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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1879
Page
2
The report notes a twenty percent rise in boot and shoe prices within ninety days. It also covers political shifts, including ex-Governor Baldwin named U.S. Senator for Michigan, and various local issues such as postal and court fraud, bee winter forecasts, and a census plan dividing Indiana into 150 districts with twenty thousand workers.
The article notes astronomer Richard Proctor predicting a meteoric shower on the night of November 27, Thanksgiving. It also reports on Potts County school funding, Indiana probate concerns, North Putnam railroad progress, live cattle and sheep trade impacts, and a San Francisco tunnel explosion with three blasts.
A tunnel disaster kills many Chinese workers and injures others as gas and fires halt recovery. A worker found strangled in his cabin amid a vast salvage effort near Santa Cruz mountains. Separate items note General Frank White’s death, political dispatches on Grant and New York factions, and a theater highlight featuring Annie Pixley in M’liss.
A jumble of items from this End includes bids by Frank Hays on a fine plowed cow and D P Downs inviting risk with birdshot. Local scenes feature minstrel ambitions, racial tensions, a proposed female brass band, household recalls, and a horse misadventure with a corn cob obstructing its mouth.
Transacted up to Thursday last the six year commission of Judge from Oct 22 1879 with oath. Miller of Indianapolis admitted as attorney. Plea guilty fines on Worthington Bell and Ephraim Brown. Not guilty verdicts and fines on Conrad Cook and Anderson Good. Foreclosures and dismissals include Pitchtyon Durham Modlin Stokes cases. Nolle prosequae entered on several intoxication and theft cases. Appeals dismissed at costs. Bernard J Prichard admitted as attorney.
Notes from Asbury report a Sunday lecture by Prof. Post and various campus items. Sophomore social at Miss Nellie Truett’s residence drew good attendance. S. W. Cantwell and A. Stephenson referenced with class years and travel.
A heavy rain and a snow event mark the week. Notices list Greencastle visitors, cattle shipments to Chicago, a temperance lecture, a Thanksgiving sermon, a convalescence report, a new piano, and a marriage in Gaines with Rev Fyffe officiating. Local figures include Prof Starr and Dr Geo Starr among others.
The column records a busy Lena town snapshot with mentions of crowded housing, a buggy accident that bruised occupants, visits by J Johnson of Greencastle, Peach’s sleepless night, a meteor shower missed, Prof Tice warned away, George Snow’s marriage, and progress on a writing school with Taik Svar teaching Saturdays. The piece urges more subscriptions for the coming year and notes the editor’s sign off.
The town endures heavy rain turning streets to mud while residents report illness and new business prospects. Farmers boast strong wheat harvests and corn gathering continues as hog shipments and church services are noted. A baby birth is announced and local papers reference Te Star with pleasure.
ConumBus Indiana November 1 Lee Woodard and his two daughters aged sixteen and eight disappeared after their buggy and mules were swept downstream in the swollen Clifty Creek. Albert Woodard jumped in to free the harness but was exhausted and survived, while the three women and animals vanished. Searchers scoured the riverbank all day but found no trace. A similar drowning occurred here about a year ago involving Ernst Schmoe’s wife and daughter.
The Supreme Commandery of the Universal Brotherhood of the World met in Danville Illinois for two days with W A Y Bishop chairing. Grand Commanders from Illinois Indiana Ohio Pennsylvania New York Iowa Missouri attended. Endowment and Beneficiary departments were split into northern and southern divisions to ease fever era death assessments.
A GreeNcaster letter to the editor argues hundreds of emigrants arriving in Putnam county threaten laborers by driving down wages to fifty cents a day. The writer, a Republican, laments planned colored worker transport and asks the paper to publish the note while acknowledging shaky writing.
A Friday evening schoolhouse gathering featured prize declamations won by Miss Anna Smith and Eddie Drury in a weather affected event. Madison township teachers' institute at Oakalla school-house had talks on writing US history and physiology with a large dinner, adjournment to district No. 2, and a social. A violent incident near a Louisville funeral led to a fatal stabbing of Peter O Connell after a challenge.
Real estate transfers listed including Joseph B Baker to Rebecca Burk, Lot 4 Bik 3 Depot Enl for 173 dollars and other deeds in Warren Monroe Cloverdale and Franklin townships. Transactions cover parcels in Peek's, Greencastle and Russell townships with prices from 1 to 4000 dollars and deeds to heirs and spouses.
PUPILS Not Tardy Effa Teady Lonnie Mealy Mattie Frakes James Frakes Tri Frakes Johnnie Priest Shelton Priest Les Hathaway Josie Hathaway Marion Baird Alva Thomas Otta Thomas Annie Webster Richard Priest Albert Priest Arva Baird Etta Beckwith Cosby Baird. PUPILS NOT ABSENT Ella Vermilion Mary Brackney Char le Brackney Shelton Priest Tree Hathaway Maria Baird Sammie Baird Alva Thomas Cosby Baird. PUPILS NEITHER ABSENT NOR TARDY Shelton Priest Lee Hathaway Marion Baird Sammie Baird Alva Thomas Cosby Baird Jenice Crowper Teacher.
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