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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1896
Page
4
The fall term closes with essays on The Constitutional Convention and The Sanitary and Christian Commission, plus debate on presidential term length. Four divisions handle rhetorical work under professors Clapp Graham Bowman and Baldwin. Winter term opens January 5 1897.
The young society set of the city plans a swell affair Monday evening December 28. They anticipate a very large attendance and will send invitations to Wynburg Franklin Greensburg and Seymour.
Several classified items describe an Ada three room frame house on 9th street with lot 35 by 120 and price 700 with partial cash and balance terms. Additional notices include poultry shipment to New York, gift requests, jewelry display, loan offers on real estate, rental cottage, and business changes in local shops. McKinley football invitation referenced.
W F Overbeck of Cincinnati has visited Columbus seeking the plant location. Citizens are urged to subscribe 15000 dollars in stock with over half already pledged and the balance due to secure a new factory and provide employment for idle men. Dr David S Armer dies in Pouis Indiana at 66 after a decade in the city. He leaves a widow and seven grown children. He once practiced here and lost a foot in a railroad accident years earlier.
Reeves Pulley Company hires 65 workers before the election and reports an 8,000 pulley order plus a $50,000 contract tied to McKinley’s win. Reeves & Co. plans to expand with more hands, keeping Democrats in power blamed for revived business activity. Davidson Miller. Greenspurt Inn. Dec 17. Miss Annette Miller marries Thomas E. Davidson at the Presbyterian Church with Rev J W Parker officiating.
Local items include George Lucas expected home on the 24th and attending Exeter N High, a fire at Bedford Indiana with water plugs spiked near the blaze, and a Shakespeare club meeting on January 9 with Prof. W E Henry to discuss As You Like It. Two men are under arrest at Crawfordville for cutting throats of two stallions and arson to collect insurance.
The case of Chas S Reed as administrator of Nathan Reed deceased against multiple Reed heirs and others to sell land was filed on the circuit court docket yesterday. Circuit Court Cases note guilty verdicts for incest with two year sentence for William Henderson and a related case against his daughter. Bob Hendricks pleaded guilty to assault and battery, fined $50 and 10 days in jail. Other minor items include a provocation case against Jacob Smaetzer and fines for carrying concealed weapons.
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