Sam Dunn offload near car buncle and other local items
The Star reports Samuel Catherwood convalescing and Martha M Forbes will probate. Local delegation spent Sunday at home. Volney Smith residence near completion. Miss Susie Kelley visits from Cincinnati College of Music. Howes Vermilion buys Andy French business at Portland Mills. Riley reading postponed due to illness. Crarg celebrated crystal wedding with select company. W DeWitt Wallace to lecture on Tyrants at Meharry Hall. Public school report for Feb to the city notes 844 pupils, truancy and attendance figures, and corporal punishment. Locust Street Church concert planned for Feb 20 with choir, solos, recitations, and admission 25 cents
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray
Seae
Locust Street Church
Meharry Hall
Sweet Spirit
Lou Ward
Butterfly
Jennie Marine
Old Roger
Skule
Archie Dean
Minnie Knight
Wunter
Ella Morrison
Kate Hays
Imma Ki
Putnam Circuit Court Disposes Multiple State Cases
In regular session Judge Turman presided. Cases disposed include Hoffman rape, Matkins murder, Johnson assault, Sublett intoxication noted, Nees contempt attachment stricken. Mullis concealed weapons guilty plea with five dollar fine plus costs. Asher surety of peace stricken. Raines assault guilty with one dollar fine and costs. A petit juror panel was named: Jones, Vain, Stoner, Ciarwood, Heady, Sinclair, Hurst, Bridges, Bence, Wimmer, Lafollett, Rudisill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Hoffman
Sunday Night Temperance Meetings Discontinued
Local notes report Hawley Steele's baby ill for a week and various community chatter. Sunday afternoon meetings replace the previous Sunday night gatherings while residents share news of visitors, schooling, trains, and social events in the North End.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawley Steele
Charley Graham
Terre Haute
Pat. Hallorin
Crawfordsville
Cincinnati
John Girkin
Higert
John Ash
Indianapolis
Commercial College
Charley Osborn
Andy Ash
Bill Murphy
Andy
Murphy
North End
Kate Sage
Beanpole Yanche
John Moran
Housekeeping
L. P. Chapin
OCG
Michael Carroll
Hannah O'Brien
Chas
Martin
Hannah Unison
Limedale
Biddy Nolan
Johanna Haley
South Greencastle
Bel le Union News and Local Item Highlights
Belle Union reports better wheat prospects than last fall while sickness slows business. A scarlet rash and sore throat trend is noted. Death of Squire Wm Alexander at 76 from heart disease. Eel River floods burst Parker crossing bridge. Cows’ tails trimmed for display, Frank Dorsett suffers knee injury from an axe and a near-severed toe incident. XLNT.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Squire Wm Alexander
Eel River
Parker Crossing
Frank Dorsett
Inter-society contest programme and notes of events
The 22d February inter-society contest features afternoon and evening programs with speakers Wall T. Neff J White C L McMillan A C Langdon E T Scarritt D Rogers A C Collins W L Hood A Burnsides F M Joyce. Tickets for athletic contests in the armory are 10 cents. Notes include Prof Tarbell visit and Len D. Hays talk on Paris, Miss Rose Joslyn Valentine speech, and a tense Asbury branch meeting with dual elections and sworn delegates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall T. Neff
J. White
C. L. McMillan
A. C. Langdon
E.T. Scarritt
D. Rogers
A.C. Collins
W. L. Hood
A. Burnsides
F. M. Joyce
Tarbell
Indianapolis
Len. D. Hays
Paris
Hays
Europe
The
Chicago Times
Rose Joslyn
Local notes from Morton Pine-Kniots settlement
A compact town column reports on local people and happenings. A marshal keeps peace among the b-boys, OWE acs Da J Ragland plans spring visit from Bainbridge, Tom Nelson ill with scarlet fever relapse, Uncle George Allen injured in a fall, Dr Cawthorn return from Illinois health concerns, Mr Sewell runs a boarding house and school transport, Tom assists tenant housing, and various neighbors move, rent, or celebrate minor events in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Carver
J. Ragland
Bainbridge
Tom Nelson
George Allen
Cawthorn
Illinois
Sewell
Marmm
Tennant
Tom
George Hanna
Darnall
Charles Bridges
Milt
Thomas
Charley Bettis
Doe
Whiteneck
Elza Thomias
John Ragland
Billy Butcher
Clark Butcher
J. F. Shonkwiler
Kase
London
North Madison Sickness and Local Updates Trend
North Madison reports fever cases including Miss Ella Watson and Lee Wood with convalescence noted. Richard Houck walks with crutches after a knee injury. Mrs Tolly White visits from Parke County. Local trades mention stock buying, rain mud snow, high stock prices and preparations for sugar making amid a premium store sale anticipated by Tue Sran agent. health generally good.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Watson
Lee Wood
Charles Gardner
Richard Houck
John Houck
Tolly White
Parke County
Madison Township
Anniversary of Gorham couple celebrated by family
Residents recall a forty seventh wedding anniversary at Mr A C Gorham home. Twenty eight descendants joined the surprise event with gifts of a gold headed cane gold framed spectacles silver spoons and a fruit stand. The gathering included neighbors and ended with a dinner and remarks on past and present and longevity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter
A. C. Gorham
Death of Bertha May Cutbirth in Madison Township
Bertha May Cutbirth aged 2 years 6 months 19 days died February 14 1881 in Madison township from cerebro spinal meningitis. She was daughter of Charles and Amanda J Cutbirth. The verse expresses grieving thoughts and faith in heaven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison Township
Bertha May
Charles
Amanda J. Cutbirth
Crystal wedding celebration at the Drury home reported
A crystal wedding party for Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Drury was held on the 14th with relatives and friends from Boston and nearby areas attending. Gifts included a fruit stand, goblets, and Majolica pieces amid generous hospitality and fine fare. Later: Oswego death linked to poisoned feet from cloth slippers following a West Coast steamer job.
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Drury
Levi Drury
Wm. I’. Drury
Boston
Wayne
County
Indiana
G. W. Lee
Wm. S’. Druly
Woodfill
Mortie
Georgie Lee
Effie Lee
Levi Druly
Susie Powell
Julia Drury
Helen
Ida Hathaway
Crouch
Jesse KE. Lee
Eddie Drury
J. W. Lee
H. B. Quimby
U.S. A
Antoine Ashley
Oswego
Aged Ulster Couple Wed in Sly Sunday Sleigh Ride
A 65 year old bachelor Nash Bush and 65 year old widow Elizabeth Lockwood married after a spur of the moment elopement plan. Their son William Lockwood protested but the ceremony proceeded in a Catskills church with a small gathering. The couple planned a house warming with a fiddler and festive foods for a hundred guests.
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Kingston
N. Y
Catskills
Ulster County
Nash Bush
Elizabeth Lockwood
Bachelor Bush
Lockwood
Wm. D. Lockwood
Mr. Bush
Mr. Lockwood
Bush
Fashion Notes Point to New Spring Fashions for Ladies
The report highlights growing bonnet sizes and puffed hair trends with yoke bonnets and black straw lace replacing old lace styles. It predicts calicoes and batistes on counters, spring prints with dark figures, artificial bonnet decorations, and rose garnitures for dresses. The Virgina City Enterprise cites Mountain Mahogany as a high heat fuel that burns longer than coal and wood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgina City Enterprise
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Paney
Jones’ Drug Store
Ger Sam. Dunn
Gar
Samuel Catherwood
Martha M. L’orbes
War Ieencastle
Volney Smith
Manhattan
Susie Kelley
Cincinnati College of Music
Putnam Circuit Court
Turman
North Greencastle
Belle Union
Asbury Notes
Morton Pine
North Madison
Marion Township
May
Heaven
T. B
Scott
Uticura
Whipple
Decatur, Mich
Bowers
Clinton St. Cincinnati
Trrrer
Hanns
Elizabeth Buckley
Littleton
N. H
Wales
Heap
H. A. Raymond
Jackson
Mich
Frank A. Bean
Thomas Lee
Frankfortave
Philadelphia
Washington Street
Sanford
Sayronp
Weeks & Potter
Matt Birtrea
Mass
Murray St
Tutt
Express
New York
Tutts
Appicatica
Willard Hotel
Louisville
Kentucky
Green Street
Dalves
SIV
Sui Ets
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