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Mine RunMine Run” — Unassorted Product ol a mine; hence an assembly of like kind not specifically classified; a medley of thought or ideas.DictionaryOwen Frank Jr., of the Pi.ie-dale, Wyo,, Roundup, points out that middle age is when vou feelSaturday night hke vou used tofeel Monday morning.* * *And the Indio, Calif., News muses: “did you ever sit in a crowd at a football or basketball game and have some parentproudly point to the referee andproclaim, ‘That’s my boy!’/”* * *The Mail Bag . . . contains a nice note from Bob Tucker, nowat 8607 North 31st Avenue,Phoenix, Ariz., telling how much the “home ne »s” from Lintonmeans to his family. Boh formerly was the co-owner andmanager of the Shoe Box here.* * *Mrs. Dixie Kline, who gives a helping hand to this space fromtime to time, recently purchased a copy of a book that isn'ttoo plentiful these days, entitled “Life of Abraham Lincoln.” The book w’as published while Lincoln was still alive, in 1865.♦ * *The thing about the publication that is of interest locally *s an advertisement that appears inits appendix. This ad tells about another volume. “The Trials forTreason at Indianapolis.”* ♦ *The ad says the book “discloses the plans for establishing a Northwestern Confederacy being an official record of thetrials before the Military Commission convened by Spce.ul Order No. 129, Headquarters D s-trict of Indiana . . . containing the testimony, arguments, findingand sentence, in the case of Harrison H. Dodd; also of Wiliam A. Bowles, Andrew Humphreys, Horace Heffrcn, Lambdin P. Milligan and Stephen Horsey . . , developing the origin, history, extent, names of officers, etc., of the secret order of Knights of the Golden Circle, the Circle of Honor, the Order of AmericanKnights, and Order of the Sonsof Liberty—their organizations, lituals, passwords, grips, oaths, obligations and penalties; their ostensible and real purposes . . .with accurate illustration of the Greek fire shells, hand grenades, lockets and infernal machines of the conspirators, introduced at the trials.”* * *The Knights of the Golden Circle, a pro-Confederacy organization, operated in Greene andSullivan counties—principally inthe Goosepond area near Linton, and figured in the bloodless “battle of Caledonia” near Sullivan. The Andrew- Humphreys mentioned w-as one of Linton’s outstanding citizens, and even though he was found guilty by the Mili- | tary Commission he never served his sentence, and later served this area as State Senator andhis state in important capacities.* * # •Linton City Fireman Jim
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Linton Daily Citizen
Linton, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 11, 1960
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