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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1880
Page
5
A catalog line lists PU 420,550 and references 144 shades of Silks Satins Velvets Plushes and combinations of Gros Grain and Satin Brocaded Rib bons indicating a textile options assortment with numerous color and weave choices.
Mike Ragan is on the mend. Miss Mitchell of Terre Haute visits A. T. Kelly’s family. Dr H H Morrison of Charleston Ills. contemplates moving back to town. Frank Landes builds a new residence on College avenue. Mrs Walker of Rockport visits local family. E Black travels to New York with fifteen carloads of cattle. Ladies Missionary Society meets at Presbyterian church. Smythe and Terry plan to close furniture business and move to Harmony to enter the drug trade. Marriage licenses issued to Bryant and Ray. Carpenter and Tillery. Payne and Watson. Prof H A Gobin of Indiana University to conduct services at Presbyterian church. John Kelley, oldest resident near Stilesville, dies last weekday. aged about 60 or 70. Governor orders asset recovery of fifteen dollars in a case against Alfred Barnes of Palm County for assault and battery.
Readers learn neighborhood opinions while a man named Daniel Ricketts narrowly survives a near fatal incident at home after a late evening collapse. Miss Tillie Fritz visits Mr. Noe as temperance discussions revive with winter gatherings. Dog attacks devastate poultry, with harsh methods suggested to curb the problem. Palace cars appear on the L N A C railway as business improves under current management.
The shipping trade shows a boom in the past week. A wagon loaded with hay toppled in the street on Wednesday, witnessed by bystanders. The onlookers heard familiar crude expressions with no new forms of cursing observed.
Mrs. Jackson returns to Danville after visiting friends. Browning and Butler celebrate a new delivery wagon. Coon hunting rises in popularity as a local sport. Chauncey Swope resumes work after a prolonged illness. Dick Howard leaves printing due to ill health. Wreck scene draws crowds and comments on railroad danger. Politicians quiet down after the state election. Colored revival meetings continue with vigor through the week.
College updates report illness of C B Ketcham and his departure for Kansas City Express. Philo debates Utah statehood. Charles Martin marries Flora Sayres in Waynesburg and sails to Calcutta next month. New library space to become Science Department. Phi Delta Theta meets in Indianapolis. Adelphian society thriving. G Walter Barr faces legal trouble in Columbus. Rosa Redding and Frank Gillet noted. senior speeches by Longden H B ea McMillan and Will Neff. Capt Eli Ritter speaks after Chapel.
Mrs Lackey visits her daughter Mrs Tevis James Connor and family of Carpentersville. Tuesday election day. Sutherlin buys timber for Hathaway, 67 trees from Frank Nelson last week. Corn husking is the order of the day. District No 8 held school last Saturday. Mr Whiteneck lives on former S B Leaton farm. T Hargrave rents farm to son Washington. Lewis child recovered from the fever. Hathaway visits weekly and is well liked. Joseph Brothers’ happiness noted. Debby Roach home for winter after six months at Capt Olais. Joha P Hughes of Danville visited. taught township school last year. He will reach two miles west of Danville this winter.
Limedale updates report Mrs Landes visiting relatives in Iowa while Sheriff Brandon plans to move into the city. Mr and Mrs Sheady take housekeeping in the Hogue residence. The school bought books from festival proceeds, building a library foundation. Charles Brown visited from Terre Haute earlier in the week. A theft at the school last Sunday night took Webster’s Unabridged and minor books. Cash the telegraph operator moved to Omaha. Ewing McLean found a silver watch recently. Lizzie Staley stays in Greencastle for winter study. John Unison names his new home the Limedale House.
Fincaste notes a Greenback candidate, Greenberry Wright, switches allegiance after backing Garfield and Arthur. The letter critiques Wright for breaking ranks and quitting the National cause as Weaver faces Parker and Yeagley, questioning party unity and commitment amid minority status.
A Northern Putnam County Natio nals letters urging voters to back Weaver for party leadership, condemning Wright and allies Parker and Yeagley as traitors, and demanding unity while denouncing opposition in a tense pre election appeal.
H C Buack appeals to supporters to back Col Wright or risk losing sovereignty to banks and corporations. He argues greenbacks, though imperfect, protected money value and national prosperity, urging readers to resist party influences and defend a genuine republic.
A lodge notes the passing of Simon Johnson and expresses sincere sympathy to his family. It lauds him as a reliable Mason, a peaceful citizen, and a devoted husband and parent. The resolutions state a belief in his eternal life and authorize a copy to be sent to his family and printed in the equitable press.
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