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Newspaper
Aurora Commercial
Location
Aurora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1864
Page
2
A public meeting in Aurora established the Centre Township Union Club. Officers named include Pres J A Emrie and Sec L M Fouts. The group vows loyalty to the United States, supports the current Administration, and plans weekly Friday meetings with a township executive committee appointed. Minutes to be printed in the Aurora Commercial and Union Press.
In Aurora on July 29 1864 the club met and elected J A Emrie president Pardee Beach vice president W H Frazier recording secretary Ed F Sibley corresponding secretary G V Denton a treasurer all by acclamation Delegates will be appointed next Friday to attend the County Convention at Wrights Corner on the second Monday in August The secretary is ordered to notify township committee members to attend the next meeting and the club will meet August 6 at 7 o'clock Dr G D Simmons will address the club.
The new revenue law includes Sec. 79 Paragraph 28 noting conveyancers must pay ten dollars for each license. It applies to every person holding a license to draw deeds bonds mortgages wills writs or other legal papers or to examine titles to real estate and designates such persons as conveyancers under the act.
General Orders from Indiana's Adjutant General Laz. Neste outline the July 18 1864 call for 500000 volunteers with Indiana quota set at 35732. Excess drafts require 2300 from delinquent townships by September 5. Recruits may enlist for one two or three years in any infantry cavalry or artillery unit. Substitutes and representatives permitted with pay and bounties described. colored volunteers eligible with equal pay. Recruiting agents to be appointed and regulated under War Department orders.
Military authorities held information about a regularly organized guerrilla band in Boone and adjacent counties with possible confederates in Rising Sun and Switzerland counties. James Craig from Canada was accused of aiding the enemy while teaching in Boone and was arrested after an examination. He was sent to Military Prison in Covington, Ky., to await court martial. Forty Dayville, Mass., citizens helped a dying soldier’s widow by mowing and haying her fields.
An inventory list itemizes various apparel and travel goods including hats caps boots shoes and a range of accessories such as wallses carpet bags trunks and portmanteaus. The terse noting suggests a catalog or sale entry from a period publication.
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