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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1880
Page
7
In Cloverdale Indiana revival meetings at the Christian Church added more than fifty members. The Town also notes medical lectures in progress, local accidents, and political chatter as residents move through town.
The writing laments idle business due to bad roads and urges gravel road building with local gravel. T. Jd. Newton is buried at Piercy graveyard, age about seventy two, Presbyterian and lodge member. J. L. Seybold's children Lelia and Lawson recover from scarlet fever. Mrs. Nancy Short is praised for aiding the ill. A town resident delays post office visits and mail pickup. tramps have been scarce in the past weeks.
A rural school in Terre Haute district held its second term under Wm. A. Garner with a large turnout. The day featured 34 performances including recitations, speeches, dialogues, and essays. 30 pupils with 26 average daily attendance. A string band, a community meal, and a social supper followed, highlighting community support and practical education worth to farmers and businessmen. Yorkshire Billet shown for 1880Greencastle season.
Kidney diseases afflict many and rise steadily but Kidney-Wort proves effective where others fail. Those who rely on spirits of nitre should try this remedy and seek cure.
A Keokuk Iowa woman hosted three suitors last week where a mock proposal led to a marriage ceremony attempt performed by a local clergyman. The groom threatens to file the record while she departs town amid doubts of state license requirements. The item also narrates a frostbitten feet cure with St Jacobs Oil, a murder confession tale, a kidney remedy ad, and miscellaneous local notes including a Tunica dynamite gunpowder test and school reports.
Advertisers claim Hop Bitters outsell rivals with the plant's virtues praised by secular and religious papers. The Examiner notes shrewd compounding by Bitters’ proprietor. A Chicago arrest reports a man with seven wives scattered across the northwest, and Ball's Baby Syrup is widely touted.
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