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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1879
Page
3
Greencastle items report Miss Suffield of Kentucky visiting the Anderson family, local moves like Mr Trautman shifting his tobac co shop, and licenses for Joseph C Rogers and Matilda C Gris. The week also notes a large hog weighed 1023 pounds, a failed lamp, church services, lectures, and community notices.
Exhibits at the State Fairs award first premiums and Special merit to Hop Bit tern, praised for purity and utility. The paper endorses the product and urges testing by readers, noting the displays are open for viewing in the fairs’ exhibition area.
The Calender estate suit against Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad settled for 1500 after a death from a freight train near the rolling mill. Three East Washing Street boys helped a blind widow by gathering wood, earning praise and anticipated reward.
In Greencastle on February 2 1879 two infants and a two year old child are listed as deceased from croup and natural causes. Lucinda Fry of Bainbridge dies suddenly from paralysis of the heart aged 76 a long time county resident and church member leaves several children including Dr Fry Mrs J T Christie P G Fry and Anna Murphy. The report notes her piety and sociable disposition and that the Christian Church feels the loss.
The unidentified woman from St. Louis, found dead in Greencastle, was interred at Forest Hill Cemetery. A letter from H W Harris of St. Louis asked for full particulars, noting an empty laudanum bottle and stating he might know the person from St. Louis papers.
A new saw mill by Ratcliff and Grubb is planned at this end. George Bowers moved to the Pruett property. Mrs. Richardson of Belle Union visits friends. Birch and Bro invoice this week. Candy pulling at Wm Daggy’s occurred last Monday night. Lacy Seargent still suffers from a sprained ankle. Anna Hadley returns from visiting Mrs H Daggy. John Sage’s cow died last week. Mike Murphy visited Indianapolis last Saturday. Lotta Welch of Dayton visited Miss Minnie Murphy last week. Lotta Daggy sick with mumps. John Murphy rode a tricky horse last week. Bayne’s saw mill runs day and night. Lizzie Murphy received a birthday album. Mr and Mrs Bicknell’s lamp ignited the table. Eddie 13 showed presence of mind and pushed lamp out of doors.
A concise survey of births elopements arrivals and amusements with details on parents and child gender, notable residents, excursions and festivals, property fires and losses, and local products and profits. Includes improvements, patents, and inventors where available.
Asbury University entries report Prof DeMotte lecture on The New Amusement and Kilbourne diagrams, Adelphian society reforms and a prank oath incident. Endowment receipts exceed 19000 with other gifts. campus religious revival reports, sickness notes, and a numismatic lecture. Local real estate transfers listed alongside haunt claim and suspected fraud in a Buckskin glove poisoning case.
The article notes an unusually harsh California winter with rising deaths among middle aged residents, a white frost each morning and pleasant days. It mentions Mrs. Bertha Heydich’s illness and a rapid marriage to Captain Martain after a fall, plus a revival misfire in Genntown and clergy news in St. Louis, a gum-chewing woman, a medical case of facial spasms, and assorted local advertisements and notices.
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