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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1880
Page
7
Eastward trains depart Havre and nearby points with through freight and express services. Westward trains run via Ramroap and Litern routes with daily operations excluding Sundays. Notable times include 420 PM 8132 PM 93 25 AM and 6 387 M daily patterns with variances for Southbound and through freights.
An old advertisement claims C J Kimble and Son as the county’s exclusive furniture makers and dealers and invites people to visit Hathaway Block to buy wet good furniture at low prices.
Two weeks to election day. merchants stock fall goods. Mr and Mrs Charles E Matson of Brazil visited. A J Neils boot shop moved to Williamson Building. Dancing Club opens season Oct 1 at Opera House. plans for invitations printed. Community updates include a forthcoming Plainfield newspaper, as well as several property and school notices. A yard engine derailment near Green Castle injures two, with suspicions of arson.
Dr. Marine delivered his first sermon last Sunday to a large audience, praised as thoughtful and well delivered. Meanwhile reports discuss wreck yard activity on the L., N. A. & OC R R with switches found unlocked, a potential guilty party sought. A Putnam County fair is planned with a joint stock association and annual event, Sheriff Lewman denying charges about negroes leaving for Carolina. A Republican rally drew a large crowd with a parade featuring Pat Ash ship command and a singer from New York entertaining attendees.
The excerpt covers opinions on winter severity voting timing train car safety cider weddings fashion corsetry and oyster crops. It reads like a collection of dated miscellany rather than a single event with named entities or a clear narrative.
Our Star notes it does not endorse correspondents opinions published in these columns. We provide space so readers may learn the thoughts of their fellow citizens and view varied viewpoints.
Solomon Grimes died aged in the Tord year at his son in law James Vandaver's Clinton township home. A Putnam County pioneer who emigrated from North Carolina in 1826, he settled on Little Raccoon Creek then Big Raccoon in Russell township near Rambo Mills. He married Anna Butcher and they had ten children, five sons and five daughters, two of whom died. Two surviving daughters, bereft, share in his memory as an early settler who helped seed the county.
In Marion Township communities stay lively as politics heat up. B F Ivy spoke to a large crowd at Coatesville last Saturday evening. CO H Shields returned from a year in Kansas with tales of the West. Mrs Hedden moved to Fillmore and her son James stays in the house. A Fillmore children's concert and exhibition on the 15th was a grand success. R M Bunten and Mrs Mary Bunton wed last Sunday at the bride’s parents home with Rev J W Sherrill presiding. Fred Hackett and Lizzie Heavin married on the 15th at the bride’s parents’ residence two miles east of Fillmore.
News of a wedding with John Duncan and Alice Alle, attire details, ceremony by Rev Sherrill, reception in Oakland Michigan, and wishes for a long, happy marriage. Also notes a separate upcoming Alpha Sunday School Union event in Bainbridge on Sept 26, 1880 with program items.
The death of David Snyder prompted a contentious dispute over his burial beside his first wife. Dr. Snyder, carrying the remains from Utica, faced a clash with Ma ria Hover and the Hover family as they attempted to control the funeral route and burial plans, ending with an injunction and the coffin held for court decision.
D Sanders fell into a fifteen foot well near McNary County Tennessee with only a few inches of water. His wife and daughter managed to keep him alive while a windlass failed to lift him until help arrived a half mile away. Both were rescued and Sanders recovered somewhat. In Clinton Dakota a mob debated hanging Ben Day for horse theft after he claimed he meant to borrow the horse and proposed a coin toss to decide his fate.
The Rev. Father James Haggerty filed suit against 131 parishioners in Milwaukee to recover $1,000 in back salary. A deputy sheriff worked for several days to serve the papers.
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