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Greencastle Star

Location

Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Jan 25, 1879

Page

3

Prisoners escorted to Brazil for trial. theft cases noted

Oliver Pierce and Bilderback, both jailed for theft, were sent to Brazil by Sheriff Lewman to stand trial. Pierce received two years and Bilderback one year in the penitentiary. William Cox was returned from Brazil on timber theft charges. The Crawfordsville Journal reports local items including a Russellville loan scheme, university notes, student mischief, and campus lectures.

Pes Oliver Pierce Brazil Bilderback Bowling Green Lewman Pierce William Cox

Indianapolis Saleman Tara G Lee Noted For Promising Career

Tara G. Lee, a salesman with Murphy Johnson and Co., wholesale dry goods merchants, has moved to Indianapolis. He is described as a young man of fine parts and deserving of great success.

Tara G. Lee Indianapolis Murphy, Johnson, & Co

Summoned to her care and dangerous brain concussion

The report notes a woman summoned to care after a brain concussion with dangerous condition. She regained consciousness the next day but has suffered frequent delirious attacks and recovery is not in doubt. Obituaries list Frank Talbott, 69, consumption in Monroe township on Jan 22, 1879. John Blackwell, 70, consumption in Greencastle on Jan 15. Theodore I. Peck, 52 years five months, typhoid fever in Warren township on Jan 16.

Monroe Township Frank Talbott Greencastle John Blackwell Warren Township Theodore I. Peck Asbury McAninch Putnam County Elisha McAninch John P. Allee

Local Notices of Visits and Illnesses in Bainbridge Area

Mrs Sallie Howard of Bainbridge visits Mrs T Foxworthy this week. Miss Minnie Burnett visits friends in Indianapolis. Miss Kate Rico Rice has a sprained ankle from sliding down Water street hill. Mrs John Long convalescent. Mrs P Ryan visiting Bloomington. Foxworthy and Hillis receive new mill machinery. Cece Patterson’s boy recovering but scar risk. Miss Mary Connors goes to Virginia to visit parents. Ham Dunnington with sore foot. John Holerin ill. Miss Lizzie Southwell of Crawfordsville visits Hanna O Brian. Mrs Moran ill. Mr Sam Day returns to New Albany. Orion Beckwith is the neighborhood’s best checker. Miss Hanna O Brian sprained ankle coasting Frazier hill. Miss Mattie Eckels returns from New Albany. Mrs Arkins visits Oakalla. Miss Nannie Ratcliff learning telegraphy. Mrs Wirt Bower of New Albany in town. Miss Walters able to be about. Lacy Sargeant on the hop with sprained ankle. XXX

Sallie Howard Bainbridge T. Foxworthy Minnie Burnett Indianapolis Kate Rico Rice Water Street Hill John Long P. Ryan Bloomington Foxworthy & Hillis Cece Patterson Mary Connors Virginia Ham Dunnington John Holerin Lizzie Southwell Crawfordsville Hanna O'Brian Moran Sam Day New Albany Orion Hanna O’brian Frazier Hill Mattie Eckels Arkins Oakalla Nannie Ratcliff Wirt Bower Walters Lacy Sargeant

Oldest U S Newspaper and Extreme Liquor Dealer Opinion

The Annapolis Gazette began in January 1745 marking the oldest U S publication. A Dover New Hampshire resident urged violent punishment for liquor dealers proposing hanging and a heavy weight to their feet to force their necks to sew with.

United States Annapolis (Md T. Wentworth Dover, N. H

January 10 1879 Secondary Dept high scorers list

Report of Secondary Department Sec ond Ward for month ending Jan 10 1879 lists pupils reaching 95 in monthly standing. A Grade includes Louis Robinson John Brooke Howard Jones Rosa Blair Willie Irvin Frank Sherry Ella Cole. B Grade includes Jimmie Bowman Jessie Burley Ralph Overstreet Olga Overstreet Florence Beck Bertha Johnson Jennie Truett Mary Nutt. Also named are students who were neither tardy nor absent: Thad Peck Armstead Owen Otho Ricketts Jimmie Hillis Jennie Tucker Freddie Owen and Hanna.

Second Ward Louis Robinson John Brooke Howard Jones Rosa Blair Willie Irvin Frank Sherry Ella Cole Jimmie Bowman Jessie Burley Ralph Overstreet Olga Overstreet Florence Beck Bertha Johnson Jennie Truett Mary Nutt Thad Peck Armstead Owen Otho Ricketts Jimmie Hillis Jennie Tucker Freddie Owen R, Hanna

Land transfers and notices from Madison to Manhattan

A long list of real estate transactions across Madison Cloverdale Floyd Washington Clinton and Manhattan townships with buyers sellers and prices. Multiple conveyances include 40 acres 80 acres 39 acres and lots 76 77 94 and 95 with prices from 15 to 900 dollars. Also a tragic emigrant family found frozen in Oklahoma and brief world notes along with market reports and literary notices.

Robert Ewing James W., Ewing Madison Elizabeth Grider Mary E. Grider Franklin Wm. H. Holloway Daniel W. Layman Putnamville Danial W. Layman Stoops & Bowen A. T. McCoy James H. McCoy Cloverdale Geo. W. Dickey James W. Risk John W. Fellows Wm. Roberts Manhattan Martin Murphy George B. Summers Washington Thos. B. Neese L. M. Mercer Magdaline DeMotte Susan de Motte Love John Thompson John W. Eggers Jackson Sheriff P.C Abraham Oliver State of Indiana Fred Gardner Russell Andrew Gregory John Gregory Floyd Charles Webb Caleb P.lament Clinton Oneal Alfred Elmore Mt. Meridian Anna E. Moore Samuel_ OD. Wood

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