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V. F Froman and G. W. Bell, who recently raoved to Rhea county,Tenn., are well pleased with the country.A Teachers Institute will be held here on th9 10th of December.A Christmas entertainment will be given at the church here on the night of December 24th. Proceeds to go for the benefit of the church.Rev. T. G. Bosley, of Jeffersonville, fills the pulpit at this place very accepts ably on the third Sabbath of each month.J. R. Yates, Representative of the Grantsbnrg Lodge of the I. O. O. F. has returned from his visit to the Grand lt;Lodge at Indianapolis.Charles S., son of Griffie Froman, who j has for six weeks been Buffering most painfully with bone erysipelas of the leg, is improving very slowly.Dr. F. R. Gobble, our present '’efficient ] postmaster has tendered his resignation. The people have petitioned the authorities to appoint H. Martin our former postmaster in his stead.The intruding dust, so much abhored by all, aft8r a stay of almost six months; with U3 has at last given place to the much coveted, friendly, delicious mud,VVm. Graves, of Gibson county, has just returned home from a visit to his mother, Mrs. L. Ford, and other rela* tives of our town. While here he disposed of a tract of land near town, J. R. Yates being the purchaser.The County Commissioners, having \ disposed of the rugged, untiliable tract oi land on which was situated the Asylum for the poor of the county, have purchased the large and beautiful farm owned by James Froman, three miles east of this place; which is now occupied by the county’s poor. The number of inmates at present is eleven.The dry weather of the past summer wrought a favor for Milton Day, near here, that it seldom does for any one. The famiiy is composed of an aged couple who found it a sore task to carry water for family use from their spring some two hundred yards from the honse. But daring the summer months their task was increased by the Buddeu drying up of this spring, which caused them to bring water from a spring half a mile distant. This they did for some daye, when chancing to notice the water oozing from the earth a short distance from the old spring, and several steps nearer the house. Mr. Day at once went to work with his hoe and found an abundance of water for himself and other neighboring families. S.
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New Albany Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Wed, Nov 30, 1887
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Sullivan C.
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