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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1882
Page
3
Thanksgiving week brought city news on schools closing for the holiday and reopening, a brake placed on a Bright engine on the incline line, and local shootings and thefts. The butcher stock, farm thefts, a wareroom break in, a trotting horse purchase, and marriage notices also appear alongside factory operations, brewing advancements, and a cornets band hire at Hanover with Prof Gus Gebat.
Thanksgiving week drew hunting fever with few shotguns seen in town except at hardware stores. On Friday night about 9 o clock Martin Barrett, a known local character, was caught attempting to open Mr. Thomas McKay’s bucketer wagon. He dodged the scene and was released with little reprimand.
The town held Thanksgiving services led by Rev. Dr. Holliday, with closing remarks on tax cuts and civil service reform. The Star route triple reopened, a wedding rumor involving Josiah Daily and Mr. William Dean’s daughter circulated, and Calloway received praise for first class entertainments. An accident near the Western Hotel involved a baggage wagon but caused no injuries. The Central Reading Room Club hosted an oyster supper, and the Treated Club enjoyed a social at Chas Alling Sr. residence with late dancing and thanks expressed.
TSE Bitar warns anxious readers that the county poor house will be placed in a complete condition to restore long felt needs. The Alice Oats Opera Company drew a large audience on Monday night, with Miss Oats praised for graceful stage presence and a lively performance. Lon Heding's Saturday Opinion column continues to mock Madison residents and promises sharper wit, humor, and insight as it grows in popularity.
At their last annual meeting held at Mr. John Wever’s residence the Black Diamond Society chose to host a charity ball at Odd Fellows Hall on the January avs. Lat 83. Ladies named to committees include Mrs Reed Wood printings Mrs Abbott Herbst Burnelle music Mrs Richardson Weber Glazier Hargan Collins Smiley refreshments Mrs Kirk Shellito Humphreys Jones tables and dishes Mrs Rea Todd coffee Mrs Knoll Linck Heberhart Townsend decoration. The ball is expected to be a greater success under these arrangements.
The Jefferson County Bible Society held its annual meeting at First Presbyterian Church with large attendance. Rev Brown presided in Mr Daniela’s absence, and reports showed a $146 treasury balance. Speakers urged Bible distribution, noting 26 Protestant families lacked a Bible and 106 were given to men on the street. Officers for the next year named.
A Herap reporter notes seventeen to eighteen orphans from Black Diamond Society’s Children’s Home ride a streetcar on Thanksgiving. Dr Sam Townsend hosted dinner, then ferried them to Fred Glass for Christmas toys. Conductor volunteers free ride. they return to the home after supper.
The Jefferson County Sunday School Association will meet at 10 a m tomorrow in the First Presbyterian church. A Bible study program and sermons by J A Kennedy Dr Brown Dr Holliday Prof Martin C Q Wright Dr Dobbs and others feature the opening exercises. Election of officers will occur during the meeting.
Frank Frayne killed Miss Annie Von Behren during a stage incident at the Coliseum in Cincinnati while performing in Si Slocum. A faulty rifle mechanism caused a backward discharge as Frayne fired at Lucy Slocum, killing Miss Von Behren and injuring none else. Frayne was arrested, bond set at 3000, theater closed for the night.
The Hall & Co. hair product is praised as a miracle by thousands for restoring color and growth. Proprietors donate its discovery to druggists nationwide, urging immediate purchase when gray hair appears. A Kentucky wedding, a local fatality near Paroona Kansas, and a note about Uncle Tom's Cabin seats follow in this fragment.
Free of Cost All persons wishing to test a remedy for consumption coughs colds asthma bronchitis or throat and lung ailments are invited to call at C K Heberhart's Drug Store and receive a trial bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption free of charge to demonstrate its value and potential.
New yearly or advanced subscribers paying 150 will receive a 228 page book as a gift. The offer applies to all subscribers.
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In Smyrna Townsale correspondence the piece notes a Democratic victory and warns Republicans to stay organized for 1884. It reports an old mother paying her son a trapper to vote Republican, condemns quail hunting on private lands, describes Gum Corner school vandalism, and mentions church, Sabbath school, and institute activities in Shiloh and Fort Donalson with an INDEX at the end.
Jacob Stucker of Indianapolis visited his father that week. Mrs. Sale Ann Woodfill suffers rheumatism. George and Will Mayfield visited Ripley county last week to slaughter rabbits. Franz Martell improves property with new fences. Parochial school is in splendid condition. Heirz g. 1nd corn at his mill. Outlying farms profit from good weather as Andy Ayter grows tobacco. Bill Hamilton rents Mrs Jackman’s farm.
The four year old known as Jarvis, a familiar street figure with pockets full of treasures, died after fever. He lived with his mother in the Opers house block and was friends with all street children and tramp dogs. He died Saturday morning after falling ill last Friday, with a simple funeral attended by two kindhearted women.
A northern Philadelphia resident reports two dying daughters saved from diphtheria after using washed sulphur flowers applied with a clay pipe to throat membranous growths. Within two hours relief followed, and in two days both children recovered when doctors had given up. The letter urges using distilled or sublimed flowers of sulphur rather than powdered crodé sulphur.
Thanksgiving observed by our parsonage community. William Salyers' house burned last Tuesday at noon. no one was home, fire gained headway but some goods were saved. House insured for 300 dollars, personal property for 200, in the American or Chicago. Bob Risk has a fine boy at his house. School progress noted with sixteen pupils absent none last month. Enrollment 32.
The listing enumerates names under letters A through W including Mrs Julia T Bangs Mrs Patrick Donlan Elizabeth Esterline Flora Gruson Ida Gosnell Miria Angeline Hatton Christine Lay Priscila Landrum Bidy Mouse Mra Mary Mauring Elizabeth Maharty Minnie Miller Mrs Margaret Millican Eliza Ryker Miss Phelomina Schneider Mrs Mary E Smith Mra Hattie Stapp Rosa Smith Nannie Short Grace Stucker Carrie Sitze Mrs Adine Smith Mrs Mary Schwab Annie Thompson Ollie Taylor Margaret Taggart Emma Wilber Mrs Mary Walters and others.
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