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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1881
Page
8
Allen's Drug Store advertises railway times while urging economy and better shoes for children. Christie's Shoe Store on Washington Street promises custom made shoes with better fit and lasting wear, inviting families to shop there for smarter footwear.
A collage of short items: Clay Lewis ill with throat trouble. Robt Piack buys horses up north. Mr G W Ames gravely sick. Jesse Wellso goes to Cloverdale for tinware. Mr George Corwin back from New York. Dave Stevenson returns from commercial college. Mrs Louis Snyder seriously ill with erysipelas. Misa Lou White visiting relatives from Indianapolis. Capt Skelton ill with erysipelas. Mrs Winsor to assume State Librarian post next week. Ed Woods proud papa of a baby girl. Black & Brother ship fine mule lot last Tuesday. C W Talburt expanding his business room. Sunday School concert at Christian Church tomorrow night. Mrs Hall of Ft Scott visiting relatives. Jesse Weik not pursuing consul ship per Dr Gobin. Dr Gobin to conduct Presbyterian services tomorrow. Mrs Robert Renick reports first spring chickens hatching. Pitner to lecture at Meharry Hall tomorrow at 3:15 pm. Elder Prank conducts Christian Church meetings this week. Effingham Republican notes Mrs Carrie Burk and daughter visiting local residents. Bill Bivens thrown from sulky near Square but no serious injury. Miss Anna Smith to give entertainment at Fillmore Saturday April 2. Briscoe heirs vs Sutherlin et al motion for new trial granted. case pending on merits. first trial cost over $600.
Following Judge Turman’s death the 13th Judicial Circuit needs a new judge. Aspiring candidates Addison Daggy Major Birch D Coffey and Granville Moore presented petitions early Tuesday while the public remains uncertain who holds the promise of preferrment.
A rough one-armed man stole the Conductor Mansfield overcoat from Sage’s hotel at North Depot last Monday night. He vanished for a day but was captured by Sergeant Stone Tuesday night and jailed awaiting Jeffersonville orders. Also, Mrs Anna Robinson died in this city aged 62 after long valvular heart disease. post mortem by several doctors. funeral held Monday at the residence with Dr Marine presiding.
A year after a horse was stolen from A. J. Cherry of Shelby County, deputies arrested the thief in Jefferson township at his brother Bob Aubrey’s home. The suspect had just returned from a Kentucky expedition. David Durée had unknowingly purchased the horse, identifying the thief. Deputy Thrall then transported Aubrey to Shelbyville for trial.
Marriage licenses have been issued to John Gray and Belle Glenn, Henry M. Mann and Martha Day, Major G. Stokes and Pennie Dickens, Vilah Jones and Lizzie Vestal, William E. Grady and Lizzie M. Evans, Benjamin F. Allen and Angeline V. Horn, Silas S. Lyster and Rosetta Cagle.
Mrs Rosanna Albin aged 75 years died in Monroe on March 22 1581 after paralysis. The notice records her age and the place of death.
Analyze Ruberger to Jennie Stites and numerous others show land and lot transfers across Warren and Washington townships and Greencastle. Transactions include parcels in Franklin and Marion counties, with prices ranging from 50 to 1000 in various currencies.
The Indiana legislature reconvened to debate a tax bill expanding to include tangent property and various financial entities. House and Senate passages covered common carriers, prison governance, and education measures while fees, delinquent lists, and liquor license revenues sparked debate. A public health note cites widespread local illness and a bleak bee winter, alongside agricultural statistics and state resources.
Washington March 18 The following are the Senate committees as elected under a Republican resolution with the Vice President deciding vote The named first on each panel is the Chairman Includes standing committees Privileges and Election Foreign Relations Finance Appropriations Commerce Manufactures Agriculture Military Affairs Naval Affairs Judiciary Posts and Post Reads Public Lands Private Land Claims Indian Affairs Revenions Revolutionary Claims Claims District of Columbia Patents Territories Railroads Mines and Mining Revision of Lands Education and Labor Civil Service Contingent Expenses Engrossed Hills Improvement of the Mississippi River Transportation routes to the Seaboard Joint Committee on Public Printing Enrolled Bills Library Public Buildings and Grounds select committees Civil Service Epidemic Diseases On Erection of New Library Building
An Irishman Martin Fiansigan died four miles southeast of the city and was buried in the Catholic cemetery. A dog disturbed the grave, tore the coffin wrayve, and growled at intruders until shot dead. Witnesses feared grave robbery before the beast was killed. The note ends with a separate tidbit about Tennyson’s pension and Stevenson centenary.
Bur ett s and Burnetts advertise extended lines of ladies and children shoes, rubber boots, and overshoes in Greencastle. A furniture upholsterer offers repair, picture framing, and mouldings. L L Louis promotes a large stock of harnesses and horse goods in Bainbridge with repair services and money saving promises.
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