July, 1924. Bobbed Hair! Ladies In Our Barber Shops?
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| The Barber Pole at The Bootleggin' Barbershop on North Meridian Street in Winchester, IN in 2025. |
While bobbed hair is not unanimously approved and is strongly condemned by some, it is steadily growing in popularity and by the same token the coffers of the local barbers are being filled as never before, for bobbed hair has brought them a lot of additional business, with the result that the male of the species must wait longer for his barbering and incidentally must be more careful of his utterances in barber shops since bobbed hair became a fad or whatever it is.
No matter when one enters a local barber shop he is almost sure to find one or more girls or women waiting to be bobbed or are being bobbed, but, of course the hair bobbing business is slackest in the forenoon. Nor do the barber shops get all of the bobbing, for it is said that bobbing is also done by beauty doctors and hair dressers in the city. All of which goes to prove as before stated, that hair bobbing has grown mighty popular and has come to stay for a considerable time at least.
But "it's an ill wind that blows nobody good," and if bobbed hair can be classed as an ill wind it has it's good points. For instance, it has improved the barber shop morals a lot with the result that no longer are the off color stories or the occasional profanity heard in the shops, when women or girls are present, which were so noticeable, not to say disgusting and ill bred before the days of the bobbed heads.
June, 1916. Infirmary infant placed in Orphans Home
Reference materials for The Poor Farm (The Infirmary, The County Home) at RCHS.
Judge Theodore Shockney has issued orders making Anice Lucinda Wood, daughter of Miss Lulu Wood, seventeen years old, now an inmate of the county poor farm, a ward of Randolph County, and the infant will be placed in the James Moorman Orphans Home. The child was born May 18, 1916.
John Shultz, stepfather of the young mother stands charged with incest in the Circuit Court as the alleged father of the child.
March, 1916. Baker girl in Harrisville is incorrigible
Letha Baker, a girl about 20 years old, whose home is in Harrisville, was arrested and locked up in Union City by officer Lew Powers on an order from Judge Shockney. The girl is an incorrigible and has been running wild. It is also thought that she is not quite right mentally.
Last summer she was found staying in an old barn near Arthur's Corner, where she received all kinds of company. She was taken to Winchester and locked up in jail at that time. She ran away from the county infirmary, after which she was taken to Indianapolis and confined in an institution for incorrigibles. She escaped from this place and afterwards stayed in a number of towns.
She came to Union City and put up at the Sizemore Hotel but after spending one night there, Mr. Sizemore ordered her to leave. Since that time she has been running the streets.
The case is an unfortunate one, and the girl is to be pitied as she doesn't seem to have any will power to control her actions. She was taken to Winchester by officer Powers and she will be placed in the custody of the Sheriff until the court can find time to take up her case.
Her father was killed by a Big Four train in the local yards about 3 years ago and her mother married Otis Coats, the Harrisville Postmaster and merchant.
September, 1922. Ku Klux Klan Visits Church.
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| Klu Lkux Klan reference materials at RCHS Library. |
Last Sunday evening twelve robed men visited the Methodist Episcopal Church in Union City, Indiana. They marched to the alter in single file where they knelt in silent prayer, after which they presented Rev. E. N. Dunbar with an envelope containing a sum of money. They then left the church, entered their automobiles and made their departure.
The following is the note tendered : "Rev. E. N. Dunbar, Pastor of the M. E. Church, Dear Sir In appreciation of the good work you are doing, the Union City and Winchester Provisional Klans wish to tender you this donation, to be used for the good of the cause. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan wish the world to know that they stand strictly behind the Christian Protestant religion, with malice toward none and good will toward all."
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