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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1881
Page
8
P Rh Christie announces a new location on the west side of the square offering custom made boots and shoes. He emphasizes handmade, well fitting products and exclusive agent status for Lilly Brackett & Co. men’s shoes in the county.
Local notes report farmers hauling stock water long distances, births, funerals, visits, and guardianship appointments. Mrs. John L. Seybold and others are ill or visiting relatives while families plan marriages and home building continues. Opera House bills and a marriage arrangement following Mrs Tatton’s death are noted.
City figures reveal 1876 77 year total for teachers 76065 and 1881 82 projected 9025 or 9300 with a rise of about 2060 since 1875 76. City enrollment grew from 1281 to 1596, and three marriages were solemnized by Elder Badger in two hours at various residences.
An informal meeting of Asbury University trustees was held Tuesday at the New Denison hotel in Indianapolis. Attendees included Professors D. L. Southard J. C. Ridpath J. E. Earp J. M. Mansfield and Dr H A Gobin. They discussed endowing a new chair with a bequest from Jesse Meharry Shawnee Mound, but no action was taken pending preliminaries. the plan will be carried forward.
The Greencastle city offers a summer resort with a cool, day and night atmosphere and attentive service. Fly proof screens on doors and windows, entertainers on demand, and frequent guest changes are noted, as described by boarders at the Hotel de Brandon before the next Circuit Court term. Mr Beck and wife have left for New York to buy goods for the fall trade.
The piece recalls the giving of the Ten Commandments with biblical imagery, then shifts to Evansville Journal theater notices. It covers Humpty Dumpty pantomime at the Opera House and previews for Gustave Droz’s The Baby in the Family, a lecture on family life, and an All the Rage company performance featuring Laura Dainty.
On Monday night Dan Langdon warded off burglars seen near his home. Tuesday night Joseph Crow on East Seminary Street faced a break in as a thief entered, took Joseph's pants, then searched a bureau. Mrs Crow screamed, and Mr Crow fired, causing the thief to flee, dropping the pants and a pocketbook.
Permits to marry issued to Albert L. Clearwater and Sarah J. Alexander, James A. Johnston and Johanna Kessler, Franklin Vermilion and Margaret E. Webb, Henry Walden and Mary E. Whitehead, Thomas C. Utterback and Mae A. Prichard, Lyman B. Smith and Matilda Allen. Jurors drawn include grand jurors John Rogers, Thos Nelson, Denman C Wood, and others. petit jurors listed by township and name. A destructive fire east of the city, likely from locomotive sparks, burned hay and fencing, with loss near $2,000 but no further damage. heat and wind hampered efforts. A note from Indianapolis Journal relays a staged find about a body in a sink-hole but yields no real discovery. Mortgage news: Louisville railway company mortgaged to John C. New for $2,500,000 at 6 percent, due August 1, 1911, secured by road property. Local ads announce New Fall prints, teacher license exams, and Langdon’s Bazaar items.
Landes & Co offers Dobyns Sure Cure with a guarantee of satisfaction for catarrh nervous headache cold in the head deafness and dimness of sight. Hatliff & Grubb advertise celebrated New York mixed paints claiming best value.
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