (Intended for last week): Bertha Shirley who has been quite sick is better.
November 25
Elwin Lawson has returned from Illinois, where he went to shuck corn.
Emmett Everitt, of Columbus, was here Thursday on business.
Miss Alice Gamble, Mrs. S. B. Wells, Mrs. Agnes Everitt and Mrs. Dincia Hallowell represented the Scott County Historical Society at New Albany, Saturday, at a meeting of the Southeastern Indiana Historical Society.
December 2
John L. Shireley, of Finley township, was in town Friday.
Mrs. Josephine Lawson and daughter, Mary, visited the week-end with Mrs. Marietta Wilson and family at Zoah.
Lynn Bridgewater and Elwin Lawson have opened a shoe-shining parlor opposite the post office. They also have candies.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hubbard, Mrs. Dora Hubbard, Miss Zella Jones, and Margaret Everitt attended the Coffee Creek Baptist Sunday School convention at Hopewell, Sunday.
December 9
Transfers of Real Estate
Lydia F. Cranford to Howard Craig, 40 acres, Vienna township, $1.
Goshen: Frank Everitt and wife and their sons, James and Lee, of Columbus, were visitors of Fred Wilk and family, Saturday.
Lions Club Is Organized Here
Organization of Wide-Awake Business and Professional Men Is Perfected at Meeting
Boost Home Town and County
The Scottsburg Lions Club was organized last Wednesday evening at the New Commercial Hotel by a meeting of the business and professional men of the town.
...On Thursday the permanent organization was completed by the election of the following officers and directors:...Fred L. Everitt, Tail Twister...
December 16
Leota (Intended for last week): John Shirley was at Louisville Saturday.
December 23
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Smith and Mrs. Rebecca Murphy will go to Columbus to spend Christmas with Mrs. Smith's sons, Emmett and Frank Everitt, and their families.
December 30
The county commissioners met in adjourned session Dec. 23 and allowed claims to clean up the year's business...Contracts were awarded as follows:...groceries for poor farm, Fred Everitt...