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Newspaper
Columbus Democrat
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1877
Page
3
In a lively domestic vignette neighbors debate remedies and meals as a minister’s appearance stirs comment. A child falls into a wash tub while Mrs Colby wonders if the preacher’s scripture proves his creed, and a Virginia ballad echoes as a game ends.
The seventh annual union picnic of the Brushcreek Sunday school will be held in the grove near Brush creek church four miles southeast of Columbus near the Madison railroad on Thursday August 2. A glorious feast, speech making, music, and social time are planned. COMMITTEE. r Sand Creek Grange Meeting will be held Thursday July 26 at two o'clock p m at their hall for important business. Full attendance urged. Jor 8, Davis, W. M.
The past week brought breezy days, threshing with 20 to 35 bushels per acre, and arrivals like Wm Huston from southern Kansas reporting floods. Attendance at chapel and children’s meeting was large, a two shaves for ten cents sign drew notice, and work on the new schoolhouse began. Mattie plans to teach in Edinburg, Mr Seward’s wheat yields reach 25 bushels, but he lies ill with consumption. A birthday party for John Yeley, ice cream supper at Gustavus Miller’s, a croquet game, and a fight at a school meeting follow. Ballot-box trouble, upswings in corn, and visitors Geo Spragg and wife appear.
Mr Joseph Delmont assumes charge of the Newbern mills with experience as a miller. The piece notes local farming, a school meeting, teachers chosen, a Sunday School celebration, church trials, and local incidents including a death of Mrs Anna Keller at age 53 after long illness and multiple physicians. It mentions telegraph plans and local commerce, with several named residents and institutions.
The postal card letter from a wife to her absent husband reveals the new sequitur: her sickness, the baby under doctor care, James and the children with measles, women wearing back combs, and a plea to write often. The family’s house nearly caught fire last night as Jans sends love from the household.
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