Temperance revival and local weddings in Greensburg 1878
Readers document a wide range of 1878 items from Greensburg including a June 23 marriage of John F. Sands of Ohio to Sarah Josephine Lange near Napoleon, local editorial notes on Meade and Morgan, and a December temperance revival led by Webb T. Dart with a Blue Ribbon club formation. Also notes on enrollments, deaths, and community events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Sands
Ohio
Sarah Josephine Lange
Napoleon
D. R. van Buskirk
L. W. French
la Porte
Cal
Greensburg
Marysville
Arthur Hutchinson
Yorkshire
England
Rising Sun
Hoosier Hall
Webb T. Dart
Rebecca J. Hamilton
Old Sandcreek
Blue Ribber
Thomas Price
Benjamin Littell
William Bruner
Phi Crume
Jennie Back
James Young
The Church Census Counts Growth Rates Across Denominations
Dr. H. K. Carroll reports church membership rising slowly at under two percent annually while the general population grows about two percent. Roman Catholics rise over five percent yearly, with totals expanding from 6,231,417 in 1899 to 12,556,612 in 1910. Other major denominations show modest gains or declines, totaling roughly 33,000,000 members, about a third of the national population.
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H. K. Carroll
Carroll
Methodist Church
County Option Emerges As Key In State Campaign
Crawfordville Journal notes strong signs that temperance will dominate the state race. Democratic ties to liquor figures push anti saloon forces toward county local option as a campaign weapon. Republican editors and district conventions endorse local option, signaling broad GOP commitment.
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Tom Taggart
Crawford Fairbanks
Crawford_ville Journal
How The Editor Felt
The reader shares a humorous verse longing for summer and the Fourth of July amid deep winter In a brief note from an Eastern Exchange the poem is credited to a sister in North Dakota Mrs John Kassena and praised as timely and fine
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North Dakota
E. F. Doles
John Kassena
Heroes in Overalls Stirs Men's Big Meeting
The Men and Religion Forward Movement event at First M E Church drew 225 men and boys. Rev. Harry Hill of Indianapolis preached that ordinary people in ordinary roles, not geniuses, keep the world moving and urged improved service to the Master. biweekly meetings with possible future speakers were announced.
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Men and Religion Forward Movement
M. E
Jesus
Rock of Ages
E. C. Jerman
W. W. McCall
George McCullough
Cincinnati
G&g. H. Sheldon
W. J Cocke
Harry Hill
Third Christian Church
Indianapolis
Mr. Hill
Frederick E. Taylor
Joshua Stansfield
Charge Fraud In Mortgage Suit Seeks to Undo Instrument
Jessie Hart Woodfill sues Groover C. Jones Louisa Jones and Caper Jones to set aside a mortgage alleging fraud. The complaint cites a prior suit yielding $263 plus attorneys’ fees and claims the mortgage for 500 given August 7 191 has no real consideration and that the defendants have no other property to satisfy the debt. Rushville Jacksonian.
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Jessie Hart Woodfill
Groover C. Jones
Louisa Jones
Caper Jones
Grover C. Jones
Jones
Rushville Jacksonian
Shelbyville Paper Is Sold To Greenfield Editor
Shelby Printing Company sells its Shelbyville plant to Walter S. Montgomery a longtime Greenfield newspaper man. He becomes editor of the Shelbyville Weekly and Daily Republican official county party organ and promises a stronger paper under his editorial leadership.
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Shelbyville
Shelby Printing Company
W.S. Montgomery
Greenfield
Daily Republican
Republican
Walter S. Montgomery
Greensburg Sunday Schools Soap Origins
Soap first manufactured in Savona giving rise to the French word savon.
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Greensburg
Savona
Savon
Republican Primary Sets March 12 Nomination Plan
Twenty three Republican precinct committeemen met in the G A R hall to choose a nominating method and a county ticket time. They unanimously approved a regular primary and fixed the date for Tuesday March 12 after debating March 5 and 19, with fourteen votes to nine.
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G. A. R Hall
C. C. McCoy
H. T. Kitchin
Stanton Guthrie
Cement reinforced feng posts by Jones the Lumbermen
Farmers urged to prepare for durable fencing with cement line posts reinforced by three steel rods and corner posts with sixteen rods. Prices comparable to wood. visit 289 North Michigan Avenue Greensburg to see them made. Set now for subscription.
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Jones
Michigan Avenue
Greensburg
Rebuild Michigan Road Promoters Plan 100 Foot Thoroughfare
A Marshall county group seeks to rally county boards and the state legislature to restore the Michigan road running from Michigan City to Madison across the state. The plan envisions a 100 foot wide highway costing about 5 million dollars funded by direct taxation, excluding cities and towns, with a systematic campaign to rebuild the historic route once among the state’s best highways.
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Marshall County
Boards of
Michigan City
Madison
Lake Michigan
Ohbio River
Madison Courier
Broken rails found along Big Four line in Adams Township
Local section crew report numerous fractured rails along the Big Four right of way in Adams Township. Over six weeks more than one hundred rails broke due to intense cold.
Downeyville Sage A. F. Downey Improves After Illness
Word from Downeyville reports veteran sage A. F. Downey is rapidly improving from last week’s appendicitis attack. For a time it seemed he might not recover, but the crisis has passed and the aged man only briefly stays up around his home each day.
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Downeyville
A. F. Downey
St. Paul
Two Daughters Born to Mrs Bemis in Sardinia Area
Mrs. C. H. Bemis of Indianapolis is mother to two daughters born Monday morning at her father B. F. Denham's home near Sardinia.
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C. H. Bemis
Indianapolis
B. F. Denham
Sardinia
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A. J. Draper
F M. Weadon
W. S. Woodfill
Treas
R. R. Cobb
Bonner
R. E. Crawford
Charles Miller
M. W. Baker
J. A. Dillman
M. H. Robbins
Isaac White
Prov Harding
Ed Marshall
W. W. Hamilton
Robert Armstrong
S. S. Shirk
R. A. Hamilton
Wm. Stewart
Stephen Brewer
John W. Litton
Wm. Myers
Jacob Forsyth
James B. Yeley
Gaited
A. Winterrowd
Dr. J. Y. Hitt
T. M. Hamilton
Thos. Mitchell
Samuel Shirk
Maxa Moncrief
Jack
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Gen. Meade
George Meade
Philadelphia
Meade & Fitzsimmons
Washington
Morgan
Louisville
Kentucky
W. T. Strickland
Ind
W. M. McCullough
Westport
New York
Sputternuts
Thummer
James Thomson
Holiday Roszell
Robert Randall
O. P. McLain
Alert
Jackson Township
Perry
W. A. Donnell
Ada
Gertie Donnell
William B. Lewis
Washington, Iowa
Lewis
Eliza J. Donnell
Fugit Township
Capt. Lewis
Bourbon County
Iowa
James Morgan
Presbyterian Church
Belle Powner
Belle Powers
E. H. Swein
The
Cincinnati Gazette
A. I. Hobbs
Bloomington, Ill
Christian Church
Adam Meek
E. Addie Patton
W. W. Richie
James W. Eward
Emma A. Bower
James Cory
Ida Russell
Isaac Shera
Mary A. Updike
Phil Weymar
Eliza J. Littell
John Markland
Job Shirk
Oliver Mitchell
A. J. Smith
J. J. Porter
J. P. Thomson
W. R. Crawford
James Howard
John L. Smith
Charles P. Miller
Maggie Graham
Kingston
A. T. Rankin
Robert J. Tate
Spring Hill
Hamilton County
Michael Devine
Bertie Meek
Wichita
Kan
Butler County
the Church Census
Baptist Centenary
First M. Ee
Presbyterian
Michigan Road
Adams Township
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