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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1881
Page
8
C J Kimble and Son markets Hathaway Block furniture as the county’s exclusive manufacturers and dealers promising low prices. The ad urges everyone to visit and buy.
Greencastle reports week of visits from Mrs D L Harris to Louisville. Oxford student Maggie Durham away at school. Mr W Brown of Terre Haute visits. Dr Marine preaches on the President's death. Spurgeon lecture planned at Meharry Hall. Birch Brothers Woolen Mills run twelve to fifteen hours daily. Frank J Schuyler dies in New Orleans. Rev G W Switzer marries Lida W Potfell. Dr Walk from Indianapolis to lecture on Spurgeon. Board of City School Trustees to honor Garfield with memorial exercises on Oct 26. Catherine Alm, 19, dies of typhoid in Greencastle. burial at Fillmore.
The record lists civil actions and outcomes from last week. Dismissals, appeals, and divorces are noted, with costs allocated to each party where specified. Indictments and licenses are addressed, with several cases culminating in verdicts or venue changes.
A list of court actions includes pleas of guilty for assault and battery with small fines, a civil action dismissed by agreement, and a verdict for $40 in a railway case. The piece then covers the large Garfield funeral in Meharry hall Indiana Asbury University with 2,600 attendees, speeches, hymns, resolutions condemning the assassination and mourning the nation, and sympathy for Garfield’s family.
Post No. 11Greencastle honors James A Garfield with a full memorial service in the university chapel. Dignitaries John Hanna J. Emison and Dr McNutt spoke while the Grand Army of the Republic and Asbury Cadet corps attended. The hall was draped in mourning and the event was praised for its careful planning.
The report describes scorched leaves two miles from the blaze and sailors near Forresterton enduring heat. A couple sought a preacher’s home to wed, a man leaped into a lake behind a bear, families sheltered in corn fields, and peas were heated by flames as twenty eight people hid overnight in Richmondville. A man rode seven miles for safety under extraordinary circumstances.
An assorted column reports dramatic events and anecdotes including a wagon escape near Forrester from a pursuing fire, a Columbus theft, Nellie Grant’s lightning death, a Rheumatism cure claim with St Jacobs Oil, a wage dispute leading to a $500 verdict, and various brief notes on health remedies, legal troubles, and unusual incidents from Ohio to Michigan and Indiana.
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