PUBLISHED FRIDAY MORNING BY TUE JOURNAL COMPANY
The notice states the paper is issued every Friday morning by Tue Journal Company with a price of $1.75 per year in advance.
30 Sep 1870
Page 1
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Newspaper
Kokomo Journal
Location
Kokomo, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1870
Page
1
The notice states the paper is issued every Friday morning by Tue Journal Company with a price of $1.75 per year in advance.
The text lists court meeting dates and officials including Hawanp Concert Court and Common Press Court meeting on specified Mondays in May, November, February, June, September, and other months. It also names CommissionER's Court, Board of Equalization dates, and city officials such as Mayor J W Cooper, Marshal A H Duke, Treasurer W A Beeks, Assessor E A Moore, Fire Chief N C Cole, and councilmen. Also references the Peru & Indianapolis Railroad with Genl Ticket Agent F S Scull and D S Gray as 2d Vice President and General Manager.
Faiexas First day meetings on second story Wildmans block with morning school at 9 30 and Missionary School at 3 pm Bible class at 4 pm and evening meeting at 7. Pas tor Hutchison preaches in Wilsons Hall Sundays at 10 am and 7 4 pm with Sunday School at 2 pm and Thursday prayer. CoxGrecational Rev Baldwin serves Sundays 10 45 am and 7 45 pm with Sunday School 2 pm and Thursday prayer. Mennonist Eriscoran Rev W Wilson 10 am and 7 3 pm Sundays School 2 pm Thursday prayers. Cumisthas Elder E L Frazier 10 am and 7 4 pm services Bible class Monday Sunday school 2 4 pm prayer Wednesday evening.
Fragmentary notice lists Masonic lodges with meeting days tied to full moon cycles. Koromo Lovar No 93 meets on Saturday, or preceding full moon, while Koromo Lonag No 1383 meets Tuesdays. Other lodges include Howard Looce No 373 on Wednesday, Greentown Lower on Saturdays after full moon, Naprouatr Lower Fairfield on Thursdays, Witpman Lopgz and Astro Loner No 276 on Saturdays and Mondays respectively.
MM eRRay KROI and D Murray H Krom H A Brouse announce attorney at law and notary public services in Kokomo Indiana. Offices on east side public square and north side of the public square with prompt attention to all business and collections statewide.
The poem urges honest toiling in the open air and labor of mind and body. It extols rolling up sleeves, leaving idle life behind, and earning riches while you can. It links daily work to health, strength, and a long life, promising a lasting, celebrated name from toil.
A historical sermon critique links Modern Spiritualism to free love, citing Educator editor A E Newton and Rev John Spear. It argues spiritualist writings undermine morality, cites Mrs Lewis and Berlin Heights experiments, and warns youth against libertine influences through a boy's night journey toward repentance and renewed faith.
Census counts claim Logansport at 10000 inhabitants while Terre Haute reports a fashionable ghost scene. The Union City Fair features a fat man's race and the nation’s game dwindles in popularity. A Ft. Wayne shooting match prize went to a Catholic priest who won a live deer. Foxes and spiritualists rise in Floyd county amid citizen annoyance. Robert Doughty dies in a Johnson county gravel pit collapse. Fountain county finds a fossil tooth weighing nearly two pounds. An Oxford Benton county man bitten by a rattlesnake 17 years ago still uses whisky as a cure. George W. Vanderburg claims Richmond has 75 avenues to hell. Senator Pratt grows influential. his weight shifts political balance. Italian troops take Rome, ending temporal power of the Pope. A paymaster is robbed, captured and jailed within 24 hours. The Indianapolis Home for Friendless Women burns, loss about 16000. insured for 5000, suspected incendiary. The Home will likely be rebuilt promptly.
A city judge learns of a boy who, with an ax on his shoulder, hands him seventy five dollars saved from work after his time ends. The boy explains he earned it by chopping wood and plans to study, believing disciplined labor and savings will lead to opportunity and success. The note for a thousand dollars later in life hints at prudent finances and ambition.
A sailor admits habitual drunken cruelty toward his wife Sally in Bethel. He describes waking from a dream of shipwreck to see Sally crying for the first time, swearing to stop abusing her. He ends with a moral about rights and doing right.
Obituary and funeral notices for Elijah C. Leach, longtime Kokomo citizen. City Council and Odd Fellows resolutions mourn his loss, noting his faithfulness and kindness. Fraternal groups pledge mourning rituals and sympathy to his widow and children. Scribes reference local ministers and a large funeral attendance. The piece also recounts other 1870 local notices and brief anecdotes.
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