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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1891
Page
3
The Shelbyville fair runs this week with ticket 818 holding a life-size portrait by TH M Gould. Local items include council praise for the Crooked Creek bridge work, city clerk tenure honors for Zuck, and reports from courts and schools amid a flood of obituaries, jokes, and notices from Madison and nearby towns.
Yesterday afternoon in Hanover Mrs. Charles Logan with a servant faced a huge bee swarm entering from the west door. The insects stung two children badly while the mother and servant protected themselves with quilts. Ammonia eased the children’s pain, and brimstone drove the bees from the house after two hours. The piece also touts Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a tonic for the weak.
A crowded page of assorted items notes product claims for Simmons Liver Regulator and various public notices. It mentions a trotting mile forecast, prisoners in county jail, church services, a heat stove shipment, local accidents, funerals, and business moves including Hoffman Quinn and Charles Conover. The column also covers farming yields, portraits, a veteran reunion, and local civic matters in Calloway Madison and surrounding areas.
The County Institute session began at 1:30 PM with Sept. Peak presenting on Physiology and the senses, arguing electricity as a subtle force. Prof. Hunter spoke on U.S. History and the Revolution before Supt. Peak led Arithmetic and Oregon claims by D. Eckley Hunter.
Rev. James Turner of Madison Indiana is suggested as Trinity Methodist pastor to replace Rev. Isaac Crook who resigned to join a California college faculty. The Southeastern Indiana Conference meets this month at Aurora and Turner is willing to move. Also reports on Second Presbyterian Church repairs and resumption of services with a the sermon and hymn program. plus local incidents including a street fight, a health testimonial for Chamberlains remedy, Madison Marine Railways updates, and a minor assault case pending court fines.
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