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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1881
Page
5
The Cloverdale area reports the Normal School opening with a fair turnout and a lecture by Bishop Dowman at Meharry Hall on Italy. Nearby rail freight thrives, residents visit from Indianapolis and Danville, and a mix of personal notes cover appointments, illness, new sidewalks, home improvements, a marriage, and various social happenings.
The paper notes it does not endorse correspondent opinions but prints letters to share neighbor thoughts. It urges readers to submit news from their locality for publication and to help spread community news.
South Greencastle reports W. Butler recovering from typhoid fever while Charley McCoy notes writing improvement. Dr. Kelley returns from Indianapolis and Chas Derrick plans spring farming. Dances at Opera House entertain town. Harris and Co buy a brick stable. Brown resigns from Dr Throop’s drugstore for a pump shop job. Edith Detrick acquires a Steinway piano and Bloomington visitor John Coffin stops by.
Mr Overstreet returns to college and Sophia works on an energizing term speech. Dr Karp travels to Boston for two or three weeks. Mr Joe Crews recovers and returns to college. Bishop Bowman will lecture Sunday. Seniors near term completion. Some students and professors visited Indianapolis to see Bernhardt. Dr Baker and Prof Bassett were sick at week start. Asbury Monthly February issue ready with strong contents. Monette Prize contestants are Rt J Smith A Sato from Philo and C K Finney Chas Coffin from Plato. elected without combinations.
School No 5 is out. Teacher J L Myers leaves for Danville Normal for summer. Clodfelter McGaughey thresh clover. Miss Debbie Roach contemplates summer in Roachdale. The mill undergoes repairs and aims to grind wheat and corn by next Saturday. Willie Beckelhimer and George Hart improve slowly. Marion Clodfelter awaits news of a baby or perhaps a boy. Snow disrupts wheat prospects. a new subscription offer is urged. George Lisby relocates to the old Sailey O Neal farm. Howard Havens also moves to the old Israel Messin place. A tramp burned clothes and fled to the poorhouse at No 1. George Nichols moves to Havens farm. A protracted meeting starts at the Christian Church in Fillmore next Monday. Mrs Elliott moves to Wm Jones farm. John Nichols of Carbon appears in Malta. Joseph O Neal experiences neuralgia of the stomach. R C
The article notes freezing and thawing harmed fruit and bees with peach trees killed by extreme cold. Calves died from mouldy clover hay and George Dorsett suffers pulmonary disease. Prospects show corn may rebound. locals discuss hog cholera, temperance interest, and livestock moves to Kansas. Bill Nichols visits, while prankster eggs and bottles disturb H P Dorsett.
The notice lists local happenings from the period: temperance talk stirs despite no society yet, liquor sales down ten percent. Visits by David Cohn to Louisville, a Belle Union lottery with a Bryant bed-spring prize, sickness easing, school changes, and various social events and tradesmen notes.
A Dooly county man recounts Gus M a clever bachelor from the county. He suspects a thief in his potato house and confronts a growl and a barking dog. He warns to fetch his gun and force the intruder out. No intruder or dog is present when he fires toward the woods.
An advertisement touts Cuticura Remedies for itching scaly and scrofulous conditions with claims of rapid cures. It lists Cuticura Resolvent the blood purifier and Cuticura Medicinal Jelly and Soap, gives testimonial notes, and states prices and mail-order details from Weeks & Potter, Boston.
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