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'JSH TEAK. PAYABLE IN ADTAKCE* **Business Windows Are Beginning To Fill With Old Keepsakes Of Years Ago.PEWTER WARE OF 150 YEARSDr. W. H. Cohee Loans Spik* That Was Used In Frst Railroad Of Shelby County.Among the first window dispiayfi ot relics Jb that at the A. It Pile grocery store, in East Washington street No doubt many1 others ’wiU be in evidence in the windows of the various | business houses of the city before the I Centennial on the Fourth of July.[ At the Pile store are pewter dishe* | over 150 years old which are the property of Wary Cook who died in 1820. A Methodist almanac that was i published in Cincinnati during the year of 1873. Next is a powder horn that was used in the Revolutionary • war and the wars of Scotland. It is | four hundred years old and is the j property of ■‘Uncle” John Williams, 1 merchant policeman. A MethrxJIst Jbyrnn book of 2812 is also on display Sand is the property of Josephine !, Jones, of Marietta. Indian beads that jwere bought in Shcihy county during the y»eaF of 1839. Saddle hag used in the Civil war.. AiMpier feature in the window i« an I'O. 0. K. emblem of three links jknnd carved b\ Captain Lumen Jones| for the lodge at huUMand, bul were ■ never presented Tii-y \,*erc made be* Ifore the Civil war and have been ;kept in excellent rendition since that| time.i Another is a letter that was mailed [in Philadelphia in the year of 1824 I without stamp or envelope and at I that time postage on the letter was jthe sum of twenty-five cents. The letter was addressed to near” Way-nesville. O.A fine portrait of Captain Jones who served with the 79th regiment of infantry during the Civil war ami wiif* wounded at the battle of Stone River. The picture is also decorated with jibe sash that was then worn by cnm-j missioned officers os' the United ! States army. The swunl he carried is ; also on display.A silk badge That was worn in the j parade during tin* pn-siflvntu:] c;tm-: pnign of William H Harrison Anoth* lor badge that was used in the Con-fitennial of ISTii known as “ Liberty's J Birthday.”J A navy pi slid used in i he war nf 1812 which is the property of K. L, ;Pile. Dr. W. II. Cohee ofMuriclta ; has also presented them with a spike ! used in the first railroad of Shelby (county between Edinburg and Knights . town. Pic lures displaying inunv events of the Civil war are in the i window mid prove to he very interest big to all those who care to viewthem.
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Shelbyville Shelby Republican
Shelbyville, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 22, 1922
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