23 Apr 1881
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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1881
Page
1
The Tar Star invites readers to send neighborhood news and opinions to be printed. The paper clarifies it does not endorse correspondent views and provides space for community thoughts.
Weekly digest of small town happenings includes pay car on the L N A C R R and big coal and lumber trade. Mrs Arthur Orr of Lafayette visits her mother here. New Albany visitors, street guttering on Jackson street, platform over a cistern, temperance meetings revived, and local residents improving property. John Stanley and Sam Webb toured Indianapolis. Tommy Walker operates here. lettuce sowing and potato planting advised with fence repairs. campus evenings favored by North End residents.
Junior speeches by Charles Burnsides and Clippinger. A law class forms with recitations for Major Birch. Brattin and Shipley donate silver medals for rifle shooting. A elocution class may form under Prof. J. W. Taverner. Orchestra aids chapel music. Junior excursion to Indianapolis last week. Miss Jessie已 lost voice from cold. Inter-State Oratorical Contest set for May 4 in Jacksonville Ill. Battalion photographed by Jones. Joe Crews jokes about Asbury notes suspension. Frank Brown back with class. 38 members in the class of 1891. Rumor of Campbell’s death proven false. Divorce grounds cite pistol sleeping husband.
STEEG & CO. opens lime and cement shop on northwest corner of the public square. FRANK HAYS' Trade Emporium on East Side Square debuts a complete stock of boys and children's Spring Clothing.
Wallace Day runs a sugar operation boiling sixteen gallons in one night. L L Campbell builds a new dam. Mrs Busby and Mrs Elliott enjoy a new home. Calvin Campbell chats to himself about his big gal. Ninion Bohannon plans to raise tobacco in Kentucky. Miss A Robinson searches for a Malta summer school site. No. 5 school closed last Thursday taught by Flora Elling. Many rely on straw due to feed shortages. L M Brown bought a hay stack for twenty dollars. Lisby on sick list recently. Morris Goodwin home recently. Sunday school planned at McVey schoolhouse next Sunday evening. Mumps widespread. Old Father Brewer, formerly of this area, dies at Coatesville aged 96. Remains move to Fillmore for Mt Carmel burial. Talks of a Malta summer Sunday school linger.
Barnard notes dry roads and busy farm work with ditching fencing and early planting. Sower of seeds warns about seed corn after a hard winter while Dr. Heady settles in town as a physician. Local notices mention deaths and residents moving nearby.
Sowing oats and garden work dominate the day amid drying roods. Wm White traveled to Greencastle on Monday. George Burnett lost a valuable horse last week. Spring movement appears higher than usual as Mr Jo takes two good milking cows. TH Wilson, who was shot previously, is reported able. George Clark welcomes a fine boy weighing 9 pounds. Reverend W at the M E Church notes sick data and Elder W H Williams attended.
The week brings visits from Bruner to Terre Haute and Maggie Webster of Greencastle. James Comba moved into the city replacing James Stokes. J B Cochan is again on the sick list. Eaglefield and Jacks report strong business after moving to a new store. A boot and shoe store may open locally. Christian Church plans a Sunday school session with M E Church hosting Sabbath school Sundays at 3 pm. Mattie Hamilton returns home sick with measles from Danville College.
A Cloverdale M E Sabbath school committee reports the death of Ellen Jones Preston and expresses sorrow. They note her life of good works and kindness to the poor and her influence in the Sabbath school. They commend her husband and motherless children to sympathy.
A large group celebrated April 15 for A M Robinson turning 54. He received a chair from his children as friends and relatives wished him many more years. A Sunday-school started at McVay school-house last Sunday. KE Thornton plans a move to Chicago to start sewing machine work. Elma Robinson returns home from Lebanon, Indiana.
The meeting last Saturday at Priest's school-house adjourned to April 23 at 1 pm and aims to begin road construction by June if both ends act. James Bridges guarantees building the first road section two miles south from Bainbridge. A Boston and Providence passenger who pulled a stop bell faced malicious mischief charges but was acquitted.
Local observations mention mild conditions with improving roads and oats sown nearby. People report health changes and travel plans while political talk centers on temperance debates and Senate portraits. Chicago markets show hogs, cattle, and sheep mixed shifts with price ranges for different classes.
Weekly Greencastle market report lists prices for wheat corn eggs chickens and poultry. It shows values for flour wheat rye oats oats and market items including live turkeys lime plaster and more with corrections expected before press.
Advertisements feature FRANK HAYS Ten Dollar Counter and BECK'S cheap cash store offerings for ties lace goods corsets and gloves. Also Be Beck Beck Beck at Trade Emporium hair, Be Beck and Bruner list house for sale and sale by Allen's Drug Store promoting Thorley's Horse and Cattle Food with 10 cent a pound hog cholera protection.
White Pekin ducks offered for sale at one dollar per setting. Customers may place orders at the Svar office. Contact John Sweeney for details and pricing.
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