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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1881
Page
8
Putnam County notes report fair activities on hold until next year and local official changes. Brazil and Greencastle details include court visits, cattle sale plans, railroad progress, university arrangements, and a severe accident at Bayne’s mill with amputation.
The Will of Jesse Meharry of Shawnee Mound specifies bequests including $25 to each namesake within a year, $100 to surviving nephews and nieces and to his wife’s relatives, $500 to brothers David and Samuel, educational funds for Arthur Hazelton, $1,000 to Margaret Mitchell and to Minnie Sullenburg, $700 to Jennie Wheeler, $2,000 to Shawnee Church trustees for a loan and annual pastor salary, $1,000 to Meharry Cemetery trustees for grounds upkeep, $1,000 to Meharry Medical College, and $1,000 to Garrett Biblical Institute. Residue divided among five churches until $5,000 each is reached, then remaining goes to Indiana Asbury University.
A specimen of alumina from the Denny farm in Marion township east of the city is described as a rare mineral on this continent, hard enough to cut glass. A large fragment will be given to Asbury University. An exchange urges all towns with newspapers to advertise to show local business activity.
A jumble of short items reports debts settled by threat, a jailer warned, a pistol used in a confrontation, and a Missouri suitor’s suicide after breach of promise. Other notes mention a Cajon grape vine yielding five tons, a Louisville pie-eating feat, Augusta mills with 175000 spindles, and Frazier’s Root Bitters promoted as a medicinal tonic.
The column lists wildly varying claims from large book sales to sensational potions and cures. It mentions a two million volume sale on the first day of a revised Testament, Swayne's Ointment for itching piles, a fire in St Joseph Missouri where a mother saved furniture but lost her baby, and Hop remedies boasting universal cures. It also notes Father Grogan clashing with Land League in Chicago and Walker's Hair Balsam, with ghostly persecutions reported in Russellville, Kentucky.
The Rev. C Hammond of Quarryville preached at church on Sunday with his ankle in a chair for support after breaking a bone while berrying. John G. Fledderman of Union Block praises St Jacobs Oil after relief from neuralgia and rheumatism. Marion Jones of Stainsville Ind. pinned a rattlesnake with a pitchfork and held it for half an hour. the snake measured eight feet four inches with sixteen rattles.
A collage of ad copy and local items: Brown's Iron Bitters touted as a permanent strength tonic, Sellers' Liver Pills praised for quick relief, and Fellows' Hypoposphites recommended for child debility. Anecdotes include a Rising Sun elopement, Kentucky clerks, moccasin snakes, shoe protectors, and jokes about Conkling and Platt. Also mentions Swayne's Ointment for skin diseases, a copperhead incident, and travel ads for the Burlington route with potato bug remedies.
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