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Newspaper
Aurora Weekly Standard
Location
Aurora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1853
Page
2
The Aurora Standard notes Indiana exchanges report Hessian fly damage may cut yields. Some declare no injury yet others report slight damage. Past lessons show early sowing reduces frost harm, and farmers hope harvest brings the heaviest Dearborn County wheat crop in years despite pest fears.
The writing describes Pete as a dry, flat town on a high bottom beyond floods with clay and sand soil. It praises streets, a mill and distillery, turnpike to Burlington, a well built Seminary, and notes progress over ten years. It mentions editors, railroad talks, a large turnout portion, and local ads including Hydropiper extract and a rolling mill planned in Zanesville.
A May 25 1853 celebration by Daughters and Sons of Temperance in Dillsborough featured Edwards Union Daughters presenting a Bible to the Dillsborough Division Sons. A procession visited multiple divisions, with Rebecca Wheaton delivering the Bible to Rev. Record at the M E Church. About 1500 attendees enjoyed addresses, refreshments, and praise for the temperance cause.
The speaker, a Daughter of Temperance, presents a Bible to the Dulsborough Division urging Purity, Love, and Virtue. She laments intemperance's harms to women and families, calls for female action, and urges brethren to pursue upward reform with faith, courage, and moral duty.
A letter thanks reformers for their work against liquor as a debated law sparks follows. The piece condemns licensed rum shops as engines of ruin, mocks supporters of “Insemperance,” and recounts a poor wife’s legal battle against a liquor dealer who ruined her family. It ends with plans to sue additional vendors and a call to action.
Letter by Joan W Sullivan appeals to residents to support a noble effort to close rumshops seen as outlaws. She condemns Sunday sales and selling to drunks and minors, warns of danger to children and a state of constant alarm, promising more to come.
At a meeting of the Aurora City School Trustees Dr Haines read a letter from Dr E Morgan of Cincinnati on Graded Free Schools. By order of the Board the letter is furnished for publication. Gro W Lane Secretary June 4 1853.
A 1805 Cincinnati letter discusses Barney’s report on graded free schools, district staffing, and salary scales, urging Aurora to adopt the system. It covers classroom size, separate primary buildings, moral aims, semi annual exams, and teacher pay. It also notes New Albany growth, Liberia’s recognition, local commerce, and Aurora prospects with rail links and census figures.
Advertising rates set by Kilner and Sibley of the Standard and Nod Folbre of the Danner. Rates include one square at 63, two squares, three squares, and column measurements. Legal ads payable on insertion. Candidate announcements priced by subscriber status. Wires double usual price. Some notices published gratis. all else paid at half price. Prices effective January 52.
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